
Despite what some writers may attempt to claim, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is unlike anything else happening with any other political figure, now or in the past. It’s a unique attempt to avoid scrutiny, manipulate official correspondence and thus control the historical narrative.
by John Hayward5 Mar 2015, 5:25 AM PST0

The Assyrian International News Agency reports that four more Assyrian captives taken by the Islamic State during raids on their villages in Syria have been released.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 2:30 PM PST0

The Tampa Tribune brings us the amazing and outrageous story of local helicopter mechanic Ryan Pate, who worked as a contractor for a company called Global Aerospace Logistics, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. Pat was arrested in the UAE for an offending Facebook post.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 1:45 PM PST0

Will Vice President Joe Biden launch a presidential bid? He’s had his troubles with women, of course. But now one of his supporters is rubbing a bit of salt in Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s email wounds.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 1:00 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton gave the game away long before she set up her personal email account. In a 2001 video clip, then-Sen. Clinton explains she didn’t want to use email because it could cause trouble during investigations.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

In 2001, when George W. Bush’s transition team began moving into the White House, they encountered a remarkable amount of sloppy housekeeping, missing items, and petty vandalism from the outgoing Clinton team.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 11:11 AM PST0

Islamic State supporters on Twitter are using the platform to attack Twitter itself, threatening the life of co-founder Jack Dorsey and the safety of those in the site’s headquarters in the United States.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 9:35 AM PST0

Stage 2 of the Hillary email scandal has been achieved, as yesterday’s “confused old lady who didn’t understand how email works” defense utterly collapsed with the Associated Press’ discovery that Clinton’s mail server was located in her house and was registered under the name of a man who does not appear to exist.
by John Hayward4 Mar 2015, 7:09 AM PST0

Liberals are having a tough time dealing with Hillary Clinton’s secret-email scandal.
by John Hayward3 Mar 2015, 5:03 PM PST0

House Speaker John Boehner’s cave on executive amnesty is perfectly timed. First Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks for boldness and action, hours later Boehner collapses in defeat before the wishes of minority Democrats.
by John Hayward3 Mar 2015, 1:16 PM PST0

One House member has decided to back away from a witch hunt aimed at climate scientists who are skeptical of global warming. But the left’s crusade on this issue is far from over.
by John Hayward3 Mar 2015, 12:59 PM PST0

File this report from the Daily Star of Lebanon under the category of “Yay … I Guess,” or perhaps “Two and a Half Cheers.” It’s good news that Islamic State (ISIS) forces have been pushed out of over 20 Syrian villages. The bad news is that Bashar al-Assad’s regime did most of the pushing, with an assist from Kurdish militia units.
by John Hayward3 Mar 2015, 12:03 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton set up her obfuscation.com email account the same day as her confirmation hearings to be Secretary of State began. She intended all along to use a personal email account rather than a government one, which effectively gives her control of the historical record.
by John Hayward3 Mar 2015, 7:54 AM PST0

So much for open government. Hillary Clinton admits she never used an official email account while she was Secretary of State. Instead, all her correspondence was through a personal account.
by John Hayward3 Mar 2015, 3:21 AM PST0

The long and lonely search for a white hat posse of “moderate” Syrian rebels that could be armed by the United States and turned into a weapon against both the Assad regime and its most effective military adversaries—namely, ISIS and al-Qaeda—suffered another grievous setback over the weekend, as the first Syrian rebel force, armed with American weapons, threw in the towel and pronounced itself kaput.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 6:23 PM PST0

The degree of coordination between Nigerian terror gang Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been a topic of much speculation among counterterrorism analysts. It has long been a matter of record that Boko Haram idolized ISIS and sought to emulate their ideology and tactics, creating a “caliphate” of their own in Africa.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

Liberalism doesn’t have anything exciting or new to offer – even its plans for the Internet are drawn from 1930s telephone legislation. Yet the left has been very successful at imposing its ideas despite the clear will of voters – and reversing its policies will be difficult.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

The Assyrian International News Agency reports a dash of good news from the bubbling cauldron of horror that is the Islamic State.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 12:02 PM PST0

The passing of an aging celebrity is always a melancholy milestone for fans of a certain age, but the loss of Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy hits harder than most.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 9:31 AM PST0

Google is floating a trial balloon that needs to be shot down: an algorithm that would rank web pages based on their “trustworthiness” by automatically detecting and tabulating “false facts” on each web page.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 9:09 AM PST0

CNN reports that federal indictments on charges including “conspiracy to kill, and sending money and weapons to terrorists” have been handed down against a ring of six Bosnian immigrants arrested in St. Louis and Illinois in early February. More specifically, they stand accused of sending money and equipment to both ISIS and al-Qaeda.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2015, 8:21 AM PST0

An explosive report in a Kuwaiti newspaper claims that President Obama thwarted an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons program in 2014 by threatening to order American military forces to shoot down the Israeli jets.
by John Hayward1 Mar 2015, 12:54 PM PST0

The New York Times has a depressing article headlined “Mutual Suspicion Mars Tech Trade With China,” whose title buries the lede. The story is more about tech companies suspicious of both China and the Obama Administration. There is a serious information-technology trade war underway, and China is eating Team Obama’s lunch, in part due to continuing fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations of Obama’s digital surveillance state.
by John Hayward1 Mar 2015, 7:23 AM PST0

Among the many, many reasons why Americans hate and distrust the mainstream media, we’ve got the amazing spectacle of a major story directly impacting a likely presidential candidate — Hillary Clinton — completely blacked out in favor of obsessive coverage for llamas on the loose.
by John Hayward28 Feb 2015, 6:37 AM PST0
A scientist at Georgia Tech is the latest target of the current crusade trying to intimidate dissenting scientists and writers out of the public square by accusing them of being intellectually dishonest henchpersons working for Big Oil.
by John Hayward27 Feb 2015, 1:39 PM PST0