Newsweek gave Fareed Zakaria front-page treatment to a very sensible and long-overdue essay on what's degrading America's greatness: Fear. And he takes our drooling fear-monger of an ex-Governor to the woodshed:The presidential campaign … [Read more...]
Immigration Reform a National Security Disaster?
According to West,In short order, the system will be overwhelmed. Whatever minimal fraud detection and prevention safeguards might be erected won't last long in the face of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of applications and … [Read more...]
The End of America: A letter of Warning to a Young Patriot [new book]
My own family left our country of origin because to be a member of our ethnic group, our religion, had become a death sentence. I remember my great-uncle showing me the scars of bullets. Riders galloped through his village … [Read more...]
Bush, Terrorism and American Revolution
Many interesting parallels here but probably not what GWB had in mind.Hmmm: a people struggling to kick out an imperious major world power who had few clues as to the sentiment of the people, what was going on the ground and why they were … [Read more...]
What Does Random Panic Protect Us From?
Protecting Us From NothingThe threat this activity aims to protect us from, they say, is this: A terrorist, fanatic, or violent person of some sort wants to set off a bomb or bombs in Boston, to kill people or disrupt the city or both, and … [Read more...]
Terrorism: It IS a law enforcement issue
So, we heard some hopeful talk by Republicans and Republican-types (hi Joe) last week that the arrest of terror suspects in Britain would bring people into the GOP fold again. Well, maybe that's happening and maybe not. But I'd like to … [Read more...]
Israel as an underdog
True? Most of the DFA group didn't think so.Let me lay out where I'm coming from on this because I realize it's counter-intuitive. We all grew up wathcinging images in the 1980s of Palestinian youth throwing rocks at … [Read more...]