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Are we safer? Are we winning the “War on Terror”?


It’s funny ’cause it’s true. In a “laugh so you don’t cry” kind of way, of course.
(The answer to the title questions is, of course, “no”.)

Queer Eye for the Jihadist Guy


Inspired by Andrew Sullivan’s amusing open letter to Osama about coloring his beard, I worked up this quick photochop with the Gimp.

I would have started messing with the text on the box art, but dammit - I said this was quick.
Update - Andrew changed the photo on his entry to use this one (and linked […]

Romney: Lighten up about 9/11 and Osama


Update: Jerid has all the bases covered on this one. The excuse that he doesn’t know what signs everyone has is obliterated when we realize Mitt acknowledged a photo of the sign and gives Jerid his autograph on the back of it! Hey Mitt. Here’s your sign! Haven’t used this […]

DHS, Immigration, and Terrorism


Another shocker: only a tiny fraction of cases filed by DHS are terror-related.
Despite repeated claims by high officials of the Bush Administration that fighting terrorism has been the central mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since it began operating, the data show that in the last three years a claim of terrorism was […]

Bush and bin Laden: Notes from the Politically Tone Deaf


What’s wrong with this picture:

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - Trying to defend his war strategy, President Bush has declassified intelligence asserting that Osama bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq, and that the U.S. should be the top target.
Renew the “why haven’t […]