Berlin, Germany —I was nearing the end of a much too short European vacation here and I had just retired for the night.   I opened my iPad to check my email one last time before going to sleep.   There were some flash messages appearing my screen about the San Bernardino, CA “mass shooting” with vague reports of scores of victims.   I went to the websites of the Local television stations as they were just beginning live coverage. Live helicopter video images were being broadcast of paramedics who were just assembling triage areas and there were an amazing amount of police vehicles already present.   News anchors were telling their audiences that police officials don’t know who, or just how many were involved. They were saying little more than that there were scores of causalities.   I could understand this at the very beginning but this pathetic and minimal information was broadcast for hours.   The same redundant line about what the cops don’t know wa...

Phoenix, AZ —When I began lobbying the Arizona State Legislature for the Arizona Association of Licensed Private Investigators it was a real eye opener. There are 90 members of the Legislature and back then they were not yet subject to term limits.   Many of them were seemingly decent. The self-elected leadership had the real power and they were difficult to talk to about the legislation that was with beneficial or damaging to the industry, taxpayers or both. Along with the power of leadership came magnificent arrogance. There was a price for even minimal meaningful access.    Without campaign contributions or other payments there was no access to the leadership.   Access to the unwashed members was usually free but in general getting any significant help from them was also for sale. There was an undercover law enforcement sting conducted in 1991 called AZSCAM .   It was named after the notorious FBI sting call ABSCAM .    The late Ar...

Paris, France —One again Islam has spread its gut wrenching, deadly poison on totally innocent people that were defenseless soft targets. My European friends have all been brainwashed their entire lives that law-abiding people will instantly become murdering bloodthirsty fiends if they were allowed to keep and carry firearms. In Europe the propaganda war against gun ownership has been won with lies, half-truths and by spreading fear.   Political correctness in Europe today begins and ends with gun rights hatred. The 12-year death grip that Nazis had on Europe was facilitated by European gun bans.    The established military organizations had no back up.   Instead there are endless unarmed millions of meek sheep waiting to suffer or die at the hands of tyrants. Thankfully in the United States there are millions of well-armed, trained citizens that will fight for they and their family’s lives.   If the police or military become overwhelmed there is a ...

I shot this on November 11 in L.A. near the 405 Freeway and The Getty Center.  This was done with a DJI Inspire 1.  The highest altitude achieved was 300 feet and the further distance traveled was only 500 feet.  This is so addicting!  Please enjoy!

H Washington, DC —Lies, lies and more damn lies are being spread about our multi-rotor camera drones like wildfire. Months ago the FAA claimed they were investigating some 700 complaints of near misses with conventional aircraft.  Not one photo, video, captured drone has been ever produced.  Nor has there ever been a collision between any conventional aircraft and a multi-rotor drone.  The nations pilots all know this drone technology will take them out of the cockpit sooner or later.  Aircraft will be operated from offices or vehicles on the ground.  There is no need to risk lives for aerial image gathering, firefighting or newsgathering.  Despite two million drones in untrained civilian hands there’s never been a fatality, serious injury or significant related property damage reported anywhere.  Drones have a near perfect safety record. However the lies have joined with fear and loathing to see ignorant politicians making many ...

Los Angeles, CA —There has been a rash of deadly police shootings that have fired up emotions.   Those complaining the most vote for the politicians most responsible for creating the tinderbox conditions. Democrats have never found anything they did not want to criminalize or tax to death.   They were the driving force behind every kind of vice law like gambling, prostitution.   They are also the ones that demanded that cops enforce laws they created for wearing seatbelts. Every large city in America (and they are all run by Democrats) have enacted huge fines for parking and traffic violations even going so far to computerize cameras to issue citations in conjunction with radar or red lights. Cops were once people we could count upon to help and protect us. However Democrats have turned cops into government extortionist bagmen.   Cops are feared because they have a serious financial impact on citizens they contact.   Cops are sworn to enforce all laws...