A Million Miles Away

• Violence in Iraq hasn't been this bad since last year. The surge is working. [ LA Times ]

• So it turns out that when nobody has any money and the few people with money are afraid to spend it, that all sort of screws up the Economy. [ New York Times ]

• Even the biggest threat to American Freedom, the undocumented Mexican laborers, are sending less money home due to not making money. [ New York Times ]

• Another "top Al Qaeda commander" you've never heard of has been killed by American robots, in Somalia. [ Reuters/WP ]

• John McCain and Hillary Clinton's wacky no-gas-tax scheme wouldn't work, but if it did work, it would only work in the sense of causing a gasoline panic while not reducing pump prices. [ Washington Post ]

• People who were never going to vote for the black guy continue to feign outrage over the black guy's grandstanding old black preacher. [ New York Times ]