In last week's column, I mentioned independent journalist Michael Yon, a Special Forces alumnus who's now traveling around Iraq far more independently than most journalists, and reporting on things we're not hearing from The New York Times. You should check out his blog, at MichaelYon.blogspot.com, to see what I'm talking about; you might want to start with this report on busting a terrorist bomb factory and weapons cache. Yon, who has been compared to Ernie Pyle, is doing the kind of war reporting that hardly anyone else is doing these days. Below, he explains how and why he's doing it....