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… To spy on Americans through a FISA court, the FBI must show the target is an “agent of a foreign power,” not merely in contact with a foreign power. (That spy would be Carter Page. - poster) There is a key distinction being overlooked, perhaps conflated, by many who are reviewing the recently released HPSCI memo as it relates to the outlined targeting of U.S. individual Carter Page. In the HPSCI outline it specifically notes the targeting of U.S. individual Carter Page was NOT a FISA Title VII search request. Title VII is FISA(702), the incidental collection of U.S....

I thought is was odd that she had notes to look at before responding to a question? How do you prep notes for a question you have not heard? I also thought her mic/earpiece unit was unnecessary as the podium had the mic for the debaters. Here is a good shot of it...

A lot of people are obsessing over PA, so to make you feel a little better while ignoring PA... I see this is the current state of the polls by state based on latest polling averages which may or may not have the full effect of voter's responses since Cankles lost a shoe and all momentum (if she had any) on 9/11. Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com Even with Trump getting only partial NE and Maine, Trump could win with this scenario now. He could also win by getting Colorado yet giving up NV and NH.

Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Are Tied In Latest IBD/TIPP Poll at 39% with other candidates getting 15%. Just like Reagan/Carter in September 1980. Both candidates had/have similar unfavorables also at this time of the election cycle. From the CNN archive of the 1984 TIME article: "Carter and Reagan are deadlocked at 39% each, while Anderson's support is 15%... based on a national sample of 1,644 registered voters interviewed between Aug. 26 and 28." Regarding favorability among the candidates: From the latest IBD/TIPP poll: "Meanwhile, nearly two thirds (62%) now say Clinton is "not honest or trustworthy," up from 58% in...

The class war is already underway, and the petit bourgeois media is clueless. The typical bourgeois mainstream media pundit is confused and alarmed by Donald Trump's ascendancy. The typical pundit is a member of the petit bourgeois who has zero contact with the working class in America, other than saying "hello" to his/her auto mechanic, hair salon employee, etc. The standard-issue pundit has an overweening sense of their own insight due to their academic/media success; nobody gets air time for confessing "I'm clueless." Their failure to grasp Trump's appeal has revealed their absolute lack of insight and understanding of the...

Just wondering... would three countries (or maybe include a fourth muslim country also) coordinate their efforts to distract the USA, let's say in Korea with a "military action", then China or Russia would make their move on what is really attainable in their eyes... (Spratly? Taiwan? Crimea?) Your thoughts?

Here's an email I sent to my kids in school who love you know who... Well the elections are over and the winner is Obama. He's popular, he's cool, he's black (as long as being 50% white, 45.35% arabic, and 4.65% African is "black"), and you like his social issues maybe (another topic for another time), but if you really care about YOUR future as much as I do about you... just for a moment.. read on: Obama won, but Obama might be the only winner yesterday... Instead of winning, You and I will get to experience continued rising energy...

Suns out, guns out… It’s going to take more than a little oil and a brittle economy to keep these White House staffers down…or their shirts on. Check out White House spokesman Tommy Vietor and chief speechwriter Jon Favreau partaking in an impromptu, shirtless beer pong match at Old Glory in Georgetown on Sunday. Who says working at the White House is all work and no play?

From a "shining city on a hill" to false "hope". How did it come to this? And who will be our horse and rider in 2012?