It’s a complicated situation that Andrew C. McCarthy attempts to explain here: So, to summarize, we have the communications of Americans inside the United States being incidentally intercepted, stored, sifted through, and in some instances analyzed, even though those Americans … Continue reading →
To tell you the truth, I assumed they could already do this sort of thing: Routers scatter and bounce their signal off objects, illuminating our homes and offices like invisible light bulbs. Now, German scientists have found a way to … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote a post titled “A modern slave” about an article in the Atlantic. I had two articles on the subject open on my browser at the same time; not only were on the same subject, but they looked … Continue reading →
[CORRECTION: This post contains a link to the wrong article. Please see this for the correction.] This is a fascinating and deeply touching portrait of a situation that defies easy answers. Was Lola, the woman described in the article, a … Continue reading →
Professor William Jacobson teaches law at Cornell, and also runs the blog Legal Insurrection for which I sometimes write. Anyone who is a conservative on campus these days needs to be a profile in courage, and Professor Jacobson most definitely … Continue reading →
I don’t see how this can possibly end well: A threatening email has derailed one of the Portland Rose Festival’s signature events, and spurred new debate about the ongoing political protests in Portland. Organizers of the 82nd Avenue of Roses … Continue reading →
An American-Egyptian couple who had been held in Egyptian prison were released recently: Last weekend, Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi, who had become an international symbol of Sisi’s harsh crackdown on aid groups, was cleared of child-abuse and human-trafficking charges … Continue reading →
Yesterday there was a referendum in Turkey that used a democratic process to give Erdogan dictatorial powers. The pro-Erdogan forces didn’t call the powers the referendum would confer “dictatorial,” of course. But that’s what they were. Erdogan has declared victory: … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE below.] What could possibly go wrong? When I read this HuffPo piece that Garland wrote, I kept looking for the angle. No, it wasn’t published on April Fool’s Day. No, it doesn’t seem to be satirical or a … Continue reading →
The question of how a religion is defined has come up many times on this blog in relation to Islam and terrorism. One question sometimes asked is why can’t any group simply declare itself to be a religion and have … Continue reading →
Yesterday “The Other Chuck” had several questions, and this was one of them: There are several things about the unmasking by Rice other than the political angle that bother me. If it was motivated purely by politics, surely she would … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy has an important point to make about Susan Rice and the ummasking: The national-security adviser is not an investigator. She is a White House staffer. The president’s staff is a consumer of intelligence, not a generator or … Continue reading →