Saturday link dump

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• Terrorists have attacked polling stations in Iraq.
• The U.S. is giving the Somalians military assistance against al-Shabaab. Shabaab routed the Ethiopian forces that the U.S. sent against them a few years ago.
• Fallujah, Iraq reports a sharp rise in birth defects since the battle there in 2004.
• The Foreign Affairs committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted 23-22 to condemn the Ottoman Empire for acts of genocide against Armenians during the First World War.
  • The Armenian Reporter names the Congressmen who supported or opposed the vote.
  • The Wall Street Journal reports that the full Congress has already issued condemnations in 1975 and 1984.
• Guatemala's heads of internal security and drug control have been charged with crimes related to illegal drug trafficing.
• Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine relays law professor Michael Frisch's description of how the Yoo/Bybee torture memo investigation is a cover-up.
• Some of the money from the Live Aid charity concerts of 1985 went to fund arms for Ethiopian rebels.
• Elizabeth Green of the New York Times discusses the difficulty of understanding how to be a good teacher.
• Brian Doherty at Reason Magazine discusses the McDonald v. Chicago handgun case.
• Michael Weiss at Reason Magazine lists five varieties of bad political thinking.