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
A stealth fighter designed by a group of Japanese companies, and using “similar technology to US-made F-35 fighters,” will undergo its first test flight early next year. This jet is “the first homegrown stealth fighter” built by the Japanese. According
I didn’t weigh in on Jessica Valenti’s twitter call for subsidized tampons because, well, it was absurd. She then followed it up with a column in which she shared the following: We need to move beyond the stigma of “that
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far fewer refugees remain on Iraq’s Sinjar Mountain and a U.S.-led rescue mission is far less likely, U.S. officials said Wednesday night. A team of U.S. military personnel assessed the situation and reported that only several thousand
On Aug. 5, Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh blasted celebrities like Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz for labeling Israel’s self-defense measures against Hamas as “genocide.” He wasn’t done. Kavanaugh penned a scathing op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter today, shaming his
ASHKELON, Israel – Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the current ceasefire by another 72 hours late Wednesday night, although Israel’s Channel 2 News reports a rocket landed in the Eshkol region shortly after reports of the agreement surfaced. As
As rioting rocks St. Louis, residents are exercising their Second Amendment rights and pouring into gun stores to acquire the firearms they need to protect themselves, their families, and their property. According to CBS St. Louis, “Gun sales are up across
Secure America Now, a 501(c)4 nonprofit focusing on defense and foreign policy issues, is dropping a bomb on President Barack Obama–figuratively, anyway–as national security becomes an issue in the midterm elections. Its new ad, “Daisy 2,” recreates Lyndon B. Johnson’s
The world is outraged over the shooting of a black teenager in suburban St. Louis over an altercation with police. The headlines scream that police “executed an innocent young black man” and the head of the St. Louis NAACP says
Kabul, August 13 (QNA) – At least 80 Taliban militants including their local commanders were killed following counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Interior said in a statement that the militants were killed in
The gun control package Connecticut Governor Dan P. Malloy (D) signed into law in April 2013 is playing a “big role” in that state’s gubernatorial race/rematch between Malloy and Tom Foley (R) in November 2014. Malloy “narrowly beat Foley by
Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick has been handed a four-game suspension for taking the illegal drug MDMA, often called “Molly,” allegedly while on vacation in Mexico. The NFL suspended Scandrick without pay for the first four games of the season but
Secretary of State John Kerry adamantly denounced a photo of a seven-year old Australian boy in the Middle East holding up a severed head for his terrorist father. The photo was published by Australian media. Kerry called it “one of
Ann Coulter’s most recent column calling Kent Brantley, the Christian missionary/doctor suffering from Ebola, “idiotic” for going to Africa in the first place, has produced a ton of blowback. Much of that blowback has come from her fellow conservatives —
AR-15s and 1911 pistols were among the firearms shot as new and experienced, male and female young shooters joined together at a range in San Diego Saturday night for an annual ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) night. In a state
In 2005, boycotts of Israel and divestments from companies with ties to Israel began in earnest. In 2014, Sun News Network reports that Israeli supporters are countering these movements by buying Israeli products–especially the civilian version of IDF’s new battle
This article originally appeared at the National Journal: August 1, 2014 The Nigerian government announced Thursday that it had started screening passengers at international airports for signs of Ebola after a passenger showed up in Lagos suffering from the illness, which kills up
On August 7, Breitbart News reported that 20-year-old Dartmouth student Taylor Woolrich asked the school if she could carry a gun to fend off a man she claims has been stalking her since she was 16. On August 9, the Los Angeles Times reported
“Let me make some peace with my mouth,” writes reddit user amreeki on a forum called ‘Random Acts of Blowjob’, an area of the social network in which women can advertise their sexual availability. The 29-year-old Israeli Defense Forces veteran, who lives
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. launched a new airdrop Saturday to aid thousands of members of an Iraqi minority group who fled the advance of the Islamic State group, trying to stem a worsening humanitarian crisis in a country
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius said Friday that she will give a verdict on Sept. 11, bringing closer to an end a globally televised five-month trial that has transfixed South Africans
If Israeli attacks in Gaza have been “indiscriminate,” as the UN Human Rights Council says, why have they killed three times as many “civilian” men as women? Anthony Reuben, the head of Statistics for BBC News, points out ample reason to
On August 7, a jury found white Detroit homeowner Theodore Wafer “guilty” of manslaughter and second-degree murder in the shooting death of Renisha McBride, a black 19-year-old, who was “extremely drunk.” Wafer shot McBride on November 2, after McBride began pounding
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces struck terror sites in Northern Gaza in response to renewed rocket attacks from Hamas early Friday morning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered the IDF to “respond with force” after
The Hamas terror organization launched two rockets at Israel in the waning hours of the 72-hour ceasefire that began Tuesday morning. And though Israel was offering to extend the ceasefire, and Egypt was urging Hamas to agree to a 72-hour
