The continuous torrent of bile emanating from the White House will continue. Outliers for the liar will peel off. Some of the base will have epiphanies. Silent supporters will slither away… Read More

 “An analogy: knowing full well that murders will inevitably occur in a nation of 300 million people, we nonetheless adopt homicide laws and punish violators we manage to apprehen… Read More

This is one way to look at it: Read More

Group F believes there is nothing we can do to stop gun violence. All suggestions, even one so slight as banning large capacity magazines, is immediately rejected for various incorrect reaso… Read More

Important Highlights:    •    January 20, 2017 - Ronald Turk, the No. 2 official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives circulates an… Read More

I felt them calling out and awoke in the early morning hours. The victims of the shooting in Vegas. The victims of so many previous shootings. The suicides made easy with a nearby trigger.I… Read More

Dragging my psyche, my body and ultimately, my future through as accurate a documentary as could possibly be created was excruciatingly painful. It was painful to watch Kim Novick and Ken Bu… Read More

I hear crackpots and eminent scientists trying to link a massive societal change with tomorrow’s celestial event. Solar eclipses are visible somewhere on earth approximately every 18 m… Read More

In the mid-1970s I began to teach my first classes, television show direction, in the large Council Rock High School television studio. Mr. Metzgar, our TV teacher, allowed me to begin instr… Read More

The doctor at a distance, my friend, is no longer interested in treating me via text message.  And I don’t want her to be. She’s a neonatologist and has a NICU full of prema… Read More

I'm amazed how often major Internet tools are left to decay by their development teams. LinkedIn is just the latest site to show signs of neglect. I realize they don't make enough money to h… Read More

On the morning of 21st December 1900, seven small open boats from Firth, Mossbank and Toft set off for the winter haddock fishing. They were some 32 kilometres (20 miles) away, between the H… Read More

Various journalists and commentators have been comparing what Jared Kushner did, that is, attempt to set-up an illegal back channel to Putin, to actions taken by President Thomas Jefferson.H… Read More

With the ouster of Coulter as a speaker at Berkeley once again everyone is raising the issue of free speech. We must realize free speech is also the reason she is not delivering that talk in… Read More

Here I am out for a walk on the farm. My SLR is hanging from my shoulder. It has a very sensitive shutter release. This camera also has a very complex 36.3 megapixel full-frame, Sony-built… Read More

Add Turkey to the list of nations that influenced the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Michael Flynn was just looking out for Turkey's best interests, while campaigning for Trump. Flynn, the… Read More

Recently there’s been an upsurge in concern about phone hacking. People are afraid the government is hacking their phones, tablets and computers. Stories are all over the media, writte… Read More

This essay is part of a series written on investing intended to be helpful but not too technical. A beginners course for fledging investors, if you will.  You do need your money to grow… Read More

While I was waiting for my car to be serviced at a dealership I recently experienced what rural America already knows. A new car buyer arrived in the showroom. He speaks only Spanish. The de… Read More

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the impris… Read More

Separation of powers is the cornerstone of American democracy. When the judicial branch is blocked from performing its role as a check on the executive, this will lead to a constitutional cr… Read More

Slowly  but convincingly, major businesses have learned they cannot avoid the strong arm of government regulators. Business tricks played with mortgages, pollution, exotic investment ve… Read More

These are the contents of mostly hand-made signs carried by women all over the world:You can't comb over misogyny.Keep your mitts off my lady bits.A nation is not defeated until the hearts o… Read More

 Lately I've taken to following world events from the point of view of intellectual authors and writers in India. I've always enjoyed BBC, Le Monde, Deutsche Welle and CBC articles alon… Read More

We who thought the masses would never again accept a leader so full of misogyny, xenophobia and other rank types of hate are so gravely disappointed,The only saving grace to having the court… Read More

The Washington Post writes today about how some organizations are using technology to spot Swine Flu outbreaks. It's a shame they did not suggest to employers that they should relax their at… Read More

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The total cost to build and operate a nuclear sub… Read More

"Skeletons"Skeletons in your closetItchin' to come outsideMessin' with your conscienceIn a way your face can't hideOh things are gettin' real funkyDown at the old corralAnd it's not the skun… Read More

Hundreds of millions of people all over the world carry an iPhone. Only a fraction of them replace their iPhones most years. Every two or three years more people sell their old iPhone or giv… Read More

Certain politicians are saying they don't want to openly state that the recent U.S. election was illegitimate. But anyone who has stayed informed of the facts knows it was. This article is n… Read More

Only 30% of registered voters turned out to vote earlier this month, the lowest turnout since the 1940s. This poor voter turnout perhaps demonstrates the overall apathy of voters, especially… Read More

Looking over my stock portfolio I see my unrealized gains stand at 105%. I’ve held the majority of all the stocks in that portfolio for just about 4 years. That works out to 26% averag… Read More

I’m really starting to wonder what is going on at Apple, Inc.. Allowing malware to propagate through the App Store? Who in the world decided that the Shuffle and Continuous Play button… Read More

As a techie and especially a mobile device specialist, GPS applications have been a mainstay of my business and government training activities and personal use. All, except perhaps for Gas B… Read More

NOTE: Briefly, if you tried to upgrade to the new iPhone through apple.com in the days after the new iPhone release announcement you knew the stock would be going up. I do that a day or two… Read More

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific informati… Read More

In talks with co-workers I am learning that literally everyone I know gets 4 to 5 robocalls every day, often including weekends. These calls are all very much the same. An automated woman&rs&hell…Read More

...neighbors had complained about a suspicious chemical smell coming from the building.Excerpt from an article about the recent airport attack in TurkeyA similar complaint was lodged against… Read More

The fund has bought Dollar Tree, Inc.(NASDAQ:DLTR) shares for almost ten years now. The oldest shares are up nearly 1,000% despite my grade school math teacher teaching me otherwise. Mr. Pre… Read More

This analyst was not convinced that Brits would vote to leave the EU. We did examine the portfolios we manage for direct exposure to the UK. Our investments are mostly unrelated to England's… Read More

The New York Times is discussing how U.S. Intelligence efforts are faltering in the face of leaks. Apparently a plot to attack the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was revealed by major news sources… Read More

I see new technology being rapidly deployed all around me. Hospitals are adopting new software like Epic and new tools like Apple’s iPad. Corporate classrooms are getting new displays… Read More

In response to the recent mass murder event at the Washington Navy Yard:In addition to the tragic loss of human lives, these mass murders cost millions of dollars. Beyond several days work l… Read More

Your first assignment as a budding connoisseur of the world’s greatest movies or “cinephile” is to watch Ingmar Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring”, Akira Kuros… Read More

Some Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:DLTR) shareholders decided to “shake the tree” with a sell-off over the past few days. As a long investor in Bob Sasser’s management s… Read More

Yesterday I read again about the H1-B visa program in the New York Times. You probably know about the government program that allows very big corporations to use existing older U.S. citizen… Read More

“So often the world sits idly by, watching ethnic conflicts flare up, as if these were mere entertainment rather than human beings whose lives are being destroyed. Shouldn’t the… Read More

We had breakfast together, she ordered the rat Read More

(Note: This analyst speaks some Arabic and prefers the term “Daesh” for referring to the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Other outlets use ISIL or ISIS or even th… Read More

(Note: This analyst speaks some Arabic and prefers the term “Daesh” for referring to the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Other outlets use ISIL or ISIS or even… Read More

“G.E. is forecasting that by 2020 there will be one billion connected electric meters, 100 million connected light bulbs and 152 million connected cars globally.” I don’t d… Read More

I’m not certain that everyone involved understands the consequences of allowing a mass migration event to occur. On the one hand, Germany and certain other European nations are doing s… Read More

Billions of dollars change hands every day in the stock markets. A significant portion of those transactions can be linked to mobile technology firms and their suppliers. Mobile tech is a br… Read More

The decision is the Iraqi governments to make and they had better make it soon. Do they want a new neighbor that is thriving and prosperous? Do they want a new border country that has proved… Read More

My father went to vote today, as he has nearly every year for the past 65 years. At the polling place, where he is well-known, Dad was told his name had been purged from the Virginia voter r… Read More

All the other background noise in my life apparently drowned out the recent sound of the Bose accusations against Beats. Bose headphones are known for their superior noise-cancelling feature… Read More

Lately people are noticing the price of gas really dropping. It went from $3.37 per gallon to $2.87 per gallon in one month at a gas station in Millersville, Maryland. To someone who drives… Read More

By not immediately responding to the downing of a commercial jet, European leaders are setting a dangerous precedent. Inaction sometimes speaks as loud as action. There are other cases of we… Read More

Inquiry from a fellow UAT testing person:I was wondering if you know anyone (or anyone who knows anyone…) who is somehow involved in the field of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) resear… Read More

Good evening. Some may tell you of their recent fascinating experience at a local cinema hall. She may describe to you the action and suspense encountered, the emotions felt or the fear conv… Read More

Learning to watch art movies is important. As a very young man I first read about Bresson, Bergman, Hitchcock and Fellini films in columns written in the New York Times, New Yorker magazine… Read More

As a result of the Boston Marathon Bombing many intelligence analysts and reporters have been forced to re-examine the role Chechnya and neighboring Caucuses states may play in fut… Read More

Briefly, I've made a life-long hobby of studying nearly every National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report related to highway, rail, aircraft, and pipeline accidents. There are 5… Read More

So there's this nurse in charge of the intensive care unit (ICU) at a large hospital. She is looking at a special application on the display of her Apple iPad. The background of the app is t… Read More