The conventional wisdom is answering the wrong question....
The Syrian Electronic Army is claiming credit for defacing the recruitment website of the US Marines. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/374427649193439233 Marines.com, which is operated separately from the official Marines website, was changed in the early morning hours on Monday to display a message from the hacker(s). The message told US...
In response to my post last night, Oberlin racism hoax exploited to advance “even more extreme policies,” an Oberlin Alum writes: I am an Oberlin College graduate in Chemistry...
A reader writes: In White-liberal white-baiting link-baiting gone wild you mentioned this: Make an outlandish statement about White people. Watch White people react in denial. Use denial reaction as proof you were right all along. There's a word for this logical Fallacy. It's called Kafkatrapping. In short it takes the form...
Not even Athletic and Natural Sciences Departments spared from newly expanded multicultural, social justice and "re-orientation" policies....
A Pennsylvania hospital is opening the country’s first inpatient treatment program for people struggling with "severe internet addiction." From FOX News: Treatment facilities have sprung up in recent years, but a psychiatric hospital in central Pennsylvania is now set to become the country's first facility of its...
It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth, and we are being provided with a ringside seat to just such political theater with today’s newest front on the war on law-abiding gun owners. That front is, of course, being waged on so-called...
Indications are that the Obama administration's response will be to drop a few bombs, break some stuff, and maybe kill a few bystanders. That comes nowhere near being a just punishment for the crimes alleged. Nor does it seem likely to prove an effective deterrent. Other dictators will see that they can use chemical weapons without endangering their survival (in both senses of the word). Assad will have tested the resolve of "the world" and found it wanting: Even after using chemical weapons, he will remain in power, with no reason to expect any external response to any further atrocity that doesn't involve chemical weapons.
Edward Snowden and the NSA debate seem to have lost some significant momentum on Twitter in light of the current discussion about what the US will or won't be doing about the situation in Syria. Business Insider noticed that Syria Tensions Have Knocked The NSA Spying...
While all eyes are on Syria, there is some news from Japan that caught my eye. Readers may recall that the Fukushima nuclear power plant had a series of equipment failures and nuclear meltdowns in the wake of a devastating tsunami in 2011. There as been...
Not the indecision and delayed decision about the use of force in Syria. The Golf immediately after the Rose Garden statement. Right after shipping responsibility for authorizing an attack on Syria, President Barack Obama returned to his comfort zone: The golf course. Obama’s motorcade left the White House at...
Now that you have had all of about 6 hours to digest Obama's decision to seek authorization from Congress for use of force in Syria in response to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, let's get some quick reader feedback. The poll is open until...
Saturday Night Card Game - “The Shirley Sherrod tape still is not misleading.”...
Protesters have gathered outside the White House to oppose intervention in Syria as Obama takes the podium. https://twitter.com/joshledermanAP/status/373854016243245056 https://twitter.com/arishapiro/status/373855135044497408 h/t Bruce Majors Aside from just the typical and always expected ANSWER Coalition anti-war protest crowd, who are publicizing demonstrations across the country, seems like an interesting mix of some...
Obama is going to seek congressional authorization for the use of force in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons It's not clear how soon that will take place, because Congress is not back in session until September 9. Obama made the announcement while expressly stating he...
