By Jan 09,2010

Dick Cheney soft on terrorism?

As Sonny noted below, the recidivism rate for those released from Gitmo is uncomfortably high. ABC reports, The first publicly released Pentagon analysis of the recidivism rates of former Guantanamo...

By Jan 09,2010

Playing the race card

Noemie Emery has a fun article in the Weekly Standard that track the efforts of all sorts of liberal pundits’ to brand President Obama’s critics as racist. Clearly, it’s no...

By Jan 08,2010

Yes, they're recidivists

Not so shockingly, a solid percentageof released Gitmo inmates go back to the front to try to kill Americans. Again, not so shockingly, Matt Yglesias thinks America’s to blame for...

By Jan 08,2010

Daybreakers

So, Daybreakers didn’t screen for critics, and I get why: It’s undeniably a B movie, the sort of thing that will appeal to those willing to check their brains at...

By Jan 08,2010

Mad Men vs. Blog Men

My wife and I are done with Galactica. Now it’s time for Mad Men. We’ve watched one episode and we like it already. Why? One thing the show does is...

By Jan 08,2010

Unorthodox Intelligence

Why would the US military want to distribute publicly its new directive on intelligence gathering in Afghanistan? Why would the military publish its new directive in cooperation with a think...