Tag: National Security
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Trump is truthing his way toward justice
It’s been another busy week in Trumpland. Of course, it’s always a busy week in Trumpland. Trump has always believed that it’s more important to have his face and voice in the news, even in a bad way, than to not have it in the news at all. Even with a scorecard, it’s hard to…
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I’ve been enjoying a lot of schadenfreude lately
First, it was Alex Jones’s comeuppance in court. He mouthed off to the judge and ended up with two judgments resulting in about $50M in punitive and compensatory damages for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was staged. This weekend though it was watching Donald Trump writhe in Bedminster while FBI agents raided his Mar…
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Why do we want to put Edward Snowden in prison?
That’s the question that I have been asking myself lately. Okay, perhaps shortly after his arrest, I thought that he deserved to be locked up, maybe for life. He was, after all, a contractor working for the National Security Agency. He took an oath that he would not disclose any classified information. He knew what…
Occam's Razor 