It’s cold in my office. I have to wear a jacket. Now if this were cold outside and the heat wasn’t high enough, that would be problem enough. But this is worse - it’s perfect outside today. Sunny and 70 degrees. The reason I’m cold is that my office has [...]

“You do not create terrorism by fighting terrorism.”
— George Bush
It depends, Mr. President, on how you fight terrorism.
Terrorism is a strategy. It’s not an ideology. Bush often is heard to say that terrorists hate freedom. It’s possible that some people who engage in [...]

As soon as President Bush signs the Detainee bill just passed by the Senate, this will now be legal in the United States:
Said thinks of himself as a loyal American. He moved to the United States as a child from North Africa. He married an American woman and has three children. He [...]

One of the hot topics on the political landscape these days has to do with the interpretation of economic indicators. Republicans are trying to argue that the economy is strong, as evidenced by GDP and stock market growth. They also note that unemployment has fallen somewhat lately while inflation and interest rates have [...]

By Mike (Not Admin)
The current political fracas in Washington has to do with the National Intelligence Estimate. The NIE is a report that the government periodically issues on a particular topic, in this case the spread of anti-Americanism and Islamic extremism, which condenses the best guesses of all of the intelligence agencies into a [...]

Some essential reading and a few thoughts on the War on Terror:
The One Percent Doctrine, by Ron Suskind.
Suskind is a former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from the Washington Post. This is a phenomenally well-written account of the war on terror, as told by the CIA and FBI agents who fought the post-9/11 intelligence, counter-intelligence, [...]

I just saw a report on CNN International which showed how President Hugo Chavez has gotten many people, especially among his urban-poor base, convinced that the United States plans to invade Venezuela soon. He has promised that he will burn Venezuela’s oil fields if that happens. He’s publicly stated that he is training [...]

“I personally will not head any government that recognizes Israel,”
— Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh
And this is why [...]

The CDC has now recommended that AIDS tests become standard as part of the yearly physical - similar to cholesterol tests. I appreciate what the CDC is trying to do here - getting people who have the disease tested so that they can get treatment. But this is a bad idea. [...]

Fact: We cannot stop terrorist attacks from occurring. We can never, ever, be perfectly safe from terrorism.
Think about this. North Korea is ideally situated to protect itself. It is surrounded on two sides, east and west, by ocean. To its north lies its greatest ally and friend, and that border is [...]