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Jonah Goldberg: Sid Blumenthal Is A 'Malevolent, Lugubrious Political Mercenary'

'More appropriately placed as an advisor to a Medici prince in the 14th century.'

Washington Free Beacon Staff
May 20, 2015
An Iraqi Sunni displaced woman, who fled the violence in the city of Ramadi, is seen at the outskirts of Baghdad
A YPG fighter walks amid debris around damaged silos of Aliya village after saying that they retook control of the area from IS in the southern countryside of Ras al-Ain
A burnt car is parked at the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi
National Security

Feds Have No Idea If $4 Billion Farmers Program Does Anything

Initiative questioned for more than three decades (Updated)

Elizabeth Harrington
May 20, 2015
In this undated file image posted on Monday, June 30, 2014, by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, north Syria
National Security

Islamic State Expands to Malaysia, Infiltrates Military

Could be planning attacks ‘on the scale of 9/11’

Bill Gertz
May 20, 2015