Navy Seals killed the terrorist Osama bin Laden in a compund in Abbottablad yesterday. “Justice has been done,” said President Obama, and though long delayed, it has been. Good riddance. Writing in the Times today, Ross Douthat says “This is a triumph for the United States of America, for our soldiers and intelligence operatives, and …
According to a new book by a professor at Duquesne University Law School, Osama bin Laden tried to assassinate President Bill Clinton during a 1996 visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the Philippines. This is something of a scoop, for although Ramzi Yousef confessed to plotting the assassination of Clinton in the …
In what is apt to the first of many items published in conenction with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The New York Times today published two articles about John Brown, marking the, yes, 150th anniversary of his hanging. The author Tony Horwitz eloquently writes of the striking parallels between Brown and the Islamist …