War on Terror
Anyone who thinks the idea of Islamofascism is a recent invention will be surprised by the series of quotes from early 20th century intellectuals linking Islam with totalitarianism upturned by Providence-area native Andrew Bostom. Here’s a quote from Carl Jung, described by Bostom as the “founder of analytical psychiatry”…We do not know whether Hitler is…
One of the people in the First Lady’s Box at last night’s State of the Union Address was Army Staff Sgt. Craig Charloux, and old high school friend of mine from Maine. He couldn’t make our 20th reunion this past summer because he was in Iraq. Here’s more about Craig: After leaving the military, Charloux…
Senator Jack Reed is in Iraq assessing the situation. While revising his earlier view of the surge strategy — too small and too gradual to work, he said when Mr. Bush proposed it last January — Reed said he stands by his prescription for the path ahead in Iraq: a U.S. declaration of policy that…
In the October 11, 2006 issue of Lancet Magazine appeared a well publicized study of “excess Iraqi deaths” which occurred after the 2003 invasion. For the period March, 2003 – July, 2006, it placed that total at 654,965, of which 601,027 were attributed to violence. Scepticism was voiced by a few on the face of…
There’s a faith-based assessment, on the Left, that war cannot but breed more terrorists, as Professor Gene Perry expresses here: Liberals whom I know are just as concerned to combat terrorism as is Mr. Rowley. The question is how best to do it. Are frontal assaults with tanks and rockets an effective approach to combating…
On a side note, it struck me as a little incongruent Tuesday evening to be attending, at the urging of a conservative blog (Anchor Rising), a lecture on women’s rights hosted by a Republican organization (the URI College Republicans). Before then, I had not particularly associated the right side of the political spectrum with an…
Islamofascism is a term more controversial than it should be. That’s a major part of the reason the University of Rhode Island College Republicans are attempting to make people aware of its meaning through their sponsorship of Islamofascism Awareness Week at URI. URI Women’s Studies Professor Donna Hughes laid out some different options for describing…
Professor Hughes delivered the following lecture on October 23, 2007, as part of the University of Rhode Island College Republicans’ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Thank you to the URI College Republicans for organizing this week of awareness about a major threat to world peace and freedom. Thank you for inviting me to speak about how this…
1. The Democratic leadership pulled its version of surveillance reform off of the House floor yesterday, according to National Public Radio, after the Republicans proposed the following change to the Democrats proposed change to the Section 105A “exception”…What threw the bill into limbo was a motion by Lamar Smith (R-TX) to send the bill back…
Here’s a quick primer on the latest version of electronic surveillance law moving through Congress. Warning: there’s some heavy (and not very well written) legalese in the portions of the new law excerpted below. At the moment, foreign electronic surveillance is being conducted under a reasonably clear rule written into a temporary law (it expires…