Archive for the 'Terrorism' Category
On “The Daily Show” a few nights ago, Jon Stewart devoted a long segment to the hearings that were held last week by the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on the virtual world Second Life. The comedy segment’s first laugh came at the expense of Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) who warned of [...]
Michael Mukasey, the once-respected conservative legal scholar whose appointment as Attorney General was made possible by Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, gave a speech in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago about the need to pass new surveillance legislation exactly as the Bush Administration wants it, with full immunity for telecom companies. [...]
The Globe and Mail is running a series of video interviews of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. It is an extraordinary and rare opportunity to see first-hand what these fighters have to say for themselves and how they view their conflict and the rest of the world.
One cannot help but take away the impression that [...]
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