I didn’t—or at least, I didn’t remember them after thirteen years: By most accounts, Danny Lewin was the first victim of 9/11. Seated in seat 9B aboard American Airlines flight 11, he saw Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari, sitting just … Continue reading →
Now that Ted Cruz has suggested that Americans who fight with ISIS be stripped of citizenship, there’s been a spate of articles questioning whether this is legal, such as this one at Hot Air. And at American Thinker, Rick Moran … Continue reading →
He helped ISIS, and this could have easily been foreseen. You don’t dump intelligence information willy nilly, and not think it will come back to bite us: A former top official at the National Security Agency says the Islamic State … Continue reading →
I notice that Dexter Filkins at the New Yorker agrees with me on the first motive I listed for the perpetrators of the Foley and Sotloff beheadings in my PJ piece, which is that the murderers enjoy these killings. Filkins … Continue reading →
My new post is up at Pajamas Media, “ISIS’ theater of evil and the thirst for blood.”
Continue reading →I remember reading some of Lee Harris’s essays post-9/11 and being impressed, but after that I lost track of him. So I missed his book Civilization and its Enemies: The Next Stage of History when it first came out in … Continue reading →
Once again, as with James Foley’s murder video, internet traffic surges in the wake of the killing of Steven Soloff and the dissemination of the terrorists’ video of their revolting and barbaric crime. You find neither the video nor a … Continue reading →
Obama not only knew about the rise of ISIS for a year, but he knew in detail: President Obama was given detailed and specific intelligence about the rise of the Islamic State as part of his daily briefing for at … Continue reading →
A new video has been released purporting to show the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff. In the James Foley video ISIS had claimed he would be next. Although its authenticity has yet to be established, I would guess that it … Continue reading →
And we shouldn’t call them that. I had started a draft for a post on this very subject, but Michael Walsh has covered the ground so well that there’s no need for me to do a full court press on … Continue reading →
Historians for Hamas. No, they don’t call themselves that. But that’s pretty much who they are. No doubt the crocodile will eat them last. Many of them are members of the hard left. Even I recognized that fact from some … Continue reading →
During the time James Foley was in captivity, he tried to write letters to his parents, but they were intercepted. Resourcefully, he came up with the solution of composing one and asking a fellow-hostage who was about to be released … Continue reading →