The overhaul amounts to the wolf hiring a fox to guard the hen house.
President Barack Obama gave an extended speech today that was supposed to be a major overhaul to some of the National Security Agency’s most disputed surveillance operations seven months after they were first exposed. It was hoped that the changes would result in reining in the metadata collection program among others. Continue reading
January 15th has come and gone. That’s the deadline businesses are given to have your income reports done and mailed to you, so that you can prepare your tax returns and send them to the IRS by April 15th.
Submitting your tax return by e-file and mailing it on paper are the only two ways to send your tax return to the IRS. E-file is available for both Federal and State income tax returns. Continue reading
Social media giant Facebook is being sued for the alleged monitoring of its users’ private messages in order to gather more consumer data that it in turn shares with marketers. Continue reading
I haven’t had a cigarette in a month. That is, I haven’t had a real cigarette.
Electronic cigarettes, better known by their shortened name, e-cigarettes, uses a technology that turns synthetic nicotine-infused propylene glycol into a vapor that is inhaled. Continue reading
Back in February of last year I wrote about the approaching end of the incandescent light bulb. It was finally put to death on January 1st, 2014. That’s when manufacturing lines of incandescent light bulbs came to a halt in the U.S.
The incandescent light bulb can not be manufactured, or even imported into the U.S. any longer. Continue reading
Lehigh Drive in West Easton has been closed for days due to the ice jam that raised water levels and created an ice skating rink on the roadway.
Last night, a car somehow made it’s way through the “road closed” signs and into the flooded roadway, ending up in about 4 feet of water. The female driver was not injured in the incident. Continue reading
