ICYMI: Why the shootdown of Malaysia Air MH17 is an even bigger deal than we realize.
A fascinating look at how the ‘Islamic State’ now controlling large swaths of Iraq and Syria is using a mix of fanaticism and pragmatism to try to consolidate their chunk of territory into something resembling a state.
Russian separatist commander: Malaysian plane was full of already dead bodies.
I number of commentators have pointed to the as yet relatively sedate statements from European leaders to assert that the shootdown of the Malaysian passenger jet over eastern Ukraine really isn’t the sort game changing event I suggested it was. But I think it misses the bigger picture.
We’ve got a summer reading suggestion list thread going in The Hive (sub req) and I thought I’d add my suggestions. As I sometimes admit, I never read any books about politics or almost anything contemporary. I only read history. So here are a dozen history titles I’ve read in recent years that I found engrossing and wonderful.
Separatist rebels this morning ordered recovery workers at gunpoint to hand over the bodies of the dead from the Malaysian jetliner, and packed them on a train headed for parts unknown.
Bloomberg (emphasis added): “Hillary Clinton has earned at least $12 million in 16 months since leaving the State Department, a windfall at odds with her party’s call to shrink the gap between the rich and the poor.”
McConnell: “Every crazy liberal” is spending money to defeat me. Watch.
How McConnell hides his position on 3 critical issues in his reelection fight.
The NRA’s logic missed the tripartite reality: good people with guns, bad people with guns and stupid people with guns.
Man charged with killing friend in botched test of bulletproof vest.