June 16, 2007

"Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot"

Bruce Schneier throws down: The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over... [More]

The Taguba Report Returns

Andrew Sullivan is right: justice is coming. Gen. Taguba's report on the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison was what finally made both the public and... [More]

MythBusters

When even the Consumerist begins writing posts about the idiocy of our approach to combatting terrorism, you know something is really changing. And yes, I... [More]

June 17, 2007

MANPAD Mania?

Matthew Yglesias makes some interesting points about MANPADS, but I'm not sure he goes far enough: Zach Phillips at Government Executive reports on efforts to... [More]

June 23, 2007

Meanwhile, in Guantanamo...

WaPo: An Army officer who played a key role in the "enemy combatant" hearings at Guantanamo Bay says tribunal members relied on vague and incomplete... [More]

al Qaeda in Iraq

For god's sake people, can we please stop this nonsense? Marketing al Qaeda to the world as if they were some sort of Legion of... [More]

I'm Almost Starting To Feel Bad For The Man...

Another hit for Giuliani. NY Daily News: Former Environmental Protection Agency boss Christie Whitman says she urged Ground Zero workers to wear respirators, but then-Mayor... [More]

June 26, 2007

Kids These Days!

This is an absolutely amazing story. President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program... [More]

June 30, 2007

Does Steve Benen Sleep?

The man is a blogging machine. Salon's Blog Report, The Carpetbagger Report, weekend duties at TPM, and now vacation duty for Kevin Drum? It would... [More]