With the recent arrest of Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixeira for mishandling classified material, we are all left wondering how such a thing could happen. A thorough investigation will follow, but we have too many people with clearances who…
Twenty-one-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira may have joined Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Reality Winner in the ranks of infamous leakers. Teixeira has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of defense information in violation of the Espionage…
At least seven are dead and a further 11 have been injured following a Russian missile strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Monday. These are the first reported deaths in the city since the war began, as…
I am writing this in a large but dreary hotel room in Orlando, Florida. I’m about to give a speech to a large group of retired people. These are well-to-do retired persons. That means they are smart. They have the…
The news that a “Joseph Yun,” an American diplomat involved with North Korean affairs, had been in covert contact with Pak Song-il of the DPRK delegation to the United Nations was reported last summer by the Associated Press. Purportedly this…
Among sober conservatives, there’s concern about Democrats (hello Ben Rhodes) and the media, and now, the “Deep State” (a newly popular term to describe the intelligence community and entrenched bureaucracy) colluding to “politically assassinate” NSC Advisor Mike Flynn. There’s less talk about…
Now that our national nightmare — the perennial presidential horse-race — is interrupted, we have entered the two-year period in our four-year election cycle when we can actually deal with the realities beyond the media’s nose. There’s a lot of…
The ACLU is behind a campaign to prompt President Obama to pardon National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. As Snowden told the Guardian, he knows he violated “laws on the books,” but “that is perhaps why the pardon power exists…
When back in June 2015 Donald Trump announced he was running for president, he said during his speech, “I will find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur. I will find the right guy. I will find the…
