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 […]
A lot of ink was sacrificed over the Russian hacking of the DNC and other political activists. But now it’s dropped off the map. Why? Just because the election is over doesn’t mean the Russians aren’t actively attempting to hack both parties, news media sites, law enforcement agencies, the power grid, and of course all […]
In just two days, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson changed his tune on the US response to North Korea. On Thursday he’s saying that North Korea has nothing to fear from the United States: Tillerson says NKorea ‘need not fear’ United States
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on North Korea on Thursday […]
These posts are taken from one of the articles included in this morning’s What We Are Reading installment. I am not going to comment on it…but in case you didn’t have time to read the whole article…it generally talks about the workings and future of an Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice…there are a […]
Three Thoughts On Trump and Sweden
By now all of us have had a chance to digest the eddy of controversy surrounding President Trump and is misspoken attribution to terrorist violence in Sweden. He now claims he was referring to a documentary feature on Fox News and not an actual event from the previous evening. From ABC News:
President […]
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