From the Times Online: The government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk. The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background. The system would be much more sophisticated than simply picking out young men of

Andrew Sullivan, man of nuance: If you’re a Republican in Tennessee and you are in a tough race, what do you do? Hey, your party isn’t a political organization; it’s God’s Own Party: A Christian prayer group is hoping to provide Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson with some divine assistance during his campaign. The “Bryson Prayer Force” is inviting Christians to join its current 80 members in praying regularly for

If ever there was an incident that could shake my resistance to race-based affirmative action it happened Saturday afternoon at the Flat Irons Mall in Broomfield.  While visiting an upscale hipster clothier (I’m in the market for a summer sport coat / slacks combo), the salesperson helping me—a lovely young woman of maybe twenty-five who, at first blush, didn’t appear to harbor any racist sentiments—let the mask slip while trying

Via LGF, a look at how the AP (as well as organizations like the tax-payer funded NPR), provides “expert” commentary without providing necessary context — in essence, acting as uncritical conduits for what amounts to enemy propaganda. —Which it’s possible is the product of intellectual or logistical laziness (as well as a desire to appear “neutral,” which to the transnational progressive is the new black), but which could just as

Michael Yon appeared on Pundit Review Radio last night and offered a grim assessment of the conditions inside Iraq (particularly Baghdad).  You can hear his observations here.  I’d be interested to hear the various viewpoints of veterans and active-duty military in response to Yon’s assessments.  My sense (and it is only that; as an infamous chickenhawk, I am “inauthentic” when it comes to offering opinions on anything having to do

Via Major John, a look at how the “diversity” movement in the academy—which I’ve described on numerous occasions as anathema to classical liberalism and the product of a worldview that is, at its core, radically egalitarian and superficial (reducing as it does the human experience down to arbitrary cosmetic / physiological traits) — is growing in stature and influence, adding further to the already Orwellian atmosphere of institutes of higher

Look!  Unicorns and bunnies eating neapolitan banana splits on clouds made from spun sugar!  Under a delicious lollipop rainbow! Quick! Somebody fetch the river dancing midgets.  And the hookers.

British citizens donating to “charities” that in turn fund terror attacks aimed at British citizens.  “Photojournalists” and “aid workers” digging up bodies to stage propaganda credulously lapped up by a western press.  The UN passing cease fire resolutions that have the effect of recognizing Hizbullah as a state-like actor.  The AP playing apologist for a new Hizballah superhero. What’s next—Al Franken taking up arms against the Santa Monica Hillel?  Jackie

From The Times Online: Security sources believe that a man arrested in last week’s anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda’s leader in this country. Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring down up to nine transatlantic airliners, but also of involvement in other planned atrocities over the past few years. They believe that he was instrumental