Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil; they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

A lot of these people are Iraqis fighting for control of their own government. Maybe there's an argument to make that outside forces that go in and start bombing that country or invading that country are actually terrorists more so than the people in the country.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.