Threat Levels

From Wired, via Boing-Boing: Look closely at the “Green” threat level. Yes, you are read­ing that cor­rectly. As a res­i­dent of America, you are more likely to be shot by a police offi­cer than killed in any type of ter­ror­ist attack. Now fac­tor in the well-documented racial bias in law enforce­ment strate­gies and arrest rates, …

No Santa

I started writ­ing this post to point out that the coör­di­nated demands by vir­tu­ally every major nut­case over the New York Times’ reveal­ing the data-mining of bank­ing records via SWIFT — the calls for exe­cu­tion, harass­ment, lynch­ing, etc. — was a clear indi­ca­tion that Karl Rove is no longer a tar­get of Fitzgerald’s inves­ti­ga­tion. The much-vaunted “Fitzmas” is over, …

Missing the Point

Sigh. After only a few short months of pay­ing atten­tion to them, I have already tired of the Democrats and their assorted min­ions. If noth­ing else, the idea that it’s some­how in the Bush Administration’s best inter­est to claim the NSA spy­ing pro­gram was some advanced data min­ing pro­ce­dure — and thus be able to wave the …

GULAG

Now that it is widely known that the CIA is tor­tur­ing peo­ple in a string of secret pris­ons around the world, is there going to be a retrac­tion from those who crit­i­cized Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) for his use of the term GULAG to describe the U.S. government’s inter­ro­ga­tion cen­ters and pris­ons? Somehow, I doubt …