On Fat Tuesday in Mobile, Ala., the last float depicts a court jester pursuing his skeletal foe around a broken column symbolizing the fragility of life. Oh, and inflated pig bladders are involved.
Abdul-Jabbar Akaidi, a former colonel in Bashar al-Assad's army who defected in 2012 and joined the opposition, has been fighting Russian invaders for seven years and studying their tactics.
It is ironic that those who profess a preference for limited government would legislate an increase in governmental power that isn't definable until the blow falls on the unwary.
