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Desperate to preserve its water supply amid a four-year drought, Los Angeles is turning a reservoir into a ball pit. It may not seem like the most scientific approach, but officials say the “shade balls” will protect valuable H2O in the City of Angels. Bringing new meaning to the term “throwing shade,” authorities claim the black, plastic balls will preserve the Van Normal reservoir’s water supply in several ways. (excerpt)see all at link:https://www.rt.com/usa/312219-shade-balls-california-drought/

This video gives a further explanation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution in the context of the why the Bill of Rights was included.....

Excerpt: A recently introduced bill in the Illinois state Senate would require anonymous website comment posters to reveal their identities if they want to keep their comments online. The bill, called the Internet Posting Removal Act, is sponsored by Illinois state Sen. Ira Silverstein. It states that a “web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.”

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on S.1639 ) Vote Number: 235 Vote Date: June 28, 2007, 11:04 AM Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected Measure Number: S. 1639 Measure Title: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes. Vote Counts: YEAs 46 NAYs 53 Not Voting 1 Click the link and see how your States Senators voted.

LONDON – A surveillance team from Britain's MI5 intelligence service has learned North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is to undergo surgery for a life-threatening heart condition. The discovery emerged after what the Security Service calls "routine surveillance of certain nations." North Korea has a small embassy in the north of London, housed in a red brick building where its staff work and live. News of the 65-year-old dictator's condition reveals he has cardiomyopathy, a serious heart disease that would usually require open-heart surgery. But Kim's physical condition is further complicated because he is massively overweight and only able to walk...

UPDATE: Jack Kevorkian left prison after eight years. He was greeted by CBS reporter Mike Wallace -- who gave him a hug. COLDWATER, Mich. (AP) - Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" after claiming he had participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after eight years Friday still believing people have the right to die. A smiling Kevorkian said the release was "one of the high points of life" as he paused near a white van that was waiting for him. He was accompanied by "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace and wore a blue sweater, striped...

An online forum tied to the website of the Palestinian group Hamas posted a photo of a little girl in a combat vest and the head band of the terrorist Al-Qassam Brigades. "Have you seen the new child martyr who will soon shake Israel [to the core]?" says the caption, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute blog Future 'martyr' The message accompanying the photo on the Shabakat Falastin Lilhiwar online forum says the girl "is part of the Muslim generation which will go down in history [as a generation] … that refused to [accept] humiliation and defeat." Hamas,...

Hello, has anybody else having trouble accessing Ebay and Paypal sites in the last hour? I'm in Oregon and don't know if it is a regional problem or worse.

Authorities in Costa Rica are crediting a retired member of the U.S. military with the bare-handed death of a mugger who tried to hold up a tour bus of senior citizens. According to an Associated Press report, the police chief in the city of Limon said the 12 senior citizens on a tour bus were accosted by a suspect identified as Warner Segura, 20, and two others. The three alleged muggers were armed with a knife and a .38 caliber revolver and tried to hold up the occupants of the tour bus, Limon Police Chief Luis Hernandez said. But one...

A Muslim man, who outraged many in the UK last year by dressing as a suicide bomber during protests against the Danish publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammed, has been hired to clean trains at night – something that has other employees concerned for their safety. Omar Khayam Omar Khayam's picture – taken outside the Danish embassy in London, complete with fake suicide belt – was seen around the world in February 2006, only half a year after the July 7, 2005, train bombings in London that killed more than 50 people. The attention Khayam drew to himself resulted...

An illegal immigrant who had been deported from the United States several times but returned each time and now was being sought for wounding two police officers in Long Beach, Calif., has died in a shooting with officers who tracked him to a taco stand in Santa Ana, authorities have confirmed. Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters said Oscar Gabriel Gallegos, wanted for the shooting of Long Beach officers Abram Yap and Roy Wade Jr. as they sat in their squad car Dec. 22, died while trying to shoot three of his officers with a .40-caliber Glock equipped with a...

WASHINGTON – Two Americans believe they have spotted Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the al-Qaida operative identified at "the next Mohamed Atta" at a location near Bakersfield, Calif., but have been unable to get the FBI or Homeland Security to investigate. An official report of the sighting of el-Shukrijumah or his "dead-ringer" was filed with an anti-terrorism unit in Kern County. The local enforcement officers, including the county sheriff, reportedly neglected to conduct an investigation, despite the $5 million bounty on Shukrijumah's head. Several federal officials, including U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., when notified of the incident, opted to turn a blind eye...

I was aware that businesses were able to submit a potential employee's Social Security number to verify whether or not the S.S. number was a bona-fide one. I got online and decided to check out that process and was amazed to see that yes, you can indeed verify a Social Security number's authenticity. But you are warned by the Social Security Administration: Do not use SSNVS before hiring an employee.--You may not verify someone's name and Social Security number until after you have offered him or her a job. And furthermore:Doing so could subject you to anti-discrimination or labor law...

WND Boeing apologizes to CAIR for ad Depicted U.S. soldiers rappelling onto roof of mosque Posted: October 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A controversial Muslim lobby group in Washington said it has elicited apologies from the Boeing Co., Bell Helicopter Textron and the National Journal for publishing an advertisement depicting U.S. troops attacking a mosque. The Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said it sent a letter Thursday to top officials of Boeing, Bell and parent company Textron asking for an investigation into how the ad was approved for publication. "We thank Boeing, Bell and...

Police consider Muslim link to cemetery attack By Colin Randall in Paris (Filed: 03/08/2005) The headstones of 42 British soldiers who fell in combat in the First World War have been desecrated in what police in northern France believe may have been the work of Islamist attackers. Police and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission initially believed that the damage to the Albuera cemetery last Saturday in Bailleul-sir-Berthoult, near Arras, was caused by local vandals after a drunken night out. No slogans admitting responsibility or proclaiming any cause were found. The desecrated graveyard ‘Shocking scene’: the cost of repair is put...

The Secret Service anticipated keeping President Bush at Offutt Air Force Base for several days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack if necessary, the 9/11 Commission's final report says. Instead, the president left Offutt after less than two hours in Nebraska. The report tells of hasty conferences among Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, the Secret Service and other advisers about what Bush should do and where he should go as they tried to assess the damage and danger after the terrorist attacks. "Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was chosen because of its elaborate command and control facilities, and because...

What Really Happened on Flight 327? By JOE SHARKEY Published: July 20, 2004 There is no doubt that something out of the ordinary happened on Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29. The plane was met at the airport by squads of federal agents and police responding to radio messages from the pilots about concerns that 14 Middle Eastern male passengers had spent the four-hour flight acting suspiciously.

Posted: November 14, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com While former Alabama Justice Roy Moore has been removed from office due to controversy surrounding a religious display in a public building, the New York City Police Department is displaying a copy of the Muslim Quran in the lobby of its headquarters. According to Newsday, the holy book was placed in a glass cube atop a brass pedestal at the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan, which began Oct. 27. The display is featured near the Hall of Heroes and is placed in front of the official police seal....

By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com On this day 30 years ago, two American diplomats were machine-gunned to death at the Saudi embassy in Sudan by Yasser Arafat's Black September organization. Details of the brutal executions filled the front pages of newspapers around the world for several days in early March 1973. Yasser Arafat But an element of the story that could have reshaped the history of the Middle East is missing from the official record, according to a National Security Agency Palestinian analyst at the time, who was in Cyprus monitoring radio communications between Palestinian leaders in Beirut and...