Via ARSTechnica:  Talk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The 13-page report, which was jointly published Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security and […]

More “fake news” from the MSM. Read all the way to the end. It did not happen. Via The Intercept The Washington Post on Friday reported an genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the U.S. power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat: The first sentence of the

Chicago has plunged ever further into chaos as gang violence gripped the city for yet another weekend. Under the rule of Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the city has seen some of its worst violence in over two decades. There have been more than 750 shooting deaths in 2016 alone. Over the Christmas weekend, 50 people were

A Vermont utility sounded the alarm after finding malware code on a laptop that the FBI and DHS had touted as associated with Russian hackers. However, cybersecurity specialists say the code came from an outdated Ukrainian hacking tool.  Read Full Article

Obama has been historically tough on whistleblowers and reporters. This is setting the stage for Trump to use Obama precedents and do the same. Via the NY Times:  If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a

The Obama Administration blames Russia for a Vermont laptop having malware on it. The laptop was not connected to the electric grid but owned by Burlington Electric. Adding to the flurry of allegations against Russia which don’t offer any direct evidence of Russian involvement, officials are now claiming that “Russian hackers” may conceivably have tried

The DHS/FBI report on Russian hacking lacks sufficient evidence to tie the hack to Russia.  Where’s the beef? Where’s the evidence?  The FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report (JAR) “Grizzly Steppe” was released yesterday as part of the White House’s response to alleged Russian government interference in the 2016 election process. It adds nothing to the call for evidence

We really need to get a handle on voter fraud in the USA! Formal charges have been filed against the 63-year-old Clarkston man accused of forging his deceased wife’s name on a ballot in the recent election. Donald R. Woodward is facing one felony count of second-degree perjury, according to documents filed this week in

White House denies it worked to ensure the anti-Israel measure won approval. But check out the schedule on the tweet at the bottom! Senior Obama administration officials are scrambling to provide explanations after multiple reports, including in the Washington Free Beacon, identified the White House as being a chief architect of a recent United Nations resolution

The nation’s largest veterans group hit back at President Obama on Thursday and urged him not to “denigrate” their intelligence after the president suggested their members were easily swayed by cable news and “right-wing radio.” The Veterans of Foreign Wars called out the president after Obama referenced the political opinions at “VFW halls” in an

Are Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria an obstacle to peace? Are the millions of Arabs living inside Israel obstacles to peace? Prime Minister Netanyahu makes it clear that ethnic cleansing and judenrein are terms that will no longer be a part of the future of the Land of Israel. Ethnic cleansing for peace –

Congress couldn’t take the administration’s shenanigans with Israel any longer. They are now moving to cut off all U.S. funding to the United Nations.  Here are the details: Congress is moving to cut off all U.S. funding to the United Nations after Obama allowed the anti-Israel vote to move forward. Congressional leaders told The Washington

Parents of a fourth grader in New Mexico are embroiled in a legal battle with their school district after their son’s teacher forced the entire class to write an essay calling him a bully. The student was pulled from school and homeschooled. Read Full Article

The NY Times has an anti-choice article on education today.  You might think that most economists agree with this overall approach, because economists generally like free markets. For example, over 90 percent of the members of the University of Chicago’s panel of leading economists thought that ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft made consumers better off by

Ron Bailey’s experience with 23andMe parallel’s mine.  In its 2013 letter shutting down 23andMe’s Personal Genome Service, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dreamed up some entirely hypothetical problems, but cited not a single example of customer confusion or dissatisfaction with the California-based genotype screening company. At the time, 23andMe had developed an excellent, transparent,

Col. Ralph Peters describes Obama’s Mideast policy in just six words: “praise Muslims, ignore Christians, blame Jews.” Ralph Peters: These 6 words describe Obama’s Mideast policy No Description

No big surprises here to me. Green colors are least free. Purple colors re most free.  Via The Fraser Institute:  New Hampshire leads the United States in economic freedom for the second consecutive year, according to a report from Fraser Institute, a free-market oriented think tank in Canada. The economic freedom index uses data from 2014 — the

Some illegal immigrants receive money from Uncle Sam even after they are deported back to their home country, a new report said Thursday. According to Sen. Rand Paul’s annual “airing of grievances,” a report that documents the most extreme cases of government waste from the previous year, the Obama administration is using a taxpayer-funded program