Cheat Sheet - Why Terrorists Are Winning in Iraq

Read This, Skip That .... June 10, 2014 BLACK FLAG 1. Why the Terrorists Are Winning in Iraq Islamists who are too extreme even for al Qaeda just took over Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul. Jacob Siegel writes the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) is building a kingdom in northern Iraq 11 years after the U.S. invasion, meant in part to stop terrorism. Is the U.S. about to jump back in to kick ISIS out? Read it at The Daily Beast AGAIN 2. Student Killed in Oregon School Shooting Police say one student was killed in the shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, on Tuesday. The gunman is also dead, according to police, and the situation is no longer considered active. Police were called to respond at around 8 a.m. PT. FBI agents and SWAT were also sent to the school. By 9:15 a.m., police reported that the situation was stabilized. A student told The Oregonian that she saw an injured teacher leaving the school, which has 2,800 students and is the second-largest high school in the state. Max Maydew, the grandfather of one of the high-school students and a longtime resident, said "This shouldn't happen in Troutdale. You don't expect something like that to happen in your hometown." Read it at The Oregonian OUT OF BOUNDS 3. The West Should Boycott Putin's 2018 World Cup Soccer sanctions can bite—just look at all the sponsors set to flee over Qatar's corruption scandal—which makes the next World Cup in Moscow a perfect opportunity to apply real economic pressure over the annexation of Crimea. Tunku Varadarajan writes that, if Russia is still claiming Ukrainian territory in 2018, the tournament must be relocated. Read it at The Daily Beast TEAM EDWARD 4. Gore: Snowden Did More Good Than Harm Edward Snowden may be able to count Al Gore as a friend. The former vice president was asked how he felt about the National Security Agency whistleblower at tech conference Southland on Tuesday. While Gore prefaced his response by noting that Snowden did break the law, the ex-veep said "what he revealed in the course of violating important laws included violations of the Constitution that were way more serious than the crimes he committed." Gore added that Snowden provided an "important service because we did need to know how far this has gone." In fact, Gore's initial reaction was "dismay that [NSA surveillance] had gone as far as it has." Read it at Pando EASING UP 5. Holder Backs Shorter Drug Sentences The Justice Department announced its support Tuesday for a proposal to reduce prison terms for nonviolent drug offenders. By shortening time behind bars, the proposal will save taxpayers an estimated $2.4 billion a year. Attorney General Eric Holder noted that this proposal won't guarantee shorter sentences for all drug offenders but "strikes the best balance between protecting public safety and addressing the overcrowding of our prison system that has been exacerbated by unnecessarily long sentences." The U.S. Sentencing Commission will vote on the proposal next month. Read it at Huffington Post IN THE DARK 1 in 4 Don't Know They Have Diabetes CDC reports. SUGAR MAMA Halle Berry to Pay $200K Child Support Per year. I FEEL YOUR PAIN Hillary 'Appreciates' Your Struggles Changes tune on being "dead broke." ADDING UP Autism Can Costs Families $2.4M Over a lifetime. LOOK UP! Commercial Drone Flights OK'd Over Land FAA gives the go-ahead. ESQUIRE What Tracy Morgan Can Teach Congress Right Now US WEEKLY Miss USA 2014 Bikini Bodies: The Top 20 THE WRAP 11 People Alec Baldwin Insulted in His Non-Goodbye Letter GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Is Mexico's Kim K. Assassin for Real? by Michael Daly Hollywood's Backward Stance on Abortion by Teo Bugbee When Bush Paid Terrorists a Ransom by Michael Tomasky

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