THE INTERNET has had a good war. Every day I find truckloads of absolutely essential information as I do my early afternoon web surfing. I start with The Weekly Standard website (modesty forbids me from touting my own colleagues’ work), then I move on to harvest the daily thoughts of two people who should get Congressional Medals of Honor for their wartime service to the nation, Andrew Sullivan and James Taranto.
Yesterday, for example, at AndrewSullivan.com, I got directed to a devastating rebuttal of a front page New York Times piece by Fox Butterfield. According to Butterfield, “The Justice Department has refused to let the FBI check its records to determine whether any of the 1,200 people detained after the Sept. 11 attacks had bought guns.” This is the sort of story that will set liberals aflame. See, they will say, in order to placate the NRA, the administration is undermining homeland security.
