Articles tagged with terrorism
Paris, Facebook, the Week of Media Insanity To Come, and My Thoughts On It All
I spent a good part of today being unplugged from the internet. Since I don't watch a lot of TV, the internet tends to be my main source for the news. Since I was unplugged for much of the day today, I was shocked to see the news of what was happening in P
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - Death or Life (In Prison)?
So the remaining perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing incident has been found guilty. But now his fate must be decided. Should he receive the death penalty or a life sentence and spend the rest of his life in jail? Boston Marathon bomber's life in b
Did 9-11 End Conventional Aircraft Hijacking Forever
Prior to the terrible events of 9/11 2001, when suicide bomber terrorists used four hijacked commercial jet liners to attack the US, aircraft hijacking, or sky-jacking, was a very different beast. In the 1970’s it seemed that barely a month
Comic Review John Wagner Judge Dredd Terror
Spoiler alerts – 2000 AD – 2004 A terrorist in Megaciy One gets into trouble when he falls in love with a vivacious university scholar he chats to in a bar he is about to blow up. He saves her life, but she realizes that he wa
Terrorist Attacks on Canadian Soldiers, Government
Canadian soldiers have been targeted in two separate attacks this week. Two of the three soldiers involved are now dead at the hands of homegrown terrorists. It makes me wonder, are our own service members safe on Canadian soil? The first attack was a hit
Should United States Citizens Have the Right to Have Guns for Self-Protection?
Sometimes it seems our government thinks the only weapons it needs to protect the country from what it deems evil or unjust are the pen, the phone, and the pocketbook. None of our rights (or privileges as the President now calls them) are worth any
What Is Boko Haram?
Boko Haram, a Hausa phrase meaning "Western education is sinful," is a jihadist organization centered in northeastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon and Niger. It is also known as the Congregation and People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad, a translatio
