Bombing Our Reputation

Did they catch the Red State lunatic extremist who tried to slaughter untold innocent people by detonating a propane/fireworks/wrong kind of fertilizer SUV bomb in Times Square?  Or is it possible that the initial classification some people issued of the suspect was suspect?  Authorities were thankfully not so consumed by searching for someone armed with passionate rhetoric about [...]

America Misses Being Loathed

Being president was already a crummy task.  Now, who would ever want it next?  The nation’s 45th executive won’t just be kept busy with the arduous decisions, limitless criticisms, and nuclear code memorizations that accompany the occupation.  On top of all that, he or she will also have to clean up the immense mess left [...]

Think Air Security’s a Joke? Get In Line

Sit straight.  Face forward.  Fold your hands.  No talking.  Stow you computer.  Go when you can, not when you have to.  Smile pleasantly, don’t get wise, and cede your armrest to your neighbor for the greater good.  Flying sucks, and the Obama administration’s response to the horrifying attempt by an incompetent clod to destroy an [...]

We Behave Even When We (Tea) Party

By Anthony Bialy
Maybe I should forward my pictures from Buffalo’s Independence Day Tea Party to the Department of Homeland Security. It wouldn’t be to help them save time when compiling Janet Napolitano’s Personal Enemies List: it’s more of a preemptive move against those who brand us as radicals for thinking the government shouldn’t be buying lots of stuff. If they’re still fretting about the seething rage among righties, we may as well make the case that attendees are as typical as zealots get.

Psychopolitics with Dr. Brian

On the international front, I have to go on the record here and say that I’m concerned about the weakness that I see the political leaders (not the military) of the United States projecting to the world lately. I’m worried that it will embolden terrorists to strike us again, sooner rather than later. What do I mean? I mean making a federal case, literally, of pouring some water on a terrorist’s face to spare L.A. from a 9/11-style catastrophe. I mean locking up our own border guards for shooting a drug dealer who fled from them after entering this country illegally (and no, there’s nothing “racist” about that — I don’t want an 80-year-old Canadian woman sneaking in here either). I mean bringing the lone pirate who survived the rescue of Capain Phillips to the United States for a trial instead of hanging him from the bow of the U.S.S. Bainbridge on the spot.