By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 11th at 12:30 AM  | 

Remember the Google Wi-Spy Street View scandal? A seemingly-harmless survey of the country turned into a massive snooping operation, and the FTC smacked them for over 20 million dollars. Well, not only is FCC now wasting money with a survey of Internet speeds, but it turns out that the FCC program runs the risk of warrantless snooping of its own!

We need strong, reformist regulators to be appointed in the next administration to stop stuff like this.

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  September 6th at 04:00 PM  | 

FEW BOOKS HAVE generated as much buzz in as short a time as No Easy Day by Mark Owen,1 a former Navy SEAL who participated in the mission that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. While media have understandably focused on the bin Laden narrative, and the differences between it and the Obama administration’s story of the raid, it’s important to note something about | Read More »

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 30th at 11:30 AM  | 

“The worse it gets, the better it is.” – Vladamir I Lenin. Imagine you possess a burning will to power. This intense desire to take over and run the nation you live in stems from a messianic complex mated with egocentric power lust to form the bastard offspring of revolutionary zeal. Yet a problem stands between you and your desire to inflict “30.06 enlightenment” on | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 15th at 10:44 PM  | 

As we hit the 10 1/2 year mark in Afghanistan, the state of trust and confidence between the coalition and the Afghan people is at perhaps its lowest ebb, and support for the war effort is wavering across the political spectrum.  Given this, it appears time to reconsider the current status of our effort there — what have we accomplished, and what do we still | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 13th at 12:01 AM  | 

TEN YEARS HAVE passed since terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  In that period, America has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, carried out hundreds armed drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen (among other locations), and conducted covert operations around the world, all in the name of what President George W.  Bush termed the “Global War on | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 12th at 10:01 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Ken Ballen to discuss his book Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, which provides case studies of individual extremists, their life histories, and their personal perspectives, in the context of showing how the United States can better understand the Islamic | Read More »

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  August 24th at 10:25 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross to talk about his book Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror. We’ll discuss how al Qaeda has been working to deplete American resources, forced us to implement non-strategic counterterrorism policies both at home and abroad, and | Read More »

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 09:00 PM  | 

The American people are certainly resilient, but that doesn’t mean they want to be sitting ducks. Debra Burlingame, spoke exclusively to RedState in reaction to President Obama’s comment that America could “absorb” another terrorist attack.  Ms. Burlingame is co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America and the sister of hijacked American Airlines flight 77 pilot Charles Burlingame. RedState asked Ms. Burlingame to | Read More »