Draining the swamp has a ways to go in the intelligence community. A “Sense of Community Memorandum” prepared by a group of academic analysts from the federal government’s dozen or so security services downplays connections between Venezuela’s Maduro regime and…
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is deploying the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) to investigate weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community. While investigating the CIA, NSA, and such, the DIG sleuths should take a hard look at the…
The first person I ever heard describe the three-legged stool of conservatism was Newt Gingrich. Sure, Ronald Reagan may have built the analogy, but, as someone born in 1985, Reagan was long gone from the national scene when I came…
“Signal” is an encrypted, and believed secure, telephone app that deletes conversations conducted on it automatically. Let’s set aside the legal requirements that all or most government records need to be preserved and tackle the massive screwup that ensued. Apparently,…
editor’s note: The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg recently published an article describing how Trump administration officials somehow included him on a Signal chain of text messages that included plans to attack Houthi terrorists. But Goldberg himself mistakenly emailed the following…
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, his White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his staff in key management agencies have effectively taken control of domestic agencies’ agenda — reviewing them for elimination, cuts, or reforms, mostly supported by President Donald Trump’s…
Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned. “House Democrats have a plan to help them win back the working class: turn the world’s richest person into their boogeyman,” Ally Mutnick writes at Politico. Elon Musk, who liberals once touted…
During an 1873 lecture Mark Twain offered the following observation about newspapers and their influence on the electorate: “That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed…
