New plug-in, called Post Teaser, by Jonathan Leighton.
Post Teaser generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time.
I took out the read [...]
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Kim Priestap, a member of the Wizbang gang, has lost a family member in Iraq.
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Why doesn’t someone write a spam filter that recognizes that the e-mail is written in non-western characters, like Russian?
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I’m sitting here, as scared and concerned as I have been in a very long time.
I went to the doctor’s this morning to find out why my back, left thoracic, was spasming so badly so often. I’m put it off for nearly a year but the lovely wife insisted.
Exam, sent for x-rays.
X-rays came back.
Multi level [...]
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Don’t let the blond hair, blue eyes and dazzling white smile fool you. Corporal Shannon Fretter of Springhill, N.S. is as hardcore as any grizzled fighting man in the Canadian Forces.
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Tags: canadian army, Corporal Shannon Fretter
Posted in Afghanistan, Military, Our Allies, Our Best: Military Women, War on Terror • 2 Comments »
In September, NATO and the ISAF launched a campaign to remove the Taliban from Panjwayi and Zhari districts, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. You never heard about it.
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Texans talk funny, but not in the way you think.
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Do Not Abandon Iraq
The opinions that pundits and politicians alike are voicing about Iraq these days concern me. Security and democracy are not mutually exclusive goals.
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