Ron Paul on North Korea

Not <em>That</em> Special

I'm currently travelling abroad, and beginning to fall into the curious but perhaps not uncommon habit of finding Americans annoying.
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Olbermann and Ventura on Torture

Last night on MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann viewers were treated to the always entertaining (and often insightful) former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura.  Ventura continues his principled stance on the issue of torture -- particularly opposing waterboarding, which he, himself, was subjected to as part of his training in the Navy SEALs. Olbermann, to his credit, has been fairly good about putting aside his Obama-sycophancy to push for investigations and prosecutions of Bush administration officials involved with approving torture.  In this interview, however, he onc
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Back in the U.S.S.Czar

Obama is apparently going to create a "Cyber Czar." The new position comes from a compromise after a "turf war" between the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. Who would have thought that two government bureaucracies with such similarly constructed names would both believe themselves to be the sole arbiters of the affairs of the internets? From the Journal:

The moves come amid growing evidence that sophisticated overseas hackers are waging a widening assault on important U.S. networks. The Defense Department detected 360 million attempts to penetrate its networks last year, up from six million in 2006. The Pentagon alone has spent $100 million in the past six months repairing damage from cyberattacks.

Three hundred and sixty million attacks! That's 1.2 attacks for every American man, woman, and child! Luckily, the state seems to have been able to scrape together $100,000,000 for "repairing damage" caused by cyberterrorism. For the mathematically disinclined, that's $3.60 per attack. How many foreclosures could have been averted by bailing out bankrupt debtors were it not for this senseless campaign of cyberviolence?
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