Mediaite – by Noah Rothman

The headline is positively terrifying. A group of mothers-turned-gun control activists in the wake of the Newtown shootings were menaced and intimidated by 40 plus gun owners openly brandishing weapons – some of which look like the malevolent “assault rifle.” Images of the gun owners appearing to intimidate their ideological foes surfaced, first on ThinkProgress, MSNBC, and even this site. As it turns out, those gun owners appear far less menacing from the front. This is probably why that image has been intentionally left out coverage of this supposed scandal.    Continue reading “MSNBC’s Latest Hilariously Failed Attempt to Smear ‘Terrifying’ Gun Rights Groups”

National Review – by John Fund

James O’Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR’s president fired, is back.

This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare’s “navigators,” the nearly 50,000 people who, in the words of the Department of Health and Human Services, “will serve as an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assistance in shopping for and enrolling in plans” on the Obamacare exchanges (at least when they’re finally working). The total value of grants doled out for nonprofits and community organizations to hire navigators has topped $67 million nationwide, and some of the money is going to a group run by ACORN’s highly controversial founder.    Continue reading “The Truth about Navigators”

Blastr – by Trent Moore

A vintage documentary going behind the scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey has surfaced, delving into the making of the 1968 film two years before it blew our collective minds.

Rediscovered by Open Culture, the 20+ minute featurette looks at everything from the future of space exploration (circa the 1960s) to the making of Stanley Kubrick’s eventual classic. For sci-fi fans, this footage is a treasure trove of awesomeness.   Continue reading “Watch long-lost 1966 documentary that digs deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey”

Still from YouTube video/SandiaLabsRT News

Move over, lightweight flying robots! The drone of the future is currently being developed at a government lab, and if all goes as planned it will do much more than just soar through the sky on its own.

While the United States continues to consider the merits behind its overseas weaponized drone program and efforts to allow surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles sail through domestic airspace, Sandia National Laboratories has released a video showing off a conceptual design meant to make the traditional UAV look like a thing of the past.   Continue reading “Newest drone to fly, swim and drive during missions”

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Schools are increasingly confronting a controversial question: Should they do more to monitor students’ online interactions off-campus to protect them from dangers such as bullying, drug use, violence and suicide?

This summer, the Glendale school district in suburban Los Angeles captured headlines with its decision to pay a tech firm $40,500 to monitor what middle and high school students post publicly on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.   Continue reading “‘Big Brother’ is watching (spying) students online activity”

sunflipSoren Dreier

The sun’s polarity is getting closer to flipping. The star’s northern hemisphere’s polarity has already reversed, and the southern hemisphere should follow suit soon, scientists say.

Every 11 years or so, the two hemispheres of the sun reverse their polarity, creating a ripple effect that can be felt throughout the far reaches of the solar system. The sun is currently going through one of those flips in its cycle, scientists working at Stanford University’s Wilcox Solar Observatory, which has monitored the sun’s magnetic field since 1975, said.   Continue reading “Sun’s Magnetic Field Will Flip Soon”