the electrical work at the property at the request

of Nebel. Afterward, Nebel voided his permit—sometime at the end of 2011—

likely on December 15, 2011.1 Nebel testified his last date on the project was on

the date he voided the permit; he relied on the inspector’s testimony for the exact

date. When asked if she could name the last date Nebel was on the job site,

Julie Lott testified she did not know because she had moved to Florida on August

18, 2011, and she did not return to the site until April 2012, at which point the

project had already been finished and the lien already filed.2          Based on the

record before us, there is nothing to suggest that Nebel’s last date on the site

wasThe Loneliest Terrorist After Bin Ladin: The Syrian People’s Dictator

When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent tanks to crush pro-democracy marchers, he hoped for a quick victory, after which the army would return to its barracks.

Six weeks and hundreds of deaths later, the despot’s calculations clearly haven’t worked out — in fact, he may have scripted himself out Syria‘s future.

The country seems to have returned to its traditional pattern of politics, in which the barracks and the street compete for power while other institutions stand on the sidelines. The Council of Ministers, the parliament, the security services and the so-called “national front” (which supposedly governs Syria under the Ba’ath Party) all look irrelevant.

The Loneliest Terrorist in Syria

Since the 1970s, thanks to a North Korean-style cult of personality, the presidency