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Just thought I’d check in with some necessary New Year’s plugging. [But stick around for the end and you will win a chance to watch an entertaining video presentation!]
As some of you noticed, the Chicago Sun-Times ran a piece about yours truly and Schrodinger’s Ball on Sunday. I honestly couldn’t be happier […]

As a lot of you know, I rarely get involved in the cacophonous fray known as “the blogosphere,” that magical land where journalism meets ridiculism and the two become hopelessly snarled. Over the years, I’ve steadfastly maintained that I simply do not post about blogs or bloggers, and I’ve held firm to that promise. […]

We have been busy preparing our families and ourselves for the journey. Our overarching goals are two-fold:
1) to report on how the troops perceive mainstream media coverage of the war (with a particular focus on the wire services relying on local stringers); and
2) to report on progress and interaction between U.S. troops and Iraqi Army […]

Faced with the options in Iraq - Go Big, Go Long, or Go Home - President Bush will choose all three. A larger force will be sent in, many pronouncements will be made about “staying until the job is done,” and then, before year’s end, the “job” will be declared “done” and our troops […]