Taking Local Pride in SEALs’ Stunning Feat
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 6th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Taking Local Pride in SEALs’ Stunning Feat
Vindication of the War on Terror
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
2012 Electoral Math Looks Good for GOP
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
The number 270 will come to dominate almost every waking moment for the Obama re-election high command in Chicago—as well as for their counterparts in the headquarters of the GOP nominee next year.Two hundred seventy is the number of Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Strategists on both sides will obsess on how to cobble together enough states to reach that total.
Photo Would Show Osama for What He Really Was
Eugene Robinson, WP
I would have released the Osama bin Laden photos.I understand why President Obama decided otherwise, and of course I respect that decision. But I think showing the world evidence — however gruesome — of the terrorist butcher’s death would have been the better call.Why? Because while gory photographs would have inflamed some jihadists and wannabes, I believe they would have disillusioned and deflated others. A heroic myth of invulnerability had been built around bin Laden.
Torture Is Still Torture
Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star