The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
James Joyner disapproves of the president calling those killed at Ft. Hood heroes: The people aboard Flight 93 who took on the hijackers to prevent them from crashing into an unknown target? Heroes. The people in the Towers and the...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
James Joyner makes a pretty convincing case for the argument that they are not: [T]he fact of the matter is that these people and their loved ones are tragic victims of senseless violence, no more heroic than others who are randomly killed. This isn’t a criticism of Obama per se. General George Casey did the same [...]
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Legendary interviewer David Frost talks to former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev about the epoch-shattering event they both presided over: Also, James Joyner notes some other remembrances of the day: Over at New Atlanticist, we’ve been running a series of essays from people who played a slightly larger role than I [...]
BitsBlog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I actually like the headline James Joyner puts up at a bit better: House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses to provide health coverage, and require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions. (The last, as I have [...]
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... “movement” (so to speak) ends with the capture or killing of said terrorist. As such, I agree with James Joyner’s comments: To qualify as “terrorism,” the act has to be committed to instill fear for the purpose of achieving political goals. If he’s just an angry Muslim who went nuts and started shooting people, he’s a psychopath and a killer but not a terrorist. Even if he was trying...
Appalachian Scribe (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... we going to pay for this? And most importantly, where does the Constitution authorize any of this? James Joyner gets it right : If this became law, the poor would be significantly poorer and small businesses would be even less competitive with the big box stores. During a very weak economy with an unemployment at ten percent, no less. Oh, and insurance rates will go up for the rest...
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... mass shooting in US history: the acts of a deranged individual. As Spencer Ackerman noted (via James Joyner ): there have been, sadly, cases of non-Muslim soldiers also engaging in this type of tragic behavior. Ackerman points to case earlier this year of Sgt. John Russell , who opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing five. Really, after these events we want there to be a broader...
