Writing at length about the latest developments in the Ferguson saga, I thought the praise given to Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson was generally well-deserved. The town wasn’t quite as peaceful last night as the Shangri-La portrayed in Big Media
I’ve had strong misgivings about the freelance arbiters of secrecy ever since Wikileaks got off the ground. Since I’m also institutionally suspicious of the government agencies they raid for information, and particularly suspicious of what the government has mutated into
In response to Washington Post, HuffPo Reporters Arrested, Released in Ferguson: We’re going to be arguing about the various “lessons of Ferguson” for a long time to come. Here’s my first one, which drew some heat on Twitter because it
Reports were swirling around the Internet today about a University of Florida student named Pedro Bravo – dubbed an “idiot killer” by website BGR – asking Siri, the voice-response program of the iPhone, for assistance with disposing of a corpse.
The Dell computer corporation’s SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit recently discovered an unknown hacker quietly “hijacking networks belonging to Amazon, Digital Ocean, OVH, and other large hosting companies between February and May 2014.” During that period of time, the hijacker used
Jim Geraghty of National Review sticks up for Project Veritas filmmaker James O’Keefe against criticism of his border-security stunt, in which he sashayed from Mexico into America while dressed as Osama bin Laden: Maybe O’Keefe’s video is your cup of
Not only are the brutal tactics of ISIS, combined with the howling vacuum of American leadership, breaking the morale of their enemies, but it’s produced a recruiting bonanza. They’ve been doing so well in conquered Iraqi territory that the government
Flailing for any excuse to get himself off the hook, our teenage President tried blaming the intelligence community for under-selling the menace of ISIS to him. Nope, says the Pentagon – we knew how dangerous they were, and warned the
Sure, this is a stunt, but it’s a catchy little stunt. To emphasize how lax border security is, gadfly filmmaker James O’Keefe of Project Veritas dressed up as Osama bin Laden and waded across the three-foot-deep river that currently seems
You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh at what happened when a D.C. news crew rolled into a neighborhood supposedly mis-identified as “sketchy” by a controversial new phone app that tells users to avoid high-crime neighborhoods. From The
When Valerie Jarrett told Barack Obama he’d have to cut a few hours out of his fiftieth luxury vacation and do something in Iraq, lest he go down in history as the President who lounged at poolside while genocide went
It’s a pity, at this dangerous juncture, that America can’t send Barack Obama – The Man Who Was Wrong About Absolutely Everything – to the showers and replace him with Mitt Romney. Obama’s foolishness has cost America and the world
In response to The JV Team Is Behaving Extraordinarily Irresponsibly In Iraq: Almost everyone agrees that Obama abruptly rolled off the golf course and authorized targeted air strikes in Iraq for two reasons: (1) he can’t afford to be seen
How bad is the genocidal terror state created across Syria and Iraq on Barack Obama’s watch? This bad: Human Rights Office in Iraq reveals that ISIS have been burying hundreds of children and young people alive in Mosul. pic.twitter.com/RJxftWAcPe —
The Truth About Guns posted an open letter from Gun Owners of America to the White House, asking them to fix the ridiculous description of the Second Amendment currently posted on the White House website: The Second Amendment gives citizens
If you thought security incidents like the theft of personal information from retail giant Target were bad news, you won’t like hearing that a Russian gang has quietly amassed a stockpile of stolen Internet user names, passwords, and email addresses
It’s a silly mistake, but a rather telling silly mistake: when staffers for Democrat Julia Brownley of California’s 26th Congressional District sent out a flyer, they grabbed some stock images of smiling constituents to illustrate how the representative is “Reaching
There’s a little dust-up going on in the movie and comic-book communities over the lack of a big superhero film with a solo female star. Plenty of these films, including the current hit “Guardians of the Galaxy,” have female team
In response to The Nanny State Ruins Everything: Some of my fondest childhood memories were of bookmobiles and book fairs. I was in love with books from the first moment I stepped into a bookmobile and saw all those wonderful
The Wall Street Journal bids farewell to a staple of school life since time immemorial: the bake sale. Those Who Know What’s Good For Us have decided bake sales are out of the question for our roly-poly student bodies, you
The Washington Post notes that President Obama is about as welcome as a walking, talking root canal on the Democrat campaign trail, while Republicans can’t get enough of Mitt Romney: Over three days in mid-August, Romney will campaign for GOP
If Barack Obama and John Kerry’s hideous fumbling in the Gaza war – essentially turning the United States into Hamas’ legal representation, in alliance with the terror-enabling state of Qatar against Israel and virtually every reasonably sane Arab government –
The Edward Snowden saga is really two stories in one. There are the secrets he’s revealed about the extent of the Digital Panopticon, which is of great concern to Americans who are understandably upset about the degree to which they
For anyone who needed further proof that the United Nations has gone completely off the rails, and reached an altitude where the rails are no longer visible through the clouds, you’ve got the top “human rights” munchkin complaining that Israel
At the beginning of July, a big story broke about Facebook conducting behavioral experiments on some of its users without their knowledge, specifically by altering the display order of news feed items to see if looking at lots of good
