Fireworks are in place and set to explode Wednesday on Capitol Hill over whether the U.S. military could have done more to save the four trapped U.S. diplomats who died in Benghazi last September 11.
Jack Lew’s Signature Gets A Reboot, Mystery Third Signature To Appear On Currency
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s slinky signature has been replaced by a slightly more intelligible version.
“I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term.”
— Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, predicting Barack Obama will be ousted because of the Benghazi embassy attack, which Huckabee called a bigger scandal than Watergate.
Morning Must Reads: May 7
In the news: South Korea, coal, Bangladesh, sarin gas, Benghazi, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ted Cruz, Syria, and health care exchanges. UPDATED
The Ambassador May Wear Prada
Obama weighs appointing big names and fundraisers to patronage posts
What if al-Qaeda Gets Syrian Chemical Weapons?
The threat of terrorists acquiring WMD is real, experts say, though the danger to America is hard to measure
Obama, Romney Campaigns Subject To Repeated Hacking Attempts in 2012
Tech experts on both sides say foreign and domestic actors tried to steal policy and political secrets and influence the race through cyberattacks.
Internet Sales Tax Bill Faces Tough Sell in House
The Senate voted 69 to 27 Monday to pass a bill that empowers states to collect sales taxes from Internet purchases.
Why Barack Obama Plays Golf
Obama took Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Bob Corker, (R-Tenn.), and Mark Udall, (D-Colo.) to the golf course today. Chambliss got a hole-in-one.
“He gives speeches, he gives interviews, he says words, but he doesn't really rally people, doesn't create a wave that breaks over the top of the Capitol Dome and drowns the opposition, or even dampens it for a moment.”
— Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan in "Is Obama Already a Lame Duck?" The lame duck debate has carried over the weekend as the President weighs his options on gun control and immigration reform.
1 in 20 million
— Chance of dying in a terrorist attack in the United States from 2007 to 2011, according to Richard Barrett, coordinator of the United Nations al Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team.
How the U.S. is Building Unhealthy Hospitals in Afghanistan
Unfortunately, like much that has happened in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion less than a month after 9/11, American heads – if not hearts – have been in the wrong place.
Storming the Beach: Semper Fi, Dude
It’s the Marines against the surfers in a California beach battle
