Good Riddance

Shortly after the Z-Man collected his bowl of raisins, I speculated that the intelligence gained from raiding his and other al-Quaeda hideouts in Iraq could well prove more important than the bombing raid itself. Today we're seeing some evidence of that, notably here and here, but particularly here, in a "state of the insurgency" document captured in the ruins of Zarqawi's not-so-safe house:

You'll have to, since you're not likely to read or hear much about it in major media reports.

The Dog That Didn't Bark

Here's an interesting NY Times story about how people in their 20's and 30's are abandoning upstate New York for locales South and West:

More interesting, however, is what the Times can't bring itself to say in the story: there isn't a single mention of New York's high taxes and rampant government regulatory regimes, or the relative lack therof in the (er, "red") Sun Belt states. Was it just too much trouble for the Times to admit that jobs (and thus people) are leaving for places that are more ameniable to, you know, employers?

Apparently so. Like Old Europe, America's high-tax, high-regulation states are literally pricing themselves out of the job market--and they're losing population as a result. Pity the "newspaper of record" can't bring itself to say so.