The Evangelical Outpost comments, with some welcome sanity, on the new Milblog restrictions:

Instead of criticizing the addition of common sense restrictions, my fellow conservative bloggers should be asking why this change wasn't implemented years ago. How many times do we have to read about the enemy being an "adaptive, cunning, and learning adversary ... unlike most previous experiences" before we figure out where the terrorists are getting their information from? The question that should be asked is how many soldiers lives had to be lost do to poor OPSEC before the generals realized they needed to tell milbloggers to "button your lip!"

Glenn Reynolds on the subtleties of barelinking.

Step aside Gideon, there's another guru in town.

Predictably, Gene Redlin is disgusted.

WORLD comments on the decline of the book review.

I'm trying to do my part!

VOM, Turkey:

The Protestant Church in Smyrna is requesting Christians to pray for the families of the three believers killed on April 18, 2007, in Malatya, Turkey. According to a press release, the church urged Christians to pray that someday the perpetrators of the gruesome murders would receive Christ and for God to use the testimonies of the martyred brothers to draw others in the knowledge of Him.