It looks like President George W. Bush is probably going to have to recess appoint Judge Michael Mukasey to be attorney general. Democrats, and some Republicans, are demanding that Mukasey state for the record that the interrogation technique known as waterboarding is illegal. “I am urging him that he needs to come forward. If he […]
The 9/11 Commission Report pinned a good part of the failure to prevent the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on the wall that had been erected to keep the intelligence and law enforcement communities from talking to each other. Intelligence information could taint criminal trials, and had to be kept from the FBI […]
According to Janes Defence Weekly, via the Jerusalem Post, comes word that Iran and Syria are now short some officers, engineers and scientists. Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian […]
The paying job prevented me from noting this late last week, and I wasn't the only one to make the connection: Osama bin Laden's latest speech sounds like it was cobbled together from the Daily Kos and Huffington Post. Seriously. Osama praises Noam Chomsky. You know, if you're a Chomsky fan you might want to […]
The "Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund" was set up to benefit the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks. According to the New York Post, (via Don Surber) it appears the charity, that was promoted by former President Bill Clinton and former GOP Sen. Bob Dole, is better described as the a source of livelihood […]
There may be nothing more to it than an especially industrious group of illegal immigrants from Mexico, but some of the details -- and the timing -- give this story a more ominous cast. SAN DIEGO – A boat that may have been used to smuggle people into the United States washed ashore in La […]
If you haven't had a chance to read it, head over to National Review Online and check out this article by former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy on The New York Times false reporting on the recent FISA fix. So, have you heard the latest? Your business records can now be taken away by Big Brother […]
CNN started its series on moral equivalency Tuesday night with the first part of its "God's Warriors" series with a focus on Judaism. (For those who are interested, the Little Green Footballs discussion thread on the episode is here.) I haven't had time to watch the series, and probably won't until this weekend, but I […]
This post has been updated. Illinois junior Sen. Barack Obama is trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials after what was seen by many as a faux pas when he agreed to meet with the leaders of rogue states Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and Syria without precondition in the first year of his presidency. […]
From Monday's "Best of the Web Today" comes this interesting bit: Take Me to the River A reader wrote to the New York Times to inquire as to why the paper refers to Iraq as "Mesopotamia" when describing the al Qaeda affiliate in that country. He received the following reply from the Public Editor's Office: […]