by Raymond Ibrahim // FrontPage Magazine
Some time ago, Fox News published a report titled “Egyptian mosque turned into house of torture for Christians after Muslim Brotherhood protest.” The report opens by explaining how: Read more →
Brotherhood Torture Chambers (Finally) Exposed
Posted in: Muslim Brotherhood, Raymond Ibrahim / Tagged: Egypt, Islam, Mainstream Media, Muslims, Torture
Brennan’s Testimony and Waterboarding Misinformation
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage
The Senate Intelligence Committee last week grilled Obama’s pick to head the CIA, John Brennan, on all sorts of issues. Democrats worked him over about the CIA’s interrogation, detention, and droning of terrorist suspects, while Republicans were concerned about leaks of classified information. Read more →
Posted in: Terrorism, Bruce S. Thornton, Law / Tagged: 9/11, Barack Obama, CIA, Congress, Jihad, John Brennan, Torture
The New Age of Falsity
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We live in an age of falsity, in which words have lost their meanings and concepts are reinvented as the situation demands. The United States is in a jobless recovery — even if that phrase largely disappeared from the American lexicon about 2004. Good news somehow must follow from a rising unemployment rate, which itself underrepresents the actual percentage of Americans long out of work. Read more →
Posted in: Political Culture / Tagged: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Falsity, Fat Cats, Jobs, Muslim Brotherhood, Terrorism, Torture, Unemployment, United States Economy
Predator-in-Chief
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We are in a long war against radical Islamic terrorism. The struggle seems almost similar to the on-again/off-again ordeals of the past — such as the French-English Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries, or the Thirty Years War between Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century. Read more →
Posted in: Terrorism, 9/11 / Tagged: 9/11, Africa, al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, George Bush, Islam, Terrorism, The Middle East, Torture
The Cheney Memoir: Hype and Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
I’m about halfway through the new Cheney memoir, In My Time, and it does not at all resemble the media’s description of it — a highly controversial book preoccupied with scoring points against rivals — which suggests that many of those who have written about it have not read it. Read more →
Posted in: Reviews / Tagged: 9/11, Barack Obama, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Halliburton, Literature, Mainstream Media, National Intelligence, Torture, Water-boarding, WMD
Imprecise Language Breeds Dangerous Policy
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell identified a “lack of precision” as the besetting sin of politicized writing, either through incompetence or indifference as to whether “words mean anything or not.” Read more →
Posted in: Bruce S. Thornton, Law / Tagged: 9/11, Barack Obama, CIA, Eric Holder, Executive Order, George Orwell, John McCain, Language, Mainstream Media, Osama bin Laden, Torture
Rules for Killing Rogues
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The welcome end of Osama bin Laden at the hands of helicopter-borne American military commandos raises a number of issues. Read more →
Posted in: Terrorism, National Security / Tagged: 9/11, Barack Obama, Drones, Gadhafi, Guantanamo, Libya, Military, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, Terrorism, Torture, Water-boarding
