Obama Won’t Talk Immigration Plan, Pentagon Has Spent $560 Million in Iraq, Ukraine Wants to Join NATO: P.M. Links

The White House today
refused to give a date by which President Obama intends to take
executive action on immigration reform, and will likely delay until
after the midterm election. Obama himself
will be scarce from battleground states until after the
election.
The Pentagon says it’s spending about
$7.5 million a day in Iraq, and we’ve spent $560 million so
far. The U.K. raised its terror threat level to “severe.”
Someone found ISIL’s “laptop of doom,” which contains all kinds of
instructions on nasty things like
weaponizing the bubonic plague. Nadal Hasan, the Fort Hood
Shooter, wrote a letter to the leader of ISIL
asking for citizenship from the Islamic State.
Ukraine announced today it wants to become a
member of NATO … for obvious reasons. Russian forces
captured a strategic town on the Azov Sea. Nearly 3,000 people have been
killed since Russia began its war in Ukraine, says the U.N.
Putin warned the world “It’s
best not to mess with us,” presumably while stroking a nuclear
warhead.
Israeli forces are in Golan Heights trying to find
44 U.N. peacekeepers captured by Al Qaeda-linked militants in
Syria.
The NFL is toughening
its domestic violence policy following outcry over Ray Rice’s
two-game suspension for allegedly beating his then-fiancée. How
about lightening up on drug penalties while they’re in the mood for
change?
After 11 years on the air, Dancing With the Stars featured

its first same-sex couple.