John Hayward

The Nameless Non-War spills out from the hazy borders of Syria and Iraq into Germany, where Kurds and Islamists had to be separated with water cannon, as reported by Reuters: German police used water cannon to stop clashes between hundreds

In response to Are You Ready For Hillary-Krieg? : I’d say good ol’ Leon Panetta is riding in the vanguard of that Hillary-krieg, doing the important work of setting up an implicit contrast between Madame Secretary and the semi-retired amateur

Hey, did you know President Obama’s already-debatable authority to unilaterally bomb Iraq and Syria runs out today?  Is the War Powers Act still “the settled law of the land,” to borrow a phrase?  Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) lays out the

You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh at climate change cultist Eric Holthaus sobbing (literally) over the latest tract from the Church of Global Warming and deciding to do his bit to encourage a more primitive lifestyle by

I’ve probably got enough material from various contributors to put together a symposium on the utterly stupid behavior of supposedly super-intelligent government.  Let me loop David Harsanyi at The Federalist in to make one more point about the Ineptocracy: the

As the story unfolded of how Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan waltzed right through every layer of protection the U.S. government has erected against contagion – the very same barriers Barack Obama was touting as nigh-infallible just a few weeks ago,

In response to Obama Nationalizes The 2014 Election As Democrat Candidates Cringe: There’s so much happening in the news right now that Obama declaring the 2014 elections are a referendum on his Presidency probably won’t get as much notice as

The more I reflect on the denouement of the Neil deGrasse Tyson phony-quotes saga, the more I’m convinced he would be the perfect First Citizen of the Ineptocracy.  In this sad-trombone age of massive faceplants – more money and power

After a day of consuming increasingly disturbing Ebola news, how about an entirely different sort of horror story?  William Langeswiesche at Vanity Fair has an extensive, methodical, and terrifying account of the Air France Flight 447 crash from 2009, which

In response to Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan’s Long Journey to a Texas Hospital: What was this guy thinking?  The Liberian government is now talking about prosecuting Duncan for lying on his airport questionnaire about making close contact with an

In response to Troops In Iraq Not Eligible For Military Medals in Fight Against ISIS: The troops may not be eligible for medals in this not-war, but Syrian civilians are eligible to receive errant bombs, as President Obama has exempted

Are you feeling a bit paranoid about the use of data-mining tools to sift through huge piles of online information to predict or manipulate your behavior?  How would you feel if companies started using Big Data to find job applicants,

Whatever else is going on at the Secret Service, they’ve got the Obama Administration scandal playbook down pat, which is really depressing. 1. Lie about what happened – They not only misled the public about how far Omar Gonzalez penetrated

I can’t take my eyes off the saga of White House fence-jumper Oscar Gonzalez for a minute, without the story running behind my back and breaking the furniture or piddling on the carpet.  Today’s worsening of the story comes from

There aren’t many silver linings to the dark cloud of ISIS, but one of them is newfound Western appreciation for the Kurds, a remarkable people who got shoved off the stage of history during the 2000s, because American liberals were

Teacups are rattling in the hands of Democrat consultants across the land, as another closely-watched neck-and-neck race suddenly turns into a big lead for the Republican candidate… and it’s the race to fill the seat left behind by left-wing dinosaur

In response to Report: Murder Suspect Alton Nolen Shouted Islamic Phrases During Beheading: Of course, the effort to disassociate Nolen from Islam proceeds full steam ahead.  (“I can’t imagine any Muslim taking a Hebrew name,” mused Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR,

It was fun watching the liberals who saddled America with Barack Obama – known for dismissing a deadly terrorist enemy as al-Qaeda’s junior varsity, blurting out that he has no strategy for defeating them, and blowing over a billion dollars

When contemplating the failure of the War on Poverty after 50 years and $22 trillion spent, I mentioned the outrageous government overhead, waste, and fraud that makes up a big part of that figure.  It’s both absurd and immoral to

In response to Clinton Minder Followed NY Times Reporter into the Bathroom: Matt Continetti has an inspired rant about Hillary’s bathroom minders and the willingness of the media to put up with this passive-aggressive crap, in which Hillary alternately poses

I’ve been scratching my head over the degeneration of the Secret Service, which has been in trouble quite a few times in recent years.  Ronald Kessler, a leading critic of the agency (but generally a supporter of the agents) has

In response to The 5 States That Could Decide Control of the Senate: This has got to be one of the most interesting election cycles for hard-core number-crunching poll-hungry wonks.  It’s been all over the map, from predictions of a

Even those who have a heaping helping of disapproval for Bill Clinton have to admit the old boy can make them laugh.  After all the work President Obama and certain congressional Democrats have put into their dopey War on Corporate