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Ignoring What Caused the TSA Pat-Down Controversy

I can vaguely remember a time when there were no security checks whatever before getting on a commercial jet. You showed your ticket and walked onboard. When was that? I’m not sure. Maybe in the early 1970s. I remember when ...

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U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe Mullah

Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American bureaucrats thought they were negotiating with him. "€œBut ...

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Don”€™t Tread on My Junk

Two months after the second WTC tower collapsed, George W. Bush started the Transportation Security Administration. A month later, some British douchebag who called himself "€œAbdel Rahim"€ but was born Richard Reid tried to blow ...

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Why Are They at War With Us?

“We are at war. We are at war against al-Qaida, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that is plotting to strike us again.” Thus did Barack ...

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Casualties of Diversity

When alleged killer Nidal Malik Hasan went on a murderous rampage at Fort Hood Texas last week, the Muslim Army psychiatrist reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar,” which means “god is great” as he shot his victims. ...

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Evil Speaks”€”Are We Listening?

The latest message from Osama bin Laden"€”an audio recording posted on jihadist Websites"€”is truly scary. Not because he threatens us with death and destruction, though he does. Not because he vows that the 9/11 attacks were just ...

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9/11 Truths and Lies

On September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers, wielding nothing more lethal than box-cutters, commandeered four airliners, and turned them into lethal missiles, three of which managed to hit their targets"€”the World Trade Center and the ...

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We Get It: Museum Shooter Was a Hateful Honkey

What are the limited lessons learned so far from “the shooting of a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by an elderly anti-Semitic pamphleteer who published tirades against Jews?  Remember when the ...

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The War on Your Racism

Just one day after the tragic shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial, London’s Daily Mail confirmed a ominous connection: “White supremacist who opened fire ‘has links to the BNP.’” With the connections ...

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Is Torture Ever Moral?

After opening the door to a truth commission to investigate torture by the CIA of al-Qaida subjects, and leaving the door open to prosecution of higher-ups, President Obama walked the cat back. He is now opposed to a truth commission. ...

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To Bug or Not To Bug Abu Zubaydah’s Cage

That is not the question.  I can"€™t get worked up about the current torture tempest. The two parties are exchanging fusillades over ten interrogation techniques deployed with fourteen "€œhigh value al-Qaida detainees,"€ ...


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