From Space Marine to Apollo 13: Remembering Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton is that guy you’ve seen in a hundred movies, but somehow always manage to confuse with Bill Pullman.  One of them gave an incredible speech in “Independence Day” (Pullman) – the other played characters that were sometimes cringeworthy, like the wannabe-spy car salesman wooing people’s wives in “True Lies” (Paxton), but for guys like […]

Mattis wanted this woman as his second-in-command — here’s why she turned him down

Michèle Flournoy met with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in December about coming on board as his deputy, but she ultimately turned down the job. A roundtable discussion in Politico Magazine published on Monday finally reveals why: Her own conscience would have made it difficult. “When [Mattis] called me to ask me to consider ways to help, I […]

Fighting human trafficking during Super Bowl with DeliverFund

“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” That is a quote from German military strategist, Helmuth von Moltke, in its unabridged form, as he uttered it during his tenure as chief of staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871. Words to live by, […]

Trump calls for a $54 billion increase on defense spending

According to White House Budget Officials, President Trump is preparing to unveil his new defense spending plan, which will include adding $54 billion to the existing defense budget, and cutting the same from non-defense related costs, including a large reduction in foreign aid. “This budget will be a public safety and national security budget,” Trump […]

Drunken driver injures 28 at New Orleans Mardi Gras parade

A pickup truck driven by a man who appeared to be “highly intoxicated” plowed into a crowd of spectators watching the main Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Saturday, sending more than 20 people to the hospital, police said. The truck, traveling along the side of the street open to traffic along the Mid-City […]

NASA mission discovers organic compounds in the asteroid belt, could indicate life

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was launched in 2007 with a mission that didn’t garner a great deal of attention in the press.  The small craft was headed for the asteroid belt, where it would be tasked with studying the development of protoplanets, or celestial bodies in orbit around our sun that could have developed into planets.  […]

Trudeau defends move to give U.S. agents more powers in Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday defended plans to give more powers to U.S. border agents stationed in Canada, saying travelers would at all times be protected by domestic laws. As part of a 2015 deal between Canada and the United States, Trudeau’s government has introduced draft legislation allowing U.S. border agents based in […]

NASA announces discovery of three nearby planets that may harbor life

NASA held on press conference on Wednesday to announce the discovery of seven “earth like” rocky planets in a single solar system, Trappist-1, located only approximately forty light years away.  Of the planets discovered, three of them are the right distances from their star to be considered within the solar system’s “habitable zone,” meaning they […]

WATCH: DARPA’s EXACTO sniper round can change course in mid-air

The movie Wanted showed us what it would be like if Angelina Jolie could curve the trajectory of bullets using a combination of martial arts-like moves and a pouting lower lip, but despite Jolie demonstrating her skills by shooting people around slight corners or standing in a perfect circle around her, the movie failed to […]

Scammers in New York are posing as ICE agents to rip off people afraid of deportation

Con artists and scammers have apparently seized on the recent, high-profile deportations of immigrants in the US in order to rip off people afraid of being detained and removed from the country. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued an urgent fraud alert on Thursday, warning immigrant communities in the state about reports of fraudsters […]