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What’s the point of taking off our shoes at airport security if the screenings can’t pick up a myriad of explosives and detonators?
According to reports the “underwear bomb” worn by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a military-grade plastic explosive called Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, and neither that nor the detonator would have been caught by standard [...]

First a video from CNN (via Weekly Standard):
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Next, the Wall Street Journal explains the U.K. healthcare rationing system, through an agency with an Orwellian name — N.I.C.E., or the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. “Americans should understand how NICE works because under ObamaCare it will eventually be [...]

Here’s another Jonah Goldberg. Read the whole thing.
The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make. Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and controls large chunks of the banking industry. Also, President Obama wants government to [...]

Does putting an arsonist into prison only create more arsonists? What about car jackers? Then why does detention for terrorists only propel them to commit terrorism upon their release? It’s an absurd proclamation, yet it is exactly what the Washington Post has spent the past weekend arguing on their front page.
The story regards Abdallah Saleh [...]

Arthur Herman makes an interesting point:
To understand the nature of this challenge, consider that the distance between Baghdad and Tbilisi is barely 578 miles, less than the distance between New York City and Chicago. Iraq and Georgia, both of which have democratic governments, are sandwiched between Iran and Russia, two of the most authoritarian governments [...]