Fun And Games With The TSA
I must have gotten on someone’s enemies list somewhere. I am not a frequent flyer but for the past 15 years I have taken at least one international trip each year. So I know to put my little bitty liquids in the one quart sized bag and take off my shoes and put anything with […]
As the president continues to identify Pentagon funds that he can divert to build his wall instead…it looks like he’s ready to abandon Afghanistan.
On Friday, the Associated Press published estimates for some of the accounts from which the Pentagon is pulling money, citing two anonymous defense officials. The largest segment, $604 […]
One of the federal employee groups working without pay are the TSA agents who insure air travel safety. Recently it’s been reported that some TSA workers have been calling in sick at higher that usual numbers. Certainly no surprise under the current circumstances. A stressful thankless job is hard enough without wondering how you are […]
Will all of the hub bub in Washington around Kanye West in the West Wing and Melania Trump’s visit to Africa and Jared Kushner’s lack of tax paying…this little story about an American diplomat meeting with the Taliban was buried in the main news section of the Sunday New York Times.
The diplomat is […]
This was in the back of mind for a while and it came up in a number of conversations and social media comments over the past several days.
But as we all should know by now, when families reach the border (whether legally or not) and request asylum because of conditions in their homelands, the […]
Over the weekend, Green Beret Tim Kennedy, a former mixed martial arts fighter, livestreamed the 41-minute footage, which shows him being voluntarily waterboarded and answering questions between sessions. He claimed it proved waterboarding was not torture.
Ok, I didn’t watch the video…I read the article. Waterboarding is not torture. Horse Hockey!
There’s a very […]
No, really, she did…unfortunately it is State Senator Leah Vukmir!
As part of a recent ad campaign in her attempt to snare the GOP nomination for US Senate and the opportunity to run against US Senator Tammy Baldwin…Sen. Vukmir identified and named a Team Terrorists…consisting of Sen. Baldwin and actual terrorist, Khalid Shaikh […]
Why Isn’t This Domestic Terrorism?
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people;
Last week a 19 year old fired a shotgun in a West Palm Beach Florida high school. Nobody is calling it terrorism. Because he was white? Because he was home grown? Because […]
Back in 2013 (ah, the good old days…) Donald Trump Tweeted thusly:
China, Russia and Iran are laughing at us. We have weak leaders who are threatening our national security. Dangerous times.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2013
Fast-forward to 2017, and newly inaugurated President Donald Trump took to […]
Last night I questioned the official stance of the US government on protecting American assets from foreign hacking: Why Are We Acting Like the Russian Hacking is Over?
Well I had overlooked the president’s ardent promise to take it on! Except he forgot about it too!
After a receiving a U.S. intelligence assessment […]
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