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July 2026

July 28, 2026

Obstacles to the AI Revolution

The AI revolution is being billed as inevitable. But the AI industry is coming up...

May 2025

May 26, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/26/25

AI Developer Says We “do not understand how our own AI creations work.” If You...

May 10, 2024

DISCUSSION: “Then I Prefer My Mother”

Discuss: “People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be...

November 2023

November 02, 2023

Robespierre’s Celebration of Terror

Robespierre's justification for the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution gives clues to the...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 10/30/23

The Gaza hospital hoax, the terrorist drug, and Silicon Valley is giving up on news.

April 2018

April 04, 2018

Paying Terrorists with Foreign Aid Money

According to Australian journalist David Adler, the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists for attacking Israelis. Using...

May 2017

May 23, 2017

Terrorism hits a concert

An explosion killed at least 19 and injured 50 at a concert by American pop...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

What’s been missing at the Democratic convention

What's been missing at the Democratic National Convention? (1) American flags. The first night, there...

July 15, 2016

Terrorist attack in France kills 84

As Bastille Day celebrants packed the streets watching fireworks in Nice, France, a large truck broke...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

American ISIS supporter tells of his plan to attack a church

A Muslim from Dearborn Heights, Michigan,was arrested for planning to attack a church in the...

January 2016

January 07, 2016

Small Terror

In the course of a larger essay on the world's political woes, David Brooks points...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

The death of relativism?

Can the West keep up its postmodernist ideology of relativism--that there is no moral truth...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Russian Orthodox declare “holy war” against terrorism

The Orthodox church has once against assumed its traditional role in Russia, giving moral support...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

9/11

Today is September 11, aka 9/11, a date that still resonates in infamy. Where are...

September 03, 2015

One of the heroes on that French train is a Lutheran

You know those three unarmed Americans who took out the armed-to-the-teeth terrorist on that French...

September 19, 2014

Australia thwarts ISIL beheading plot

Islamic State jihadists planned to kidnap two random people off the street in Australia and...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

Our progress in the War on Terrorism

We felt good that we killed Osama bin Laden and seemed to have defeated al-Qaeda. ...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Terrorism by beheading and crucifixion

ISIS has reportedly slaughtered 1700 captives in Iraq, using beheadings and even crucifixions. Experts say...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

The legacy of 9/11?

On this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we've got to ask ourselves: Did the terrorists...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

News & updates

Somebody hacked into the Twitter account of the Associated Press, no less, and put out...

April 22, 2013

CSI, Boston

Here is a fascinating account of the police work that led to the identification and...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

Getting bin Laden: The Movie

I saw Zero Dark Thirty, the film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Earlier,...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Ten more years of the drone war

The war in Iraq is pretty much over and the war in Afghanistan is winding...

February 2011

February 24, 2011

Conning the government

Thanks to tODD for pointing me to this story: A onetime biomedical technician with a...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Is a major terrorist attack imminent?

Something seems to be brewing among jihadist terrorists, with officials in Europe and the United...

January 2010

January 13, 2010

The jihadi elite

Anne Applebaum notes that the terrorists we are seeing lately are from the upper crust....

January 05, 2010

Special airport security for passengers from terror-prone nations

Airport security is finally narrowing down the passengers who will get special scrutiny. Passengers from...

January 04, 2010

Incoherent terrorism policy

Charles Krauthammer says that President Obama and his administration are confused and inconsistent when it...

December 2009

December 30, 2009

Underwear bomber planners were Gitmo alums

ABC reports that al Qaeda Leaders Behind Terror Plot Were Released by U.S.: Two of...

December 29, 2009

The Underwear Bomber

We have had the Shoe Bomber. Now we have the Underwear Bomber. The jihadist from...