Bad Binaries
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 27th, 2009 at 2:23 pmI’m a bit perturbed by Jeffrey Goldberg’s trumpeting of poll results showing that “Sixty percent of Americans in the nationwide survey said they were sympathetic…
Posts Tagged ‘terrorism’
Terrorism in the Obama Age
By Jesse Singal - Jan 26th, 2009 at 11:22 amThe Washington Post ran an interesting article yesterday about Al Qaeda’s attempts to incite jihad in a post-Bush world. The group is having some trouble:…
Rep. Bill Young: I Am Cranky That Some People Have Rights
By Jesse Singal - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pmRep. Bill Young (R-Florida), chiming in on the controversy over President Obama’s executive order that the Guantanamo Bay prison be shuttered within a year:
“Number…
There’s Suffering on Both Sides
By Jesse Singal - Jan 5th, 2009 at 11:48 amGlenn Greenwald makes an exceedingly basic point that’s worth taking a moment to think about:
I can’t express how many emails I’ve received in the last…
Essex County Schools are a Magnet for Sex and Violence
By L. Russell Allen - Dec 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pmPerhaps you remember the imbroglio last summer over all of those pregnant high-schoolers in Gloucester, Mass.? The principal went to the media about a pact…
Camille Paglia Doesn’t Know Anything About Terrorism, and Thus Shouldn’t Write About It
By Jesse Singal - Dec 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pmCamille Paglia has a new column out, providing us all with yet more rich fodder for ridicule. It would be easy to tear apart her…
Bizarre Foreign Policy Decisions Biting Us In The Ass
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pmRemember in late 2006, when an Islamist group named the Islamic Courts Union took over large swathes of Somalia and brought the first functioning (albeit…
Overparsing
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 4th, 2008 at 10:32 amI guess Robert Dreyfuss was really fresh out of inspiration for a blog post, because his analysis of Obama’s measured, perfectly innocuous response to the…
We Still Aren’t Focusing on WMDs
By Jesse Singal - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 amFrom The Washington Post:
The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a…
Youth Politics, Lebanon-style
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:45 amHezbollah is so hot right now:
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy…
Are We Sure Waziristan Has Much to Do With National Security?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amJuan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
Neoconservatives Prepare to Re-enter Cryogenic Sleep
By Jesse Singal - Nov 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pmThinkProgress reports that Bill Kristol wants to make sure displaced neoconservatives have a warm, comfy home during the potentially barren years ahead: a sequel, of…
Pakistanis Aren’t Dancing in the Streets
By Jesse Singal - Nov 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pmVia Juan Cole, check out this Al Jazeera English look at how Pakistanis reacted to Barack Obama’s victory:
Understandably, a much more measured response.
(Cole’s…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
BREAKING: ATF Breaks Up Obama Murder Plot
By Jesse Singal - Oct 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pmTerrifying:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102…
