Al Qaeda on the Rise in Iraq
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 21st, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Al Qaeda on the Rise in Iraq
Arthur Herman, New York Post
Just when you thought it was safe to leave Iraq, al Qaeda is back — with a vengeance.According to The New York Times, al Qaeda operatives are undoing the Anbar Awakening, which secured the American surge back in 2008. Under a hailstorm of brutal Islamicist violence, the Sunni sheiks living there are now abandoning their pro-American stance and going back to the terrorists.
For 30 Yrs, We’ve Excused Frank’s Behavior
Brian McGrory, Boston Globe
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Why Women Are Leading Tea Party Charge
Tammy Bruce, The Guardian
We are 13 days out from 2 November, a date all observers (with the quaint exception of the White House) admit will be a midterm election political “tsunami”, and we are seeing a genuine meltdown of both the media and political elite, two groups not happy at all with the new American revolution called the Tea Party. Especially irritating to American Nobility is the fact that women are in front of this storm, leading the way and calling out the political establishment for disdain and punishment on election day.
Would the Court Undo the Health Mandate?
Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
Megan McArdle – Megan McArdle is the business and economics editor for The Atlantic. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and the Economist. Bio | All Posts Oct 20 2010, 1:24 PM ET Comment In the course of an interesting musing about the constitutionality of the mandate, Ezra Klein makes what seems to me to be a slightly odd prediction:That doesn't mean I think the Supreme Court will rule the mandate unconstitutional. Coming on the…