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Report: Neutrinos Faster Than Light

Scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, have announced they have observed neutrinos traveling at speeds faster than light. This has prompted many to debate whether the results challenge Einstein's Theory of Relativity or simply point to a more complex, quantified model of space-time. The experiments at [...]

Technocracy: Legislating Kindness? It's Insane

My WND Technocracy column this week is about the proposal, by a New York State Senator, to expand the definition of manslaughter to include "bullycide."  The term has been coined to mean being driven to suicide by bullying or teasing. In other words, if you hurt my feelings and I hang myself, jump in front [...]

Technocracy: Please Report Me To #AttackWatch

My WND Technocracy column today is about the Obama administration's latest attempt to marginalize and criminalize dissent by encouraging good little libs around the world to inform on their neighbors' freedom of speech. Is it any wonder, then, that [liberals] refuse to give up on the idea of criminalizing and publicly reporting any and all [...]

Technocracy: Laughable Hoffa Apologists

My WND Technocracy column this week is a follow-up to last week's piece — concerning union thug James Hoffa, Jr. and his call to violence against the "tea party." Democrats' political opponents are presumed to speak in a complicated code that only lib augurs can interpret correctly. The double standard used against the Right by [...]

Logan/Smyth and the Mystery of the Ring Knife

It all started when a friend of mine gave me a curious little knife he found at a flea market. Shaped like a ring, it was, he was told, a "paperboy knife," used decades ago by newspapermen to cut the twine on bales of newspapers. A little searching on eBay revealed that knives of this [...]

Technocracy: Hey, Hoffa! You WILL Be Held Accountable

This week I got fed up.  I'm sick and tired of people on the Left talking tough and threatening me.  That's the topic of my WND Technocracy column this time around. When you threaten me, when you threaten your political and ideological opponents, you open a door to real-life consequences. I'm no stranger to threats, [...]

Action Movies and Action Writers

I enjoy watching old action movies from the 1970s. They remind me of my childhood.  My father had many favorites from the 1970s and would record them all on our VCR.  He built a tremendous indexed and cataloged library of action films gleaned from HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime.  I spent many hours working my way [...]

RAM Mini Maglite Conversion Kits Closeout

While cleaning a storage closet I found a limited quantity of these RAM conversion kits for the Mini-Maglite.  Each one provides a tailcap switch and a three-LED replacement bulb assembly for your Mini-Maglite.  If you owned any of these Mini-Maglites years ago, when they were the standard by which pocket flashlights were judged (I had [...]

Technocracy: My Face on a Smashed Watermelon

Recently, I did a product review of a self-defense device that I found lacking in efficacy.  I said so, in blunt language.  The inventor and marketer of the device immediately and publicly questioned my integrity, offered me money to let him hit me, expressed his desire to "slap me around," and finally threatened me with [...]

Technocracy: Publishing's Future and You

My WND Technocracy column this week is something of a departure from my usual column.  We've talked often, in Technocracy, about the changing face of the publishing, entertainment, and intellectual-property development industries.  This week, I decided to offer some advice to the countless aspiring authors who may write the e-books of the future. If somebody [...]