August 21, 2013 – 7:09 am
Do you feel safer? (Fox News) The National Security Agency’s surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former NSA officials for the 75 percent figure, the paper reported that the agency can observe more of Americans’ online communications than […]
August 19, 2013 – 9:00 am
Many of you know that Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post’s token “Conservative”, and I put Conservative in quotation marks because she is really representing the Establishment, inside-the-beltline, squishy Republican school of thought that anything approaching Reagan type Conservatism. On Friday we learned about the NSA violated privacy rights 2,776 times at their D.C. area […]
August 18, 2013 – 9:00 am
It must be the fault of Other People, you know How American Hopes for a Deal in Egypt Were Undercut For a moment, at least, American and European diplomats trying to defuse the volatile standoff in Egypt thought they had a breakthrough. As thousands of Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, braced for […]
August 16, 2013 – 7:02 am
Unfortunately, Americans aren’t up in arms over the revelations from Edward Snowden, and will probably yawn at this Washington Post report The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and […]
August 14, 2013 – 9:33 am
That’s what a real 97% consensus looks like, but, it can’t be that bad, can it? One would think that those who work in the federal workforce are overwhelmingly Democrat. In fact “35.1% of those who participated identified themselves as a Republican. 30.8% identified themselves as independents and 30.7% identified themselves as a Democrat.” A […]
August 9, 2013 – 8:13 am
Where he’ll pull his typical schtick and bloviate on questions for 5-10 minutes without actually answering any tough questions (ABC News) The news conference scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT also comes a day before Obama leaves Washington for a nine-day vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. First question: “why were you so late to your own […]
August 8, 2013 – 8:16 am
The far left leaning magazine The Nation has been a long time WalMart opposing group (like so many liberals), and has been calling WalMart out saying they need to pay their employees more. Because people who ring things up at a register somehow deserve the same wage as someone filing legal briefs. WalMart states that […]
August 7, 2013 – 8:48 am
Sadly, there are more than enough low information voters who’ll believe this tripe, as (NMP) Obama goes on Leno, which is apparently part of spending every waking minute working on the economy or something (The Hill) President Obama on Tuesday defended the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs in a wide-ranging interview on “The Tonight […]
August 6, 2013 – 1:30 pm
To say that I’m shocked that CNN would publish this story is an understatement, but, hey, random act of journalism The vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission told CNN on Monday he has seen numerous undisclosed e-mails between FEC staffers and the Internal Revenue Service that raise new questions about potential collusion between the […]
August 3, 2013 – 7:00 am
Eh, this is probably just one of those “phony scandals” we keep hearing about (CNET) The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies’ internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts. FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, […]
