Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore On Saturday, January 2, a group of armed anti-government protesters seized a building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, aggrieved by the federal government’s treatment of ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. The father-and-son duo were convicted of arson in 2012 after admitting that two fires they lit in […]

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Conservative media may have taken yesterday’s utterly pointless Benghazi hearing and turned it into a nonsensical firestorm, but it was social media that turned it into an ode to stupidity. The spectacle was particularly apparent on Twitter. Last night, on the right side of Twitter’s homepage in its “trending topics” section for Washington, D.C., was the […]

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  Fearless. Aggressive. Relentless. Principled. Contemptuous of convention. That’s Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, the only member of the House Benghazi Committee who ignored decorum and took off his suit coat before cross-examining Hillary Clinton during yesterday’s marathon Benghazi hearing. (He was the strident, animated guy in the blue shirt and yellow tie.) Jordan was […]

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Photo: Gage Skidmore At the Values Voters Summit in Washington, I listened to a Ben Carson speech–start to finish. Reporters, readers and voters usually catch a selected clip; listening to an entire speech is worth your time when you’ve got it. Even with Dr. Carson. Even if  “speech” doesn’t quite capture what the retired neurosurgeon does […]

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  Seventy years ago today, on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico–known from that day in 1945 as the “Trinity Site.” Trinity was the code name for the first detonation, chosen by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the technical director of the Manhattan Project […]

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