I know enough about American Idol to find interesting the above headline, which is from the Chicago Sun-Times. It would be easy enough to ascribe this little outcry to the ire of a vocal minority, but I think there’s more to it than that. I’m not psychologist — and I’m certainly no Nate Silver — [...]
Security expert Bruce Schneier says he experienced the TSA’s enhanced security measures first hand (so to speak): I experienced the enhanced patdown myself, at DCA, on Tuesday. It was invasive, but not as bad as these stories. Here’s the thing: I have a zero-tolerance policy for physical violation — hell, shaking hands can be an [...]
WaPo columnist David Broder writes: I am not suggesting, of course, that the president incite a war to get reelected. But the nation will rally around Obama because Iran is the greatest threat to the world in the young century. If he can confront this threat and contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions, he will have made [...]
Signed on October 17th, Public Law 109-364 (H.R.5122) allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America, and to take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.” » Share on Facebook
Republican Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado announced on Fox News Radio that Senator Russ Feingold (D – WI) had “time and time again [sided] with the terrorists” by introducing a resolution to censure George Bush. Senator Feingold’s censure resolution would hold the Bush regime accountable for its domestic spying program–which violates federal law–and for misleading [...]
Despite being decommissioned more than two years ago, the Defense Department’s Total Information Awareness program is still collecting data. According to a report in the National Journal, project names were changed to conceal their identities, but their funding remains intact, often under the same contracts. The projects that moved, their new code names, and the [...]
By embracing a strategy of isolation and sanctions (foreign policy = starvation?), the far-right militants of the U.S. and Israel are once again building walls where words would be more appropriate. Guess we learned a lesson from our stunning victory over Cuba. Meantime–and here’s the really interesting part–Khaled Meshal, head of the political bureau of [...]
In an effort to contain deliberate misinformation campaigns perpetrated by diarists, the Homeland Security Department coordinated a week-long exercise to disrupt their would-be hacker adversaries. The test scenario, observed by more than 115 government agencies, companies and organizations, included such challenges as responding to “deliberate misinformation campaigns” by bloggers. Foresman likened his agency’s role during [...]