By Alex Rogers
- Iraq’s Terrorists Are Becoming a Full-Blown Army [Daily Beast]
- “The capture Tuesday of Mosul, the hub of northern Iraq, by al-Qaeda-linked militants is an alarm bell that violent extremists are on the rise again in the Middle East. And it’s a good time for President Obama to explain more about how he plans to fight this menace without making the mistakes of the past.” [David Ignatius/WashPost]
- “The bespectacled college professor who toppled House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary Tuesday earned a masters of divinity from Princeton with a thesis on the philosophical doctrine of logical positivism. He was a rare breed of giant slayer: the kind that nobody saw coming.” [TIME]
- “When Election Day came, the turnout was high: About 65,000 people voted, which was up from 47,037 two years ago (when Cantor captured 79 percent of the vote).” [WashPost]
- “Since the beginning of last year, Mr. Cantor’s campaign had spent about $168,637 at steakhouses compared with the $200,000 his challenger, David Brat, had spent on his entire campaign.” [NYT]
- “Immigration reform is almost certainly dead on Capitol Hill this year.” [Politico]
- Ryan Lizza’s March 2013 profile of Cantor [New Yorker]
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