Full Text of Trump Executive Order Banning Certain Refugees, Muslims and...
President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 27 titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” banning certrain Muslims, refugees and immigrants from entry in...
View ArticleTrump Order Blocks 500,000 Legal U.S. Residents from Returning to America
In banning newcomers from seven countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days, the president has used language that will affect those who are in the U.S. already on visas and green...
View ArticleWhen There Almost Was a Bowling Green Massacre — By a White Supremacist
The case of Richard Schmidt in Bowling Green, Ohio, deserves an important place in any debate about what is real and what is fake, what gets reported on by the news media and what doesn’t. The post...
View ArticleFour Funerals and a Wedding
In the past couple of weeks we’ve had four mass funerals and a wedding. Each tells a story about what we’ve become in a world turned on its head. Honorable is the least of it. The post Four Funerals...
View ArticleWhite Supremacists Joked About Using Cars To Run Over Opponents Before...
Leaked chat room conversations by white supremacists reveal expectations of violence — along with detailed planning and intelligence gathering on left-wing adversaries. The post White Supremacists...
View ArticleRacist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace
the Rise Above Movement, one of whose men beat up protesters in Charlottesville, train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities. The post...
View ArticleTruck Terror Attacks May Be a Sign of ISIS Weakness, But They’re Very Hard to...
As ISIS loses territory on the battlefield, lone-actor assaults are expected to increase. The question for cities is what more can be done to protect against such attacks. The post Truck Terror Attacks...
View ArticleMaking Allusions to Oklahoma Bombing, Palm Coast Man Threatens to Blow Up...
Raymond Crown, 52, threatened to blow up the Sheriff's Office in Bunnell with ammonium nitrate, kill a deputy and the sheriff after he was arrested for a criminal mischief incident in the Hammock. The...
View ArticleGov. Scott Orders DCF to Stop Aiding Relocation of 425 Syrian Refugees
Governors in Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin have also announced they will refuse to accept any...
View ArticleSyrian Refugees, ISIS, the Attacks to Come and What To Do: A Grim Q&A
Tom O'Hara's sobering answers to basic questions on the next ISIS attack, the refusal to take in Syrian refugees, what ISIS wants and whether an invasion of Syria and Iraq can work. The post Syrian...
View ArticleFlorida Protest Group Delays Rally in Light Of Terror Attack at Planned...
Orlando-based Florida Family Policy Council's "Rally to Defund Planned Parenthood," slated for Dec. 7 at the Florida Capitol, will take place in the spring instead, the council organizers said. The...
View ArticleIn Light of Paris and San Bernandino, Smaller Cities Re-Evaluate Their...
People who don’t live in big cities typically viewed as likely terrorist targets may not think about terrorism affecting their communities or about devoting the resources to countering the possibility...
View Article“We Might Be One Terrorist Act Away From a Trump Presidency”
A spectacular murder spree by Islamists could spook Americans enough to vote for the greatest fear-monger. Anything is possible, but Ian Buruma doesn't believe American voters would be that stupid. The...
View ArticleSheriff Dispels Rumors of ISIS Targeting Palm Coast as FDLE Re-Launches...
The "If you See Something, Say Something" campaign--prompted by renewed but discredited rumors of Palm Coast being in ISIS' crosshairs--is not, however, license for harassment, bias or vigilantism. The...
View ArticleHow to Defeat Islamist Extremists in 2016
We should think of the Middle East and Islam as being in a process of transition, with the West helping it along: the Middle East toward rule-based and religiously tolerant societies, and Islam toward...
View ArticleUnfounded Threat Briefly Lifts Flagler Schools’ Status to Yellow, Increasing...
An unfounded threat reported third-hand to Flagler school officials this morning and mirroring a threat in Florida's Panhandle prompted the district to raise its security status to yellow before...
View ArticleTerrorism Isn’t the Biggest Threat Facing America. It’s Barely a Threat at All.
Ignorance, misplaced fear, irresponsible media and blustering presidential candidates have made more of terrorism than it deserves while sidelining the one weapon at America's disposal in the fight:...
View Article50 People Killed, 53 Wounded at Orlando Gay Club in Worst Mass Shooting in...
50 people have been killed and at least 53 wounded in a mass shooting by a lone gunman at Pulse Orlando, a gay nightclub on South Orange Avenue, at 2 o'clock this morning. Orange County Sheriff Jerry...
View ArticleFlorida’s Political Landscape Riven By Orlando Massacre Even as Lasting...
Politicians and consultants are as divided as the electorate about how candidates should treat the tragedy, and the split carries over to those who think the tragedy will have dissipated by November as...
View ArticleFor LGBT, Always That Target on Their Backs
It turns out shooter Omar Marteen may have been motivated by both homophobia and Islamic radicalism. That should not come as a surprise, writes Nancy Smith. The post For LGBT, Always That Target on...
View ArticleAs Exceptionally American As It Gets
Our mass shootings have developed their own set rituals and denials, none so lethal as the complicity with murder that blames the wrong targets while excusing guns. The post As Exceptionally American...
View ArticleMindful of Orlando Massacre, FDLE Seeks to Extend Federal Terrorism Crimes to...
Intent on preventing another mass nightclub shooting or a repeat of incidents this past weekend in New York and New Jersey, Florida's top cop wants to bulk up the state's anti-terrorism efforts. The...
View ArticleTrump’s Responsibility
Trump can’t have it both ways. He can’t revel in his powers of denigration and incitement then take cover behind a bogus sense of outrage and his usual deflections when the incitement and denigration...
View ArticleCalling It Terrorism, Judge Finds FPC Girl Guilty of Threatening to Kill...
Circuit Court Judge Chris France, applying an extremely broad definition of terrorism, today found a 17-year-old former Flagler Palm Coast High School student guilty of threatening to kill her teacher...
View ArticleWaukesha, Wisconsin, and the Era of Vehicles as Weapon of Mass Killing
Cars, SUVs and trucks can be an efficient means of mass killing such as the SUV attack of a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and one that can be virtually impossible to prepare against....
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