americanpirates Archive
It turns out that at least two of the emails which traversed Hillary Clinton’s personal email account and server were “top secret,” according to the inspector general for the Intelligence Community as reported by McClatchy. To describe that as reckless is an understatement given that, as AP notes, “There is no
A huge explosion has rocked the city of Tianjin, China. Tianjin has a population of over 15 million souls. There are reports that the explosion occurred at a petrol storage facility. Some of the images remind me of explosions of firework warehouses. Unconfirmed report of
The headline splashed across a recent Salon article reads, “I had an abortion and I’m not ashamed.” It hangs over a sepia-toned photo of a young woman vacantly staring into camera. That sepia tone effect–Instagram, I suspect–can’t even add much earthy liveliness to that
UPDATE and Correction 8/10/15 1:30PM: It’s come to my attention from helpful comments that there is at least one transcript officially available from TIME that includes the Planned Parenthood exchange with Gov. Jeb Bush. However, the first transcript put out by CBS (which attributes FOX News)
What happens when the Environmental Protection Agency destroys the environment? It’s the ol’ classic question, “Who watches the watchers?” EPA bureaucrats were using heavy machinery to nose around the Gold King Mine near Durango, Colorado, when they triggered the release of wastewater containing heavy
Rand Paul vs. Chris Christie on data collection FOX GOP Debate 8/6/15 Who do you think won the Fox News Republican Debate? Posted by C-SPAN on Thursday, August 6, 2015 Interesting exchange with Trump from earlier in the debate…
I’ve been wondering if the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos, has a backup plan if Youtube starts to remove their videos. Moments ago, I decided to check their latest videos. Here’s what I saw: On one level,
The New York Times has published a remarkable piece by Goodwell Nzou, originally from Zimbabwe, to give us yuppies some cultural perspective on the circle of life. MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts
Top CIA officials were hit with a bombshell from one of their own on Monday when CIA executive director, Alvin Bernard Krongard—number three in the agency from 2001-2004—admitted that the agency approved interrogation techniques that amounted to torture. While other high officials have hinted
Chris Matthews may be a leftist, but he wasn’t suffering any fools last week. Chris asked Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the Democratic Party, “What is the difference between a Democrat and a socialist? …A Democrat like Hillary Clinton and a (self-described) socialist like
