I’m not sure how some of these charges will stick: Enrique Marquez, who bought the assault rifles used in the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., that left 14 people dead, was arrested and charged Thursday with conspiring to conduct two terrorism attacks in 2011 and 2012. From Our Advertisers Federal officials charged Mr. Marquez, 24 …
War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Open Thread: Ted Cruz, Chickenhawk Idiot Blowhard
Cruz pledges relentless bombing to destroy ISIL https://t.co/ZfNGcAIR7b | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/AmeVStQpic — POLITICO (@politico) December 5, 2015 Cruz: We'll defeat radical Islamic terrorism…carpetbomb them into oblivion..don’t know if sand can glow in dark..we’re going to find out. — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 5, 2015 Wait. What? https://t.co/xbZFO1qRS1 — Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) December 5, 2015 …
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The San Bernardino Shooters: “How Could A Young Mother??…
That seems to be the catchphrase of the day on the evening news, so I’ll take my own second-wave-feminist WAG: Tashfeen Malik, as Adam mentioned earlier, was a new mom in very isolated circumstances. She was thousands of miles from her family, shy around her (Americanized) inlaws, didn’t speak English well. She “chose not to …
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On the Limits of Revenge
A memory in 8 tweets: During the captivity of my father- a time of enormous pain- two policemen came to see us. They had two proposals. — Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) November 14, 2015 The first was: For 5K, they would give us a room with the kidnappers, tied to a chair. They would provide …
The Drone Papers
The Intercept is breaking a major story about the use of drones in targeted assassinations. I’m off to some appointments, but this will be my afternoon reading.
Excellent Read: About Those “Terrorist Camps”…
Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out. -H — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 18, 2015 During my involuntary hiatus, I couldn’t even read Balloon Juice — I was checking Google cache on the regular, but that was spotty & I …
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Snow Jobs And Snowden Jobs
Edward Snowden is back in the news for his document cache, allegedly now in the hands of the Russians and Chinese. Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times …