Since 2007, the National Security Agency and FBI have monitored several Internet companies in an operation code-named “PRISM.”  Those companies are AOL, Apple, Google, Dropbox, Facebook, Microsoft, PalTalk, Skype, Yahoo and YouTube. Many of these companies are denying any involvement and it’s certain there are others involved. This is happening under the early 70’s doctrine of “Third…

The National Security Agency held a small ribbon cutting ceremony May 30th for its Utah Data Center. The Center, at Camp Williams near Bluffdale between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lakereportedly houses four 25,000 square foot halls of servers and routers designed to collected and store private data from the Internet, cell phones and other electronic…

Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval recently signed a law named after Reno murder victim Brianna Dennison which will take effect January 1st, 2014. According to the new law, if you’re found innocent, not guilty or the charges are dropped, your DNA is expunged from the system. Now the U.S. Supreme Court says law enforcement can legally take your…

“But I thought Da Vinci invented the gun,” I protested as I studied my assignment. “That’s what most people think,” Colonel Jones responded, “But that’s just the product of a poor education system.” Sighing, I returned to my piece of paper, which read, “Hugo Borchardt, 1844-1923.” Since being selected for this operation, I was pretty much lost…

My wife ordered a two-pound bag of black licorice taffy from Vermont to send to her brother in San Diego. A few minutes after placing the order, she received a phone call from a clerk informing her they couldn’t ship her order because of California’s Proposition 65. Say what? Officially known as the Safe Drinking…

Call me a conspiracy nut — but I couldn’t help connect the dots as I wrote these different radio-news reports over the last eight days… May 23: Nevada lawmakers endorsed NV Energy’s plan to retire its coal-fired plants and pave the way for the state’s biggest electrical utility to transition to more renewable sources. After several…

Illegal aliens are eligible to get a driver’s license in Nevada. Earlier the year President Obama signed an executive order earlier this year barring deportations and granted a pathway to citizenship for children brought to America illegally by their parents, but who have since graduated high school, stayed out of legal trouble and gotten a…

The other morning, Jose asked me when the Reno Rodeo was coming to town. “June 20th,” I answered, then asking, “So do you like the rodeo?” “Oh, yeah,” he answered, “Very much!.” “I like the bareback riding events, myself” I said before he could answer. Jose smiled mischievously, “I like the cowgirls.”

It’s kind of scary to realize the Internal Revenue Service will be handling our medical records starting in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act, better known a Obamacare. The agency has already shown how it disregards rights when it comes to whom we support in presidential elections, so think how secure you and I’ll be…

Recently, a six-year-old boy brought a toy gun jus’ a little larger than a quarter onto a school bus in Palmer, Massachusetts and immediately found himself in trouble for violating the districts zero-gun policy. The school sent a letter home  saying he must to write an apology and attend detention and was facing bus suspension. In 1967,…