Since the 1960s, the Republican Party has sought out and corralled the angry white vote which was back-lashing against the civil rights movement and black progress. But now that disaffected base is turning on the wealthy GOP elites and no one should be surprised, writes Michael Winship. By Michael Winship Now, On May 21, 1946,…
Former director of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Michael Hayden says that the U.S. keeps too many cyber-attacks secret. The retired U.S. Air Force four-star general said in an interview that the government and businesses keep cyber attacks a secret for their own reasons and that the country is ill prepared to deal with the ever increasing threat from hackers.
Fox Business will host the sixth main Republican debate tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. The pointless “undercard” debate will air at 6:00. The main debate will have the fewest candidates it has had yet. The field has been reduced to Trump, Cruz, Bush, Rubio, Kasich, Christie, and Carson. Tonight is likely to be the most contentious debate thus far, as all of the candidates have ongoing feuds with two or more of their rivals.
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On New Year’s Eve, the State Department released 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails from her tenure as secretary of state. While much of the corporate media dove into investigating pointless gossip, Brad Hoff at the Levant Report decided to look for more clues into understanding the epic failure that was the 2011 war on Libya by the US and NATO.
Michael Brendan Dougherty pokes some holes in the perpetual “Rubio moment”:
As of January 10, the supposedly-moribund Bush campaign has gained as much support in New Hampshire as Rubio even though the nation has been enduring two months of Rubio moments.