Hypocrisy is not an unfamiliar site in the comments of top political officials, but Secretary of State John Kerry really took it to new levels today, complaining it was "inappropriate" for President-elect Donald Trump to publicly criticize internal policy of other...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence's latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American. This is a common enough...
It took a few days to get there, but the Washington Post has finally made the circuitous voyage from a headline declaring "Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical security, officials say" to finally arriving at "Russian government...
Having passed it around to foreign diplomats as a real thing, and tweeted it on Tuesday with the claim it proved Hezbollah's "war crimes," the Israeli military today was forced to admit that a map of "Hezbollah positions" around southern Lebanon was actually totally...
Following an interview with the New York Times, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson is coming under fire for noting a moral equivalence between killing civilians in airstrikes, and killing civilians in airstrikes. Pressed on the civilian death toll of...
While most of the focus on the presidential campaign remains on the weight of a former Miss Universe and unsubstantiated claims of a Russian plot to get Donald Trump elected, a story with at least a tenuous grounding in reality emerged today. Trump Rented Space to...
Reports out of the Republican leadership say that the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, is expected to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives this week, likely on Friday. The JASTA allows for 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for damages...
While everyone gives lip-service to protecting customers' privacy these days, many major US tech companies are known to be in bed with the NSA on wholesale surveillance. It's tough to know, then, how seriously to take security promises from such companies. A good rule...
When a branch of the US military starts rolling out a new pet project, it is rarely either cost effective or literally effective. The US Navy's littoral combat ship (LCS) program is really underscoring that recently, with more ships breaking at seemingly random,...
A major fine by the UEFA expected to be levied against Scottish football powerhouse Celtic F.C., after a group of fans publicly displayed Palestinian flags during a playoff match against Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Celtic fans, however, aren't backing down, and have insisted...
