Lee Smith in Tablet chronicles the discovery of two apparent Pakistanis (probably working for Iranian intelligence) who spent nearly two years in a Washington, D.C. building literally filled with U.S. law enforcement employees from multiple agencies. Which is the more disturbing: the men’s possible mission as an advance party for assassins, or the fact that it took a U.S. postal agent to uncover their plot?

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


