Several years ago, when President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, I sent an email to several people to explain that in the original German, it would be called "Heimatsicherheitsdienst. " Heimat is "Homeland" in German. Sicherheitsdienst means...
And We Call Them “Terrorists”?
I asked once before: "Is the United States a Terrorist State"?
Declare Victory and Bring Them Home
Politics1.com is a very useful site for political information. The politics1.com site includes pages for each state, with lists of announced and potential candidates, links to party websites and news websites for each state. Politics1.com also carries long,...
Uh, Stephen, if You Insist…
... on bombarding someone with spam, why not try Matt Welch, who issued this haymaker about you and your ilk a few weeks back:God, if there's something I'm tired of, it's former Trotskyites, or Castro-huggers, or Weathermen-sympathizers, lecturing me or anyone else...
Where’s the conservative outrage at torture?
Via Matt Welch at Reason, on the recently discovered FBI torture memos: The FBI memos, which included more graphic descriptions of detainee abuse (including "strangulation, beatings, [and] placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees ear openings"), bore an uncanny...
Michael Ledeen Libel of the Day
Regarding my post on Michael Ledeen, James Knechtmann of General Staff Library writes:This story about Tandey and Hitler is contrived propaganda nonsense from World War II. The source is an article in the Coventry Sunday Graphic from December 1940 (see...


