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November 24, 2012 | | NEXT FOUR YEARS President Obama’s whip-smart campaign machine helped him hold on to the White House, but its massive email lists won’t do much for him in office. Matt Taylor on why what worked on the campaign trail won’t have the same effect in Washington, D.C. Fragile State Egypt's fragile democracy is once again in a precarious position after President Mohamed Morsi granted himself sweeping powers on Friday, leading to protests in Tahrir Square and elsewhere. Morsi, who took control in the country’s first election after Hosni Mubarak was deposed, gave himself power over the judiciary branch, and the move has united the opposition party and average Egyptians alike against the president. Soon after Morsi's decision, the Obama administration expressed concern over the apparent dissolution of the separation of powers. The State Department says the action goes against the intent of the revolution, which was to ensure that "power would not be overly concentrated in the hands of any one person or institution". Obit Larry Hagman, best known as the dastardly J.R. Ewing from Dallas, died Friday at age 81. The Daily Beast’s Jace Lacob on the indelible mark Hagman left on television and popular culture. POLITICKING Soon after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire was announced on Thursday, a ceasefire of another sort ended. Although there was an understanding among Israeli presidential candidates that no campaigning would occur during the recent Gaza conflict, with the current truce in place all bets are off. However, some believe the campaigning never really stopped: President Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of delaying the announcement of the current ceasefire due to concerns that air-raid sirens toward the end of the conflict would hurt his election prospects. Big Brother Andrea Hernandez probably didn't think her Christian beliefs would cause a problem at her San Antonio, Texas, high school. But when she refused to wear a school ID badge implanted with an RFID tracking chip on grounds that it signified the Mark of the Beast (from the biblical Book of Revelation), she sparked a court battle and prompted discussions about how far schools should go in keeping track of their students. Hernandez, who was initially told she would be expelled from her magnet school on Monday if she continued her refusal, was granted a temporary restraining order allowing her to attend classes pending further hearings next week. | | 
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