Tuesday, May 26, 2009
From the marvelous Counterterrorism Blog, Walid Phares summarizes a detailed article looking at the meaning of the domestic jihadist cell discovered in New York City:
These arrests, added to all previous arrests tell us one thing: The Jihadists are still at war with America and all other democracies. They haven’t stopped, they will continue to try, [...]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Webb on Obama Administration
Fresh from the Heritage.org blog comes a report of a serious challenge to the administration’s Guantanamo Bay policy by non other than the rising star, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA):
This Sunday on This Week, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) echoed a point we’ve been making for months: Guantanamo Bay is a distraction. The real [...]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Gun Free School Zone Follies
The Cato@Liberty blog opines on why “gun free zones” are a bad idea:
A group of Georgia college students at a birthday party owe their lives to the fact that one of them had a gun. (H/T Of Arms & the Law) Two gunmen burst in to the apartment and separated males [...]
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Monday, May 18, 2009
From The Foundry, the Heritage Foundation blog:
Quoting a NY Times Article Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson:
Human beings are as good at devising ex post facto explanations for big disasters as they are bad at anticipating those disasters. It is indeed impressive how rapidly the economists who failed to predict this crisis — or predicted the [...]
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