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This is a very long article. I’m just posting a teaser. If you are interested in this topic, go check out the entire article over at The Intercept. A confidential, 120-page catalogue of spy equipment, originating from British defense firm Cobham and circulated to U.S. law enforcement, touts gear that can intercept wireless calls and text messages, locate people […]

Hillary admitted that she believed her gender was a “merit”, and made her worth voting for. “Clearly, I’m not asking people to vote for me simply because I’m a woman. I’m asking people to vote for me on the merits,” Clinton said. Then she directly addressed gender, adding: “I think one of the merits is I am a

The first joint candidate appearance is less than a week away, and ahead of the big event/dumpster fire, NBC is announcing that one of its top hosts, Matt Lauer, will be the moderator. It will be the first time Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been on the stage together this election cycle. Via Deadline: The

This will be good news for those who want the Republican Party to succeed in spite of Donald Trump. From USA Today:  In a nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, a third of Clinton’s supporters, 32%, say they are “very likely” to split their votes, and another 20% say they are “somewhat” likely. Twenty percent say

The SpaceX rocket carrying the satellite exploded in a test run ahead of its Saturday launch. A series of explosions followed a test of one of SpaceX’s Falcon rockets at Cape Canaveral on Thursday morning. The company was conducting the test ahead of its launch of an Israeli communications satellite — called Amos-6 — scheduled

This is great news!  The first drug that can prevent Alzheimer’s disease is finally on the horizon after scientists proved they can clear the sticky plaques from the brain which cause dementia and halt mental decline. The breakthrough was hailed as the “best news” in dementia research for 25 years and a potential “game changer” for people with Alzheimer’s.

No real surprise here. This girl claims that a rock is an assault weapon!  Students at George Washington University seem to have a problem when it comes to gun control; they don’t actually know anything about guns. Spencer Brown from Young America’s Foundation decided to go on campus and ask students how they felt about the proposed “assault

Georgetown University should compensate for its dark history by offering reparations to the descendants of slaves sold by two of the school’s former presidents, a panel recommended Thursday.  Read Full Article

Students starting at Champlain College in Vermont will be able to silently communicate their preferred gender pronoun using new pins handed out during first-year orientation.  Read Full Article Get it right, or there’ll be hell to pay! 

Do not mess with “she who must not be named…” The Romanian hacker “Guccifer,” who exposed Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, was sentenced to 52 months by a US federal judge in Virginia. The near-maximum sentence under US law is meant as a deterrent to future hackers, the judge said.  Read Full

US Navy lawyers have advised against hearing a Marine’s appeal on the premise that it would grant attention to an Afghan sex slave scandal. The officer sent a classified memo via his own email to warn fellow Marines of danger, shortly before three were killed.  Read Full Article

Greg Zickau, chief technology officer for the state of Idaho, discusses the Aug. 22 hack of the state’s Fish & Game licensing site, the security risks state systems face, and what steps are being taken to bring the licensing site back online and protect users. Via the Idaho Statesman

Yesterday a federal appeals court ruled that banning gun sales to people who hold medical marijuana cards, whether or not they actually use marijuana, does not violate their Second Amendment rights. In reaching that conclusion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit relied on antiquated, scientifically unsupportable assumptions about the violent tendencies of cannabis consumers.

New poll: 52 percent of voters think Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson should be included on the presidential debate stage.   Gary Johnson is polling below the required threshold to earn a spot on the presidential debate stage with the major party presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But most voters think he should be there anyway.   A new survey by Morning

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson recently sat down with conservative journalist Guy Benson for a wide-ranging interview. Among the topics they discussed was the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. Benson began by asking Johnson about recent comments made by his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, in which Weld named Justice Stephen Breyer and

Not even their own supporters are all that excited about winning. A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, taken as Labor Day launches the final sprint toward the election, finds supporters of both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump more motivated by fear about the other side claiming the White House than they are by

Which is what happens when politics is more important than truth.  Washington State University is disavowing statements made by one of their own researchers who choose to jump into the debate about a Wolf pack in northeastern Washington. Washington Fish and Wildlife is eliminating the Profanity Peak pack in Ferry County near Republic. The wolves