Newt Gingrich, conservative intellectual giant

At Drew University in New Jersey last night, America’s leading politcial philosopher (just ask him) expresses the principle under which we now live:
“If there’s a threat, you have a right to defend society,” Gingrich said. “People will give up all their liberties to avoid that level of threat.”
h/t Think Progress

Gee, it’s almost as if the two needed each other…

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration doesn’t have a comprehensive strategy for eliminating Osama bin Laden’s sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal region and preventing the region from being used for launching terrorist attacks on the United States, the investigative arm of Congress said Thursday.
President Bush and his senior lieutenants frequently claim that eradicating the threat that bin [...]

Something to think about the next time you buy gas

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia remains the world’s leading source of money for Al Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. officials to stem the flow, the Bush administration’s top financial counter-terrorism official said Tuesday.
Stuart A. Levey, a Treasury undersecretary, told a Senate committee that the Saudi government [...]