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My brother-in-law, whose work takes him to many small towns, pointed out to me yesterday that the current concerns about backscatter scanner machines at airports will only get worse when the technology arrives in small towns (which it must, else airline security will be a joke because bomb-carrying terrorists will just board in Podunk instead [...]
Archive for the ‘Terrorism and its control’ Category
November 24th, 2010
November 4th, 2010
Bumbling Greek terrorists and American electors
October 1st, 2010
Category: Brazil, Terrorism and its control
Dilma Rousseff, next President of Brazil – and former terrorist. So what?
August 24th, 2010
Category: Terrorism and its control
Is it ironic that a Saudi prince is the second-biggest shareholder in the Muslim-baiting Murdoch empire? Not really.
June 29th, 2010
Drugs and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: U.S. Institute of Peace, 10am this coming Tuesday, July 6.
May 4th, 2010
Category: Terrorism and its control
John McCain almost became President. John McCain wants to shred the Constitution.
April 7th, 2010
Category: Terrorism and its control, Woolgathering
As Mark notes, permit-holding (concealed or open-carry) gun owners hardly ever shoot anyone. This is one reason the issue is fairly far down my list of insomnia bait. Almost everyone is armed with a deadly weapon a lot of the time anyway, and almost no-one up and runs down people with his car. Violent gun [...]
February 19th, 2010
Category: Constitutional politics, Law Notes, Terrorism and its control, Torture, Watching Conservatives
In light of the OPR report, it beggars the imagination for Judge Jay Bybee to tell us what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment”, or for Professor John Yoo to teach constitutional law.
January 14th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Terrorism and its control
David Frum asks: If dynamic concentration is good for criminals, why not for terrorists? Ans. Because there was no squeegee-artist or turnstile-jumper collective trying to outwit the police.
January 7th, 2010
Category: Terrorism and its control, The Obama Presidency
The President hit what seemed to me the right notes: He reviewed the bidding: The information was in hand, but didn’t get sent around and acted on, not because individuals didn’t do their jobs, but because the process was ill-designed. He announced new countermeasures, both in the intelligence process and in the screening process. He [...]
