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boils down to: the Secretary of State bucked the rules of her own department.

No, the requirements for government employees to keep records of all their communications, so that people can FOIA them, are not State Department rules. They are laws governing all government employees; see here.

Oh look, there's news today. Judicial Watch has proof that Hillary Clinton deleted some work-related emails.

Before providing her correspondence, Clinton and her lawyers withheld and subsequently deleted tens of thousands of messages that she claimed were personal, such as emails about her daughter's wedding plans, family vacations, yoga routines and condolence notes.

With the new release Monday, more than 50 work-related emails sent or received by Clinton have since surfaced that were not among those she provided.

The previously never seen emails have Hillary Clinton worrying about who can see her documents and emails.

"I have just realized I have no idea how my papers are treated at State," Clinton wrote to Abedin and a second aide. "Who manages both my personal and official files? ... I think we need to get on this asap to be sure we know and design the system we want."

The audit also cited a then-unreleased copy of a November 2010 email Clinton sent Abedin in which the secretary discussed using a government email account, expressing concern that she didn't want "any risk of the personal being accessible."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/775550d62ef8487a975a2a1c1c8b1100/more-clinton-emails-released-including-some-she-deleted

If you want us to buy your theory that she just set up her email server to provide better security, can you find any quotes from any of her released emails where she discusses the issue of email security?

The only place I am aware of where Hillary Clinton was worried about email security was the memo that went out with her signature on it, warning that State Department employees must not use private email. Note, she was using private email at that time.

Honestly, can you point to any actual proof of this claim?

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/1...

I'd rather not as it's in poor taste

An AC talking about "poor taste". In ten minutes you'll be posting the N-word. and calling people fags.

I take that to mean accessible as in electronic format. As opposed to, say, printing it out on 55,000 sheets of paper.

Radicalization is the problem. The two-party system effectively splits the voting population in half, maximizing the influence of radicals on both ends of the political spectrum. This disenfranchises the bulk of voters in the center, who end up dissatisfied with the choice of candidates. It's why the two candidates with probably the highest disapproval ratings are going to be the nominees - because most of that disapproval is from the half of voters who aren't voting in that party's primary. (Trump is a bit of an oddball - his views on specific issues varies widely from very conservative to liberal, which puts his mean score in the moderate category. But statistically he has a huge standard deviation, making his mean score less reliable.)

If, hypothetically, the primary system were changed so that everyone could vote in every party's primaries, Sanders, Clinton, Trump, and Cruz would've had no chance because they're too radical. Instead, moderates like Christie, Paul, and Bloomberg - people whose political views align more closely with the average of all Americans instead of just those in one party - would win.

The fundamental problem is that most of the so-called Republican Party now stands for "government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%" ...

If this is in comparison to the Democrats, then you have it very wrong. From http://commentarama.blogspot.c...:

"...the Democrats are the party of lawyers. Not only were lawyers their largest contributors in 2010, giving 81% of their donations to Democrats, but Democratic ranks are crawling with lawyers. In the last Senate, 35 of the 54 lawyers in the Senate were Democrats. In the last House, 106 of the 162 lawyers were Democrats."

And the 0.1%-ers give to the Democrats as much or more than they give to the Republicans. From: http://www.ijreview.com/2014/0...

"... prepare to see a lot of blue donkeys, because 20 of the top 32 donors lean Democrat, while only 6 lean Republican. The rest are on the fence.
Not only that, if you factor in all the indirect benefits the Democrat Party gets from the non-profit sector, left-wing activism, public and private sector unions, Wall Street banks, universities, and superfund contributors, it has been estimated by Dr. David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin in their book The New Leviathan that the Republican Party is outspent in politics by a factor of 7-to-1."

Really?? We are supposed to respect the opinions of a bunch of whimpering babies that can't stand the sight of a Trump sticker on their campus without running in fear?? People who have signed petitions to ban the first amendment??

I suppose if Mr. Nye is desperate enough to look anywhere for support, he'll turn to anyone. Even the chronically clueless...

First of all, a university receiving public funds is also a public school (especially, if it is entirely State-owned as any branch of University of California is), and it did ban the flag — whether that move was initiated by the monkeys running the zoo or the older officials is secondary in importance.

More importantly, it happened in various actual public high schools too — on the authority of local principals and school districts alike. And the courts support that — for "safety". Evidently, the "batshit crazy" is spreading, while you remain in denial (and sniping at the harmless Evangelicals).

Yes - it's been that way for a decade

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/0...

It's starting to change. I guess companies do get tired of being made the target of blame for all of our countries woes
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...

I need a cite for this. All I can find on it is references to his mocking of the drill baby drill slogans and an old interview that Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that his plans would result in âskyrocketingâ(TM) energy prices.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/0...

But please enlighten me with a reference I can verify.

Most of IS's recruiting is done physically in person, and for obvious reasons (Twitter is a hell of a lot easier for the NSA and military to track).

The FBI, the government, some analysts, and ISIS's own messages on Twitter disagree with you. Also the link below explains why no, the NSA can't reliability track this process. You're right eventually you meet in person, but that's just like any other job interview. The first place you hear from it is typically in a paper, then you apply via an agency, and you don't actually meet someone until the last part of your recruitment process.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/0...

FBI Director James Comey described ISIS’s Twitter strategy at the Aspen Institute in July:

“ISIL’s M.O. is they broadcast on Twitter, get people to follow them, then move them to Twitter Direct Messaging while they evaluate whether they’re a potential liaison either to travel or to kill where they are. Then they’ll move them to an encrypted mobile-messaging app, so they go dark to us.”

How'd this get modded "Informative"? I guess the Clintons are Republican now? http://www.ijreview.com/2014/0... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

America does however lead the world in mass shootings

But, not per-capita.

You've got this wrong, including that nonsense about "systematically disappearing people." This isn't a question of some South American Junta oppressing poor peasants. It is a war against the barbarians of our age.

Guerrilla tactics were known when the treaties were drawn up so your comment about uniforms is nonsense. It takes very little to comply with the treaty. Armbands, a chain of command, and waging war lawfully is about what it takes. You're claiming that is too much? Nonsense. Tell me, what forces ISIS to behead people or burn them alive? Do you think that it is too much to expect them to not commit atrocities? That isn't a theoretical question, the issue is one played out daily by those barbarians.

Isis sex slaves: 19 women executed for refusing to have sex with militant fighters
ISIS burns 4 hog-tied men alive in new video
ISIS Declares War On ‘The Cross’: 21 Christians Beheaded in Barbaric New Video from the Islamic State

Guantanamo isn't a secret prison, it is well known. The prisoners even receive Red Cross visits. But if the enemy combatants want the full rights and protections of the treaty then they need to abide by it. That is a basic enforcement mechanism built into it. Maybe they could start small, like simply not burning people alive and behead them. They could work their way up to no mass rape and sex slavery.

Far too many people here are outraged when a terrorist leader is killed by a missile as if it were an epic crime of the ages to prevent those evil men from attacking innocent civilians. But those same people who are outraged about terrorists being killed are often wholly indifferent to mass rape, murder, and torture of captives, hostages, and innocents by al Qaeda, ISIS, and the like. How do you think that will go? How do you think it will go now that more and more of them are showing up in Europe? Once the "oxen being gored" are European I expect some "rapid evolution" of views.

Do you know what ISIS is considering doing to captured pilots? (You know they burned one alive, right?) It is an old practice of the Turkish Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire: death by impaling.

Muslims Are Calling To Revive An Ancient Horrifying Execution Method Against U.S. Led Coalition Pilots

They'll probably put video of it on Youtube.

There has to be a limit where, at some point, even bacon is not a beneficial addition.

Eh, could be worse...

Many ppl note the fact that the far right HATES science and pick and choose what they want to. And they are correct.

Orly?

"After years of being lambasted by the left as uneducated rubes, a recent study by a Yale law professor proves members of the Tea Party are actually more likely to understand scientific issues than is the rest of the population."

http://www.westernjournalism.c...

"Yale Law professor Dan M. Kahan was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups when he ran into a shocking discovery: tea party supporters are slightly more scientifically literate than the non-tea party population.

When composing histograms of the scientific inference abilities of liberals and conservatives, he discovered that those who described themselves as tea party supporters came out pretty well, based on National Science Foundation standards of evaluation:"

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/1...

~Sigh~ SMH

Strat

Sorry, if I'm in charge of security for a church, I'm still frisking the nuns, because to do otherwise would be irresponsible.

Poe's law strikes again. I literally can't tell if you're being satirical or stark raving mad. You're not cold fjord, at least (then I'd know for sure).

I merely convey (often unwelcome) facts to you, and report the goings-on of a mad world. If you cannot separate the teller from the tale, then you are in no position to judge whom is mad. But of course you may be a madman yourself.

What do you make of these?

Fears grow Boko Harm may use suicide bombers dressed as Catholic nuns for attacks
Sublime irony: Muslim TSA guard feels Catholic nun's genitals
In a Chilling Phone Call, Yazidi Woman Made a Sex Slave by ISIS Begs for West to Bomb Brothel
Isis use torture device dubbed 'The Biter' to impale women who breastfeed in public

Islamic State updates horror show

Last December, in a video addressed to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a veiled woman representing "Muslim mothers" argued that beheading was too humane for the Jordanian pilot. She recommended that al-Kaseasbeh be subjected to a traditional Ottoman method of execution called the Khazouk in which the victim is impaled with a thick spike hammered up his rectum and through the torso. She felt that this would deter other foreign pilots from flying missions against the Islamic State. And we may yet see the Khazouk on Youtube.

Does ISIS risk blowback, or is there a plan?

No, these are parents with a tentative, at best grasp on the subjects themselves and lashing out. The biggest one I have seen

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/0...

Of course this dad, who apparently has an EE degree, and the vast majority of the readers fail to actually READ the assignment. The math does not work, and that was the point of the assignment, to find the error in how the student did the work, not try and solve it in the incorrect way the student used. BTW, the student did not separate the 1s and the 10s, and had to many 1.

Hey, those lost e-mails are not like a member of the military

Things must be pretty pathetic, if you must bring up Iran-Contras affair to defend a 21st-century Democratic politician. But, yes, those lost e-mails really are not like that. Whatever you might think of Lt-Colonel Norton and that entire things, that business was not for personal gain.

Losing e-mails is penny ante stuff

Losing would've been. But it was deliberate destruction of records. And lying to Congress.

the shit that goes down in Eastern Europe, Russia and the BRIC in general

Duude, you are talking to a Ukrainian expat :-)

We put people in pound-me-in-the-ass prison for the bribery and corruption

If the said pounding really was, what Clinton and Lerner were "facing", I would've been content — and fighting to stop the sexual abuse of inmates. But one of the women retired with full pension, and the other one is fixing to become President — with 46% of the nation retaining "favourable" opinion of her... Maybe, Americans ought to learn, what "Maidan" has come to mean too...

You don't mention that Stop And Frisk was invented in a deep Blue city and that Hilliary Clinton pays her women staffers even less than 75%

You pointing out two potential anomalies in no way invalidates your sides sins. Jesus said to turn the other cheek, not an eye for an eye nor escalation. What are the figures for Romney's female staff, in % of staff and % of salary? How about Ted Cruz? Provide context if you want yoru accusations to be taken as a meaningful critique and not as a soundbite.

"-1 Disagree"?

You don't mention that Stop And Frisk was invented in a deep Blue city and that Hilliary Clinton pays her women staffers even less than 75%

Nor did the GP mention either political party -- YOU turned it into Dems vs Reps inanity ... Milwaukee is one of the racist cities today! Who fuckin' cares? This isn't some stupid North vs South bullshit ... this is EVERYWHERE. Look up redlined districts in Detroit, you idiot.

You don't mention that Stop And Frisk was invented in a deep Blue city and that Hilliary Clinton pays her women staffers even less than 75%

You pointing out two potential anomalies in no way invalidates your sides sins. Jesus said to turn the other cheek, not an eye for an eye nor escalation. What are the figures for Romney's female staff, in % of staff and % of salary? How about Ted Cruz? Provide context if you want yoru accusations to be taken as a meaningful critique and not as a soundbite.

You don't mention that Stop And Frisk was invented in a deep Blue city and that Hilliary Clinton pays her women staffers even less than 75%

Funny you should say that since the Libs want to:

- control what I do in my bedroom
- control my social life
- control what I talk about
- control who I do business with
- control what I believe
- control what business I'm allowed to engage in

It's time to reassess your opinion on who wants to to micromanage your life.

I just read this on Facebook which will turn your brain into mush . People really believe that scientists who believe go are radical socialists with funding from Soros. After all the majority are democrats! Problem is this is mainstream as we all know we ascended into communism when Clinton was elected ... rolls eyes. It would not be an issue if just 10% believed this. Not 45% of all Americans

There are a bunch of reasons to hate him: http://www.ijreview.com/2013/0...

Don't worry, we seem to be on it. We now have "Common Core" math which is so insanely difficult and confusing that kids will hate math and will never want to do it in their lives. Don't believe me? Try this Common Core math problem: "What is 32 - 12?" Now wait just a second... I'm guessing you're trying to subtract 12 from 32. That's the wrong way to do it according to Common Core. No, instead you need to do this:

32 - 12 = ?
12 + 3 = 15
15 + 5 = 20
20 + 10 = 30
30 + 2 = 32

Now you draw a box around the 3, 5, 10, and 2 that you added in and then add those numbers up. 3 + 5 = 8 + 10 = 18 + 2 = 20. So the answer is 20. If a child just does:

  32
-12
----
  20

They will be marked as wrong because they got the right answer, but in the wrong way.

The sad part? This isn't even as insane as it gets. My son was given the problem: 1.62 / 0.27. Instead of actually dividing, he was told to draw 162 "tenths segments" Then he had to redraw them, but in groupings of 27. The number of groupings was his answer. Does this work? Yes, but it doesn't teach kids to work with numbers. What if the number he needed to divide was 1.625? Would he need to draw 1,625 segments? What if the number was 492.572? Would he need to draw nearly half a million segments? The method doesn't scale at all and yet kids are being taught that THIS is how you solve math problems and doing it any other way is WRONG (even if it works and gives you the right answer).

That's one way to skew it. But this is flatly oversimplified, I'm surprised intelligent people take this for reality, that people x or y are simply good or evil, as if this is an epic fantasy story. The truth lies in the middle, as usual. Republicans may tend to be less than empathetic about people down on their luck, but not entirely. Unemployment benefits have been extended how many times now? How many people in this country are using food stamps now? It's a disturbing trend. You're not doing people any favors with endless handouts.

One could argue that it's exactly the same way that Democrats/liberals frame and abuse the term "compassion" to get people to vote for more spending and taxing, presumably on social programs, portraying ever more and larger groups as victimized and utterly helpless, when a good deal of that targeted tax income goes into government bloat. Taking into account the fact that the country is already $16 trillion in debt; yet 29% of the budget was spent on welfare and health in 2013. (Military was 13%) this hardly smacks of incompassion, except maybe to future generations who have to incur this debt. The irony is, the more taxes go up, and Democrats know this, it's the middle class that suffers, which in turn makes more of them fall into that lower class needing help; the cycle continues and results in more money and power to the government, and more dependence by the people. The middle class is stuck in the middle.
If Republicans pander to the rich, then Democrats pander to people who believe they will "get something" from the government, whether compassionately justifiable or not, in order to secure more votes. How ironic is it then that more Democrats in congress are millionaires than Republicans?

To reiterate my first paragraph, I don't believe all democratic politicians are like this. But many are.Same with republicans, they're not all old evil white men. But some are. Absolutely some people need assistance. Shit happens.
But if you think the system isn't rife with abuse and waste, and couldn't use some trimming, you're kidding yourself. Every government program is, including the military. It's a game to both parties.

That's so they can vote for him during elections because at the same time his Attorney General goes after states who try to enact voter id laws and try to protect their own borders.

What's sad and what we're seeing now with the recent Supreme Court Ruling is the fact that States can't ask for proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Talk about a fucked up situation because like it or not it opens up the door for ineligible voters to vote in our elections, it's happening now but with the constant interference in State run elections and inaction on immigration and border security you'll never be able to accurately quantify it.

Hey if you like Venezuela so much, why don't you fucking move there. This is the US, not some other fucking foreign country. That's the great thing about having freedom, you have th freedom to get the fuck out.

Sorry, I don't mean to take it out on you, but I'm so tired of people comparing the US to other countries. The US is not other countries, it has different priorities.

By the way, an assault rifle was not used in the Sandy Hook shooting http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/
Only pistols, so please explain to me one more time how banning an assault rifle would have stopped this or other tragedies?

This continues to be a very complex investigation and there is a lot of contradictory information out there, but we have some new information this morning (one month ago) from a couple of federal officials and state officials. They say now that there were actually four handguns inside the school, not just two as we were initially told. Four handguns and apparently only handguns that were taken into the school. We knew that Adam Lanza, the man said to be the gunman here, also had an ‘assault-style’ AR-15 -style rifle that he had had taken to the school, it was in the car he drove there, his mother’s car, but we have been told by several officials that he had left that in the car.

This is from NBC who corrected it way back in january (not MSNBC however they still claim that he used the AR) http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/

Obama is a neoliberal,

You might as well claim Obama is a courtier of the Seelie court, if you ignore Obama's actual ideology and actions.

he'd never propose anything that wasn't a cash grab for someone

That's not what neoliberalism means. Basically, it's a negative connotation label for free market or laissez faire-economy beliefs or advocates.

For example, the US health care legislation, supported by Obama, of which an aspect is discussed here is heavily anti-market and high regulation. It requires insurers to cover various things and forces them to ignore preexisting conditions (interference with the market) and has already generated well over ten thousand pages of new regulation. On that substantial basis alone, one would not consider Obama neoliberal.

His healthcare plan was basically written by the Heritage Foundation, not generally known as a bastion of socialism.

If that were true, then it'd be a lot shorter than it actually is.

I have done quite a bit of research actually.

Right...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/20/obama-asserts-executive-privilege-over-ff-docs/?page=all
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/page/univision-news-investigation-operation-fast-furious-weapons-revealed-17352963
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/the-benghazi-drip-drip-drip/
http://www.examiner.com/article/retired-officer-obama-watched-benghazi-attack-happen-sources-say
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/20/more-than-500-economists-5-nobel-laureates-back-romneys-economic-strategy/
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/25/news/economy/obama-congress-grades/index.htm
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/oct/2/real-obama-economic-policy-record/
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/07/10891-top-4-most-wasteful-michelle-obama-vacations/ http://obamagolfcounter.com/

Note the many right-wing sources like CNN and ABC News.

I saved the apology tour for last, as I found several quotes you'll no doubt enjoy:

- At a Summit of the Americas, Obama regretted how “at times we sought to dictate our terms.” In an op-ed about policy toward the America’s, Obama declared: “Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors.”

- Speaking to the Turkish parliament, Obama rationalized: “The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”

- Addressing CIA employees about an administration report which castigated the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects, the President urged: “Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes.”

- In a speech, Obama denounced the techniques used in the war on terror: “Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us – Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens – fell silent.”

- In that same address at the National Archives, he went into full apology mode over Guantanamo: “There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America’s strongest currency in the world. Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against Al Qaeda that drew upon our deeply held values and traditions, our government was defending positions that undermined the rule of law.”

0's rhetoric and actions have weakened America considerably, which is reflected in the actions of the PRC and Russia in particular.