First Cup 11.28.06

Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

Flopping Aces coverage of TOM™ (The Old Media) using terrorist apologists as sources is quite the talk in the blogosphere, and rightly so. Here are the stories:

• 11/24 — The AP & Hamas
• 11/24 — Patterico Takes On The Democrat Times
• 11/25 — Getting The News From The Enemy
• 11/27 — Getting The News From The Enemy, Update
• 11/27 — Getting The News From The Enemy, Update II

Excellent job, Curt. (h/t to Beth at Blue Star Chronicles for the links.)

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Olmert Offers Peace, Fatah Responds As Usual — “Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave what had been billed as a major policy speech, but to little practical effect. Olmert urged Palestinians to agree to end hostilities in order to negotiate for a long-term peace and offered mass prisoner releases as an incentive, but the Palestinians responded with rocket attacks from Gaza:”

I will be in a training class again today. Thanks for hanging in there.

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