Today, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA, joked about placing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on a ‘kill list’ at Cybersecurity Summit 2013. Brendan Sasso, reporter for The Hill, revealed the details in a series of tweets with Glenn Greenwald. As of 9:20
On Wednesday, NSA Dir. Keith Alexander admitted that only one or two terrorist plots had been foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to Americans. A number somewhat smaller than the 54 still sited by the administration and
Republican Study Committee members spoke to reporters about the shutdown of the federal government yesterday. Another media appearance…
In the midst of the melodrama surrounding the government shut down, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB351, a law banning all cooperation with the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). (Antiwar) The NDAA allows the president to place people into indefinite detention by the US
A second Northern California county has voted to secede from the state after Modoc County supervisors voted 4-0 in favor of secession. The vote on Friday comes just weeks after neighboring Siskiyou County voted for secession, according to the Record Searchlight of Redding. The
What do you get when two immensely intelligent Tolkien scholars get together for a chat on “metafiction” and philology in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings? Well, yes, something immensely nerdy, but fantastic and mind blowing too! You may never look at the LOTRs
FLASHBACK – From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a
The video above is a playlist…wait (or skip ahead) and it will play a clip of Leno asking Dr. Paul about advice he would give his son. FULL CLIP: Not the best quality, but the best we could find: Ron Paul – Tonight Show
I honestly didn’t think that Rep. Nancy Pelosi would be able to top the crazy arrogance of her comment right before the passage of Obamacare. “But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it….” Well,