Here’s a transcript of the August 2002 background briefing given by Richard Clarke to a handful of reporters, among them FOXNews’ Jim Angle (who today received White House permission to make the briefing public). The answers Clarke gave in 2002 appear to contradict directly the allegations he’s been leveling — both in his book and in his testimony before the September 11th Commission — that prior to the Trade Center

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As she’s wont to do, Claudia Winkler takes a hard look at the “religion of hate dished out by Palestinian TV”: In between eruptions of exceptional violence that propel the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the front pages, life goes on in the Palestinian Authority. Friday sermons, in particular, go on, and every Friday at noon, one of them is broadcast live on the radio and shown on the PA’s single

…and a lifetime supply of abnormally bendy Filipina hookers, and my answer is still no. I mean, I have my pride.

“Gov. Bob Wise [D-WV] sent a letter to Abercrombie & Fitch on Monday demanding that the clothing retailer stop selling a T-shirt that spoofs the state with the slogan, ‘It’s All Relative in West Virginia.’” Wise said the T-shirt depicts “an unfounded, negative stereotype” of the state. “I write to you today to demand that you immediately remove this item from your stores and your print and online catalogues,” Wise

Yesterday, I linked to a Daniel W. Drezner’s detailed critique of economic protectionism, a potentially disastrous strategy currently being embraced — rhetorically, at least — by many on the left, including top Donk John Kerry. Today, I’ll point you toward Ted Balaker’s Reason piece, “War Against the Machines,” which I recommend as a gloss on Dr. Drezner’s more in-depth examination: John Kerry seems to enjoy playing Pat Buchanan. Just as

In his aptly titled “Ads Hominem” piece for the Weekly Standard, Noemie Emery argues that “the 911-related attacks on Bush began long before his campaign ads.” Looking back, there is nothing surprising about the carefully plotted spasms of outrage at the reference, in a Bush campaign ad, to the terrorist attacks of September 11 through the fleeting shot of a flag-covered stretcher, and the smoldering ruins of the World Trade