Person for the week: General David Petraeus.

President Bush with Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus.

The blog's person of the week is Army Lt. Gen. (promoted today to General) David Petraeus, who the Senate unanimously confirmed as Commander of U.S. troops in Iraq to bring on Bush's "surge". Believe it or not, President Bush's presidency (and political survival for the remainder of his term) will depend to a very large extent on this one man's "surging" success(es) or failure(s).

Honorable mention as Person for the week goes to Thomas Moore of Mississippi. Mr. Moore refused to let the horrible and gutless killing of his brother, Charles Moore (and a friend Henry Dee), in 1964 by the KKK's James Earle and Charles Edwards to go unpunished. His perseverence paid off this week as James Earle, a coward who was a Deputy Sheriff and who feigned his own death in order to avoid responsibility for the killings, was indicted and brought to justice. Lady Justice must be smilling! For his tenacity of purpose and his relunctance to let evil go unrestrained, this blog "honorably mentions" and recognizes Thomas Moore as the Person for the week.