Sunday Morning Reads

Whoa! Bummer, dude!

Al-Qaeda and child slavery.

Carol Todd is a Gold Star Mother whose son John was killed by a roadside bomb in 2004 in Iraq. She is the anti-Sheehan:

"People have to understand that there are good and necessary things going on in Iraq," Todd says. "Of course, nobody likes war, nobody wants their children over there. And your heart breaks for families that lose someone or have someone wounded.

"But we need to finish this mission, and we need to finish it correctly, as victors. We need to win this."

Tal Afar Mayor Najim Al Jibouri came to Colorado Springs to than the troops who rescued his city.

Adam Nagourney is all excited thinking about the mid-term elections. Settle down Adam. Update: There is scientific proof that liberals such as Nagourney actually have reportable changes in brain activity when they think about us evil conservatives.