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August 06, 2012 | | TROUBLING SIGNS Wade Michael Page, the suspected gunman who went on a shooting rampage that killed six at a Sikh temple, had been administratively discharged from the U.S. Army in 1998. He had previously been demoted in rank from sergeant to specialist. Page served six and a half years in the service as a missile system repairman and a psychological operations specialist before being discharged. The military has kept quite on why he didn't qualify for honorable discharge and what led to Page being stripped of his rank. His record also had praise and medals for good conduct, humanitarian service and other basic achievements. HATE THE GAME Even if Harry Reid is correct and Romney evaded paying taxes, Democrats’ obsession with the issue diverts attention from the real debate, writes The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart—the difference between his politics and Obama’s. OAK CREEK Wade Michael Page, the alleged shooter of seven people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday, was the leader of the neo-Nazi music group End Apathy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. “The inspiration was based on frustration that we have the potential to accomplish so much more as individuals and a society in whole,” Page said in a 2010 interview with Label 56, which the SPLC identified as a “white-supremacist website.” Page said he wanted to “figure out how to end people’s apathetic ways.” Page had been involved in white-power music since 2000, he said in the interview. UNREST Syrian television suffered a bomb attack, while state media reported that the country’s prime minister had been removed from his post Monday morning, though rebels say he defected. Former minister of agriculture Riyad Hijab had held the position for only two months since being appointed by Bashar al-Assad. Syrian television reported the turnover and said Omar Ghalawanji, who had served as deputy prime minister, would lead an interim government. Also Monday, the offices of the state television and radio stations in Damascus were the target of a bomb attack. A bomb went off on the third floor of the building, which gunmen attacked in June, but the explosive did not seem to effect station operations. | | 
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