UPDATED: 11/10/2012 21:53
IDF says 19 rockets fired at Israel; Iron Dome intercepts Grad; Earlier, missile hit IDF jeep patrolling Gaza border, injuring four soldiers; IDF tank shelling, killing four Palestinians.
JPOST
A barrage of rockets fired from Gaza landed in a slew of southern Israeli cities on Saturday night, as violence continued to escalate along the Gaza Strip border following an anti-tank missile attack against an IDF jeep earlier on Saturday.
Nineteen rockets fell, according to the IDF, though Channel 10 reported a total of 25 rockets, including eight long-range rockets, landing at Ashkelon, Ashdod, Sderot, the Eshkol Regional Council area and the Be’er Tuviya area. No injuries or damage were reported.
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THE BASIC PREMISE OF THIS ARTICLE IS THAT CONSERVATIVES WERE MISINFORMED BY THEIR MEDIA AND LIBERALS WEREN’T. THE CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THE LIBERALS WHO WERE MISINFORMED.
What matters here is not the facts, though I think the conservatives have a better grasp of them but the values and the policies which are best for the US. Obama’s victory is not a vindication that America is headed in the right direction.
By Conor Friedersdorf, THE ATLANTIC
Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, “What went wrong?”, they should ask themselves a question every bit as important: “Why were we the last to realize that things were going wrong for us?”
Barack Obama just trounced a Republican opponent for the second time. But unlike four years ago, when most conservatives saw it coming, Tuesday’s result was, for them, an unpleasant surprise. So many on the right had predicted a Mitt Romney victory, or even a blowout — Dick Morris, George Will, and Michael Barone all predicted the GOP would break 300 electoral votes. Joe Scarborough scoffed at the notion that the election was anything other than a toss-up. Peggy Noonan insisted that those predicting an Obama victory were ignoring the world around them. Even Karl Rove, supposed political genius, missed the bulls-eye. These voices drove the coverage on Fox News, talk radio, the Drudge Report, and conservative blogs.
State, Obama, Democratic Party, the GOP and Romney all agree on the embrace of Islam and American foreign policy.