Weekend Roundup

If you are actually interested in the Levant, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Michael Totten has lived in Lebanon and as a freelance journalist walks the steets and talks to the people as well as some of the leaders of the freedom movement. He has posted two, here and here, great interviews that are absolute must reading, with deep insight into the Middle East and the Levant in particular.
The Barnyard receives many news feeds and as always the best reporting has no agenda but hard facts and boots on the ground reporting. We'll see hours of footage from reporters withstanding a hurricane, not reallizing wind like that can than drive a soda straw through a tree, but go on a patrol in Al Anbar, no doing. So in answer to this the Goat has added some live feeds from the battleground.
The Goat does not spin, he bangs horns with those in front of him and kicks those ankle-biter pups approaching from the rear, after all,
This is The Barnyard.