Some very good journalism from Iraq; thanks to David St. Lawrence for the tip-off.

I plan to spend the entirety of 2007 with our troops at war, until sickness, wounds or worse send me home, or the military tires of my presence and catapults me over the wire. Having spent most of 2005 in Iraq, I know what this means. “Drive-by reporting,” as some commanders call it, is worse than no reporting at all. The only way to approach describing what our troops experience, and what is really happening in Iraq, is to go the distance.

Rumor has it that Israel is planning to lightly nuke Iran. Israel denies any such intentions.

To think that we will launch an atomic attack against Iran, and on top of that that we would reveal it in advance to a foreign newspaper is doubly ridiculous, the official added.

Polling the house church movement: I'm just not sure satisfaction is the goal of church.