Nation
Clinton's Southern strategy? Hillary fakes her accent for local crowd: Curt Mills
Trump, Carson get Secret Service details. Bush and Rubio hardest hit: Jazz Shaw
ISIS will 'inevitably' get WMDs, warns former head of British Army nuclear team: Express
Hillary’s Email and the Iraq War: Michael Rubin
Bernie Sanders' Terrifyingly Stupid Tweet: DownTrend
Jeb Bush's Appearance on State of the Nation Gives Donors Excuse To Bail: Treehouse
Jeb Bush: Stick a Fork in Him: Chris Cillizza
Bush Campaign's Embarrassing End: Cutting Staff, Flying Commercial: KJ McElrath
Sanders Endosed by Farrakhan Fan Who Said Jews are Racists: Daniel Greenfield
Marco Rubio's wake-up call: Kyle Cheney
Paul Ryan open to running for speaker: Nancy Cordes
You want evidence that Obama thinks white cops are racist? Here it is: Unyielding
Dick Heller Talks Heller III: NYC Guns
CompStat takes another beating: Second City Cop
Economy
Feds Hide Secret List Of 11 Staggering Obamacare Insurers: Richard PollockSo What Does All The Free Stuff Democrats Are Promising Actually Cost?: Sean Hannity
U.S. Spends $300 Mil on Stoves for Developing Nations: JW
Scandal Central
Sanctuary Cities Ignore ICE Orders and Free 9,295 Criminal Aliens: JWTreasury will begin issuing Iran sanctions waivers under Obama order: Gregory Korte
Gowdy to GOP Colleagues: Shut Up About Benghazi, “You Don’t Know Anything”: Tammy Bruce
Why Hillary's Upcoming Testimony is a Farce; a Charade to Shield Congress: Treehouse
Michael Isikoff: Blumenthal E-mail to Hillary Is ‘Evidence of a Commission of a Federal Crime’: Tom S. Elliott
Gowdy: 'These have been among the worst weeks of my life': Rachel Bade
Climate & Energy
Interior Department quietly suspends Arctic drilling leases: Jazz ShawColumnist: ‘Normalization of Deviance’ Led to Volkswagen Cheating: Aaron Cole
EPA's plan on clean power oversteps federal authority: Terry Jarrett
Media
Telling Truth To A Reluctant World: NoisyRmWallace Presses Trump: 'Do You Blame George W. Bush for 9/11?': FNI
Greta van Susteren is a Pro-Gun Control, Anti-Bill of Rights Despot: Daniel John Sobieski
Donald Trump Appears On Fox News Sunday – The Customary Pundit Heads Explode: Treehouse
The “Epidemic Of Gun Violence” Lie: Bob Owens
MSNBC Correspondent Apologizes For Broadcasting Historically Inaccurate Map Of Israel: Tower
Ted Cruz Speaks With Chuck Todd – Meet The Press Interview: Treehouse
Kissinger: Obama Has Left The Middle East In ‘Shambles’: WZ
Why Grandpa Carries a Gun: MagFarm
World
Liberty’s Great Charter: AmIntAlternatives to aircraft carriers? Easier said than done: Hugh Lessig
Fifty killed in an Islamist knife attack at a Chinese colliery: Michael Allan McCrae
Hamas urges car ramming attacks as 'stabbings don't kill enough Jews': Hayom
Islamic Teacher Recruits 4-Year-Olds to be Terrorists: Daniel Greenfield
Obama Administration Walks Back Three Statements About Anti-Israel Terror In One Week: The Tower
Barack Churchill: Victor Davis Hanson
Palestinian Terror Attack In Israeli Bus Station (Will Obama Blame Israel Again?): LidBlog
Saudis Poke The Russian Bear, Start Oil War In Eastern Europe: ZH
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Amazon sues over 1,000 people over fake reviews: TelegraphKnown Unknowns: An Analysis of Twitter Censorship in Turkey: ACM
This brilliant guy creates first ever 3D printed portable homemade railgun: 3ders
Cornucopia
How a Rookie Head Coach Derailed a Rookie Quarterback, then Vanished with $4 Million: Sharp FootballIf We Want To Be Like Denmark We Need a NEW New Deal.: MOTUS
The First Taste of the Glenfiddich 1978 Rare Collection Single Malt: Emily Arden Wells
European Vacation 2050: ZH
Giants Fan Trolls Her Groom With Cake Featuring Tom Brady In Dress (Photos): Sam Galanis
Still Report: Sweden Could Collapse: Market Ticker
Image: Giants Fan Trolls Her Groom With Cake Featuring Tom Brady In Dress (Photos)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #SaveTheConstitution: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT
QOTD: "The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s strategic framework had barely begun when the region’s geopolitical framework collapsed. Russia’s unilateral military action in Syria is the latest symptom of the disintegration of the American role in stabilizing the Middle East order that emerged from the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.
In the aftermath of that conflict, Egypt abandoned its military ties with the Soviet Union and joined an American-backed negotiating process that produced peace treaties between Israel and Egypt, and Israel and Jordan, a United Nations-supervised disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria, which has been observed for over four decades (even by the parties of the Syrian civil war), and international support of Lebanon’s sovereign territorial integrity. Later, Saddam Hussein’s war to incorporate Kuwait into Iraq was defeated by an international coalition under U.S. leadership. American forces led the war against terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States were our allies in all these efforts. The Russian military presence disappeared from the region.
That geopolitical pattern is now in shambles. Four states in the region have ceased to function as sovereign. Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq have become targets for nonstate movements seeking to impose their rule. Over large swaths in Iraq and Syria, an ideologically radical religious army has declared itself the Islamic State (also called ISIS or ISIL) as an unrelenting foe of established world order. It seeks to replace the international system’s multiplicity of states with a caliphate, a single Islamic empire governed by Shariah law.
ISIS’ claim has given the millennium-old split between the Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam an apocalyptic dimension. The remaining Sunni states feel threatened by both the religious fervor of ISIS as well as by Shiite Iran, potentially the most powerful state in the region. Iran compounds its menace by presenting itself in a dual capacity. On one level, Iran acts as a legitimate Westphalian state conducting traditional diplomacy, even invoking the safeguards of the international system. At the same time, it organizes and guides nonstate actors seeking regional hegemony based on jihadist principles: Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria; Hamas in Gaza; the Houthis in Yemen." --Henry Kissinger
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