The Burbank Police Department deploys a BearCat armored vehicle to a standoff. Hundreds of the vehicles have been purchased with federal money across the country. (Roger Wilson, Glendale News Press / August 28, 2011)Is Homeland Security Spending Paying Off? -- Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
A Decade After The Sept. 11 Attacks, Federal And State Governments Are Doling Out About $75 Billion A Year On Domestic Security. Whether The Spending Spree Has Been Worth It Is The Subject Of Increasing Debate.
Reporting from Ogallala, Neb. — On the edge of the Nebraska sand hills is Lake McConaughy, a 22-mile-long reservoir that in summer becomes a magnet for Winnebagos, fishermen and kite sailors. But officials here in Keith County, population 8,370, imagined this scene: an Al Qaeda sleeper cell hitching explosives onto a ski boat and plowing into the dam at the head of the lake.
Read more ....
Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Economic future for Libya brighter than in Tunisia, Egypt -- Jason Pack and Katherine F. White, Christian Science Monitor
In Gaddafi’s Wake -- Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
Rebels must first eliminate Gaddafi -- John Lyons, The Australian
Qaddafi's Tuareg fighters return home -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy
The Little Emirate That Could: Qatar versus Qaddafi. -- Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
Lockerbie and Other Crimes: Don't Expect Satisfaction from Libya's New Regime -- Vivienne Walt, Time
Greece Outlawing Shariah Law? -- JanSuzanne Krasner, American Thinker
The Fog of Mexico's Drug War -- Malcolm Beith, Foreign Policy
Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources -- Spiegel Online
9/11 and Al Qaeda: The price of victory -- L.A. Times editorial
Security: How Much Is Too Much? -- Mark Thompson, Time
The Endless Economic Recovery -- IBD Editorials
Asian juggernaut eyes Canada's ‘golden’ waterways - -Michael Byers, Globe And Mail