• Think about it from Jeb’s perspective: Would you want to be the only Bush who doesn’t get to be president?
• An armed Islamic radical took hostages in a café in central Sydney; after a day-long standoff, he was killed by police. Two hostages also died. The hostage taker was no stranger to crime. An Iranian who had been given asylum in Australia in 1996, he had been convicted in 2012 of sending Westboro Baptist–style hate mail to the families of dead Australian soldiers. He was on bail for being an accessory in the murder of his ex-wife, and he faced 40 charges of sexual and indecent assault. Authorities hastened to say that he acted on his own. But so these days does many a terrorist. Australia’s intact self-confidence and its immigration control will serve it well in coming years.
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