LFTC - Letter From The Capitol

TSA Abuses Grandma--AGAIN

TSA has given us another evil episode...

WHO LOST IRAQ?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER NAILS IT....

IRAN's Bad-Movie DC Plot

Are Iran's leaders crazy?...

9/11 + 10: Remembrance

America's 21st century Pearl Harbor's Churchill....

Come Fly With Human Bombs?

Latest terror tactic upends TSA....

TSA Molests Dying Grandma, Lies to Us

Search a dying, 95-year-old grandma?  TSA did....

Terrorist Interrogations: Answering John McCain

Big Mac says "torture" didn't, and doesn't, work....

TSA's Train Trap

Just when you thought TSA couldn't sink lower....

TSA: "Pistole-Whipped" Into Common Sense in 2012?

TSA's John Pistole may be giving an inch to critics....

Will North Korean Missiles Reach US in 2015?

SecDef Gates sees NK ICBM threat 5 years away....

Homegrown Terror Grows

Islamist terror steps up the pace....

Venezuela's Future Nuclear Ace in the Hole?

Might Venezuela someday inflict vast harm on us?....

Air Security: TSA's Pistole Shoots

Can Israeli rules work for US air security?....

WikiLeaks & Data-Sharing: Right & Wrong Fixes

Will WikiLeaks kill post-9/11 info sharing?....

TSA Assails Young Mother

What to do about America's skyrocketing debt?....

TSA's Bait & Switch Airport Act

TSA sprung a nasty holiday trap on travelers....

Terror Trials: After the Civilian Terror Trial Fiasco

Two top legal mavens explain how to fix terror trials....

TSA: An Ohio Mom's Ordeal

Another TSA molestation, of an Ohio mom....

TSA Jumps the Security Shark

TSA molestation escalates....what's next?

Profiling & the "Religion of Peace"

TSA's Teachable Moment gonad grasp on fliers....

Terror & the Tea Party

What can TPers learn from a failed bomb plot?....

Herman Kahn: A Genius Meets Today's Nuclear Challenges

How do ideas of genius Herman Kahn instruct us?

America's Danish Cartoon Challenge

A Seattle cartoonist is in hiding from angry Islamists...

GZ Mosque Imam Created New Jersey Fire Traps

Cops guard fire traps owned by Imam Rauf!

Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Conservative Politics

Ground Zero Mosque: Thinly-Veiled Islamist Menace

GZ Mosque backers look worse with each passing day....

Ground Zero Mosque: Imam Rauf Tells a Barefaced Lie

Imam Rauf now lies to push his Ground Zero mosque....

Ground Zero Mosque: More on Developers & Imam

Re latest Hamas terrorism, GZ mosque sponsors ducked....

Ground Zero Developer's Tax & Crime Troubles

Developer Sharif el-Gamal owes $224k property taxes....

Ground Zero Mosque: More Political Plate Tectonics

The more we learn about Imam Rauf, the more the ground shifts....

Ground Zero Mosque: The REAL (Estate) Point

More intriguing detail on fuzzy finances of the Ground Zero mosque & center project....

Ground Zero Mosque: Rally & Reversal

The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero held a big rally yesterday.  What now?....

Ground Zero Mosque: Thought Experiments--and Thoughtless Ones

More reasons why the Ground Zero Mosque should not be built....

Ground Zero Mosque: Enter Obama

President Obama's White House remarks defending the Ground Zero Mosque project lit a fire...

Obama's Nuclear Gambles Proliferate

My talk, "Obama's Nuclear Gamble", given 7/28 in Seattle.  Re Iran's reactor....

Mosques in America: Do We Care Who Runs Them?

The Ground Zero mosque is about more than location--MUCH more....

Ground Zero Mosque?

Why we should NOT allow a mosque near Ground Zero....

IRAN: Tougher Sanctions, Tougher Talk

This past week saw tougher lines taken re Iran....

NYPD: Counter-Terrorism Central

Manhattan Institute scholar Judith Miller interviewed NYPD chief Ray Kelly re terror & NYC....

Supreme Court: Lawfare Loses--THIS Time

Monday the Supremes, by a surprising 6-3 margin, dealt "al-Qaeda Bar" litigators a setback....

Mapp & Miranda: Tales from America's Crime Spree Crypt

TAS published a superb article Friday on the history of the Mapp v. Ohio (1961) exclusionary rule & the Miranda v. Arizona (1966) custodial interrogation rule, that reveals the awful cost of such rules to society....

Miranda Rule: Can It Cover All Cases After 9/11?

In 2000 the Supreme Court declined to overturn the Miranda rule, 34 years after its adoption.  In light of 9/11, was the Court wrong to re-affirm the rule?

Arizona: Trumping the Race Card

Watch this riveting YouTube clip of a truly wise Latina confronting illegal immigration at a Tucson City Council meeting (4:42).   There is more....

Radical Islam: Holder Holds Out

Watch this YouTube clip of A-G Eric Holder trying to avoid fingering radical Islam as a factor (2:06) in the Times Square bombing, at a House hearing last week.  You can't make this stuff up....

Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Nuclear Proliferation, Arms Control, WMD, Foreign Policy, Conservative Politics

Times Square Bomber: Intel Lessons

Bush A-G Judge Michael Mukasey expertly shows why intel should take prime place in terror cases, and how leaks hurt.  A WSJ editorial notes that in 2009 surveillance warrant applications fell to their lowest level since 2003.

Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, WMD, Foreign Policy, Conservative Politics

Ground Zero Mosque?

The NY Daily News reports on plans proceeding to erect a 13-story mosque near Ground Zero....

Islam's "Nowhere Men" Bring Jihad

Islam scholar Fouad Ajami sees Pakistan exporting "nowhere men" who brought terror to London & Times Square....

Times Square Bomber: Nagging Questions

NRO's Andy McCarthy, ace terror prosecutor, wonders why the Justice Dept. filed a public complaint that alerts possible confederates (if any), when the law does not so require, and fears that politics is at work....

Times Square Bomber: Risks of Contracting With Amateurs

The essay below, "Uncomfortable Truths and the Times Square Attack", is well worth a read.  This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR"....

Times Square Bomber: Updating "No-Fly" Lists; Downgrading Terror

The Washington Post reports that federal rules governing "no-fly" listings have been updated.  From now on, the lists must be updated by airlines every 2 hours, versus 24 hours hitherto.  Manhattan Institute scholar Judith Miller nails Team Obama for downplaying terror linkage.

Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, WMD, Foreign Policy

Immigration: "Race-ing" Arizona

The immigration debate, like so much in our politics, has been stained by the playing of the Race Card: calling supporters of Arizona's law targeting illegal immigration....