Terrorism
December 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The murderer of two Brown University students is still at large this morning. Whoever he is, he injured nine more in his rampage. The New York Times live updates on the shootings reported a few minutes: “Officials indicated that they had not identified the attacker, who escaped the Ivy League school onto the streets of Providence, Rhode Island’s capital. They released a video that showed a person leaving the scene
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December 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Politics at Baylor University. Among his books is The Key Texts of Political Philosophy: An Introduction (with Thomas Pangle)(Cambridge University Press, 2014). Professor Burns has taken in the NGO Monitor study Puppet Regime: Hamas’ Coercive Grip on Aid and NGO Operations in Gaza. Melanie Phllips takes up the NGO Monitor study in her JNS column “The humanitarian front against Israel” (“Mass murder has been
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November 26, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The City Journal column by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo has taken on a life of its own. Among other things, Thorpe and Rufo report that Minnesota taxpayers are the largest funder of al Shabab via the Feeding Our Future fraud and others, all of which I think it is fair to say we have covered to a fare-thee-well on Power Line. The Thorpe-Rufo column has created a furor. President
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November 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
William Faulkner wrote the short story titled “Was” for the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 1925 (subsequently included in Go Down, Moses). The band Was (Not Was) had an interesting career in the 1980s. In my work as counsel for TCF Financial Corporation’s Minnestoa banks, I became familiar with the Wazwaz family. I call this story Wazwaz (not Wazwaz). As counsel for TCF I responded to subpoenas and requests for information
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November 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo provide a useful overview of the frauds we have covered over the past many years in their City Journal story “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” (the City Journal headline is itself a quote from a confidential source). The financial support for Islamist terrorism seems to be the hook behind the breakthrough of the story into national attention, as in House Speaker
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November 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Palestinan Authority President-For-Life Mahmoud Abbas has long rewarded the murder of Israelis with the pay-for-slay program administered by the PA’s so-called Martyrs Fund. The fund paid regular stipends to families of terrorists imprisoned or killed by the Israel Defense Forces for their acts. “Martyrdom” by the killing of innocent Israelis was to be rewarded. The payments were supposedly terminated earlier this yeaar, but I would subject that supposition in this
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November 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Six men have now been arrested in connection with the Halloween terror plot that originated in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn has the highest concentration of Muslims of any significant American city. This is the latest, from Detroit: The FBI said a sixth suspect has been arrested in Washington State, allegedly connected to the foiled alleged Halloween terror plot in Detroit. The sixth suspect was named as Saed Ali Mirreh, a 19-year-old
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November 2, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Mark Levin spoke yesterday to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 40th anniversary summit in Las Vegas. Tucker Carlson and his friends were of course top of mind. Mark takes up the path Carlson has gone down over the past few years and other matters we have noted here. Except for his optimism, I identify with just about everything Mark has to say in his patented style. I especially appreciate his discussion
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November 1, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From SkyNews UK, Two men have been arrested by armed officers after multiple people were stabbed on a train. The train was stopped at Huntingdon station, in Cambridgeshire, after police were called at around 7.40pm on Saturday. British Transport Police said 10 people have been taken to hospital, while Cambridgeshire Police said a “large-scale response” was deployed by the East of England Ambulance Service. “Large-scale” in this instance must not
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October 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
One doesn’t need to be the Oracle of Delphi to foretell the coming of the vile Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York. It’s almost unbelievable. Mamdani’s father is Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at — you may have heard — Columbia University. That is all too believable. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried
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October 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On trial with Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock earlier this year, Salim Said sought to introduce the video (below) featuring Ilhan Omar in his defense. The video shows Omar talking up Said’s Safari restaurant in Somali and bringing meals outside to waiting cars. Lead prosecutor Joe Thompson objected to Omar’s part in the video as an attempt to graft her prestige as a member of Congress onto Said’s
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October 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Telegraph has more information about Jihad Al-Shamie, the Manchester synagogue terrorist. It turns out that he comes from a good Muslim family. His father, who emigrated to Britain from Syria, is a trauma surgeon who has worked in war zones around the world. He has expressed shock and horror at his son’s actions. Jihad has two brothers, who appear to have been excellent students. One of them has an
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October 2, 2025 — Bill Glahn
A terrorist attack occurred in Manchester, England, this morning against a local synagogue. Here is a widely shared photo of the perpetrator, From the U.K. Daily Mail, referring to the above photo, This is the terrorist with a suspected suicide belt who killed at least two people outside a Manchester synagogue before being shot by police. A car was driven into a crowd and a man stabbed at 9.31am on
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September 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Joanne Chesimard — a/k/a Assata Shakur — died in Cuba over the weekend. Among many other such stories, Bryan Burrough recalls Chesimard’s case in his 2015 book Days of Rage: American’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. It’s an outstanding book that seems to me more timely than ever and Chesimard’s story is one of the most sickening he tells in the book. At the
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September 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I noted the Texas shooting at a youth baseball field in Katy, Texas. Three men — for some reason they were not described as “Texas men” — were involved in the incident that resulted in the wounding of a coach shielding the boys. The initial local press report was unable to name the three men: Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah (below). The local authorities convey
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September 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The September 26 edition of Tablet’s The Scroll draws attention to a story I would have missed but for its note. On Thursday, three men—Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah—were arrested after firing guns toward a youth baseball field in Houston, causing players and coaches to flee for cover, according to Fox News. One coach was shot while shielding the boys; the bullet struck his shoulder, and
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September 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I first wrote about Rick Rescorla in 2003 after finishing James Stewart’s Heart of a Soldier, the book based on Stewart’s New Yorker article “The real heroes are dead.” (“The real heroes are dead” is what Rescorla would say in response to recognition of his heroism on the battlefield in Vietnam.) It’s a good book that touches on profound themes in a thought-provoking way: life and death, love and friendship,
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