Loughner Ruling Was the Right One
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 1st, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Loughner Ruling Was the Right One
Upheaval in Egypt: What Now?
Mona Charen, National Review
“The police are afraid,” an Egyptian reported after witnessing 80 prisoners, some armed with machetes and guns, break out of a jail in Cairo. It was one of many such jailbreaks in the past three months. Crime, an unwelcome weed in the garden of the Arab Spring, has proliferated in the months since the Mubarak regime was driven from power. Egypt today is plagued by sectarian violence, kidnapping, and hooliganism. The police, who kept order through brutality and intimidation during the Mubarak era, are now too cowed to act.At a soccer match between the Egyptian and Tunisian teams,…
The 2012 Republican Battle Test
William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
Huck and Mitch are out. Mitt and Newt, however, are in. So are Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Rick Perry and Rudy Giuliani are maybes – along with Sarah Palin. There are even nonpolitician pols, such as Herman Cain.These Republicans, like most Republicans, make for a polite bunch. When it comes to presidential nominations, alas, the result is that the GOP can look a lot like the Elks: less a political party than a benevolent and protective order bestowing its nomination on some older, venerable member whose “turn” it is to run.
House Democrats Unite on Withdrawal from Afghanistan
5 Economic Bright Spots (And Why They’re Dim)
Nin-Hai Tseng, Fortune
