Tag Archives: china

Hillary Clinton, what are you thinking? We don’t need another education subsidy

If elected president, Hillary Clinton has promised to spend $350 billion to make college “more affordable.” The U.S. already has an $18 trillion debt (and growing by the day), but Clinton wants to add to it. That’s not affordable. Too…

EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth federal hack part of broader campaign against the U.S., experts say

The spectacular hacking assault on the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management is just part of a broader, systematic campaign against the most valuable U.S. cyber-assets, public and private, that is ongoing and likely includes operations inside classified U.S. government…

Obama administration scrambles to contain damage from ‘massive data breach’

The Obama administration was scrambling Friday to contain the damage from a massive cyber-breach which may have put the entire federal workforce at risk, as officials began to point the finger at China-based hackers. The Department of Homeland Security issued…

National security and the 2016 election

Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, foreign and defense policies have been far from his highest priorities. Instead, as he said explicitly in 2008, Obama is seeking to “fundamentally transform” America. This domestic focus has driven national security to the margins, except…

Clinton facing new ethics questions on role in Boeing deal

When Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat, she also appeared at times like a top salesperson for America’s biggest airplane maker, Boeing. Traveling abroad on official business as secretary of state, Clinton often visited Boeing facilities and made a pitch…

The Foxhole: Michael Pillsbury, real-life ‘Smoking Man’ from Nixon to Obama, unravels China’s secrets

In autumn 1969, President Nixon and his White House national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, worried that one of the president’s main foreign policy objectives – the opening to China – conflicted with another: détente, the diplomatic overture to the Soviet…

Obama’s Bungled Nuclear Deal

As recently as Sunday it looked as though the Iran nuclear deal was falling apart. We lived through two 24-hour extensions and finally got news that we would, in fact, see a deal. Today, President Obama and John Kerry told…

UN says Israel, not Iran, North Korea or Syria worst violator of human rights

What country deserves more condemnation for violating human rights than any other nation on earth? According to the U.N.’s top human rights body, that would be Israel. Last week, Israel was the U.N.’s number one women’s rights violator. This week…

‘Space nets’ aim to capture threats to satellites and spacecraft

Technology thousands of years old has been overhauled to capture threats to space hardware. Space junk poses a serious threat, particularly to humans in space whether in the International Space Station, space shuttles, or other spacecraft. The debris also poses…

Feds crack down on Chinese ‘birth tourism’

Airfare from the U.S. to China and a months-long stay in an Orange County, Calif., apartment: $80,000. A baby born a U.S. citizen: priceless. In the largest operation of its kind, early Tuesday morning federal officials in Southern California served…