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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Why Terrorists Are Winning in Iraq

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June 10, 2014
BLACK FLAG
Islamists who are too extreme even for al Qaeda just took over Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul. Jacob Siegel writes the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) is building a kingdom in northern Iraq 11 years after the U.S. invasion, meant in part to stop terrorism. Is the U.S. about to jump back in to kick ISIS out?
AGAIN

Police say one student was killed in the shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, on Tuesday. The gunman is also dead, according to police, and the situation is no longer considered active. Police were called to respond at around 8 a.m. PT. FBI agents and SWAT were also sent to the school. By 9:15 a.m., police reported that the situation was stabilized. A student told The Oregonian that she saw an injured teacher leaving the school, which has 2,800 students and is the second-largest high school in the state. Max Maydew, the grandfather of one of the high-school students and a longtime resident, said "This shouldn't happen in Troutdale. You don't expect something like that to happen in your hometown."

OUT OF BOUNDS
Soccer sanctions can bite—just look at all the sponsors set to flee over Qatar's corruption scandal—which makes the next World Cup in Moscow a perfect opportunity to apply real economic pressure over the annexation of Crimea. Tunku Varadarajan writes that, if Russia is still claiming Ukrainian territory in 2018, the tournament must be relocated.
TEAM EDWARD

Edward Snowden may be able to count Al Gore as a friend. The former vice president was asked how he felt about the National Security Agency whistleblower at tech conference Southland on Tuesday. While Gore prefaced his response by noting that Snowden did break the law, the ex-veep said "what he revealed in the course of violating important laws included violations of the Constitution that were way more serious than the crimes he committed." Gore added that Snowden provided an "important service because we did need to know how far this has gone." In fact, Gore's initial reaction was "dismay that [NSA surveillance] had gone as far as it has."

EASING UP

The Justice Department announced its support Tuesday for a proposal to reduce prison terms for nonviolent drug offenders. By shortening time behind bars, the proposal will save taxpayers an estimated $2.4 billion a year. Attorney General Eric Holder noted that this proposal won't guarantee shorter sentences for all drug offenders but "strikes the best balance between protecting public safety and addressing the overcrowding of our prison system that has been exacerbated by unnecessarily long sentences." The U.S. Sentencing Commission will vote on the proposal next month.


I FEEL YOUR PAIN
Hillary 'Appreciates' Your Struggles
Changes tune on being "dead broke."
ADDING UP
Autism Can Costs Families $2.4M
Over a lifetime.
LOOK UP!
Commercial Drone Flights OK'd Over Land
FAA gives the go-ahead.

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