Category Archives: War on Terror
Clueless Clapper
National Intelligence Director, James Clapper, is at it again. Yesterday, when Egyptian President Mubarak decided to stay, before he decided leave, Clapper described the Muslim Brotherhood as a non-violent secular outfit. The administration issued a correction. When last seen, Clapper was being briefed by Diane Sawyer about a major terrorist arrest in London. Don’t ask him if the Pope’s Catholic.
Federal Power
A federal judge ruled that the federal government doesn’t have the power to make you go out and buy something you otherwise wouldn’t – health care in this case. The government claims its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce gives it the right to do just that.
Nat Hentoff doesn’t think any clause of the constitution gives the government the right to assassinate its own citizens who become jihadists.
Show Trial
Marc Thiessan makes the case, in the Washington Post, that the best way to protect the U.S. legal system is to keep trials for enemy combatants out of it.
Junk Science
I got the idea for this one from Charles Krauthammer’s Friday “Don’t Touch my Junk” column and the PETA “We’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign. Some things just go together.
Here’s a link to the John “If You Touch My Junk I’m Gonna Have You Arrested” Tyner cell phone video of his own last stand against TSA.
Groping for Answers
Airport security procedures have been flying under the cover of election news recently. The attention they do get has mostly been focused on air freight – with good reason. Matt Drudge, however, is lifting the veil on the use of full body scanners in some locations. Travelers who exercise their option to “opt out” are subject to full body searches. Here’s an LA Times story on transparency.
