Another outrage?
Dont’ sit on a hot stove waiting for an investigation into this.
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Is this what the Yemen alert was all about?
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 →
CNN’s intrepid reporters…
…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 →
Why were all the warning signs about Nidal Hasan ignored?
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 →
Psychopathy and the law
I was surprised at the amount of misunderstanding that seems to have been sparked by my article yesterday speculating on the possibility that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a psychopath. I thought certain things about psychopathy were evident from the article, but … Continue reading →
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Rolling Stone: the affable psychopath
[UPDATE: I seem to have figured out a way to comment at PJ. Although it won’t let me do so as “neoneocon,” it seems that I can under “neoneo.”] I’ve got a new article up at PJ today. The takeoff … Continue reading →
The Pakistani government…
…condemned as a “brutal act of terrorism” the killing of five Ukrainians, three Chinese, and one Russian who were tourists in the mountains of northern Pakistan, as well as a Pakistani guide. But in reporting the story the AP just … Continue reading →
On patience: the West vs. Islamicist totalitarianism
[NOTE: This is a re-post of an piece I wrote in 2008. I found it yesterday while doing a search for some information I wanted for a comment, and I thought that, in light of recent news in Syria and … Continue reading →
Today’s NSA hearing
So far what I’ve heard at the NSA hearing today is pretty straightforward and pretty interesting. The testimony makes the programs sound reasonable. Nor is this information new, although some of the detail is. But we’ve known the general outlines … Continue reading →
Big politically correct Brother
Mark Steyn; read it. Along the way he points out that he wrote back in November of 2001: The bigger you make the government, the more you entrust to it, the more powers you give it to nose around the … Continue reading →
Distrust vs. security, domestic and foreign: Part I
Richard Fernandez always has something interesting to say, and this post of his is no exception: For much of history our ability to harm ourselves was fortunately limited by the crude nature of our means. But by the dawn of … Continue reading →
Michael B. Mukasey…
…does not think Snowden’s any kind of hero, and believes the brouhaha over the NSA program is overblown. I don’t find his arguments all that compelling, although I’m not part of the unequivocal “Snowden’s a hero” bandwagon, either. I see … Continue reading →