Don’t Intervene in Syria
Those clamoring for American intervention in Syria — I should say, even more American intervention in Syria — have a lock on two influential drivers of conservative opinion, Fox News and the Wall...
View ArticleWhy Are the Feds Trying to Identify All Gun Owners in Missouri?
They keep telling you they have noting but good intentions, that to worry about the feds coming for your guns makes you part of “the black helicopter crowd.” But then things like this happen: In...
View ArticleViolating the Constitution Is Not the Way to Safeguard Constitutional Rights
Senator Ted Cruz is quite right that the only things the federal government should be doing in the area of firearms are safeguarding the Second Amendment rights of law-abding citizens and enforcing the...
View ArticleRe: Re: Prosecuting Gun Criminals
Robert, two points.1. You’re exactly right about these non-prosecution decisions. In my last five years at the Justice Department, I ran the satellite U.S. attorney’s office that covers the six upstate...
View ArticleFrom Dehumanizing Word Games to Gosnell
In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a...
View ArticleBoston Marathon Explosion -- Two Things to Bear in Mind
We have learned two things about the early stages of this kind of horrific event, and they ought to be operative here.First, it is a mistake to get too far out in front of the initial reports, which...
View ArticleConflicting Reports of Arrest in Boston Marathon Bombing
The Boston Police have evidently tweeted out a denial that there has been an “arrest” in the Marathon bombing investigation. Obviously, there is much confusion at the moment, with different sources who...
View ArticleRe: Conflicting Reports of Arrest in Boston Marathon Bombing
One other point about arrests.A lot of the reporting I’ve heard in the last few minutes focuses on whether there has been “an arrest” in the Boston Marathon bombing. Another thing we want to bear in...
View ArticleThe Importance of Training in Terrorism
The situation remains very fluid in Watertown, where one Boston Marathon bombing suspect is dead and another is now the subject of a massive manhunt. The terrorists appear to have killed one MIT...
View ArticleJihad Will Not Be Wished Away
‘Outlook: Islam.” So reads the personal webpage of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who ravaged Boston this week, along with his now-deceased brother and fellow jihadist, Tamerlan — namesake of a 14th-century Muslim...
View ArticleBoston and the Drone Debate
So, will Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Dianne Feinstein go to bat for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?In December, with many conservatives cheering him on, Paul (R., Ky.) railed against the “abomination” of designating...
View ArticlePaying the Jizya to Welfare Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Charles, the invaluable Raymond Ibrahim had an illuminating column on this very topic about a month ago. Ray recounts how a Salafi sheikh has explained that U.S. aid to Egypt is considered jizya. That...
View ArticleWhat Is the Meaning of ‘Jihad’?
I’m going to debate it with HuffPo’s Ryan Grim on Sean’s radio show in a few minutes.
View ArticleThe Black Flags Behind Those Red Lines
I don’t often disagree with my good friend Cliff, but we continue to see things very differently when it comes to Syria. Five thoughts.1. It is not certain that the Assad regime has used chemical...
View ArticleObama’s National-Security Fraud
Unlike you, federal government officials are immune from charges of fraud. The executive branch, vested with all of the government’s prosecutorial authority and discretion, is not going to investigate...
View ArticleMBTA Officer Richard Donahue Doing Well After Shooting by Jihadists in Boston
I had brain freeze writing my weekend column. I mistakenly said that the terrorists had shot and killed two police officers. Of course, they killed one officer, MIT Officer Sean Collier, while...
View ArticleWhat Is ‘Derogatory’ in Washington?
Just saw Andrew’s post on how local Washington pols want the Redskins to change their name because it is, among other things, “derogatory.” Scratching my head to try to figure out what this means. Upon...
View ArticleHuge Flaw in Pew Survey on Muslim Views about Sharia
There will be more to say about the findings of the newly released Pew survey ”The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society.” Of course, such revelations as the approval by upwards of two-thirds...
View ArticleThe Art of Death
Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood’s epigrammatic founder, was never at a loss for the chilling turn of phrase. His rally cry, the Brotherhood’s signature pledge that “Jihad is our way” and “Dying...
View ArticleFor the People Who Gave Us Miranda, Miranda Is Never Enough
Does anything tug at your heartstrings quite like the plight of Ropel Phillipos, the 19-year-old “adolescent” arrested and charged with lying to agents investigating the bombing of the Boston Marathon...
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