The Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt features a great deal of discussion of Christie administration’s bridge scandal, and how the winners of 2009 – Christie and Bob McDonnell – have amounted to colossal disappointments for the Right. But there’s also this fairly important news from overseas…
    Ahem. Minor Bit of News: Al-Qaeda Controls More Territory Than Ever Before
    Yet another foreign policy triumph of the Obama administration, spotlighted by Peter Bergen:
    From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles across the heart of the Middle East, according to English and Arab language news accounts as well as accounts on jihadist websites.
    Indeed, al Qaeda appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history.