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Updates to my article yesterday, "Maj. Hasan's Islamist Life," in reverse chronological order:Additional information on Hasan's contact with Awlaki: The Washington Post reports that Hasan's contacts with extremist imam Anwar al-Aulaqi began as religious

Since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. taxpayer has been rebuilding Iraq and – for just as long – I have been complaining about this being unnecessary and even counterproductive. (See here, here, and here for sample critiques.) Comes a

As the Pentagon and Senate launch what one analyst dubs "dueling Fort Hood investigations," will they confront the hard truth of the Islamic angle? Despite encouraging references to "violent Islamists" by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Independent of

Was the Ft. Hood massacre an act of terrorism? For two reasons, I find this an unproductive question. First, terrorism has, in one count, 109 definitions, making this a question more suited to mulling over in a university seminar than to public policy.

National Review asked, "How big a deal is it that the president won't be going to Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall?" My response follows; what others wrote can be found at "Forgetting the Fall." Let us meditate briefly on