Reading list about what's going on around us

Here's ISIS' Plan To Destroy American Apache Helicopters  ... "A US-led coalition of western and regional players has been bombing ISIS targets for weeks in an effort to check the militant group's lightning expansion. The American-led campaign has been almost entirely waged from the air, and the ISIS guide goes into fairly technical detail on how to shoot down enemy aircraft with a shoulder-fired man-portable air-defense system, or MANPADS*." ...   Read more:
* MANPADS were taken from the defeated Iraqi military

Six years later: the clear connection between Barack Obama and the Weathermen    "Just before the election of Barack Obama in 2008, it was quite shocking to see that a forty-year old, seemingly forgotten radical group called the "Weathermen" was getting so much attention. Of course, Obama denied any connection to old Weathermen. Here's a quick history of the "Weathermen" and why it's relevant to a president whose entire campaign relied on a call for an undefined "change." Now, six years later, the change is coming much clearer into view. And it seems we now know which way the wind blows."
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"Still, what is the Obama connection to these dedicated revolutionaries? It's perhaps ironic that all four former Weathermen terrorists today worked through an organization called "Movement for a Democratic Society." That organization was the parent to another one called "Progressives for Obama." They raised funds for Obama, promoted his candidacy, and helped to recruit activists to support him."  Now we see what the country is like when they are in charge.

CNN poll: Voters are angry

  "Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows."

 The Volokh Conspiracy:  Gross incompetence at the State Department?
Someone left State Department spokesman Jen Psaki grossly unprepared for a press briefing today ..., and she wound up disagreeing with the notion that a teenage Palestinian Hamas supporter with American citizenship throwing molotov cocktails at cars on an Israeli highway was “essentially a terrorist” whom the State Department was a bit too quick too mourn.