According to this story from WHNT News in Alabama, several dozen widows of county employees – many of them elderly and with little income – lost their health insurance due to ObamaCare. It’s going to cost a cool $25 million
If this story from the Calgary Herald holds up, it will be among the first documented instance of a hacker exploiting the Heartbleed Internet security flaw – currently festering on hundreds of thousands of websites – to steal sensitive information:
In response to Paul Krugman Offered ‘Comfortable Perch’ to Focus on Income Inequality: It’s hard to top “Krugman gets paid $25,000 a month to think about income inequality” as a comedic headline, especially given the hilariously light workload placed upon
The Heritage Foundation relates the amazing story of a 15-year-old special-needs student in Pennsylvania who couldn’t stand the relentless abuse he was subjected to by his fellow students, so he recorded their taunts on an iPad, hoping this documentary evidence
The Washington Free Beacon chronicles one of the many ways in which Big Government forces us to spend our money on propaganda designed to further the interests of the State: a taxpayer-funded play dubbed “Global Warming: The Musical,” for which
You can put the U.S. Census Bureau on the shelf right next to the Justice Department (which, on top of everything else, is now accused of blocking corporate mergers for political reasons), the IRS, the Department of Health and Human
The Surveillance State goes big in an article from Gizmodo, which describes early testing of a “God’s-eye” system that collates information from multiple sources on the ground, giving the authorities what inventor Ross McNutt describes as “a live version of
The part of the evolving Heartbleed story that initially left me guardedly skeptical was the assertion, made by Bloomberg News, that the National Security Agency knew about this enormous Internet security flaw back in early 2012, but kept it secret
The most controversial aspect of the rapidly developing story of Heartbleed – possibly the greatest security vulnerability in the history of the Internet – is the assertion made in a Bloomberg News report that the National Security Agency learned about
I caught wind of the Bundy ranch standoff in Nevada last week, and watched as the standoff between the Bureau of Land Management’s shock troops and an obstinate Mormon cowboy family escalated to ominous proportions. At one point, a no-fly
The online community is still reeling from the discovery of what might just be the biggest security flaw in the history of the Internet. It’s been around for years, thousands of websites may have been compromised, it’s very difficult to
In response to Hillary Clinton Dodges Shoe “Sniper-Fire”: I’m old enough to remember when liberals thought it was hilarious that someone threw a shoe at George Bush. I guess they’ve reconsidered the humor value of footwear barrages, now that Hillary’s
In response to No Really – Holder Shrugged Off Being Held In Contempt Of Congress: The idea that Holder is somehow privately tortured over his contempt of Congress citation might be the most intellectually insulting thing he’s ever said… and
I was a big fan of Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs” TV show, and I think his activism on behalf of blue-collar jobs is both logical and inspiring. It’s good to hear he’s coming back to television with a show on
In response to Issa: Lois Lerner Funneled Rep. Cummings info About True The Vote: I think this is a pretty astonishing development myself, and of course so would the assembled ranks of the mainstream media, if Elijah Cummings were a
Well, whaddya know? It turns out that Medicare’s top biller – to the tune of $20 million just in 2012 – is none other than Senator Bob Menendez’ (D-NJ) bestie, Dr. Salomon Melgen. He’s the guy who kept giving
In response to Wretched Brandeis Bows to Muslim Pressure, Withdraws Degree from Ayaan Hirsi Ali: I especially like the detail that the one quote of Ali’s they keep citing as the reason for ripping up her honorary degree comes from
Back when Democrats were rocked by an incredible spree of arrests over the course of just a few days, much was made of the media’s adamant refusal to disclose some of their party affiliations, especially when reporting on the arrest
I’ve seen some criticism that the new “Captain America” movie is left-wing or pro-Edward Snowden propaganda. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, and didn’t get that vibe from it at all. It’s impossible to discuss the “message” of the
In response to Mozilla Clams Up As It Reaps a Whirlwind Of Disapproval : Nothing says “wide diversity of views” and “culture of openness” quite like nailing boards over the window to the company press office while thousands of disgusted
When I was marveling at the spectacle of Barack Obama killing six million insurance policies, then celebrating the “achievement” of selling those people more expensive coverage at gunpoint, I compared it to Obama running a tire shop with a line
Andrew Sullivan, as staunch a proponent of gay marriage as has every picked up a keyboard, denounced the jihad against former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich: Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the
Comic books are a very versatile medium. They can tell adventure stories, horror, fantasy, science fiction – you name the genre, and there’s graphic-novel work being done in it. With “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” the cinematic branch of superhero
When President Obama took to mocking Republican budget proposals (which, unlike Democrat proposals, exist) in front of a college audience by calling them “stinkburgers” and “meanwiches,” I was struck by how the media lets him get away with being as
Stray observation, as I gear up to see the new “Captain America” movie: it’s interesting how so many of the heroes in Marvel’s cinematic universe are professional soldiers. There’s Captain America himself, of course, still going strong after kicking Nazi
