Truth And Common Sense

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/09/AR2010080906252.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
For six years, Nicholas Merrill has lived in a surreal world of half-truths, where he could not tell even his fiancee, his closest friends or his mother that he is “John Doe” — the man who filed the first-ever court challenge to the FBI’s ability to obtain personal data on Americans [...]

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14363
I’ve been asked by many, many normal and maybe a few not so “normal” citizens if I believed that law enforcement while harm them in the coming years if, God forbid, the system breaks down or the government asserts itself more aggressively.  I’m no expert and I can only draw on the experiences I have [...]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/not-one-event
Steven Hayes makes some critical points when discussing the issue on how the government works hard to make everyone believe that every terrorist attack is “a lone wolf” operation, even though, repeatedly, it is proven to be a false assumption.
“On Sunday morning, Janet Napolitano twice suggested that the attempted attack in Times Square was a [...]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100505/D9FGCQTG0.html
I was all about giving kudos to the JTTF in New York, until we found out they lost him on the surveillance, let him on the plane, even though we heard they had air assets listening for the cellphone.  (Now we know why, again they lost him…)  How hard is it to lose a suspect?  [...]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5imlKse9LHHatYcH4g3NbI-Q8Fe2Q
http://wcbstv.com/local/times.square.car.2.1674692.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/04/shahzad-yes-i-trained-in-bomb-making-in-pakistan/
Where to start?  Do we start with the story of the fourth attempt at killing Americans on American soil in the last year or so?  Do we start by talking about the amount of energy this and prior administrations wasted trying to tell us that it wasn’t extremist Muslims committing the crimes.  We could talk [...]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/22/hmmm-feds-local-law-enforcement-accessing-cell-phone-tracking-thousands-of-times-a-month/comment-page-2/#comment-3396412
The police have been tapping and tracking cellphones for a long time.  As soon as drug dealers and organized crime could they went to cellphones to defeat wire taps.  It took a while for the police, notoriously slow to change and resistant to new technology, to catch up.  Once we did it was a boon [...]

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=170066
Disturbing to the least.   The story written here states several things.  One, Hamas now is saying there may have been involvement by Jordan and Eqypt in tracking the terrorist before his death.  They also state that the FBI has received a request from Dubai to look for links from an American bank to the pre-paid [...]

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/11/heartache-tea-party-candidate-in-texas-a-911-truther/
So say the tea party supporters.  I heard the Glenn Beck when he interviewed her and as he likes to do, he lasered in on her when she went spacy over the 9/11 truther issue.  Simply put, she blew up.   She was caught between wanting to say she didn’t follow the belief and upsetting those [...]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-Top-GOP-leaders-didnt-object-to-reading-Abdulmutallab-his-rights-83756337.html
What is truth?  For a while we could say with some certainty that truths were usually limited to science or math.   There are universal laws that cannot be disputed such as gravity and one plus one will always equal two.   Outside these areas truth can be a slippery thing and often it goes to the [...]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091227/ap_on_go_ot/us_airliner_attack_plot
Napolitano says there is no indication there is a larger plot surrounding the attempt to take down the airliner.  Guys, why?  Why lie.  Why say something so absurd my thirteen year old stops playing his PS3 and says, “Dad, that doesn’t make any sense, who made the bomb?”   Yep, I consider that a good [...]