Years ago, the late John Neuhaus published a famous book entitled The Naked Public Square, in which he inveighed against attempts by the liberal establishment to exclude Christian input on the sociopolitical issues of the day. However, there are some professing believers who don’t even wait for th...

Wednesday Evening News Roundup Note to MSNBC: upgrade your servers!!!  From 7 p.m. to midnight Eastern Standard Time, it is nearly impossible to watch any of the videos (Countdown with Keith Olbermann , The Rachel Maddow Show). You need more bandwidth! Peter Bergen, counterterrorism expert, has a f...

President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the.....

Ya'll might remember the English website for Al-shabaab (the African Taliban of Losers in Somalia) was located here on wordpress. http://abushabaab.wordpress.com/ Hey Abushabaab Al-ansaari! It turns out that Abushabaab Al-ansaari! who ran that blog wants to give our Fatwa to......

I’ve been having an amicable discussion with a friend over the pros and cons of the Iraq war. In the waning days of the Bush administration, it’s useful to take stock. Below is an edited version of my response: ***************************************************** There are good arguments and ba...

I was agreeing with most of what I read in Andrew Bacevich's recent Atlantic Monthly article until I got to this section: Embedded within this argument over military matters is a more fundamental and ideologically charged argument about basic policy. By calling for an Army configured mostly to wage ...

Whether or not the Obama Administration closes down Guantanamo Bay soon after Inauguration Day, the Department of Justice's role in counterterrorism is going to change: The cases against many detainees, at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities, have already been falling apart. The Obama Administration...

Where are they? Where are the big, nasty, evildoing terrorists that have been captured thanks to the passage of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Protect America Act and then the FISA Amendments Act? Each of these bills restricting our freedoms was passed with the promise that in ex...

Some excellent podcasts recently that deserve your attention: From This American Life, the most screwed-up terrorism prosecution imaginable. It's so screwed up that it's hard to figure out exactly what happened. Also from This American Life, a journalist discovers that he's the target of a warrantle...

I’m sorry but it has been awhile since I’ve done my news Roundup. Work has been extremely busy. Let’s start in Iraq when the US government is negotiating with the Iraqi government over our terms for stay in Iraq. First of all, I find this relatively funny. Iraqis really didn’...