The year of the Desperate Democrat: From embracing Bush, to comparing opponents to the Taliban
From tonight’s “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” file:
Paying ransom only helps al Qaeda
There’s an interesting article at the Terror Finance Blog about the increase in the use of kidnapping to raise funds for jihadist groups, specifically Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), bin Laden’s North African franchise:
Exciting: GOP could slice into Democrat majority in Senate during end-of-year lame duck session
Think we’d have to wait for all potential Republican Senate wins in November to become official in January at the swearing in ceremony? Think again. The Wall Street Journal reports on a little known but tantalizing tidbit of information concerning how the Democrat majority in the Senate could shake out immediately after the fall elections: