Chicago, IL —Officials here are saying that the murder rate has suddenly declined to 1965 levels.   The same is happening all across the nation. However having anti-gun or self-defense zealot Barack Obama in the Whitehouse has brought on a huge surge of never before seen levels of civilian gun buying.   Wow! Those that think that more guns in the hands of civilians would create massive bloodbaths or worse with the considerably relaxed laws on possessing or carrying them have been proven wrong.       Chicago went from a total gun ban to “shall issue” carry permits for the law-abiding.   The program has not yet been implemented but prosecutors cannot enforce the bans on gun carrying by the large population of people possessing state firearm ID cards. The George Zimmerman  shooting and trial was the greatest PR event against crime ever by sending a highly publicized message to thugs everywhere.   That message is that doing ...

Phoenix, AZ —I just had to have one of these things when I learned they could carry my wildly popular high definition GoPro cameras to new heights capturing previously impossible video. I now have the Blade 350 quadcopter that I obtained from B&H   Photo .   I also now have two GoPro cameras and a large box of accessories including lots of clever camera mounts.   Two GoPro cameras are not enough for filmmakers that need to cover every angle.   I think I need three more. Amazon.com just announced their plan to utilize drones to deliver packages less than five pounds in 30 minutes to our homes.    There are some huge hurdles that may prevent that from ever happening.   However the free publicity for Amazon at the beginning of the Christmas season obviously motivated that announcement. A drone was recently discovered being used to deliver drugs and cell phones to prison inmates.   One drone owner friend said using his dro...

Arizona/Mexico Border —Our nuclear-armed enemies have had five solid years of deliberate and well publicized, near non-protection of our borders.  Instead of protecting our borders the Obama Administration instead beefed up the senseless fondling, groping and outright molesting of old American grandmothers and their little grandchildren by TSA goons at our airports. The first and so far only use of the Atomic Bomb was by us against Hiroshima and Nagasaki , Japan in August of 1945. Soon thereafter Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and others stole the manufacturing secret passing that technology to the Soviet Union. The couple was executed in the eclectic chair for their dastardly acts.  From there the stolen secret has armed numerous nations some of which are rogue.   In the almost 70 years since we’d be really naïve to think building such a device is beyond that of any reasonably financed nation.  We really don’t know who has them or no...

Los Angeles, CA —The best part of my life was being a medical corpsman for the U.S. Army serving in Germany.   This resulted from being drafted during the Viet Nam War. There,  I learned a lot about hand washing and sanitization.   It all made perfect sense.   Let me begin by reminding you that the life expectancy for human males in America in 1900 was 47 years old?   Wow, what a short life.   Our most important discovery was Penicillin to combat infections that were killing us all.   There is a catch to that wonder drug and that’s over and or too much repetitive treatment.   We have now have created so-called super bugs that are immune to our antibiotics arsenal. Soon we will have to find new ways to treat infections.   The best way is not to either get or transmit deadly infections to begin with. People in nursing homes, hospitals and care facilities are becoming infected with the superbugs at a much faster rate than i...

Dallas, TX —It was 50 years ago today when a somewhat trusting U.S. president rode his last motorcade in an open top limousine.  We all think we know what happened.  However it seems the only thing we agree on is that a young president and war hero John F.  Kennedy was shot to death.  Had that happened today with our present technology there would have been thousands of revealing and stunning camera images and videos.  Abraham Zupruder had his new Bell & Howell 8 MM film camera with color film and captured the somewhat grainy movie film.  Had he a modern consumer HD digital video camera the images would have been more revealing and much more difficult to watch.  That also would have answered many more questions for investigators.  Those of us that were alive remember exactly where we were that day and how we learned about that “crime of the century.” For me that day was ordinary.  I removed my cased Springfield .22 ri...