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This is the DTV Shredder, a militarized skateboard with two caterpillar tracks. It can travel at over 30mph, go up 40-degree slopes, turn around in four feet, and be remotely operated. It's also quite spectacular in action: Created by Ben Gulak—the guy who made the beautiful-but-kind-of-ridiculous Uno bike—the DTV Shredder was presented as a "first response modular platform for soldiers" at last August's Military Vehicles conference in Detroit.

Reporting from Los Angeles — Immigration issues, including questions about who should have U.S. citizenship, have hurt President Obama's standing with voters, according to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll. The poll, carried out during the first week in September, found that respondents had a strong anti-immigrant tilt, favoring, by 68% to 24%, stricter enforcement of immigration laws rather than integrating illegal immigrants into society and, by 48% to 45%, an end to the constitutionally guaranteed practice of granting U.S. citizenship to children born of illegal immigrants.

Think of it as the ant and the grasshopper in Bizzaro World . Or Pennsylvania. Either works. Gov. Ed Rendell announced , Sunday, that Pennsylvania taxpayers will give the City of Harrisburg a $4.3 million aid package so it can meet bond obligation payments, pay bills, and hire a financial advisor.

When the tea party movement arose in early 2009, it seemed more a sign of the times – a backlash to the recession and President Barack Obama's election – than a lasting force.The movement has outlived many expectations. Thousands of tea party groups have sprung up across the country, and tea party activists are having a significant impact on shaping Republican primaries.Here's a primer on the tea party movement. Is the tea party a political party?No. The name plays on the 1773 Boston Tea Party, when colonists protested British efforts to tax tea imports and dumped tea into Boston Harbor....

Frontier families kept a shotgun above the mantle, always at the ready, to protect their children from wandering predators. Every generation has had hardships and obstacles to overcome. As a parent today, you face issues no other generation before you has had to face. The predators that threaten your family are evil, unseen and opportunistic. They sneak through your backdoor, as laws that pass with little notice. They lurk in our courtrooms, where your parental rights are whittled away without announcement. They thrive in classrooms, where politically correct ideals are taught, and traditional values and childhood innocence are lost. Just...

The pundit consensus is pretty much unanimous: Jerry Brown really stepped in it over the weekend when he said of Bill Clinton, "[he's] a nice guy, but who ever said he always told the truth?" Brown, who is now the underdog as he waged a gubernatorial bid, felt the need to go after Clinton because Meg Whitman, Brown's free-spending GOP foe, is now blanketing the California airwaves with footage of Clinton savaging Brown's record on taxes during one of their 1992 presidential debates. In the new clip, Brown calls Clinton's tax claims "a lie"

Kashmir erupted on Monday in the worst violence since separatist protests began sweeping through the disputed Himalayan region three months ago, with authorities partly blaming the inflamed tensions on televised reports of Koran desecration in the United States. The bloodshed, which came as Indian leaders were searching for a way out of the Kashmir crisis, left at least 14 civilians and two security officers dead and at least 60 people injured in clashes across the region, authorities said. In one town, Tangmarg, authorities said officers opened fire after protesters had set a school and other government buildings ablaze. Kashmir has...

The Cuban labour federation said more than a million workers would lose their jobs - half of them by March next year. Those laid off will be encouraged to become self-employed or join new private enterprises, on which some of the current restrictions will be eased. It is biggest shift to the private sector since the revolution in 1959. Cuba's communist government currently controls almost all aspects of the country's economy and employs about 85% of the workforce. "Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities, services and budgeted sectors with bloated payrolls and losses that hurt...

Pope Benedict XVI will this week urge the Government to protect religious freedoms to allow Christians to follow their beliefs.In a speech to political and religious leaders in Westminster Hall, the Pontiff will deliver a thinly veiled attack on the perceived liberal direction of the country. He will praise Britain's role in establishing religious liberty, but warn that it will suffer if it allows a secular agenda to destroy its Christian heritage. Senior Roman Catholic sources said his message would be seen as a criticism of the introduction of equality laws that have impinged on the freedom of religious groups,...

Here is a commercial that Rep. Mike Castle is now running in his race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Delaware, emphasizing his qualities as a fiscal conservative: He had better saturate the airwaves with it between now and tomorrow’s primary vote. A new poll by Public Policy Polling has Castle trailing his primary challenger Christine O’Donnell 44%-47%. And Castle’s weakness

Funding woes hamper Israeli air upgrades Published: Sept. 13, 2010 at 1:40 PM TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Budgetary constraints and the planned purchase of 20 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters for $2.75 billion are making it difficult for the Israeli air force to upgrade its older aircraft, although an unusual solution has been proposed. In particular, these concerns are hampering plans to phase out Israel's venerable A-4 Skyhawks acquired in 1967 and which were flown in several wars. The small jet's agility and versatility, along with its ability to take heavy damage in combat made it a...

President Obama has seen Democratic prospects worsen as 2010 progresses. "People are frustrated and angry," he conceded at a Friday press conference. Nowhere is that growing sense of frustration more evident than in the battle for the Senate. A few months ago, the best-case Republican scenario envisioned a gain of eight seats, two short of the number needed to retake a majority. Now, however, 13 Democratic seats are in serious jeopardy, and at least three of them seem out of reach for the party in power. . . . Delaware Vice President Joe Biden's old Senate seat is in serious...

If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned last week that our rising national debt "poses a national security threat," should President Obama or any in his administration be suggesting any economic plan that increases it in any way? At last week's Council on Foreign Relations, or CFR, meeting, Secretary of State Clinton was supposed to be espousing "a new American moment" and boosting U.S. global leadership around the world, but she ended up dropping the country further in the tank (the debt tank that is), during an off-script Q&A time after her 45-minute speech.

The effects of Obama's Marxist class, religion and race warfare politics.

SAS soldiers are standing by for an emergency evacuation of ­Britons from Pakistan amid fears of a military coup. There are concerns that hardliners in Pakistan’s army are becoming impatient with the ­crisis and want faster solutions and a more ­determined effort to stamp out the terrorist menace. A diplomatic source said: ‘‘There are more and more rumours that some people in the military view a military takeover as the best way to bring greater stability.”

The U.S. Marine Corps' 14 Leadership Traits serve as a standard against which to compare President Obama's actions in his 19 months in office. By this standard, he is not simply an unqualified leader, but the antithesis of a good leader: an "un-leader." It is often difficult for us to prove things which are self-evident. Anecdotes and examples are not without merit, but in a vacuum, these alone often fall short. Without some set standard, it can always be argued that one's position is arbitrary and subjective, determined only by a pre-existing bias. Such is perhaps the case when discussing...

Formation of four F-15's seen at low altitude circling Stamford, CT

Former basketball star John Amaechi is considering legal action against a bar in Manchester's gay village that refused to let him in. The 39-year-old said a doorman at Crunch on Canal Street described him as "big, black and could be trouble". Mr Amaechi, who was out with friends on Friday, has complained to the council and demanded an apology from the bar. Crunch said entry was refused on safety grounds and called the allegations "outrageous and unfounded". Mr Amaechi's office has written to the club to seek an explanation for why he was refused entry. 'Issues of bigotry' "I want...

Vice President Biden wasn't talking about jobs when called this the "summer of recovery." He was talking about construction projects. That's the explanation top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee gave when asked about the more than 280,000 jobs lost over the past three months. "The vice president was talking about the summer of recovery in reference to the Recovery Act, that you would see the creation of a series of infrastructure and other projects ramping up over the summer," Goolsbee said on "Fox News Sunday." "And you did see that." The declaration by the Obama administration in June that...

Tea party to GOP: Defund health care By: Simmi Aujla September 13, 2010 02:46 PM EDT A major tea party group is asking Republican congressional leaders to include cutting funds to implement the new health care law in a contract the GOP plans to roll out later this month. On Monday, the Tea Party Express and DeFundit.org sent letters to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) seeking support. “Unfortunately we will not be able to pass repeal legislation until there are 60 amenable senators to avoid a filibuster and...