The anniversary of 9/11 the other day got me to thinking about other terrorist attacks that were foiled rather than successfully accomplished. I remembered there had been a previous plan to bomb LAX, timed to coincide with the millenium, and … Continue reading →
I’ll skip all the usual observations about how amazing it is that so much time has passed. But it is and it has. And I’ll skip all the solemn pronouncements about how different things are and at the same time … Continue reading →
Well, of course he is. He’s moving his lips. I know, it’s a cheap shot. But anyone who has followed the career of John Kerry can’t help noticing he’s a frequent liar. I knew it back in the early 70s, … Continue reading →
The other day I traveled by airplane, and I was pulled out of line for special consideration. Actually, there wasn’t all that much of a line; it was Saturday night, and the airport was relatively quiet. But I was pulled … Continue reading →
…in the FBI and the military, no less. We already knew that Nidal Nassan, the Fort Hood shooter, had given plenty of notice of his impending act of violence and that it was ignored, apparently for PC reasons. But the … Continue reading →
Thirteen senior Army officers have sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for carrying out the horrific 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base. The panel’s recommendation will now go to a convening authority, the general responsible for assembling the … Continue reading →
…that this sort of thing is rife in the reporting of the action in Egypt right now. Watch the video: Someone just sent me a short video clip with some footage by AlJazeera that was taken inside the mosque yesterday … Continue reading →
Not the Onion. This prospect is just another subset of the “bombs in body cavities” dilemma. I agree with this: The problem is another reason why we should be using behavioural analysis as the primary detection method to screen people … Continue reading →
Dont’ sit on a hot stove waiting for an investigation into this.
Continue reading →Yemen vs. al Qaeda: Yemen has emerged as the focus of a feared attack that has led the U.S. to shut down temporarily 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa. American and British workers from embassies in Yemen’s … Continue reading →
…are getting fearful. Speaking truth to power and all that. [ADDENDUM: Remember Remember CNN head Eason Jordan’s story of cover-up in order to get access to Saddam Hussein’s regime? The dilemma actually isn’t a simple one(employees could have been endangered … Continue reading →
This is an outrage. An absolute outrage. Don’t read it if you don’t want to get very, very angry. PC insanity run amok allowed Hasan to commit his crime—which could have been seen coming several miles away on a foggy … Continue reading →