• U.S. Marines in Danger and Obama Goes Fundraising

    While the media trumpets news about the ‘fall of the U.S. Embassy’ in Yemen — ISIS/ISIL has seized much of Ramadi, Iraq. The town is the location of al-Asad Air Base where 300 U.S. Marines are stationed. Furthermore, Iraqi officials say they’ve lost contact with the base, while the pentagon says the terrorist were repelled.…

  • The Rhetoric of Being Reduced to a Worker

    Listen closely the next time you hear President Obama speak of the American wage-earner and you’ll realize he uses ‘worker,’ verses ‘employee,’ nearly every time. And while some may say it’s accidental or meaningless, it is interesting to note that ‘worker’ is used in the Marxist or leftist contexts to refer to the ‘working class.’ As…

  • Conventional Wisdom says Conventional Blast

    The first headline I saw came late Sunday evening, “Ukrainian government officials confirmed a nuclear blast was detected in Ukraine Sunday.” Unfortunately, I didn’t stop to see where exactly it came from. So I ‘googled’ the sentence and found it being carried by every crack-pot with a website and Internet connection, concluding it wasn’t as big…

  • The Misuse of Three Young Murder Victims

    Three students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are murdered and their deaths used as propaganda.  The victims, all members of the Muslim faith, Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, were shot and killed by Craig Hicks. Although the shooter’s motive is unclear, the Council…

  • George Orwell Strikes Again

    Samsung’s Smart TV appears to be too smart for our own good. The boilerplate language in its instruction booklet seems blasé, until: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third-party through your use of Voice Recognition.”…

  • Making Vince’s Life Mean Something

    He died December 22, 2014 after being struck by two vehicles as he was walking on a crosswalk in front of the Bonanza Casino in Reno, Nevada. Vincent Yowell was only 54-years-old. A woman driving the first car pulled over and called for help before the second car ran over him. The second driver told…

  • Negotiating American Hostages to Death

    The mother of James Foley — the first American hostage beheaded by ISIS — says the alleged death of Kayla Mueller is proof the Obama administration is doing nothing to rescue U.S. hostages from ISIS/ISIL. Diane Foley, whose son was killed last August, says ‘nothing was done’ to save those in captivity. “We were always…

  • Behind the Use of Reno, Nevada’s Police Officers in Ukraine

    Five Reno, Nevada police officers are in Ukraine for two-months to help train Kiev’s police force, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported on February 4, 2015. The department was identified as a participant through former Reno Assistant Chief Ron Glensor, who is now with the U.S. Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP.) What…

  • Debunking the Defunding of DHS

    Senate Democrats halted a Republican attempt to pass legislation that would defund President Obama’s executive action on immigration. After a brief debate, the Senate voted 51-48, with every Democrat and one Republican, Nevada’s Senator Dean Heller, voting against it. Listening to those 51 Senators, because of this immigration battle, the Department of Homeland Security hangs…

  • Congressman Don Clausen, 1923-2015

    Born in Ferndale, California, Don Clausen and serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1983, died February 7, 2015. He was born April 27, 1923 and graduated from Ferndale elementary and high schools, enrolling in the Naval Aviation Cadet program at St. Mary’s College after the U.S. entered World War II, going on…