From the Trenches World Report

Market Watch – by Quentin Fottrell

As the housing market slowly recovers, a majority of homeowners and renters are finding it hard to meet rising rents and mortgage payments, new research finds.

Over half of Americans (52%) have had to make at least one major sacrifice in order to cover their rent or mortgage over the last three years, according to the “How Housing Matters Survey,” which was commissioned by the nonprofit John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and carried out by Hart Research Associates. These sacrifices include getting a second job, deferring saving for retirement, cutting back on health care, running up credit card debt, or even moving to a less safe neighborhood or one with worse schools.   Continue reading “Half of Americans can’t afford their house”

The Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

The first name to emerge as the favored choice to head the Department of Veterans Affars previously predicted that Obamacare will eradicate employer-based insurance and push the U.S. towards a single-payer system “like they have in England”.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Dr. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, who heads the Cleveland Clinic, is being heavily sought by the Obama administration to replace Gen. Eric Shinseki, who was forced out last week amid the VA wait list scandal.   Continue reading “Front-Runner To Head VA Predicts Obamacare Will Lead To Single-Payer”

Press TV

The sophisticated computer-driven helmet will give US fighter pilots new capabilities when the aircraft enters the American fleet in the coming years, CBS News reports.

The helmet is run by a computer named ALIS which functions as the “brain” of the fighter jet.   Continue reading “US F-35 fighter jet susceptible to hacking: Report”

The Daily Signal – by Sharyl Adkinson

Just 25 weeks into her pregnancy, Sharrissa Cook gave birth to a critically ill baby boy. Dreshan weighed in at a fragile 1 pound, 11 ounces. He lay motionless in the incubator, connected to tubes and monitors in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.

“He was so tiny,” Cook recalls. “I was a first-time mom. I didn’t have a clue. I didn’t know what to expect.”   Continue reading “Full Disclosure: Did Government’s Experiment on Preemies Hide Risks?”

Time – by Massimo Calabresi

Pentagon, Intelligence officials used Top Secret intelligence to prevent previous release of Taliban Five, officials tell TIME

To pull off the prisoner swap of five Taliban leaders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the White House overrode an existing interagency process charged with debating the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners and dismissed long-standing Pentagon and intelligence community concerns based on Top Secret intelligence about the dangers of releasing the five men, sources familiar with the debate tell TIME.   Continue reading “White House Overrode Internal Objections to Taliban Prisoner Release”

Motherboard – by Ben Richmond

On June 3, 1880, just four years after he patented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was talking wirelessly, sending his words over 213 meters on a mirror and a sunbeam on top of the Franklin School in Washington, DC. Bell called it his most important invention and named it the “photophone.”

Just like a telephone, you’d speak into a transmitter and it would be heard via a receiver, except, rather than sending electrical signals over wire, the transmitter focused light onto a parabolic mirror. When you spoke, the mirror vibrated in response, which modulated the sunbeam and varied the intensity of the light reaching the receiver, where, by shining on light-sensitive selenium, the light became speech again.   Continue reading “Alexander Graham Bell Made a Wireless Phone That Ran on Sunshine”

Bob’s Blog – by Curt Dale

Let’s all remember that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, helped Obama set the table for the Taliban Feast now being celebrated across the Taliban’s world and for Vladimir Putin’s blitzkrieg into the Crimea and his incursions into Ukraine. Her seemingly horrible performance may have been completely intentional, more so than we could ever imagine. Yes, I did write “intentional.” Obama wanted to close Guantanamo from the outset and has chaffed over it for 6 years. He could not quite find the right time to make his move. He could not sell Congress on sending the top five terrorist in that prison back home. Continue reading “Queen Hillary sees “nobility” in Obama’s swap of terrorists for deserter”

CBC News

Homegrown extremism abroad has a new face, and CBC News has learned it belongs to yet another Calgary man, a development that points to the West as a hotbed for exporting jihadis.

His name is Salman Ashrafi, and when the Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) released images of him last month following a double suicide bombing in Iraq in November that killed 46 people, he was celebrated in a martryrdom notice.   Continue reading “Suicide bomber killed in Iraq part of wider jihadi base in Calgary”

Calguns Foundation Wiki

Dealer’s Record of Sale (DROS), 1924

DROS was implemented by AB 263-Hawes, introduced in 1923 and effective August 7, 1924. Licensed dealers were, and are, required to report handgun sales to the state.

Electronic versions of DROS were specified in AB 671 (Peace) in 1997. (link below)   Continue reading “Timeline of California Firearms Laws”

Press TV

On Monday, Sarkozy told reporters in Moscow that he had met with Putin and that they “had lunch together.”

A Kremlin spokesman also said that the meeting took place in Sochi and that it was of a “private nature”.   Continue reading “Sarkozy and Putin meet in Russia”