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March 24, 2012 | | TOO FAR The French president is overreacting to what is being called his country's 9/11 with proposals for laws that criminalize consulting jihadist websites and traveling abroad for terrorist indoctrination. Both would be disastrous for France, says Barry Lando. REBOUND Rick Santorum needs to win Saturday's Louisiana primary, and it looks like he will as the state's voters head to the polls. The contest could rejuvenate his campaign and remind the GOP that frontrunner Mitt Romney lacks conservative support in the South, since Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi also. But Romney already dealt a decisive loss to Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, proving that he can win in big, industrial Midwestern states—despite the Etch a Sketch gaffes. TERRORIST SUSPECT The gunman suspected of killing three students at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday and three paratroopers last week remains holed up in the house where he was besieged in a predawn police raid. Two policemen and a French soldier were injured in the hours-long standoff, during which they exchanged fire with the suspect who has claimed allegiance to al Qaeda. Mohamed Merah, a 24-year-old French national born in Algeria, was a known bombmaker in Afghanistan and was imprisoned in 2007 but escaped during an al Qaeda-orchestrated jailbreak. Police found a massive arsenal of weapons in his car and say the suspect is still in the apartment with a gun by his side. NOW President Obama is once again urging Congress to act. In his weekly radio address Saturday, the POTUS called on House Republicans to pass a bipartisan, two-year, $109-billion bill to rebuild America's transportation system that the administration say will create jobs. The proposal was passed in Democratic-controlled Senate but is stalled in the House. "Once again, we're waiting on Congress," Obama said. "In a matter of days, funding will stop for all sorts of transportation projects. Construction sites will go idle. Workers will have to go home. And our economy will take a hit." OUCH Asma al-Assad, the glamorous but increasingly hated wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, could lose her British citizenship. The British Home Office is looking at the possibility of revoking her passport even though she was born in London and only left Britain in 2000 to marry. The European Union slapped a travel ban and an asset freeze on her Friday but cannot stop her from going home to Britain. The home secretary, however, does have the power to take away someone's citizenship if deemed "conducive to the public good." | | 
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