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...mourn the inexplicable, tragic murder of innocent people at Virginia Tech--the worst killing of its kind in the history of our country, we are told. Let's also take just a moment to reflect on what every day must be like for the citizens of Iraq, where senseless killings of this magnitude have become a regular occurrence in the four years since we invaded their country. Every time we read a sidebar saying "32 killed by suicide bomber," this is what it is like...
...Alaska and Florida have wildly different requirements, and they need to be able to customize their solutions. Secondly, the TSA lacks market feedback. As a government agency, the TSA responds to political incentives, but politicians don’t pay the costs of the TSA’s senseless security procedures—they only face criticism if something goes wrong. As a result, the TSA spends money recklessly and imposes restrictions needlessly, doing anything that could conceivably improve security no matter what the cost. As former Congressman and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Christopher Cox, explained...
...chapters and try the patience of the reader. Sen’s main argument is carefully presented and defended throughout the book, but could be just as persuasive at half the length.Nevertheless, the questions that Sen poses are essential if there is to be any progress in combating the senseless and seemingly intractable violence in the world today. As Sen argues at the conclusion of his book, the end of violence is not near, but that there are practical steps that people can take.Sen believes that fostering debate about identity and the choices of allegiance that people make will allow...
...join the annals of infamy with all the glory that brings in the darker precincts of humanity. It is the ultimate perversion of the "good death," done for the worst of motives-self-creation through the annihilation of others. People often denounce such suicide attacks as "senseless." On the contrary, they make all too much malevolent sense. There is great power in owning your own death-and even greater power in forever dispossessing your infidel victims of theirs...
...about the Republican Party. Detractors can now giddily point to “Find the Illegal Immigrant” or the “Whites-only” scholarship as proof positive of GOP mindlessness. If their Democratic counterparts neglect the meaningful issues, CRs exceed their lethargy by making senseless and pointless games out of them...