Obama Baffled By This Mundane Aspect Of Shopping

With each effort Barack Obama makes to resemble an ordinary American, he succeeds only in appearing more out of touch.

B. Christopher Agee Western Journalism 3/12/2014

With each effort Barack Obama makes to resemble an ordinary American, he succeeds only in appearing more out of touch. His clumsy attempts to sell ObamaCare through trendy social […]

Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?

A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case

Glenn Greenwald The Guardian [UK] 4 May 2013

The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable […]

March 10, 1876: ‘Mr. Watson, Come Here … ‘

Randy Alfred Wired.com 3/10/2011

Photo: Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates speaking into the telephone using a model prototype in 1876. (Early Office Museum)

1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, from the next room.

The Scottish-born Bell had a lifelong interest in […]

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