If you’re interested in governmental espionage, I think you’ll find this story of a CIA burglar who went rogue an interesting (and in many ways disturbing) read. It’s like 3 Days of the Condor without the totally bizarre psychology of Faye Dunaway getting in the way of the story arc. (via Schneier on Security; h/t DarthLevin)  

IP forgery, for one. The problem being, not every hipster code rat is on the  side of statism — no matter what pop culture or Mac commercials have led you to believe.  Which means that, if they dig, they can see what it is you’re doing, and might even be disposed to illuminate it. Which, oops! Of course, there’s a simple explanation here involving an intolerant California Youtube video maker,

Forward! “It’s a shot in the head,” claims Gallagher. “The Obama Administration, not unlike prior administrations, has enjoyed the foreign-flag cruise lobby largesse and largely ignored the fact that this US-passenger-dependent industry competes with US hotels, resorts, casinos, and other hospitality organizations without having to pay taxes or hire Americans.” “It’s amazing to me,” said Gallagher, “that the President bragged just last week that he ‘walks the talk’ when it

The memo.  Unearthed. The players, talking: The wheels on the bus had better go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus had better go round and round — because Obama and Hillary are going to have to start throwing scores of people under that thing. If we lived any longer in a truly Constitutional republic, we’d be seeing televised congressional investigations in prime

Because partisan discourse can be so divisive.  And for Christians, being divisive is a sin.  Or something like that.  It’s hard to take such pious PC liberalism masquerading as Christianity seriously, so I’m not going to parse the tendentious argument too carefully. Nietzsche described Christianity, through just such a prism, as a kind of slave culture.  And he was correct, or prescient, depending on your point of view — though

Looks like the answer is “fuck yes!” Here’s my advice:  social cons afeared of f-bombs should go anyway.  And then they should buy the DVD once that’s out and give it to their children.  Once the kids turn 17. Still enough time to influence those votes — but for now, we only need adults to see it, anyway.  So be one and don’t let a politicized Hollywood rating put you

Of course it is. Private property as a cornerstone of individual liberty? That whole idea is like, over a hundred years old! Marketwatch: Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4. At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which

Between Congressional investigations into what we now know was an obvious Benghazi rape/murder cover-up of a US ambassador the State Dept left out in the cold to be slaughtered (but don’t worry; Valerie Jarrett is vigorously defended) and the breaking foreign donations scandal that has magically helped Obama close the money gap with Romney (well, that and the “National Yard Sale Day for Obama,” as well as the wedding registries