As Democrats face tough midterm elections, many are focusing on Voter ID laws such as the one recently upheld by the Supreme Court in Texas, which are intended to disenfranchise Democratic voters. If voting didn’t matter, they argue, why are they trying to steal your vote? Well, it matters to THEM…even if not necessarily to you.
A policy debate is raging in the White House, where Defense Department lawyers want torture by U.S. government employees to be legal, but only outside the U.S.
Many people say there’s no reason to worry about the NSA’s surveillance because their lives are so boring that they have nothing to hide.
The intelligence community says that ISIS is not a threat to the United States, but that it might someday become one. Why? Because we’re attacking them.
An Ebola-infected nurse was allowed to travel home to Cleveland from Dallas, potentially exposing hundreds of passengers to the deadly disease.
A Pentagon program to militarize local police departments is even giving heavy weaponry to local officials that don’t have any law enforcement functions, including a coroner in the remote Ozark mountains of Arkansas.
Silicon Valley has added zero net new jobs in 16 years, and many of the old jobs pay poorly. ISIS, on the other hand, is hiring.
ISIS beheads a journalist. The US bombed them. They behead another one. The US bombs more. So it goes and goes, yet no one asks: why is ISIS still cutting off its hostages’ heads? Could it be that we’re playing into their blood-soaked hands by provoking contempt for the US among bombing victims?
After Apple announced that it would be hard for the NSA to hack into the new iPhone 6, angry government officials fumed that people who buy it would be trying to put themselves “outside the law.” Say what?
Public access to the White House and its environs has shrunk steadily since Andrew Jackson hosted a wild party there. Now the wake of a run by a deranged vet through the White House has security experts recommending that a safety corridor be extended several blocks beyond the White House fence. How safe is safe enough?
