Monthly Archives: August 2016
Foreign Hackers Penetrated State Systems
On some level, this is very scary: The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the … Continue reading
Public School Is The Enemy
Don’t trust them with your daughters: A Maryland school district is instructing teachers and administrators not to tell parents if their daughters are bunking with male transgender students on overnight field trips. Bob Mosier, chief communications officer for the Anne … Continue reading
Californians Need To Sign The Gunmageddon Petitions
Courtesy of Free Republic – A note to anyone in California – your gun rights are on the line. Get your names on the Gunmageddon petitions: There are a group of petitions needing an aggregate of 360,000 signatures of registered … Continue reading
How To Select A Presidential Candidate
I thought this story was interesting: A man has been arrested and charged after allegedly putting hydrochloric acid inside what is understood to be a lubricant dispenser at a gay club in Sydney’s north-west. Police said the 62-year-old man went … Continue reading
Baltimore Has Yet More Plane Coverage
It is even more interesting to me it was uncovered: Pritchett had no idea that as he spoke, a small Cessna airplane equipped with a sophisticated array of cameras was circling Baltimore at roughly the same altitude as the massing … Continue reading
Merkel Tries To Force Migrants On Nations
But as K approaches, other nations resist: The refusal of some EU countries to accept Muslim refugees is “unacceptable”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday as Germany called for quotas to divide the influx throughout the bloc. That’s not right at … Continue reading
Turkish Intel Runs One Spy Per 500 People In Germany
Just incredible, but not at all surprising: A security politician told Die Welt that Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency has some 6,000 informants in Germany. For Germany’s population of about 3 million people with Turkish roots, that means that each informant … Continue reading
Chicago Shootings Up 50%
Shootings picking up: The number of people shot in Chicago is running 50 percent above this time last year as the city braces for the summer, traditionally its most violent period. So far this year, at least 1,382 people have … Continue reading
Elevators, Guns, and r/K Selection
Dave Cydell asks an excellent question in the comments: Excuse this simpleton’s simple observation , but I read in your Haidt article that a person’s fear of elevators can be turned around step by step by step by step by … Continue reading
A Disturbing Story Of Possible Judicial Overreach
There are always two sides to every story, but damn… In a series of events most would normally dismiss as outlandish, one American citizen was launched from civil court into a legal limbo where for years he was deprived by … Continue reading