on deadlines & stopping terror: who reports & who decides?

I haven't had cable for over three years, and in all honesty I really don't miss it much. From time to time I long for a few hours of the History Channel, but for the most part I've learned to become quite content with a pair of rabbit ears and the four networks.

Not that it hasn't been easy. I'm a news junkie, and so without cable I have only one shot each night during dinner to watch the news. No 24 hour fair and balanced reporting for me. But then again, that might not be such a bad thing. For example, as Congress and the President dig in for a colossal confrontation on a deadline for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, there is really only one place on cable that can do what FOX, CNN, and MSNBC can't... report on the truth of the stupidity of it all.

This is the one reason worth giving in and getting cable: