Washington, D.C .—We have a full-blown crisis!   We are being told that government must suddenly regulate and register the well over two million drones used by hobbyists, photographers, filmmakers and other ordinary civilians. For over two years now we’ve heard the media tell us how these little pesky devices will bring down airliners, invade privacy and destroy our way of life.   Pulling the puppet strings of the media has been the FAA and DOT .   Chicago’s Mayor, Rahm Emanuel said it best back when he was Obama’s Chief of Staff, “ Never let a good crisis go to waste! ”   This drone crisis is nothing more that a manufactured one. The FAA has showered the media with their “facts” in that they claim there are well over 700 cases of near misses with airliners and other conventional aircraft. Missing from these statistics are a single fatality, serious injury or even a report of notable property damage.   Because drones have driven news stories like w...

Los Angeles, CA —I was invited by an Austrian actor friend, Thomas Mikusz to a screening at the Goethe Institute here.  He was moderating the Q&A of German film Director   Edward Berger  ( of the film, JACK ) and   music director  Reinhold Heil .    Ive been   watching this exciting series that now has me absolutely spellbound!  The writing is top notch.  It’s a Sundance-TV original series.  Sounds American, right?  No! It’s Called, DEUTSCHLAND 83 a cold war thriller about the East German Stazi Intelligence and the very hot cold war before Communism as we knew it fell. Interestingly enough this was released here first.   Germany will have to wait until next month to see this! In an age of reality TV garbage and sensational but mindless, over the top special effect films, this is a wonderful story and character driven series.   Yes, terrific actors actually bring the written words to life off ...

Flagstaff, AZ —Overnight on the campus grounds there was an altercation between several male students.    The details of the altercation remain very elusive. We know four young men were shot, and one lad is being held right now by police for investigation. Right now, the dead lad and his pals are being spoken about through tears and a way too early eulogy.    Can’t we simply wait for a fact or two before the Left Wing folks using this to promote their anti-gun political agendas?    Just who was or were the bad guy/s here?     What we know is right now is there was a winner of the altercation, 18 year-old Steven Jones and four losers.   Colin Brough was killed.    Additionally the other three that were wounded by gunfire included, Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring .   They are receiving medical treatment at the Flagstaff Medical Center . When police arrive to mop up these kinds of things they are ve...

Town of Paradise Valley, AZ —Some of this small but wealthy community’s politicians bought into the baseless idea that multi-rotor camera drones were a threat to safety and privacy.   Ignorance and the novelty of the drones themselves motivated politicians here to make an effort to ban drones. They thought that their residents would somehow appreciate their efforts. Things backfired when local relators complained that the use of drones showcased the homes and community like never before.   Banning or over-regulating them could damage property values and of course property tax collections. The Town Council considered the ban but cooler heads in that body tabled the idea at least until they had more valid guidance and information.   How they revisit this issue remains to be seen. As for the somewhat popular Drone Invasion, there were no less than 700 reports of near misses with conventional aircraf t investigated by the FAA . Not a s...

Roseburg, OR —We now know that Christopher Harper-Mercer was a lone wolf, copycat,  wannabe,  Islamic terrorist that targeted Christians for murder. Harper-Mercer found his hapless and defenseless victims to execute here at Umpqua Community College .  They were supposed to somehow be protected by a single unarmed and equally helpless security guard.  With security like that, what could possibly go wrong?  That was considered a wise decision made by overpaid, politically left leaning bureaucrats.  They gambled with the lives of these students and lost.  Unfortunately these bastards will escape punishment for facilitating and enabling the terrorism. Islam is in a constant state of war with infidels and the nations they are invading unimpeded while claiming refugee status.  We must take every precaution to resist terrorist incidents and train to stop incidents like what happened here. While we are under attack by lone wolves and are un...