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...flexed his muscles on domestic issues from tax reform to health care to nuclear power. Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at the Free University in Berlin says Westerwelle's inexperience in government makes him a loose cannon. "Westerwelle's criticism gives the impression that Angela Merkel can't control her Cabinet," says Neugebauer. "Germans are asking who's in charge? Westerwelle looks like he's the cook and Merkel is the waiter...
Zahir claims that Marjah is "70% under control," but he adds that at night, masked Taliban fighters appear at houses and threaten to behead people if they work with the government. The insurgents need the farmers to stick with the poppy. According to U.N. experts, last year the Taliban reaped nearly $300 million from the drug trade; Afghan officials put the figure far lower, from $80 million to $100 million. Even at the low estimate, says a Western counternarcotics agent, "that's still enough to fuel the insurgency for a year." Nearly all of the Taliban's drug profits came...
...right to carry a gun without fear that it will be confiscated. In at least three states--including, oddly, Texas--it is illegal to carry a gun openly. The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, a case that will decide whether state and local gun-control ordinances violate the Second Amendment. The court is expected to rule on the case before the Justices adjourn in June for the summer. In the meantime, gun advocates and opponents are fixed with anticipation and worry--hence the OpenCarry.org demonstrations of firepower...
...Peet's Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have done. "Guns are not protest signs," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But because California law prohibits openly carried guns from being loaded, they do seem more like symbols than weapons. Which gun-control proponents might regard as a kind of victory: the guns at Starbucks are no more potent than the espresso...
Lionel Shriver has a history of conjuring up cranks and complainers who see everything wrong with the human condition. She usually manages to turn these characters into dark delights, whether they are the demographer in Game Control blithely planning a pandemic or the brittle mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin who abhors her child. Brilliantly funny and a superb plotter, Shriver is a master of the misanthrope...