BBC's Mona Mahmoud has done her own evaluation of the surge, which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else yet.

She's monitored the number of dead and wounded (often ignored by other sources) broken down between civilians, iraqi military, iraqi police and "coalition" military. She has also monitored the access to electricity for three families in Baghdad, fuel prices and the pressure on hospitals.

I don't have time or energy to do any in-depth analysis on her findings myself, I recommend you instead follow the link and read them yourselves.

For those that didn't know, there is a hearing going on right now about global warming and how the WH has been treating that subject.

From the Oversight website:

Today's hearing will continue the Committee's examination of evidence and allegations of political interference with the work of government climate change scientists under the current Administration.