Is the New York City Department of Environmental Protection using the terrorist threat to quietly push through a nannyish, anti-sportsmen waterway agenda? Brendan Miniter thinks so. Although the right to fish (and cut ice) was guaranteed when the city bought out small towns, moved cemeteries and flooded valleys, sportsmen have had to endure a sustained and comprehensive campaign to stop them from using the more than 100,000 acres the city

Claudia Rosett, writing in today’s WSJ Opinion Journal, turns a critical eye to the Red Cross: The real shame of Guantanamo Bay has nothing to do with U.S. treatment of captured Taliban and al Qaeda fighters now held there. It has everything to do with the International Committee of the Red Cross rushing to the scene, waving the Geneva Conventions as if riding to the rescue of those lovable old

Helen Thomas (who more and more is coming to resemble Ross Perot) continues her incessant grousing, this time oozing spittle-flecked Gitmo innuendo during today’s White House briefing: (Addressing Ari Fleischer): “Does the President support putting the prisoners in cages?” Cages? Well, Helen, we’d prefer you call them “cells,” if that’s okay. You remember “cells,” don’t you? –in addition to referring to prison digs, “cells” are also those deep-cover groupings that

“An analysis of census figures shows that at least 58,000 Middle Eastern men from countries other than Israel are residing illegally in the United States, a figure that analysts say highlights the nation’s vulnerability to terrorist infiltrators,” The Washington Times reports. […] ‘It is difficult to overstate the implications of this new report for the security of our nation,” said Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for

“John Walker Lindh was sent to the United States aboard a military plane and under high security to face charges he conspired with terrorists to kill fellow Americans,” the AP reports. Taliban fighter Lindh was taken off the USS Bataan warship in the Arabian Sea by helicopter and transferred to another military plane at the airport at the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said. They also spoke on condition

Salon’s Charles Taylor pays loving tribute to the photographic work of Jock Sturges — “the photographer of nude young women” who “has been pilloried as a pornographer” (presumably by unsophistocated bumpkins and the soulless right wing morality police). For Taylor, though, “it’s hard to think of a less voyeuristic photographer working”: For a photographer whose work is exceptionally composed, tranquil and, above all, mature, Sturges provokes a great deal of

“Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak furiously branded Yasser Arafat, his one-time partner in peace talks, as a terrorist, after the latest attack on the streets of Jerusalem,” AFP reports. ‘Yasser Arafat happens to behave like a terrorist, he looks like one, he walks like one, he quacks like one, so maybe he is really a terrorist,’ Barak told reporters after meeting with Secretary of State of Colin Powell. ‘It

Reader Ray Eckhart sides with Boja Willy on the prison rape issue, drawing on the authority of no less than Nietzsche: The active, aggressive, arrogant man is still a hundred steps closer to justice than the reactive man; for he has absolutely no need to take a false and prejudiced view of the object before him in the way the reactive man does and is bound to do. For that

Andrea Harris of Ye Olde Blogge dissects so-called human rights groups (an operation for which she will surely receive a stern rebuke in the international press) The reason why you won’t see these same people up to the same antics in countries like China, the Sudan, and so forth, is that they knew that they would be deported, if lucky, or jailed, or they might find themselves becoming the victim

Ted Rall. Angry cartoonist. Idiot scribbler. Hemorrhoid sufferer.