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Facebook introduces a new location-based feature, Nearby Friends

Recently, Facebook has been on a roll with the purchase of Oculus Rift, adding free Wi-Fi calling to Messenger, and its plans to remove chat in favor of Messenger. Over the next couple of weeks, Facebook will start rolling out a new feature, Nearby Friends, which allows users to broadcast their current location to friends nearby. […] Continue reading →

Ukraine Accord Doubts Grow as Protesters Refuse to Disarm

As the interim Ukrainian government pledged to abide by a four-nation deal reached in Geneva, pro-Russian protesters balked, creating a test of whether Russia will help defuse the crisis. Acting Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s government suspended its anti-terror operations in the country’s east and expressed a readiness to pursue constitutional revisions. A separatist leader […] Continue reading →

The War on Federal Bureaucrats Opens at Bundy Ranch

John Ransom, I love that picture from the Bundy Ranch. You know the one that I’m talking about: I’m talking about all of them. I love the horn-handed Cowboys, with real, honest trail dirt on them; I love the American flags; I love the sagebrush; and I love the rebellion- as in civil, non-violent disobedience. […] Continue reading →

Ted Kennedy Jr. to run for Connecticut Senate

Ted Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce Tuesday that he’s running for the state Senate in Connecticut. Two people briefed on the decision say the son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts will announce Tuesday evening that he intends to seek the Democratic nomination for the 12th Senatorial District. They spoke to […] Continue reading →

Middle School Assignment: Second Amendment Requires Gun Registration

People have the right to certain weapons… providing that they register them A workbook handed out to seventh grade students in Springfield, Ill., states that all Americans must register their firearms in order to have a Second Amendment right. Provided to the Illinois Gun Owners Rights Facebook page by a local parent, the required reading […] Continue reading →

Gov. Chris Christie in Trouble? More subpoenas to come in bridge probe

More subpoenas are expected to be issued by a New Jersey legislative committee investigating a plot by aides to Gov. Chris Christie to create gridlock by blocking traffic lanes near the George Washington Bridge. A person familiar with the committee’s plans told The Associated Press that up to a dozen subpoenas could be issued after […] Continue reading →

Iran says warships sailing towards U.S.: agency

An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach U.S. maritime borders as a response to the stationing of U.S. vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday. “Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” the agency […] Continue reading →

Exam cheating scandal hits Navy nuclear force

In a new twist to a widening tale of ethical lapses in the military, the Navy is investigating cheating allegations against about one-fifth of its trainers at a school for naval nuclear power reactor operators. It is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year, on top of a series of disclosures in […] Continue reading →

Overstock.com sees new market in Bitcoins

Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com says it’s the first major retailer to accept digital Bitcoins as payment for goods. The $1 billion company is tapping into a new market of buyers who use the online currency, and other major retailers will lose market share if they don’t follow suit and accept Bitcoins, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne […] Continue reading →

NSA Employees Upset with How Much Americans Know About Them

Michael Schaus , Apparently NSA employees are a little freaked out that the public knows so much about their operation. According to the Washington Post, morale has taken a hit at the National Security Agency in the aftermath of the controversy over the agency’s surveillance activity. Former officials, according to the Post, are even expressing […] Continue reading →

Secret Service facing with another sex scandal

More than 18 months after a prostitution scandal in South America rocked the Secret Service, the agency in charge of protecting the president is investigating another case of suspected sexual misconduct in its ranks. This time, two supervisory agents assigned to President Barack Obama’s protective detail have been investigated for misconduct involving sexually suggestive emails […] Continue reading →

US forces conduct twin raids in Libya, Somalia

U.S. special forces captured a Libyan al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, seizing him outside his Tripoli home and whisking him out the country. A Navy SEAL team that swam ashore hours earlier in Somalia engaged in a fierce firefight but did not apprehend a terrorist suspected in […] Continue reading →

Obama says U.S. confronting ‘yet another mass shooting’

President Barack Obama said the United States is facing “yet another mass shooting” with an armed attack at Washington’s Navy Yard on Monday and vowed to hold accountable whoever was responsible. With details still emerging about the shootings at the Navy Yard, Obama said he had been briefed on the situation and that the shooting […] Continue reading →

Al Qaeda Leader Calls for Attacks on US: “We Should Bleed America Economically”

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is calling for “sporadic” strikes inside the United States with the hopes of collapsing what he says is an already weakened economy due to war and security measures necessary to fight terrorism. Al-Zawahiri — who became Al Qaeda’s top leader after the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 6 took out Osama […] Continue reading →

NASCAR boots Truex from Chase

Ryan Newman is replacing Martin Truex Jr. in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship as part of NASCAR’S penalties against Michael Waltrip Racing for manipulating the outcome of last weekend’s race at Richmond. Two independent people familiar with the situation described the penalties to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because NASCAR had […] Continue reading →

Though silent, Israel remains worried by Egypt upheaval

Israel has looked on at upheaval in Egypt largely in silence, keen to avoid disrupting strategic security cooperation with a military it sees as critical to curbing attacks by Islamist militants in neighboring Sinai, officials and analysts said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had aides instruct cabinet ministers to avoid public comment about Egypt, according to […] Continue reading →

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