The NY Times has a fascinating – and frightening – story up about one Malika El Aroud, a 48-year-old Moroccan now living in Belgium where she spending her time authoring incendiary pro-jihad writings on the Internet. Seems there’s a place for women in Islam after all. Read it all and be afraid. Writing in French…
Category: National Security
Relative Safety
At Power Line, John Hinderaker says that, contrary to Barack Obama’s repeated statements that the free world is less safe because of the Bush administration’s national security policies, the evidence indicates otherwise. Likewise, Fareed Zakaria writes at Newsweek that terrorist attacks are down by nearly two-thirds in the last 4 years. Are we in fact…
Telcos, Money, and Immunity
Glen Greenwald’s latest piece on immunity for telecom companies that helped the government in the aftermath of 9/11 is one worth reading. Fundamentally the issue hasn’t changed – telecoms that cooperated with the Bush administration deserve protection as is currently given – but Glen’s analysis of their contributions to lobbying firms and the money’s subsequent…
Dems Lied re Iraq to Win Congress
Jeff Emanuel’s excellent article about Representative Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) confirms what I’ve written for several months now: that the Democrats were dishonest about their intentions – and ability – to put an end to the Iraq war. Jeff says that Kanjorski has an "honesty problem" – too much of a good thing! I wish there…
Bush’s Greatest Failure
When I was at the Houston Energy Summit earlier this year the theme that ran the length and breadth of every presentation made was that of energy security. While the supply and pricing problems I’ve written about recently have not gone unnoticed in Congress, no concrete action has emerged from that body. Worse, Tom Friedman…
The Left’s Pathological Fear of Reality
Lately some on the left have been working hard at revising downward Ronald Reagan’s legacy of ending the Cold War and creating the opportunity, since lost, for the first period of extended peace since WW II. The Soviet Union, Kathy says, was never a threat at all. In fact, the U.S. was the antagonist all…
Sadr City Opening Up
McClatchy says that Iraqi troops will soon be walking the streets of Sadr City and arresting those found with "medium and heavy weaponry." Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad’s Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a…
Telco Immunity Deal Coming?
That’s what Jane Hamsher thinks. According to the ACLU, there is rumor of a backroom deal being brokered by Jay Rockefeller on FISA that will include retroactive immunity. I’ve heard from several sources that Steny Hoyer is doing the dirty work on the House side, and some say it will be attached to the new…
What Are the Common Elements?
These 3 events have at least 2 things in common. What are they? First, the father who microwaved his 2-month-old "loves his baby" and today refused to give up his parental rights. Second, some un-heroic Transportation Security Administration workers have been accused of having forced a woman to remove her nipple piercings with pliers in…
House FISA Bill Denies Telco Amnesty
The House of Representatives today voted to pass a Democratic plan to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, defying President Bush’s demand that telecom companies that cooperated with the Justice Department be granted immunity for their actions. As I’ve said repeatedly, it makes no sense to penalize the telecoms for doing what they thought they…