Twenty years ago: The Oklahoma City bombing
Remembering those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever Oklahoma City Bombing April 19, 1995 . . . Continue reading Twenty years ago: The Oklahoma City bombing
Category: terrorism
US defenses: Citizens keeping it real
I’ve a lot of mixed feelings about Doug Hughes, the Florida mailman who flew his gyrocopter through restricted air space to land on the front lawn of the US Capitol this week. He carried letters to Congress demanding campaign finance reform and getting money out of government. He could have been carrying something much worse. In a way … Continue reading US defenses: Citizens keeping it real
Toys for big boys: Gifting our police with military gear
Those who’ve been following the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Mo., this week have undoubtedly seen or read commentary about the militarization of our local police departments. If you’re curious about what surplus military equipment the Defense Department has given to your county, see the excellent interactive map posted by the New York Times a few … Continue reading Toys for big boys: Gifting our police with military gear
Twelve years later and still overreacting to terrorists
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Ted Koppel writes that we have overreacted to terrorism, that we have done to ourselves what the terrorists could never have done. And of course I agree with him. I said the same thing two years ago. Koppel’s commentary apparently was prompted by the closing of US embassies across North Africa … Continue reading Twelve years later and still overreacting to terrorists
Tsarnaev to be tried in US criminal court system
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is lucky there’s a Democrat in the White House because by now Republicans probably would have declared him an enemy combatant and whisked him off to a secret prison someplace. If he died while being waterboarded … too bad. What’s another dead terrorist. Never mind that he’s an American citizen on American soil, entitled to … Continue reading Tsarnaev to be tried in US criminal court system
