THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

North Korea Suffers Internet Outage North Korea's Internet was down again today, according to monitoring specialist Dyn Research, with the latest blackout coming hot on the heels of yesterday's widespread nine-hour outage. The White House and the State Department on Monday declined to say whether the U.S. government had any role in North Korea's Internet problems. Guest host Mark Simone joked that he felt it had to the White House that caused the outage. "What this administration does really is screw up websites and the internet," Simone joked referencing the ObamaCare website fiasco. "Or perhaps, in all seriousness, this was a way for the U.S. to send a shot across the bow to North Korea to tell them to knock it off." Only a very small number of people among North Korea's elite use the Internet. A slightly larger group of privileged North Koreans can see a tightly controlled Intranet called "Kwangmyong," meaning "Bright." Web browsing sessions, chats and emails are monitored and content comes pre-filtered by the state. "Kwangmyong" provides a connection between industry, universities and government. Its role seems to be to spread information, rather than for commerce, entertainment or communication. It is unclear how many Internet-connected devices are used in North Korea. Most likely the number of Internet users is small considering that the country has only 1,024 Internet Protocol addresses for a population of 25 million, according to So Young Seo, a researcher at South Korea's state-run Korea Information Society Development Institute. Religious Liberty Under Attack Religious liberty is under attack in America, and here's the latest example. The city of Houston tried to force pastors in her town to turn over "all speeches, presentations, or sermons" related to various topics, including homosexuality and gender identity. The subpoenas were issued as a result of a lawsuit filed related to Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance. According to Fox News, "The new law, which has yet to take effect, would (among other things) allow men who identify as women to use the restrooms of their choice - and vice versa. Opponents launched a petition drive to put the issue on the ballot. However, the city threw out the petitions claiming there were not enough legitimate signatures. Opponents then filed a lawsuit - which led the city to issue the subpoenas." The mayor has since backed off, but it just goes to show how eager the Left is to use the government to force its values upon us.