Benjamin Wittes, who has been on top of the NDAA news for a while now, broke down the reality of...
Category - Terrorism
The Top News Story of the Year Is…
The Associated Press makes the obvious choice for top story of 2011. —OSAMA BIN LADEN'S DEATH: He'd...
The Most Rational Summary of the NDAA
Adam Serwer does a nice job of summarizing the National Defense Authorization Act without getting...
Yes. There's Indefinite Detention in the Bill.
The National Defense Authorization Act does, in fact, include indefinite detention in there. And...
Militarizing Local Police Since 1997
Who knew this was going on? Through its little-known “1033 program,” the Department of Defense gave...
Right Wing Terrorism — Again
Remember back in 2009 when Homeland Security released a document about an upswing in "Right Wing...
Accused Terrorist Ranted at Erickson's Place
I'm not suggesting that Erick Erickson's RedState.com website is a terrorist hang-out, but those...
Real Crime Versus Fake Crime
DougJ at Balloon Juice noted this about crime rates: Violent crime in the United States continues...
The 'No Attacks' Myth Lives On
Frank Luntz lying about the Bush legacy on terrorism: "Yes [9/11] allows us to appreciate George...
We Narrowly Avoided More 9/11 Casualties
This is jaw-dropping: Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney’s...
Your Shoes Can Stay On. No Word On Your Pants.
Good news -- according to Homeland Security Security Janet Napolitano, airline passengers will soon...
The War on Lightning and Dog Bites! Let's Roll!
There were fewer Americans killed by terrorists last year than both dog bites and lightning strikes...
Quote of the Day
"I was convinced in my capacity and I’m convinced in this capacity that we’re within reach of...
Bush's Failed Hunt for Bin Laden
ThinkProgress created a video timeline of the on-going clusterfuck that was the Bush effort to find...
The Ignorant Lies of the Far-right Media
The wingnut media is attacking the new FEMA emergency alert system. Following the announcement of a...
Chart of the Day
Over the weekend, Dick Cheney and other Bush apologists resurrected their exhaustively debunked...
Andy Card Slams White House Chest-Thumping
This is rich. President Obama has ‘pounded his chest’ too much and taken too much pride in the...
Pakistan's Funniest Bin Laden Home Videos
The Pentagon released a strategic array of Bin Laden home videos seized at the terrorist's compound...
The Linguistics of the Obama-Osama Gaffe
Via Andrew Sullivan: The syntactic category rule means that when two words are confused for one...
This Week in Islamophobia
I don't usually resort to the Fox News Channel practice of singling out noncombatants like...
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