The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal’s “Best of the Web” at WSJ written by the editor, James Taranto.
Longest Books Ever Written
“What to Worry About in an Iran Nuclear Deal”—headline, TheAtlantic, March 29
It’s Always in the Last Place You Look
- “Yukon Elder Discovers Mother’s Purse at National Museum”—headline, CBC, March 27
- “Defense Department Keeps Losing ‘Sensitive’ Explosives Gear, Then Finding It For Sale on Ebay”—headline, TechDirt, March 26
Ipsos Factos?
“A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,” Reuters “reports”:
A Reuters/Ipsos online poll this month asked 2,809 Americans to rate how much of a threat a list of countries, organizations and individuals posed to the United States on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being no threat and 5 being an imminent threat.
The poll showed 34 percent of Republicans ranked Obama as an imminent threat, ahead of Putin (25 percent), who has been accused of aggression in the Ukraine, and Assad (23 percent). Western governments have alleged that Assad used chlorine gas and barrel bombs on his own citizens.
Five bucks to the first reader who sends us a link to the parallel Reuters/Ipsos poll circa 2003 that tested Democratic attitudes toward President Bush and Saddam Hussein.
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