Politics

The Senate Intelligence Committee have voted for a new secret bill that will allow the FBI unlimited surveillance powers over private user data, without the need for a warrant.  The bill will allow U.S. security agencies to access a large range of digital data, without requesting permission from a court or the user. Senator Ron Wyden has slammed the bill as being undemocratic and Orwellian-like: “This bill takes a hatchet to important protections for Americans’ liberty.

Evidence of electoral fraud have emerged in the recent Austrian elections, as an unlikely candidate won the election, amid an impossible “147% voter turnout”.  Far-left Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen unexpectedly defeated Norbert Hober from the Freedom Party of Austria by 31,000 votes, winning 50.35% to 49.65%. Americanthinker.com reports: The lights were already blinking red on the day the results were being released.

The Clinton campaign has some strange ideas about what motivates voters. The New York Times reports:

While Mrs. Clinton must be cautious not to alienate liberal Democrats who oppose some of her hawkish foreign policy stances, her campaign says national security could be the catalyst that drives independents and wavering Republicans to support her this fall.

After losing the race for president in 2008, Hillary made plans to ensure that never happened again.

She believed—no, she was certain—that history had chosen her to be the first woman president of the United States. All the years of acting the role of First Lady, all the public humiliation with Bill’s sex life strewn across TV, it would all finally pay off.

Last month, several Baghdad bombings attributed to ISIS killed more than a hundred civilians and wounded hundreds more. The attacks are a tragic reminder that Iraq is still a nation in turmoil. But they should also be a reason—more than 13 years after the decision to topple Saddam Hussein and undertake nation-building in Mesopotamia—to reevaluate U.S. policy in Iraq.