Alas, I am *not* writing for the Washington Post now.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 8th at 02:52 AM  | 

Imagine my surprise when British news magazine The Week announced that I was writing for the WaPo: Who they are referring to is actually the Washington Post’s Charles Lane, who indeed is not particularly buying the ‘distraught over his foreclosure’ defense being made on Faisal Shahzad’s behalf.  But if it makes The Week feel any better, I was as skeptical about this particular defense as | Read More »

Ambiguity is the last refuge of the apologist.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 6th at 11:00 AM  | 

After being raked over the coals by his own comments section for taking seriously his – girlfriend’s? I’m uncertain – fairly pointless observation that suspected traitor and terrorist Faisal Shahzad’s house was foreclosed, Ezra Klein huffed in a follow-up: I thought I said pretty explicitly that speculating about why a terrorist commits a terrorist act is a mug’s game… What he actually said was: That | Read More »

Yes, Faisal Shahzad must get Mirandized.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 4th at 10:00 AM  | 

The man’s a naturalized citizen who was arrested on American soil. Glenn Beck is completely correct: we have to Mirandize suspected traitors.