At this time 10 years ago I was glued to my TV, in shock of what was going on in New York City.  It was something new to me, this kind of terrorism.  Though I’d been alive during the Oklahoma City bombing I wasn’t old enough to really understand it.  Actually, as it turns out, my true understanding of 9/11 wasn’t complete, but the enormity of that day wasn’t lost on me.

And I don’t think it remains lost to most Americans and even the world. We will never forget that day, those lost to it, and the heroes of it.

Facts. They’re important. Sometimes they’re inconvenient (*paging Rep. Weiner*) but a refusal to face them rarely – probably never – leads to a good place. So, here’s a fact. Jews have faced persecution at virtually every historical turn. Here’s another one.| MORE ›

Sometimes, it’s nice to be proven wrong, if only in part. Last week, I spent a lot of time writing about the TSA and other organizations like Homeland Security. I argued that we are seeing more and more security-state policies everyday, and that we risk slipping from security-state to police-state.| MORE ›

Update 5/12/11 00:05: Statement by former President George W. Bush:| MORE ›

I know Glenn Beck can be slightly kooky at times, but this is not one of those times.  On today’s Fox and Friends, he and Judge Andrew Napolitano laid down the law on why Times Square bomber suspect Faisal Shahzad should and will receive his due process.  They could not be more correct.| MORE ›

NPR: Co-workers at Walter Reed Medical Medical Center pondered if he would become a terrorist. Co-workers at Walter Reed told not to talk to the FBI in fear that they could be accused of missing the obvious.

Folks, NPR is the left leaning, government subsidized news service who to my surprise is doing a fabulous job of covering this story.| MORE ›

This is breaking news: Ayman al-Zawahiri has officially been named ‘emir’ of Al Qaeda. This makes him the successor of Obama bin Laden, who was taken out by a team of Navy Seals earlier this month.

Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports that it has read classified documents from the Dutch secret intelligence organization (AIVD).| MORE ›

As the news came in of the death of Bin Laden, print and television media around the world rushed to report the story, millions of people sent each other text messages as others took the news globally on Twitter — setting a new record for sustained use of the service — and in many cities, from New York to Boise, Idaho, to Athens, Georgia, people took to the streets in spontaneous celebration.| MORE ›

Harvard-trained historian Richard F. Miller, author of In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, wrote a guest post for Jules Crittenden’s blog about President Barack Obama’s West Point speech. His assessment: it a “midst of war” speech, and not a good one.| MORE ›

Good news from Pakistan; after the Pakistani army captured the hometown of the Taliban’s chief in that country, the group has fallen into disarray, with many deserting its ranks.

The battle for Kotkai town was symbolically key because it is the hometown of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud and one of his top deputies, Qari Hussain.| MORE ›