Influencing Breivek: Is the Blame Game Out of Bounds?

Der Spiegel has an account of the ideological roots and political networks from which Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivek was influenced: Such blogs provide a window into a strange scene: pro-Western, exceedingly pro-American and friendly to Israel — but...

NYT Iran Scare Piece Just Lies, Innuendo

David Sanger carries on Walter Duranty, Judith Miller and Michael Gordon’s lying legacy at the New York Times. In his new piece, co-written with William J. Broad, Sanger spends eleven-hundred words speculating and propagandizing about what it might meant that an...

The Internet, Freedom are Threats to the State

The Pentagon reiterated today what we’ve known for some time now: the freedom of the internet, and that freedom which we are afforded by it, is a threat to the government. That’s why they released their “cybersecurity plan” which designated the...

Does the Law Matter?

The United States (Government) hasn’t been legally at war since September 12, 1945, when the Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrendered to Allied Commander Louis Mountbatten in Singapore, ending World War II. And that includes the current action in Libya....

Glenn Reynolds and Reading Comprehension

Poor Glenn Reynolds, he’s trying mightily to recreate the days when his opinion meant something, but that was long ago and far away and the old war-blogger doesn’t have the good sense to fade away: he’s still in there pitching pernicious memes:...