Some Random Tuesday Links

  • The Obama Administration plans to send almost $1 billion to Hamas (indirectly).
  • Foreign Policy Magazine: “Mexico’s hillbilly drug smugglers have morphed into a raging insurgency. Violence claimed more lives there last year alone than all the Americans killed in the war in Iraq. And there’s no end in sight.”
  • Confidence in the Democrats’ compentence in fighting terrorists is dropping almost as fast as confidence in their ability to run the economy.
  • 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis”  Number 5: “Bad times are boon times for evangelical churches. Economist David Beckworth of Texas State University has crunched U.S. church attendance numbers and found that congregation growth at evangelical churches jumped 50 percent during each recession between 1968 and 2004.”