body_armorGuns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat in the California state legislature, wants to ban body armor in the Golden State.

According to press release on Honda’s website,

Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA17) today introduced the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act of 2014, which allows law enforcement to respond to active shooters more effectively. It accomplishes this by prohibiting the sale, purchase, use, or possession of enhanced military-grade body armor by anyone who is not a member of law enforcement, active duty military, or other authorized users. Continue reading “California Rep. Wants to Ban Body Armor For Civilians”

bradyGuns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

First off, as ludicrous as this sounds, it is not a joke. Former White House Press secretary James Brady (the namesake of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) has just been ruled a homicide.

NBC News is reporting the following,

The death of James Brady — President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary who was wounded in the attempt on Reagan’s life in March 1981 — was a homicide, the District of Columbia medical examiner ruled Friday. Continue reading “(Not a Joke) James Brady’s Death at Age 73 Ruled Gun Homicide From 1981 Shooting”

Coco, modeling the WarKitteh collar.Wired – by Andy Greenberg

Late last month, a Siamese cat named Coco went wandering in his suburban Washington, DC neighborhood. He spent three hours exploring nearby backyards. He killed a mouse, whose carcass he thoughtfully brought home to his octogenarian owner, Nancy. And while he was out, Coco mapped dozens of his neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks, identifying four routers that used an old, easily-broken form of encryption and another four that were left entirely unprotected.

Unbeknownst to Coco, he’d been fitted with a collar created by Nancy’s granddaughter’s husband, security researcher Gene Bransfield. And Bransfield had built into that collar a Spark Core chip loaded with his custom-coded firmware, a Wi-Fi card, a tiny GPS module and a battery—everything necessary to map all the networks in the neighborhood that would be vulnerable to any intruder or Wi-Fi mooch with, at most, some simple crypto-cracking tools.   Continue reading “How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi”

Dangers: Larry Spence, Willacy County Sheriff for 29 years, said the problem is reaching a crisis point. He said: 'Lately we've been having a lot of traffic through the ranches. Smuggling, illegal immigrants, drugs'Daily Mail – by Will Payne

The Sheriff leading the investigation into the brutal slaying of a Border Control Agent by two illegal immigrants has revealed local farmers in his county have reported spotting gangs of armed Mexicans ‘in military fatigues’ marching through their fields.

Sheriff Larry Spence’s department played a key role in catching Ismael Hernandez and Gustavo Tijerina after they allegedly gunned down hero officer Javier Vega Jr. in front of his mother, father, wife and three sons while they were on a family fishing trip.   Continue reading “Sheriff leading probe into murder of Border Patrol agent claims armed illegal immigrants in military fatigues have been spotted on Texas ranches”

Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesCBS News – by Sarah Carroll

It’s pretty amazing what humans can accomplish together when they put their minds to something.

A subway rider in Perth, Australia didn’t “mind the gap” and ended up slipping and getting his leg stuck in between the train car and the platform.

The conductor was notified right away to not leave the station and his fellow passengers immediately sprung into action.   Continue reading “Viral Video: People Lift Subway Train To Free Trapped Man”

Breitbart TV 

Border Patrol agent and vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, Shawn Moran, debunked the argument that illegal immigrants are only coming to the United States to work on Friday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel.

“These are not people just coming here to work as the so-called line is fed to us. These people are coming here to do horrible things. And I think the murder of Agent [Javier] Vega shows what these people are capable of,” he said.  And, “We’re up against close to 50 years of lack of border enforcement by the U.S. government. We have two political parties that are unwilling to take real enforcement action, and we have had two administrations in a row that gutted enforcement actions by the U.S. Border Patrol, by ICE agents, that do not allow us to actually go to do our job. We are handcuffed at every single turn.”   Continue reading “Border Patrol Agent says the invaders are here to do horrible things”

Kate Upton Live With Kelly and MichaelThis is the true state of our Republic. A stupid mind numbing tel-lie-vision show is on. ABC interrupts it to tell the sheep that we are bombing Iraq and the sheeple are upset because bombing another country interrupts their brain numbing TV show.

Uproxx – by A. Isaac

Kelly Ripa is on vacation this week so Live With Kelly and Michael scrambled to find women capable of making moms (and bloggers at home) laugh at crappy jokes. Today’s guest host was Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton. You may have heard of her.   Continue reading “ABC Interrupted Kate Upton On ‘Live With Kelly And Michael’ For Breaking News And People Weren’t Happy”

Yahoo

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia further tightened its control of the Internet on Friday, requiring people using public Wifi hotspots provide identification, a policy that prompted anger from bloggers and confusion among telecom operators on how it would work.

The decree, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on July 31 but published online on Friday, also requires companies to declare who is using their web networks. The legislation caught many in the industry by surprise and companies said it was not clear how it would be enforced.   Continue reading “Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi”

Yahoo News – by Noelle Swan

An overwhelming majority of Americans believe undocumented immigrants pose a threat to the American way of life, according to a new poll.

Some 70 percent of Americans and 86 percent of Republicans believe that undocumented immigrants threaten traditional US beliefs and customs, according to an online Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday. Nearly two-thirds of respondents – 63 percent – said that undocumented immigrants place undue burden on the US economy.  Continue reading “70 percent of Americans see immigration as threat to American way of life”

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG -- House exterior where a burglar was shot by the homeowner after a break-in at 2736 Adams Avenue.Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

A burglary suspect found himself in the hospital and then jail after choosing the wrong Baton Rouge, Louisiana home to break into earlier this week.

The owner of the home that Bem Sampson, age 19, allegedly broke into was out of town. However, the home was not unprotected.

The father of the woman who owned the home just happened to be driving by to check on the home when he noticed something was amiss.   Continue reading “Father Uses .357 Magnum to Stop a Suspect Who Was Robbing His Daughter’s Home”

British Foreign Secretary of State for Foreign an Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague (L) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen unveils the logo of the NATO Wales' summit before a family picture as part of a Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting in Brussels on June 25, 2014. (AFP Photo)RT

Peace activists have set out on a three-week ‘Long March on Newport’ to protest against September’s NATO Summit. Police say they have drafted in 9,000 officers to face the protesters in one of the UK’s biggest ever police operations.

More than 20,000 activists from around the world are expected to take part in demonstrations during the summit, where a week-long peace camp and a counter summit are among some of the events planned in what has been billed as Wales’ largest protest in a generation.   Continue reading “Anti-NATO protesters begin 192-mile march on summit”

Reuters/Blair GableRT

Annoyed potential immigrants are planning to sue the Canadian government after Ottawa canceled the so-called ‘millionaire visa’ program, which had allowed tens of thousands of well-off foreigners to gain fast-track visa entry.

The scheme was temporarily frozen in 2012 due to a backlog of paperwork; however, the Canadian government announced in February that it was going to scrap the program permanently.   Continue reading “No longer welcome: Canada blocks fast-track visa program”

The South Lawn and the White House is pictured in Washington August 7, 2014. (Reuters/Larry Downing)RT

A security breach at a White House lawn prompted a brief lockdown of the territory and led to a delay of President Obama’s briefing on Iraq. The intruder the Secret Service confronted was smaller in size than they might have expected.

It was a toddler who sneaked away from his parents: he managed to squeeze through the iron bars of the White House fence and set out on a walk across the lawn.   Continue reading “Obama’s briefing delayed by toddler causing White House security alert”

Mail.com

SEATTLE (AP) — A four-day search for a missing Washington girl who vanished from her home over the weekend came to a tragic end Thursday, as authorities said they believe they have found the body of 6-year-old Jenise Wright.

Authorities in Kitsap County said Thursday they’re trying to track down anyone responsible, and they’re “not ruling out anything.” “This is going to be a criminal investigation, there’s no doubt about that,” said Kitsap County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Wilson.   Continue reading “Tragic end after 4-day search for missing girl”

ABC News

The United States carried out an airstrike against ISIS militants in Iraq today, targeting artillery, the Pentagon’s press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said.

Kirby said two F/A 18 fighter jets dropped 500 pound laser guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish province. He said the artillery was being “used against Kurdish forces defending Erbil, near US personnel.”   Continue reading “US Carries Out Airstrike Against ISIS in Iraq”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The current Ebola crisis in West Africa is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbreaks of the disease combined, the health official leading the U.S. response said Thursday.

The next few weeks will be critical, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is sending more workers into the affected countries to help. “It will be a long and hard fight,” Frieden told a congressional committee Thursday.   Continue reading “CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented”

Mail.com

DOVER, Del. (AP) — More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people — many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch — in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the victims were found in a dilapidated former funeral home in Delaware, officials said Thursday.

The discovery brought back memories of a tragedy that killed hundreds of children and a U.S. congressman and horrified Americans. The remains were clearly marked, with the names of the deceased and place of their death included on accompanying death certificates, authorities said. Kimberly Chandler, spokeswoman for the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, declined to release the names of the nine people to The Associated Press. She said officials were working to notify relatives.   Continue reading “3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found”