Ivanpah Solar Plant Unintended Consequences

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) not only roasts birds in mid-air, but also seems to be a hazard to aviation. New estimates for the plant, an innovative 2.2 billion solar project says thousands of birds are dying yearly, roasted by the concentrated sun rays from the mirrors. (1)

Obama Looks the Other Way When Wind & Solar Power Kill Birds & Bats

Massive solar power plants and wind turbines are killing birds and bats in large numbers, but the Obama Administration is not disturbed. In Appalachia, the administration imposes strict standards on the amount of salt in streams below coal mines because it may (or may not) have an adverse effect on mayflies and other flies, but hundreds of thousands of birds and bats are killed every year by solar and wind facilities and the Obama administration shrugs it off. In fact, they give permits to companies to do so.

Q&A: Can the World Count on the U.N. to Fight ISIS Terrorists?

Top officials for the United Nations last week announced the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, committed crimes against humanity “on an unimaginable scale.” On Monday, the international organization followed up by sending a fact-finding team to Iraq to investigate these claims.

Calgary--Jihadi Capital of Canada

On Friday, Steven Blaney, Canada's Minister of Public Safety, released the 2014 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada. This year's report highlights the threat to the country from homegrown terrorists.

War as a Fact of Life

Younger generations can be forgiven if all they know of war is what they have learned in school or seen dramatized on film and television. For most Americans, the Civil War, the two World Wars, and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam are events that occurred “a long time ago.” For my generation, born just prior to or during World War Two, wars have been a constant element of our lives.

Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

My boyhood best friend and mentor, Jaybird, loved for me to read Biblical stories to him. Because manhood was of paramount importance to the old black man, his favorite stories were about men of great valor.

US IS history 101-A+B (Depends how IS gets defined)

Space-ship lands in the front yard and space-men get out with space-lawmowers and mow the grass and hand us the bill and then go back in the ship. Then they come back out again with space-groceries in space-grocery bags for us and all the neighbors. We shake hands and they hand us the space-bill for that. So far so good.

Obama’s no strategy IS his strategy

Take that as a play on words if you wish but the point to be made is that President Obama’s “faux pas” at the Thursday #yeswetan press conference was no mistake. It’s all the rage to be outraged at the president’s evident dismissal of the advancing threat of ISIS, however there is purpose behind his stating “we don't have a strategy yet” for dealing with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Putin: I Can Take Kiev in Two Weeks: Obama: No Strategy, Yet!

Russian President Vladimir Putin is showing signs that the sanctions and other aggressive tactics pursued by Barack Obama are having an impact—but mostly in the wrong direction, as far as America is concerned!

The Scum Bucket Challenge

I hate to toss cold water on the cold water toss but if so, facts so.

Obama given rise of ISIS Reports a year ago

CCRKBA’s Gottlieb Sweetens Gates Debate Challenge: ‘Bring Bloomy’

BELLEVUE, WA – Since billionaire Bill Gates has not accepted a one-on-one debate challenge from Alan Gottlieb to reveal the myriad problems with Initiative 594, Gottlieb announced today that he will allow Gates to bring former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and make it a two-on-one discussion.

Obama wrong about ISIS, says ...Dianne Feinstein?

Uh-oh. Just how bad was Obama's "no strategy" comment? It was so bad that not even Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is willing to defend it.

Governor Perry's twitter feed sends out hilarious tweet, deletes it quickly

Sunday night, Texas Governor Rick Perry's official Twitter feed sent the following image to its followers. It bore simply the abbreviation "A2," featured a photoshopped picture of the Dos Equis "most interesting man in the world" spokesman and, unless you're a liberal stick-in-the-mud, it was pretty funny.

Chillies for a Trout Pout

Tall chanteuse Taylor Swift owes the colour of her choice of lipstick to extracts from Coccus cacti and her pout to capsaicin obtained from Capsicum fruit.

Travel feature: Isle of Wight

A breath of fresh air.

Designed to thrive, America is just surviving

Our destiny as a nation is not to just survive but to thrive. That destiny is embedded in our founding principles as the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and our free market system. But our Founders knew that it would be a challenge to stick to those principles due to the natural tendencies of government.

I got stuck on a Detroit overpass yesterday, because of Joe Biden

So my family and I are driving through downtown Detroit yesterday, when suddenly we find out that all traffic is being stopped as it approaches an overpass traversing I-94. What's up? We're not sure but a Detroit cop is giving the signal that no one can pass.

In Napa Valley, a Community Rallies

John Trinidad, a wine industry attorney who lives on Main Street in Napa, was cleaning up from a party when his home started shaking.

Germany to send heavy weapons to Kurdish fighters