Can Anyone Remember the Shoe-Bomber?

Because if you can this looks scary stupid:

Kristol: Dennis Blair vs. the Intelligence Community:

We can and we must outthink, outwork and defeat the enemy's new ideas.

Read the whole thing.

(Via Campaign Standard.)

Mark Shea

saves me the trouble of writing and thinking (hopefully not in that order) about the Christmas bomber and reactions to him:

A rather sensible and sober take:

on the security issues raised by the Christmas bombing attempt.

Me: I don't think we are serious--and I say that about both a) the fools who think we should subject blue-haired old Lutheran ladies to the exact same scrutinies as single male Nigerian Muslims with a documented history of crazy Islamic opinions and b) the idiots who think that Dick Cheney's policies of torture and terror are Manly Realism.

Read the whole thing.

(Via Catholic and Enjoying It!.)