This past week there were Senate hearings about banning people on the No-Fly list from buying firearms. The New York Times is in a tizzy because the NRA is opposed to this. I wonder how they would feel if they were talking about people whose names appear on this list were banned from publishing their views?

I have several problems with this ( Read more... )

Osama Bin Laden calls for renewed action against the USA because of global warming

CAIRO - Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.
The al-Qaida leader blamed the United ( Read more... )

The TSA says there are no children on the the ‘no-fly’ and ’selectee’ lists. Yet, little Mikey Hicks (a frequent flyer), has been getting patted and searched since he was 2. Is it any wonder that I find these lists and their proposed expanded usage troublesome.

Originally published at Tim's World. You can comment here or there.

Terrorist's father tried to warn the USA about his son.

The terror suspect who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane is the son of a Nigerian banker who alerted U.S. authorities to his "extreme religious views" months ago, it was reported Saturday.

The father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a former minister and chairman of First Bank in Nigeria, is shocked ( Read more... )

Terrorist Tried to blow Up Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit - The authorities are saying that this was a a fairly sophisticated device. It is a good thing that the idiot set himself on fire rather than blowing up the plane. Passengers and the cabin crew subdued and confined him until the plane landed. He claims to have obtained ( Read more... )

1. I heard something on the radio that I think would be a good thing to add to the government healthcare bill. In order to keep your government coverage, you would be required to have an annual physical as part of a preventative healthcare regimen. This would hopefully keep the costs down by catching problems early.

2. You can’t finance a car if ( Read more... )

They now want to take away more of the rights of those on the “terrorist watch list.” (CNN)

When people on the government’s terrorist watch list have tried to buy guns or explosives in recent years, the government has let them the vast majority of the time.

That’s the finding of a new report by the Government Accountability Office, sent to ( Read more... )

Sebastian D’Souza took the following picture on November 26, 2008 in Mumbai, India.


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What Do You Call A Terrorist?

First, to call a terrorist a “jihadist” or “jihadi” effectively puts any campaign against terrorism into the framework of an existential battle between the West and Islam. This feeds into the worldview propagated by Al Qaeda. It also serves to isolate the tens of millions of Muslims who condemn the violence that has ( Read more... )

Last week I posted a link to a picture by Michael Yon. It was a picture of Iraqi Muslims and Christians restoring a cross to a church. There is an update. They held services yesterday. Many of the Muslim neighbors of the church attended the services.  They want their Christian neighbors who have fled to come home. Here are some great quotes:
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