Tag: Captain Underpants
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Which Is the Lesser Evil: Airport “Porno Scanners” or Profiling?
From TSA website: Click to enlarge (you know you want to). Images more explicit than this may be faked. If you look up “droll” in the dictionary, there ought to be a picture of George Will.  Here’s the end of his current column, which kvetches about increased airport security: The average American has regular contact […]
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Faisal Shahzad: The Terrorist Next Door
Shahzad was living the American Dream. Somehow this well-educated, solidly middle-class family man was so affected by a poisonous ideology that he drove a car bomb to Times Square and tried to kill random people — who might well have included attractive young families like his own.
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After a Fair Trial, the Prisoner Will Be Executed
The notion that KSM has all the rights of a civilian murder suspect is farcical, and in homage to that farce the administration is willing to endanger Americans.
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Obama: “Our Nation is at War Against a Far-Reaching Network of Violence and Hatred”
Perhaps all of the criticism from Dick Cheney and others about a law-enforcement approach to terrorism has had a positive effect. In his weekly address today, President Obama reprises one of the better lines from his Inaugural Address: It’s been nearly a year since I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and took […]
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Christmas Attack Was an Act of War, But It’s Being Treated Like a Crime
After allegedly telling investigators “there are more just like me who will strike soon,” Captain Underpants apparently has been allowed to lawyer up and stop talking. In the Wall Street Journal, former Justice Department official Victoria Toensing explains why this is madness: Abdulmutallab is in effect in possession of a ticking bomb, but we cannot […]
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Honeymoon-Over Watch: He’s Lost MoDo
MoDoIf we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
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Oh, That Nigerian Terrorist… Oopsie-Doopsie!
So the latest terrorist is being interrogated, but why should we believe anything he says? His pants literally were on fire! We can laugh because the terrorist botched the job, but it could have been very unfunny. And while I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that intelligence agencies “should have known†about 9/11 in […]
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Threat Level? Color Me Annoyed
The plane landed safely, a happy Christmas Day ending to an apparent attempt to bring down an aircraft in flight. It’s a good reminder that wherever we are, we potentially have enemies among us. I was glad to hear that the nearby passengers apparently helped subdue the would-be terrorist. So off to bed — but […]