Summary: Three rockets fired from a mainly Shiite neighborhood hit Baghdad’s Green Zone during Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to Iraq. Panetta said the U.S. is concerned about Iran providing weapons to Iraqi militants and will take unilateral action if needed to deal with the threat. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 11, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 5 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “The Rhetoric of the New Right.”

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Summary: In a July 9, 2011 Townhall column, Bill O’Reilly opined on former President Bill Clinton’s seemingly glowing assessment of Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann as a “compelling public figure” who comes across as “real,” concluding it was merely “gamesmanship” to diminish Sarah Palin, whose major distinction from Bachmann is “personality.” However, empirical studies indicate that Palin and Bachmann, in fact, have very similar personality types. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 4 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “Who Runs the Tea Party?”

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Summary: A bodyguard for Afghanistan’s second highest-ranking intelligence official shot dead two U.S. troops accompanying a reconstruction team convoy north of Kabul. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 9, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 3 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “The Tea Party Movement.”

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Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 8, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 2 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “A Deep Dislike for Barack Obama.”

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Summary: Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus Bachmann, plays a central role in her campaign for the Republican nomination. The Bachmanns, who are born-again fundamentalist Christians, share a bond born of deep faith in a particularly conservative form of Lutheranism (WELS), a common abhorrence of homosexuality, and an extreme Christian nationalist political ideology. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 7, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 1 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “Don’t Tread on Me.”

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Summary: An Oregon man, Darryl James Swanson, has been detained for a mental health evaluation after appearing in federal court to face charges that he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the president’s family. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 6, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Aghanistan wars.

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Summary: A car packed with explosives and a roadside bomb went off back-to-back outside a municipal building north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 37 people and wounding 54. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 5, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that more than 100 foreign troops died in Afghanistan in June 2010, making it the deadliest month to date in the then nine-year-long war.

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Summary: The outgoing U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, who was recently confirmed as the next director of the CIA, says U.S. troops have achieved progress on the battlefield but that “much work remains” to be done in Afghanistan. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 4, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Baghdad’s Green Zone was targeted in a mortar attack as Vice President Joe Biden visited Iraq on America’s Independence Day.

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Summary: Late Friday afternoon, July 1, 2011, a line of severe thunderstorms hit St. Cloud, Minn., and surrounding communities with heavy rain, large hail, and near-hurricane-force downburst winds of 65 to 70 miles an hour toppling hundreds of trees, some of which landed on buildings and vehicles. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 3, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner described 54-year-old music teacher Dan Rassier as a “person of interest” in the abduction of Jacob Wetterling at the end of the Rassier driveway on the evening of Oct. 22, 1989. Aubrey Immelman discussed aspects of criminal motive and the likely offender profile, noting the need for a linkage analysis involving the unsolved kidnapping and sexual assault of Jared S. in Cold Spring and the unexplained disappearance of Joshua Guimond from the campus of St. John’s University.

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Summary: Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed at the same pace in the first half of 2011 as in the first six months of 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased, even as the Obama administration moves to shift more of the burden of war to the Afghans. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 2, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Taliban suicide attackers stormed a four-story house used by the U.S. Agency for International Development in Kunduz, north Afghanistan, killing four people before succumbing in a fierce, five-hour gunbattle with Afghan security forces.

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