Henry Hazlitt famously (Well, it’s famous in some circles) wrote that: "The art of economics consists of looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group...

When I was lad I served a term as security guard at a ship repair firm. Navy guys my age told me tales of rural recruiters' lies: they'd expected to be learning useful radio technology skills while romancing exotic ladies in foreign ports, instead they were cleaning...

I was channel-surfing a few days ago & I saw an alarming local news alert. 200 pounds of explosives had been stolen from a heavily fortified secret government arms depot. Why were they announcing this? Obviously because they had no leads and hoped for assistance from...

I just got back from seeing Moore’s anti-Bush cinematic editorial. Rather than review it I’ll comment on issues already raised on this site, starting with Eric Garris’s blog posting, "Sorry, I didn’t like it." "I got to the theater early to beat the crowds (not so...

"Occupation made world less safe, pro-war institute says." The US and British occupation of Iraq has accelerated recruitment to the ranks of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and made the world a less safe place, according to a leading London-based think-tank. The...

"Next Door to Mohammed Atta”: The Mossad apparently warned their American counterparts several times about the terrorists, especially about al-Midhar. … Apparently not until shortly before September 11 did the CIA recognize that al-Midhar was dangerous and asked law...

"White House saw chain of reports on bin Laden – 'The system was blinking red,' CIA chief told panel" [by Dana Priest, Washington Post]:In January 2001, two surveillance photographs from the Kuala Lumpur meeting were shown to an informant who was helping both the CIA...

RICE [from Transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement]: The threat reporting to which we could respond was in June and July about threats abroad. What we tried to do for -- just because people said you cannot rule out an attack on the United States, was to have...

cov·er-up Function: noun 1 : a device or stratagem for masking or concealing ; also : a usually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public"Four 9/11 Moms Watch Rumsfeld And Grumble" by Gail Sheehy, March 30, 2004, New York...

Turning a Blind Eye to Ayman. Overshadowed by former US "terror czar" Richard Clarke's terrific interview on 60 Minutes, was the show's short piece on Al Qaeda mastermind Ayman Zawahiri. Egypt's former terror czar is interviewed and says that he warned the US about...