Recommended reading
Kimberly Strassel on the IRS timeline. She’s been doing great work lately. And here’s another good one by Mark Steyn on how political correctness hampers the fight against terrorists.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Terrorism and terrorists
Cast a wide dragnet
I’m continually impressed by how often the Obama White House has done not only what he spoke against while Bush was president, but what the left fantasized/feared the Bush White House was doing. The latest example is obtaining the Verizon … Continue reading →
More evidence that the sun has not only set on the British empire,…
…it has set on Britain as well: If you’re thinking of getting steamed over [the Woolrich machete murder], don’t. Simon Jenkins, the former editor of the Times of London, cautioned against “mass hysteria” over “mundane acts of violence.” That’s easy … Continue reading →
Words, knives, guns
It’s hard to find words to describe yesterday’s murder of a soldier by machete-wielding Islamic terrorists in Woolwich (a part of greater London) who hacked him to death, so I’ll just let this article do the talking: Witnesses told how … Continue reading →
Why was there no Benghazi rescue attempt?
I’ve been thinking that the very simplest explanation is that unless the administration was assured of success they weren’t going to try, because the last thing they wanted was a failed mission. And just when I was thinking of writing … Continue reading →
Yesterday’s Republicans vs. today’s Democrats: Watergate vs. Benghazi
David Gelernter nails it: It is the Democratic Party that’s on trial today; and to a lesser extent, America’s mainstream media. For Democrats (and especially Democratic senators) it is put-up-or-shut-up time: are they Democrats or Americans first?… How would Republicans … Continue reading →
It turns out that the Benghazi whistleblowers…
…have some pretty good credentials: Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the … Continue reading →
Accessories
After the fact? And how much did they know before? And how many people would try to protect a friend who was the Boston bomber?
Continue reading →The Boston bomber and the death penalty
Dzhohkar Tsarnaev didn’t just blow up hundreds of people in Boston. He also revived support for the death penalty (at least for himself), with 70% of Americans polling in favor of it in his particular case. Republicans are most in … Continue reading →
“It started right there on the streets of Cambridge”
Ruslan Tsarni, the Tsarnaevs’ uncle, gives an interview: Unless the man is a consummate actor and dissembler, he seems to be just about the only member of the family who has some sort of conventional morality and sense of responsibility, … Continue reading →
Bumblers: the story changes…again
Early reports that the Boston bombs were set off by cell phones turn out to have been mistaken, and they are now thought to have been triggered by “line of sight” controllers from remote control cars. Why might that be … Continue reading →
Dzhokhar “cooperative”?
I’m in agreement with Ace on this [emphasis in original]; Meanwhile, Powerline asks if there’s a cover-up in the administration messaging on all this. It’s a question that immediately struck me — remember when Gozar was still in the hospital … Continue reading →