Stop Bashing American Muslims
Peter King, GOP Congressman from New York, held hearings yesterday to explore what he describes as pro-terrorist sympathies among American Muslims. This is an effort to slander an entire community of...
View ArticleSpent nuclear fuel
It is pretty clear from what is going on at the crippled nuclear generating station in Japan, that one of the biggest risks is the on-site, relatively insecure storage of spent fuel rods. This risk was...
View ArticleJon Stewart on the “photos”
I tend to agree with Jon Stewart on this: Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions...
View Article9/11 was only the beginning
Everything has gotten worse since 9/11, as reported by the best news source in the country. Excerpt: As media coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 ramps up this week, citizens across the United...
View ArticleYour tax dollars at work
The FBI is circulating a set of flyers purported to identify suspicious behaviors that indicates possible terrorist activities that therefore should be reported to the FBI by all good citizens. The...
View ArticleIt takes one to know one
Kip Hawley, head of the TSA from July, 2005, to January, 2009, has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal that is worth a full read. He admits that the current airport security operation is broken and...
View ArticleAmericans are as likely to be killed by their own furniture as by terrorism
Last year, a total of seventeen U.S. civilians were killed by terrorists. According to the report, the number of U.S. citizens who died in terrorist attacks increased by two between 2010 and 2011;...
View ArticlePolitical quote of the day
Is there any reason to believe that military drones will soon be hovering over Manhattan, aiming to kill Americans believed to be involved in terrorist financing? No. But is it well past time for the...
View ArticlePhotos of the Boston Marathon bombing
The Atlantic has a collection of photos showing the horror. By the way, some are graphic, so be warned. One photo required a click to view and unless you want to see horrible injuries, I suggest you...
View ArticleKeep calm and carry on
Bruce Schneier, a well known security specialist, wrote an essay in The Atlantic that suggests the proper reaction to the attacks in Boston (and other terrorist attacks as well). The essay is worth a...
View ArticleBombing quote of the day
We still do not know who set off the Boston Marathon bombs or why. But we do know now, after 9/11, after all the terrorism the world has seen in the last decade, what the right reaction is: wash the...
View ArticleMeasuring risk
Human beings are notoriously poor at evaluating the risks of various activities. In the context of terrorism, check out these levels of risk: In the real world, statistics from a 2004 National Safety...
View ArticleSurveillance quote of the day
Will terrorists kill innocent civilians in the years to come? Of course. They did so more than 100 years ago, when they were called anarchists — and a responsible nation-state must take reasonable...
View ArticleWas the UK detention “terrorist” related
The New York Times is reporting that there is increasing pressure in the UK for a clear explanation of the rationale for the detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner by the UK. Keith Vaz, an opposition...
View ArticleDan Gillmor on Liberty
Dan Gillmor, writing in the Guardian, has crafted a speech that he hopes a prominent candidate will make in the next election. It is worth a full read, and I have to say that I most certainly would...
View ArticleQuestion of the day
Writing at The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald asks a very interesting question. After the fatal attacks on two military locations in Chattanooga two days ago, officials quickly characterized the shootings...
View ArticleStatistic of the day
What is the human costs of gun violence in the United States? According to a study by Vox, here is one measure: . . . if you include all gun deaths (including homicides, suicides, and accidents), guns...
View ArticleNo evidence mass surveillance ever stopped a major terrorist attack
Cory Doctorow writes: CIA Director John Brennan wants you to think the Paris attacks were Snowden’s fault — the “hand wringing” over mass surveillance has ended his agency’s ability to “thwart”...
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