If you’ve been worrying about our vulnerability to overseas cyber attacks, then you need to read this article from the Economic Warfare Institute blog by Stewart Baker.
A senior official in the Bush administration’s Department of Homeland Security, Baker shows how experts can identify hackers. It turns out it’s easier than you think:
Here’s a great example of tolerance and diversity. According to a new documentary, some 35% of Muslims living in Germany have more than one wife – and typically the German state supports them.
The second or third wife simply tells the German authorities that she is a single mother – and that’s all it takes. Officials may suspect they’re being snookered, but since Islamic marriages aren’t registered in the German civil system, they have no way to check.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as readers may remember, famously asked this question when she testified before Congress last January. She used it to deflect questions about the attack on the U.S. installation in Benghazi that left four U.S. officials dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The State Department is nothing if not consistent.
It will be interesting to watch the media reports of President Barack Obama’s upcoming trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Apparently there are quite a few Palestinians who don’t want him to visit.
Journalist Khalid Abu Toameh reports that in Bethlehem:
No one seems to have recognized what a sad moment this must be for President Obama.
Remember when he “jokingly” suggested that Air Force One be diverted to Venezuela so he could drop in on President Hugo Chavez?
According to President Obama, the sequester will be an unprecedented disaster if it happens: first responders out of work, seniors hurt, Pentagon workers furloughed, substantial job losses, etc.
But here’s the odd thing: even with the sequester cuts, federal government spending in FY 2013 will still be greater than it was in FY 2012.
In a January 8 letter sent to Congressman Inhofe, the State Department explained its decision to allow the transfer of F-16 jets to Egypt to proceed. Egypt, it explained, “continues to play an important role in regional peace and stability.” But just what kind of role? A journalist in the region sketches a disturbing possibility.
To all right wing-nut conspiracy freaks: you have just been proved completely and utterly wrong. President Barack Obama has nominated, for three national security cabinet positions, not long-time, semi-known ideologues from the far left fever swamps, but…well-known national figures with dozens of years of experience under their belts.
Al Gore’s decision to sell Current TV to Al-Jazeera has generated its share of controversy, and I worry that Gore hasn’t been able to defend himself properly. So I let him do so here, in an imaginary interview with CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer.
Blitzer: Vice President Gore, I can easily understand why you didn’t want to sell Current TV to Glenn Beck (among other things, I would never have spoken to you again), but your decision to sell it to Al-Jazeera certainly has generated a storm of criticism.
With so much riding on the fiscal cliff talks, I figured there would be tremendous interest in knowing just what House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama said to each other on this topic last week. You’ll be delighted to know that I had planted a secret microphone (OK, actually 3 or 4, but who’s counting? I’ve got this great technician, goes by the initials J.S.) and this is what I learned: