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Which Is the Lesser Evil: Airport “Porno Scanners” or Profiling?
5 comments on 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…