this is an adventure

The last WH was in constant conflict over politicization of intel operations. With the choice of Chas Freeman to head the National Intelligence Council, is this WH be headed in the same direction? Former head of the MEPC is viewed as a Beltway mouthpiece for Saudi Arabia and sided with China on Tiananmen.

Report from proceedings of the NAS details how global warming won’t actually have to warm that much to cause more “extreme weather,” enhanced threats to plants, animals, increased likelihood of heat waves, etc. So all the negative ramifications and it’s such a small adjustment, it can’t be stopped? Somehow this doesn’t seem a wise expenditure.

Jack Straw, who had formerly launched a National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, gets suckered by a simple phishing Nigerian email scam through a vulnerable Hotmail account, snagging hundreds of private email addresses for PMs and key staffers, pouring more spam emails into inboxes throughout Blackburn. People getting the email were smarter: no money was sent.

Between to Monday’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit and Tuesday’s presidential address to Congress, the White House’s economic message shifted to new territory: health care. “To my fellow budget hawks in this room and in the rest of the country, let me be very clear,” said Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, […]