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November 29, 2024
Can Trump Save America’s Failing Cyber Infrastructure?As America winds down from four years of horrific mismanagement at the hands of the incompetent Biden administration, few issues stand as glaringly urgent as America’s cyber vulnerabilities. For President Trump, who is returning to the Oval Off...
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October 28, 2024
Trump win holds key to America’s cyber futureAnother Cybersecurity Awareness Month is winding down, and as we gather around our digital campfires to recount the valiant tales of hackers, ransomware, and government incompetence, nothing says “cyber progress” quite like the reality th...
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September 27, 2024
Globalized Cybersecurity is a Gift To HackersAs the 2024 election looms, one thing is as inevitable as bad campaign ads and awkward debate quips: the government’s grandiose plans to fix things. Enter the latest darling of bureaucracy -- the new cybersecurity strategy brought to you by non...
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August 29, 2024
Hacking and the 2024 ElectionIn the grand, chaotic spectacle of global politics, election meddling has become the hit show that no one asked for but everyone is watching. Imagine it: a world where manipulating an election is as easy as hacking your friend's Netflix account (...
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July 27, 2024
CrowdStrike Offers Glimpse of Potential Cyber ApocalypseCyberattacks have truly become the digital equivalent of natural disasters -- sudden, catastrophic, and terrifyingly inevitable. The recent CrowdStrike update debacle, which triggered a global meltdown affecting multiple critical sectors, was a glari...
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May 24, 2024
Will AI-driven cyber-threats affect the 2024 election?Artificial intelligence (A.I.) and its integration within various sectors is moving at a speed that couldn’t have been imagined just a few years ago. As a result, the United States now stands on the brink of a new era of cybersecurit...
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April 23, 2024
Microsoft Monopoly Endangers American Security InterestsIn America, the Washington D.C. uniparty types like to make you think that they are all for reining in big corporations in favor of the “little guy.” But in practice, it seems that across many industries, the practice of squeezing out com...
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January 12, 2024
Cybersecurity: Can Biden do at least this right?In the ever-evolving landscape of digital technology, cybersecurity remains a cornerstone issue, critical to both national security and individual privacy. Especially in this time of heightened international conflict, in many instances, we...
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November 17, 2023
Protect yourself online this holiday seasonAs we approach the eagerly anticipated holiday shopping season, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, it’s crucial for consumers to stay vigilant against the increasing tide of cyber-threats. While these shopping even...
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October 13, 2023
Cybersecurity threats loom largeThis month marks the 20th Annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which for the past two decades has acted as a vehicle for the public and private sectors to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity. This milestone provides an exce...
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September 16, 2023
Cyberthreats Against SchoolsAs the calendar turns to another school year in 2023, the education landscape is evolving rapidly, with technology playing an increasingly pivotal role in the learning process. Especially on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the resurgence...
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August 7, 2023
Biden administration owns cyber-workforce crisisAlthough the current administration has always attempted to put a good face on their efforts to combat the nation's ongoing cyber-crisis, like trotting out First Lady Dr. Jill Biden this week to kick off the White House's back-to-school ...
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June 25, 2023
Is Biden's cyber-strategy a bust?With the news cycle dominated by the latest developments regarding the classified documents indictment of former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors over his failure to pay r...
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June 3, 2023
Trump's Abraham Accords proceed into cyberspaceThe Abraham Accords were a series of agreements brokered by the Trump administration in 2020, aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab nations. The main participants in the accords were Israel, the United Arab Em...
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May 5, 2023
Biden's national cybersecurity strategy may be a disaster for private businessesAmerica was given some bad news last week that was mostly seen as a formality. Joe Biden is running for a second term in 2024. The news is bad for America for a multitude of reasons, as Biden's first two-plus years in office have se...
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April 1, 2023
How Google is enabling cyber-criminalsIn 2023, most internet users are aware of the potential risks and dangers that come with using the online world. Cyber-criminals are constantly developing new ways to steal people's personal data and extort large ransoms, leaving many ...
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February 17, 2023
Zuckerberg’s Meta Hit with €390 Million Fine for Ignoring Privacy RulesIn the age of social media, almost everyone who possesses a profile on any one of the major online platforms (Twitter, Facebook, TikTok) can tell you a story about how they conducted a web search for a specific service or product, only to immediately...
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February 3, 2023
Why on earth are Democrat congressmen using TikTok?The new legislative session began a little later than expected this year, as an anti-establishment resistance looked to block what was initially expected an easy and predestined anointing of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House speaker. Once th...
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December 30, 2022
Cybersecurity in 20222022 was another huge year for cyberattacks. Although the news cycle was filled with many consequential stories related to the Ukraine War, inflation, and other major events and issues that pushed the ongoing cyber wars off the front pages, the digit...
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November 26, 2022
Watch Out! Black Friday/Cyber Monday is a windfall for cyber scammersLet's face it: America is still a Christian nation that loves the holiday season. This time of year, family and friends, many of whom have had a hard time getting together during the Biden era because of, among other things, the COVID-...
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October 27, 2022
Wokeness has no place in the security worldThe American left's obsession with wokeness is a disease that has begun to spread to most of the rest of the world. What started out with sensitivity and diversity training in the military has expanded back to Obama-era policy on ...
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October 1, 2022
Is the Senate slow-walking American voters?With a potential government shutdown on the table that would begin at the stroke of midnight on October 1, both chambers of Congress were able to reach consensus Friday on a temporary spending package that will keep the federal government running thr...
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August 20, 2022
Recent cyber-gatherings paint grim outlook for global securityEarlier this month, Las Vegas played host to a trio of influential cyber-security gatherings that attracted many of the global leaders for one of the world's more critical industries — information technology. The events, BSidesLV, Black ...
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July 6, 2022
This is the real person most responsible for the abuses of the Jan 6 CommitteeThe past several weeks of farcical hearings initiated by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 attack have displayed the lengths to which the American political left will go to in their efforts to derail the prospects of a second ...
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June 30, 2022
Threat of disaster: We're short-staffed in the cyber-worldGlobal hacking threats and cyber-warfare are by no means a new phenomenon as the past several years have seen an explosion of attacks against America and other Western nations from countries like Russia and China. In 2021, major supply cha...
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May 29, 2022
Ukraine War heightens cyberattack threatWith the Ukrainian War now entering into its fourth month, the devastation has not been limited to the conventional theaters of warfare, as Russian-based cyberattacks have had a negative effect on the Ukrainian economy and have also seen the allies o...
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April 29, 2022
Can the US defend against Russian cyber-attacks?On April 20, cyber-agencies from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom put out a joint cyber-security advisory warning entities in their respective nations that because of Russia's ongoing invasion of...
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March 29, 2022
New FBI indictments have Russia targeting US — and even China's — infrastructureLast week, new unsealed indictments from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed what many leading experts had already known — that the United States' critical infrastructure is in danger. Indictments handed down showed ...
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February 15, 2022
United Russia and China loom as potential cyber-threat to USAAmerica has a serious Russia-China issue if Russia-Ukraine tensions escalate into military operations. The reconnaissance hacking that has occurred for upwards of a decade has provided Russia and China — who recently struck an allian...
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December 17, 2021
2021, measured in cybersecurity devastationThe world saw an explosion in hacking and ransomware attacks in 2021. Controversial changes at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subdivision, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), ushered in new leadership th...
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November 10, 2021
US defense contractors victimized by foreign hackersDespite the fact that the inept Biden administration has invested significant effort in year one to attempt to shore up cyber-defenses against an aggressive China and Russia, new reports show that foreign hackers have recently breached a nu...
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October 16, 2021
Is America meeting the cyber-security challenge?As the U.S. remains engaged in a persistent cyber-war, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert yesterday in reference to the Ongoing Cyber Threats to US Water and Wastewater Systems. The alert was a...
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September 16, 2021
Biden Afghanistan debacle has made entire world less safePresident Biden has been in office less than a year and is putting out a new fire almost every month. How many more will there be? Most of the difficulties at the core of Biden's domestic problems have been self-inflicted....
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August 14, 2021
The Biden administration bungles cyber-defenseIt is no secret that the Biden administration has a serious cyber-security problem. In fact, American vulnerability under the new president has ushered in a period of unprecedented cyber-activity against the U.S., and new attacks...
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June 13, 2021
How far can Congress go in forcing new cybersecurity measures on the private sector?Congress recently hosted the CEO of Colonial Pipeline, Joseph Blount, at a hearing where he was asked a series of questions about May's cyber-attack that halted the delivery of fuel to the East Coast. The attack led to fuel shortages a...
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May 12, 2021
How the Biden administration enabled the latest huge cyber-attackJoe Biden has created a mess in America in virtually every possible way. First off, let us talk about the economy. How could the world's leading economists be so inaccurate in their projections for the most recent jobs reports?...
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April 10, 2021
Biden's New Security RealityIn the first few months of the Biden administration, America has seemingly sent a message internationally that the U.S. is no longer making its security a top priority, and not just at the southern border. The current migrant crisis, which has spi...
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March 6, 2021
Biden and the growth of cyber-threatsThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced new cyber-security-related initiatives in an effort to address the rise of global threats endangering Americans online. DHS, which has undergone several changes in the course o...
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February 5, 2021
2021 ratchets up cyber-security threats to American individuals and businessesThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) underwent a major change at the top of its hierarchy in the aftermath of the 2020 election, as Director Christopher Krebs was fired as a result of his beliefs regarding election security. ...
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January 14, 2021
CISA and the SolarWinds attack: What do we know?On November 17, President Trump appointed Brandon Wales as the director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Wales was a highly qualified choice, as he had been CISA's first executive director and previously...
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December 20, 2020
As runoffs loom, Georgia's election integrity is a jokeAlthough it seems as though it took place long ago, in a year that has seemed to drag on from one low point to another, the November 3 election happened less than seven weeks ago. Ever since then, countless personal accounts of election ir...
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October 29, 2020
Scammers using fake PAC emails to steal from votersEver since the 2016 election, the overall issue of hacking has remained a theme in the headlines. Now cyber-criminals are deploying a new tactic built around website spoofing of political action committee (PAC) domains in an effort to stea...
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October 10, 2020
Will the Failed ‘Silent Coup’ Become the ‘Stolen Election?’Although the left continues to downplay the issues surrounding “election integrity” this November, mounting evidence points to what is likely to turn into an eventual series of disputes, lawsuits, and potential anarchy in a year...
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September 20, 2020
The Bushes, the Clintons, China... and TrumpThe Clinton, Bush, and Trump families will forever be intertwined in not just American history, but the history of the world. The past several years have certainly seen a major change in what once seemed to be a warm relationship between the Trumps a...
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September 14, 2020
The Bushes, the Clintons, China... and TrumpThe Clinton, Bush, and Trump families will forever be intertwined in not just American history, but the history of the world. The past several years have certainly seen a major change in what once seemed to be a warm relationship between the Trumps a...
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August 15, 2020
The China Conundrum is November’s Most Critical IssueThe last few months or so have been perhaps the worst that the U.S.-China relationship has seen in generations. In just the past few weeks, several incidents have occurred including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling out the dangers of authoritar...
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June 27, 2020
Missing the point on the Jones ActEarlier this month, the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 or “Jones Act” as it is commonly referred to, turned 100 years old. For the last century, this important piece of legislation has ensured that at least one vital industry has not be...
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May 30, 2020
Cyber-threats haunt health care sector amid coronavirus panicJust three years ago, we got to see the destructive potential of a worldwide state-sponsored hacking attack during 2017's WannaCry outbreak. The unprecedented cyber-event, which disabled around 200,000 systems in roughly 150 countries ...
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May 3, 2020
Coronavirus panic raises government contempt of privacy to new heightsOver the past month or so, as governors across America have attempted to address coronavirus concerns within the nuanced confines of their states' borders, the question of just how far we should allow the government to intrude upon our rights in ...
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March 31, 2020
Hackers now preying on coronavirus fearsThe coronavirus outbreak has taken the world by storm. As most of us sit at home under what is becoming an increasingly mandatory order to comply with social distancing, we rely more than ever on our phones tablets and P.C.s to entertain u...
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January 22, 2020
Are Americans In Danger from a Possible Iranian Cyber-Offensive?The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cryptic warning to Americans on January 6th regarding the “Potential for Iranian Cyber Response” to the recent U.S. military strike in Baghdad last week that claimed the...
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December 18, 2019
Federal cyber-security guidelines finally require agencies accept help from 'white hat' hackersAs the decade comes to a close, it's certainly a relief to see that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is continuing to adjust its policies and creating more "binding operational directives" (BODs) designed to e...
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November 27, 2019
Are security cameras a security threat?Smile, you're on camera! And in some cases, it's truly candid. As current technology has progressed to the point that almost every adult, and most children, wields the power of a smartphone in his hand, the possib...
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November 1, 2019
Leaving China BehindIt’s no secret that tensions are escalating between China and the United States. The tensions have escalated into a trade war that has several companies worried about how the new tariffs will affect the supply chain with China. However, looking...
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October 11, 2019
27 Countries Sign Cybersecurity PledgeWhile the last United Nations General Assembly will be mostly remembered for the disgraceful display orchestrated by the handlers of manipulated 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, lost in the hoopla that can only be described as “GretaMania” was...
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September 14, 2019
The Surveillance State: Have Americans Unwittingly Opted In?Let’s be honest. When was the last time you sat down and read through the entirety of an app or hardware devices terms of use? The usually thousands of words long legalese omelet is easily bypassed by scrolling to the bottom of the page and cli...
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September 7, 2019
IRS fakers using malware to steal financial information from AmericansThere doesn't seem to be a day that goes by where I don't receive a call from an obvious foreigner claiming to be an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent. Using predictive dialer software, these overseas phonies are able to create ...
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August 24, 2019
Is Backdoor Encryption a 4th Amendment Violation?The Trump administration has been pushing tech companies to give the government backdoor access to encrypted applications. This may concern some who feel that this is essentially a violation of our constitutional right to protection from “unrea...
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August 15, 2019
Is post-Capital One breach criticism of Amazon fair?The recent Capital One data breach allegedly perpetrated by a single American hacker from the Pacific Northwest named Paige A. Thompson, was just the most recent in a long successive line of penetrations that have exposed vulnerabilities within ...
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July 27, 2019
Has World War 3 already begun? The NSA may know somethingThis week, the National Security Agency (NSA) made a major announcement regarding America's plan to combat international threats in the midst of an ongoing and seemingly never-ending series of cyber-skirmishes. A new unit within the NSA,...
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June 20, 2019
Cyber-attacks: A new age in warfareAccording to a bombshell report from the New York Times, the United States has ramped up attacks against Russia's power grid and other unnamed targets, signaling a new investment from Washington toward inserting American malware into hi...
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April 25, 2019
Government vs. ransomware attacksThe past week gave us a glimpse into what an increasingly possible, widespread rash of ransomware attacks would look like in a worst-case scenario for America. An outbreak of similar penetrations wreaked havoc on Augusta, ME, Imperial County, CA, Stu...
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April 13, 2019
LockerGoga ransomware and national securityRecently, a new type of ransomware-based cyber-warfare made global headlines when an attack was executed against Norsk Hydro, a raw materials producer that boasts the 10th largest output of aluminum in the world. The victim, Norsk Hydro, just...
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March 12, 2019
Another shady Chinese dealHow do the Chinese continually get away with it? America has been victimized by trade imbalances in the $100s of billions, intellectual property theft of an estimated $600 billion yearly, and attempts to increase espionage o...
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February 4, 2019
New Challenges in CybersecurityThe new year brings increased challenges to the cybersecurity front. Current trends show that cyberattacks will grow in frequency during 2019. The government’s cybersecurity efforts already got off to a rocky start due to a highly politicized g...
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January 1, 2019
The Latest Danger from MemesMemes. They can be funny, sad, inspirational, or at other times downright offensive. I have some friends who literally invest significant time daily in checking out the latest viral meme. Whether you like them or not, memes have become big in pop cul...
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December 12, 2018
Which country will win the artificial intelligence arms race?When it comes to sheer military might, it is safe to say the United States Military is among the strongest armed forces in the world. It surpasses every other major superpower when it comes to military funding, technology, and power projec...
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November 10, 2018
Microsoft joins the Trump administration's cybersecurity programBack in the spring of 2016, the Obama administration appointed several respected civilians to the then new Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The panel, which was established as part of Obama's $19 billion proposal to sure up America...
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October 29, 2018
Is the U.S. Failing at Cyberwarfare?Recently, an investigation led by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed the Department of Defense (DoD) is severely lacking in appropriately trained IT and Cybersecurity staff needed to secure its weapons systems. This poses a threa...
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October 14, 2018
Cyber-warfare: Time for the USA to take the gloves off?Prior to the attempted foreign policy reset between the United States and North Korea that occurred earlier this year, the U.S. excoriated the North Korean regime in connection with the widespread and lucrative WannaCry attacks of 2017. The ...
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October 7, 2018
Have Cyber-Threats Surpassed Terrorism and Nuclear War?Much of the Trump administration's reset of foreign relations with nations hostile to the interests of the United States has revolved around the issue of nuclear proliferation. New negotiations as well as directional shifts in deals in...
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May 12, 2018
The DNC's Blame ShiftIn the late night/early morning hours following polls closing on Election Day 2016, emotions and expectations ran the gamut for Democrats who believed a Donald Trump victory was an impossibility. Polling results that were almost universally synchroni...
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April 15, 2018
Did Hillary deliberately allow her server to be hacked?It is widely known and accepted that Russian elements have repeatedly exposed vulnerabilities in American infrastructure networks. A hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0,” who according to the Daily Beast was an officer of Russia’s militar...