Author: Rretta

Who Is Watching Our Children?

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind’s most basic duty to protect the innocent. Scott Richard Swirling, who was the director of the National Family Planning & Reproductive…

Drones + Internet = Dronenet

The Dronenet is a powerful new technology that, like the Internet, could prove to be a huge threat to your privacy and freedom. The Dronenet is a “short distance drone delivery service built on an open protocol,”  a  network of drones controlled via…

Where Police Stand On Gun Control

In March, PoliceOne conducted the most comprehensive survey ever  of American law enforcement officers’ opinions on the topic gripping the nation’s attention in recent weeks: gun control.  You can read the complete survey at this link. More than 15,000 verified…

The Republicans Did It!

Democrats shoved an unpopular, expensive, ill-conceived and poorly written  law down the country’s throat without  Republican support, and without bothering  to see whether states would want to take on the thankless and costly task of  helping the feds implement it.  …

Bloviator Chokes On Foot

I must admit up front that I have never been a big fan of Bill O’Reilly – he comes across as a pompous bully, no matter which side of the fence he throws his hat.  Being a pompous bully doesn’t mean…

The “I Feel Your Pain” Fairy Tale

As part of his 2014 proposed budget, Obama is proposing to use a  new measure of inflation,  the Chained Consumer Price Index, which  would show a lower level of inflation than the more widely used Consumer Price Index.   The chained…

The Great American Taxpayer Fleecing

Obama’s’ stimulus package was “supposedly” designed to create new shovel ready jobs.   It definitely would require a lot of shovelers to move all that manure. HHS spent $2.4 million on a Columbia study  of  how racism might affect the immune system. …

Cyprus and The Fed’s Funny Money

“There are two ways to enslave a nation.  One is by the sword.  The other is by debt.”  John Adams We’ve all heard the glorious proclamations that the economy has turned thanks to the fed, everything is right with the…

The Baby Slaughter House of Horrors

The murder of  an unborn child is inherently wrong.    It is no more just to kill an unborn child  for convenience than it is to  kill a toddler or any child at any stage of development to avoid hardship.   A society  that condones…