Wikileaks drops another bomb: Thousands of documents claim CIA hackers have access to your smart phone, and even your TV

On Tuesday, Wikileaks published thousands of documents online that they claim were taken directly from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.  The documents purport to demonstrate a number of the tools and methodologies employed by intelligence gatherers at the CIA, including the ability to hack into a number of different kinds of “smart” […]

The ‘Marines United’ nude photo scandal: One Marine weighs in

Whenever news breaks about stolen or hacked photos finding their way onto the internet, two responses are immediate.  One camp, intent on defending the rights of the women who have had their privacy violated, will exclaim that this latest infraction is further evidence that we live in a patriarchal society where men continue to see […]

Russian reality TV star and Playboy model detained at LAX on suspicions of being a spy

A Russian reality TV star and former Playboy model says that she was detained at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicions of being a Kremlin spy. Victoria Bonya, a 37-year-old model and TV host who lives in Monaco and rose to fame after participating in the Russian reality TV show Dom-2 in 2006, wrote about her “endless day” […]

There’s a problem with our nuclear defenses… and no plan to fix it

Decades ago, nuclear safety drills were common practice throughout the United States.  “Duck and cover” taught an entire generation of Americans to fear the possibility of a death by nuclear weapon, and potentially with good reason, as the United States and Soviet Union raced one another to produce ever larger stockpiles of the most powerful […]

New Secretary of Interior arrives to work on horseback

Keeping with his Montana roots, Secretary Ryan Zinke rode on horseback with the US Park Police to his first day on the job as the Secretary of Interior in Washington D.C. yesterday. Sec. Zinke is the 52nd Secretary of Interior and was sworn in on Wednesday after the Senate approved his nomination 68-31. Secretary Zinke was proud to accept […]

DARPA has been using ambulances to search for nukes in D.C.

DARPA has been using ambulances outfitted with special equipment to keep the nation’s capitol safe from nuclear weapons. The Pentagon’s research-and-development shop announced on Wednesday the conclusion of its biggest and longest-running test deployment of its Sigma program. The test run had been running for seven months and finished in February. DARPA installed roughly 73 radiation […]

End of an era: The Air Force sends the Predator out to pasture

Twenty-one years ago, the skies over combat zones were a very different place.  Aircraft of all sorts screamed across the sky just as they do today, but just about every one of them had a person at the helm – controlling the craft from within and using a radio to communicate to ground elements and […]

SpaceX announces plans to orbit tourists around the moon in 2018

Four days before Christmas in 1968, Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first human beings ever to leave Earth and successfully complete an orbit around the moon.  It was the second manned flight of the Apollo program, and its success created the basis for Neil […]

Images of elderly veterans being mistreated at the VA hospital go viral on Facebook

Marine veteran Stephen McMenamin and his wife, Hanna McMenamin posted images of multiple elderly veterans waiting several hours at the Durham VA hospital and their Facebook post has gone viral over the weekend. The elderly veterans featured in the images and video were visibly in pain, either neglectfully waiting hours in their wheelchairs or lying on the ground. After […]