Month: July 2007

As the investigation of the Keystone Cops terrorist attempts in London and Glasgow proceeds, the plotters are not likely to turn out to be Al Qaeda members.  However, they are likely to be Takfiri Salafists–muslims...

Michael R. Gordon of the New York Times is once again at the center of a mainstream media story that appears designed to get the Bush administration’s message out.  On Tuesday, Gordon and co-author John F. Burns gave...

There are times when the Bush administration simply beggars belief. It goes beyond mere blundering to a willful obtuseness that borders on psychotic. If you don’t believe me, consider this. How dangerous is a man who...

Scooter Libby’s pardon begs the question of what he would have talked about had he been truly faced with prison. Whatever it was, it was important enough for Bush to grant Libby a last-second reprieve so he wouldn’t...

The map above is just a thought experiment, and I hope it’s accepted in that spirit. Just imagine the U.S. and all its citizens beamed up to the heaven of their choice, and then the ‘lower 48’ sinking into the...