John Hayward

I feel about government secrecy much the way I did at the outset of the War on Terror, with the provision that like many other people, I was more inclined to err on the side of security in the immediate

In response to Priorities, Priorities: NSA Launches Probe into PRISM Leaker: Looks like it won’t take long to find the big NSA leaker: his name’s Edward Snowden, and he’s a disgruntled Obama voter who worked for the CIA and defense

Since it’s the weekend, let’s have a bit of pop-culture fun picking away at one more thing about “Star Trek: Into Darkness” that bothered me.  It’s a spoiler, so even though the movie has been out for weeks, if you

In response to The New York Times Declares Obama Has Lost “All Credibility” on “Accountability and Transparency;” Have They Overreached? Have They Overplayed Their Hand?: As you probably know by now, the New York Times decided they had indeed overplayed

In response to Ace is Right, and so is Kathleen Sebelius, on Sarah Murnaghan: It’s not surprising that many reactions to the Murnaghan story are influenced by her youth.  We have both an emotional and social tendency to protect children.

In response to Dems Hope To Portray Issa As An ‘Overzealous Prosecutor’: If the political polarity of these scandals were reversed, and this was all happening under a Republican Administration, the Democrat equivalent of Issa would be hailed as a

On Tuesday, Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, vetoed a bill that would have given drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, specifically those young “Dreamers” we hear so much about.  The Governor explained his veto by noting that it built on President

In response to IRS Scandal: Democrats Blitz and Get Burned: Let me see if I’ve got this straight.  The IRS scandal was supposedly the work of a few berserk low-level gremlins in the bowels of the Tax Exempt Division, who

In response to Do We Care About Household Budgeting? : That’s an interesting point regarding Americans’ attitudes toward fiscal discipline.  Of course, it would not be illogical for people with shaky personal budget practices to insist that a massive government

It’s not nearly as bad as its box-office thud and scathing reviews would suggest. “After Earth” is a very straightforward sci-fi tale about a young man earning his father’s respect, a task made more difficult because the boy is traumatized

Your next Kermit Gosnell is Planned Parenthood abortionist Timothy Liveright, winner of both the 2013 Ironic Names Award and designation as a “clear and immediate danger to the public” by the Delaware State Board of Medicine.   His clinic ended

Neil Cavuto zeroes in on the common theme linking Obama’s scandals: “If you’re not gonna love me, fear me.” Obama himself has put his philosophy in just those terms, telling Latino voters before the 2010 midterms to “punish our enemies

In response to US Attorney Bill Killian: Posting Something Mean About Muslims on Social Media Might Be a Criminal Action Under Federal Civil Rights Laws: I wrote about this at great length this morning, because this story is one of

In response to Google Glasses Become Even Creepier: Just wait until the contact-lens version of this technology hits in a few years.  It’s coming.  There’s already an early prototype of a contact lens with LCD computer display capabilities.   I’m

Those who are determined to return America to a state of easily controlled pre-industrial low-energy squalor have been beside themselves since the beginning of the “fracking” revolution.  Hydraulic fracturing has tapped into immense energy resources, so there just has to

Looking back at the last handful of movie reviews I’ve written makes me wonder if I’m turning into an old grouch who just can’t turn his brain off and enjoy a popcorn film any more.  Hang on a second, I

There’s no way to review this movie without spoiling it, so in short: it’s got a few laughs and a couple of good action scenes, but it’s a warp-speed train wreck of bad writing, vastly inferior to its goofy but

The riots gripping Stockholm, Sweden for the past five nights are a fascinating case study in the failure of a welfare state to assimilate immigrants.  Sweden is noted for its graciousness and generosity to what it terms “asylum seekers.”  It

Writing at the American Spectator, Robert Stacy McCain perceptively identifies a perky blonde Florida teenager as the “poster girl” for pedophilia: The case involves Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt, an 18-year-old in Sebastian, Florida, who was arrested in February after admitting that she had

Stories that say the Administration knows who the Benghazi masterminds are, but won’t lift a finger to “bring them to justice,” grow louder by the day.  Here’s the latest from the Associated Press: The U.S. has identified five men who

In response to Dems Still Trying to Make IRS Scandal About Citizens United: At the Wall Street Journal, Justice Department veterans David Rivkin and Lee Casey discuss how Citizens United loomed large in the Left’s imagination, even as the IRS scandal was

In response to White House’s Pfeiffer Does ‘Full Monty’ (Python) on Obama Scandals: Conservatives, libertarians, and especially the Tea Party are often accused by liberals of “hating the government.”  We don’t hate it.  Besides being jealous of our liberties, as

Back when Barack Obama first ran for President, he and his followers assured us that his election would restore love and respect for American around the world.  To put it mildly, things haven’t worked out that way.  And it’s not

In response to The State Controlled Religion Is Pro-Abortion: It’s curious to see the IRS going all pro-abortion on us.  Where do they think the next generation of taxpayers is going to come from?  It’s yet another unsustainable business plan.