Well, ain’t this a coincidence? The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer and hard drive with sensitive data on up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel. The FBI said Thursday there is no evidence that anyone accessed Social Security numbers and other data on the equipment. Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, in announcing [...]
The ACLU and related groups are suing to have a painting of Jesus that has hung in a West Virginia high school for over 30 years removed. They say the painting sends the message that the school endorses Christianity as its official religion. I would like to see the judge in this case do something [...]
By now most of us are aware of the VA had an employee who took a laptop home that contained thousands of veterans’ personal data on it and had it subsequently stolen. The flap is huge because virtually everything was on there – social security, dates and places of birth, etc. The VA started dismissal [...]
On July 3rd a chunk of rock a half-mile wide will pass by the Earth at a distance just past the Moon’s orbit. In celestial terms, that’s like someone shooting a bullet at you and missing, but coming close enough to put a hole in your jacket. It could’ve been worse: Although initially there were [...]
A task force for voting systems put together by NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice has issued a report concluding that a lot of the electronic voting systems in use (or proposed for use) are flawed, mostly due to rather simple security features and policies that haven’t been implemented. The most widely used electronic-voting systems all [...]
After nearly a week of constant rainfall I looked out the window this morning to see a large, bright object in the sky. Now what could that be? Oh… wait… I remember that. It’s called the… (hmmm) Oh yes! The Sun! The rainfall out here has been literally record-breaking. WTOP News out here in DC [...]
Finally! A senior government official is coming out swinging against the New York Times treasonous behavior. In response to NYT’s Bill Keller’s letter of explanation as to why he feels completely justified in disclosing classified information, outgoing Treasury Secretary John Snow has written a letter of his own confronting Bill Keller’s obvious falsehoods. From Power [...]
The Chancellor of the University of Colorado will recommend firing plagiarist, forger, and all-around slimewad Ward Churchill due to Churchill’s “pattern of research misconduct committed over a period of time.” Another member of academia shows both backbone and common sense! The top official at the University of Colorado’s flagship campus on Monday recommended that the [...]
It should be no news now to anyone even remotely watching the news these days that the NY Times has once again chosen to publish the details of a classified (that’s spelled s-e-c-r-e-t) program wherein the US Intelligence services were tracking international banking transactions in order to track terrorist movements and identify cells. Bill Keller, [...]
Saddam Hussein apparently believes he’s the only man capable of bringing stability to Iraq. Sure he is. Assuming you define stability as the consistency of belief that you and your family can be killed at any moment on the whim of some sadistic psycho. Your daughter, of course, will be raped repeatedly before she’s killed, [...]
