Texans do not expect all punishments for all crimes to be as punitive as possible; instead they have a sense of proportion, and they expect the "punishment to fit the crime."
Islamism
The threat from radical Islamists did not end on September 11, 2001. It adapted.
September 11, 2001 was not an inexplicable act of violence. The men who carried out the attacks belonged to an ideological tradition that had identified the United States and the broader West as enemies long before commercial airplanes were hijacked that morning. Twenty-five years later, the danger is that Americans remember the horror of 9/11...
September 10, 2026