Blogger extraordinaire Arthur Chrenkoff, known for his comprehensive reports on the good news from Iraq and Afghanistan that the rest of the MSM has downplayed over the last year and a half, is hanging up his mouse. He wrote early this morning to say that he has taken on a new job that will not allow blogging.

In an ideal world, someone smart in the journalism business would have hired him full-time to allow him to keep doing what he is doing. As I wrote back to Arthur, he has had an enormous impact in a short amount of time and I hope that he’ll be able to resume publishing again at some point soon.

I second John Hinderaker at Power Line in wishing Arthur all the best. You will be sorely, sorely missed.

Update: Mary Katherine Ham at Townhall.com proposes a Carnival of Chrenkoff.