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After Sharing Hacking Claims with China, Will Edward Snowden Go Too Far?

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 13, 2013 25 Comments

As the NSA story continues to grip the headlines, more facts are coming to light, both about the information that was leaked and about the leaker himself. Edward Snowden spoke to the South China Morning Post in an exclusive interview Wednesday, resulting in a series...

Senate Hearing Live Coverage: Recent Leaks Likely Topic for NSA Director

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 12, 2013 10 Comments

NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander will testify today at a previously scheduled Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on enduring cybersecurity threats. He is expected to face questions during the hearing concerning the recent leaks of details into the NSA’s phone surveillance activities. You can follow livestream...

ACLU Files Lawsuit Over NSA Phone Surveillance

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 11, 2013 12 Comments

The ACLU has just filed a lawsuit challenging several in the Obama administration over its indiscriminate scooping up of phone records. From the ACLU’s website: In the wake of the past week’s revelations about the NSA’s unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, today the ACLU...

Former NSA Employee Leaked Surveillance Details Prior to Snowden

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 10, 2013 20 Comments

Why didn't the prior revelations cause as much controversy?

Two countries, two droughts, two outcomes — how Israel wins

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2013 9 Comments

Conquering Mother Nature, not each other.

Does the Gang of 8 Bill have the votes?

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 05, 2013 22 Comments

Goal: Pass it at any cost?

WaPo looks closely at the Obama administration … but not too closely

Posted by David Gerstman on May 22, 2013 6 Comments

Recently, there has been an interesting string of editorials in the Washington Post. (I’ll limit this to the discussion of unsigned editorials, not op-eds.) .@ejdionne has it exactly backward. This is not a crisis of democracy, it’s a crisis of authority. washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-di… — James Taranto...

“Coming Out As A Conservative On Campus”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 9 Comments

Last Monday I appeared as a guest of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization to give a talk at my alma mater, Hamilton College. AHI is not affiliated with Hamilton. To the contrary, as discussed here before, Hamilton would not allow...

Celebrate “Human Achievement Hour”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 23, 2013 28 Comments

They can sit in the dark for Earth Hour, we'll spend the hour celebrating the modern world, starting 8:30 p.m. local time everywhere

Hamilton College student speaks out against the real diversity problem on campus

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 08, 2013 10 Comments

The school that kicked Western Civilization off campus is blind to its own lack of intellectual diversity

Forbes is a case study on how conservatives lose institutions

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2013 51 Comments

The minnow eats the whale, again

Now playing on a campus near you: De Tocqueville’s “The End of Democracy in America”

Posted by Joel Engel on December 27, 2012 17 Comments

It took five centuries before the strychnine of corruption and fatigue finally killed the Roman Empire (né Republic). It’s taken the U.S. about five decades to reach a point where such a suicidal whimper no longer seems unthinkable. If you want to know why we’re...

A good place to donate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2012 11 Comments

if you are looking for a last minute tax deduction to help starve the beast. No, not LI, donations here are appreciated but are NOT tax deductible. There are many worthy organizations, but let me suggest one you almost certainly have not heard of, The Alexander Hamilton Insitute for the...

Chaka tells Israel something good

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2012 10 Comments

This is a follow up to my prior post, Stevie Wonder cancels pro-Israel concert under pressure from U.N., anti-Israel groups and Like Alanis Morissette, Chaka Khan was not intimidated, Friends of IDF event spurned by Stevie Wonder raises more than $14 million: The Friends of the...

I really hate to do this to you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 60 Comments

But I’m already sizing up Operation Counterweight Senate races for 2014. Don’t look back is my motto. Roll Call has a list of Senate races and assessments. Do any of them have serious primary challengers? Lindsay Graham seems like he could be vulnerable in theory,...

100% Plus Taxation Still Key To Permanent Dem Majority

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2012 22 Comments

It's not just handouts, it's also givebacks

Palestinians still dig Arafat

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 19 Comments

Or at least they will be soon, via AP: The Palestinian president cleared the way Wednesday for a possible autopsy on Yasser Arafat’s remains, following a request from his widow after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive isotope on...

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