Monthly Archives: November 2014

The president [Obama] believed that bin Laden wasn’t just evil, he was charismatically evil. –Mark Bowden, The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, (New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012), 61. Yes. A man who kills 16-year-olds with missiles from … Continue reading →

The White House was still considering an Air Force option, a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the house. Defense Secretary Robert Gates supported the air strike because it kept American ground forces out of Pakistan, which … Continue reading →

Republican Joni Ernst – who boasted of her prowess at castrating pigs in a campaign advert – became the first woman elected statewide to represent Iowa and the first female combat veteran elected to the Senate. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29910979