The USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) was commissioned on March 9, 1905. On January 18, 1911, a plane flown by Eugene Ely from the Tanforan airfield in San Bruno, California landed on a platform constructed on her afterdeck. This was the first successful aircraft landing on a ship. The USS Pennsylvania was renamed Pittsburgh on August 27, 1912. […]

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Former Marine Brandon Raub was taken by FBI and Secret Service on 8/15/12 for his patriotic Facebook posts. The ex-soldier is being detained in a mental hospital. It is still unknown exactly what he was arrested for. The mother of Brandon talks about the incident on the Josh Tolley Show. Update: Brandon Raub was released […]

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The word surveillance is the French word for “watching over”; “sur” means “from above” and “veiller” means “to watch”. Surveillance has become a real threat to our privacy, because our government has unprecedented access to almost every aspect of our lives. Spying on communities is nothing new in America. In August of 1945, the NSA […]

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Have you ever tried to build a fan dipole? I’ve had one up for more than a year, which utilizes two bands — 40 meter and 80 meter. Will the fan dipole tune up properly using two different bands? The answer is… it works quite well. I used 12 gauge solid copper wire. For the […]

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Along with many birds of prey, falcons have exceptional powers of vision. There’s a silent falcon with an eagle-eye hovering over your horizon, and it flies in alliance with the bright sun overhead. You will not hear the falcon as it dives down to 100 feet. As you steadily gaze upon the silent falcon, its eyes […]

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Kiss my face. No, I didn’t mean to get so intimate. I’m talking about toothpaste — Organic Triple Action Toothpaste 3.40 Ounces. The kind of toothpaste that is organic and doesn’t have all of the toxic chemicals. Have you looked at the ingredients on the toothpaste label lately? I was looking for fluoride-free toothpaste, but even this type […]

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Christopher Bryson, an investigative reporter and producer of BBC, wrote a book after ten years worth of valuable research. In Bryson’s work, The Fluoride Deception, he manifests how individuals and institutions have played a role in shaping public opinion, and how public policy has developed in the process. We have been coerced since childhood to […]

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This non-stop video shows 297 frames from the Mars Descent Imager aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover as it descended to the surface of Mars. These thumbnail images were received on Earth on August 6, 2012, and cover the last two and a half minutes of descent. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission […]

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Henry Demarest Lloyd was a progressive reporter that worked for the Chicago Tribune, from 1872 until 1885. Lloyd is well known for his searing attacks on unbridled corporate power, and his most famous masterpieces were against the oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. One such piece was published in The Atlantic (Monthly) — “The Story […]

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I’ve said more than once that someday we would be talking through our watches, and we’re almost there. The Motorola MOTOACTV 8GB GPS Sports Watch and MP3 Player has taken us one step closer to this Jetson reality. This is a smartwatch that is BlueTooth enabled, which allows you to receive texts and calls delivered […]

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