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The following is an excerpt from Breitbart Texas’ border security expert and contributing editor Sylvia Longmire’s new book, Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren’t Making Us Safer: Texas Governor Rick Perry is not a fan of the

Mary Meeker, long a mainstay at Morgan Stanley, now a partner at the venture-capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is one of the most important Internet analysts in America today. Which is to say, she’s one of the

The police department of a Chicago area forest preserve district used a local woman’s social media post as a basis to send her a citation in the mail after she made a Facebook post about a county park. The woman

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a federal appeals court nominee who helped develop the government’s legal rationale for using drones to kill American terrorist suspects abroad. The 52-43 vote cleared the way for a Thursday

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) may reprise his infamous 2013 anti-drone filibuster Wednesday to fight President Obama’s nomination of David Barron to a federal appeals court, hoping to shine a light on the would-be justice’s position on that same issue. “The nominee, David Barron, has

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration plans to disclose a secret memo describing its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism overseas. The Justice Department has decided not to appeal a court order requiring disclosure

The following is an excerpt from Breitbart Texas’ border security expert and contributing editor Sylvia Longmire’s new book, Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren’t Making Us Safer: Since the beginning of our government’s efforts to make our southwest

A spokesperson for South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense discharged a strongly worded statement during a press briefing that was extremely critical of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The spokesman on behalf of South Korea said it

The Islamic Republic of Iran claimed it has fully replicated and reverse-engineered a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned spy plane. The UAV was downed in 2011 while it was surveilling Iran’s nuclear and military sites. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who

In March, an American Airlines flight crew reported a near collision over Florida with an unmanned aircraft, raising new fears of the dangers of drones. The pilots reported that the unmanned vehicle looked like a miniature military jet airplane like

A Defense One report argues the development and acquisition of weaponized drones is moving at such a pace that every nation will have one within a decade. Defense One reports “military experts” say this is happening so fast that there

On May 8th South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said three drones captured near the border between North and South Korea were sent by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the official name of the North Korean government. According to Xinhua,

(Reuters) – British low-cost carrier easyJet said it would be the first airline to use drones to help maintain its fleet to keep a lid on its costs. The airline said drones – aircraft that do not have a pilot

The National Park Service has issued a warning to amateur pilots that drone aircraft are not permitted in Yosemite National Park.  Drones, some of which are available on the civilian consumer technology market, have reportedly been used by hobbyists to

Breitbart Texas Contributing Editor Sylvia Longmire joined Tavis Smiley on PBS recently to discuss her latest book, Border Insecurity and why Washington is unlikely to resolve matters in the short term. The televised interview addressed common myths involving border security

So much of the American border security discussion is dominated by issues in the south, leaving the debate over threats of drug smuggling and terrorist entry from Canada for another day. In Sylvia Longmire’s latest excerpt, America’s “open border” with

Peter Parker didn’t choose to get bitten by a radioactive spider. It just happened in true Marvel Comics fashion, and a friendly neighborhood web slinger was born. The new superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2, in theaters this weekend, embraces

Germany is using drones to locate deer hiding in tall grass and protect them from farm machinery. The project, which costs €2.5 million, has the backing of the country’s agriculture ministry. The project involves deploying small aerial drones, fitted with

While most Americans generally understand getting involved with Mexican drug cartels to be dangerous business south of the border, many may not be aware of the extent “spillover violence” spreads into the U.S. as well.   The following is an

Britain has “50 or 60” armed drones according to the director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an armed forces think-tank with links to the British government. Professor Michael Clarke said that the UK is believed to have

A new report finds that use of unarmed drones for both civilian and military spying has skyrocketed in Latin America, as the demand for drones increases exponentially in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. Author Marguerite Cawley notes that drones are changing

HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP)–A Texas-based group involved in searches for missing persons around the nation filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a federal court to set aside an order that prohibits the nonprofit from employing drones in its work. Texas EquuSearch

In a Business Insider article, “Why Google Is Making Massive, Crazy Bets On Drones And Robots,” reporter Megan Rose Dickey explains that Google is expanding itself from the virtual world to the physical world by noting that Google has just purchased a

Tech-savvy criminals in Britain are using heat-seeking drones and iPads to locate cannabis farms in order to rob them of their crop. The Halesowen News reports that the “explosion” in the number of farms has led to a steep rise in

Google is moving forward this month offering its controversial Google Glass for sale to the general public. But the tech company is also delving into a more advanced application for Glass as well as moving forward to purchase a manufacturer

Breitbart Texas’ Contributing Editor and author of the forthcoming book Border Insecurity recently joined Fusion LIVE to discuss the market effects of American states legalizing marijuana with respect to Mexican cartels. “[Legalization] will be a big financial hit if marijuana

Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones.  Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, questioned Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking

The United States Border Patrol recently announced mass reassignments and post-academy deployments to the south Texas region of the U.S./Mexico border amid spikes in arrests. Though the action is considered long overdue, leading border security experts have praised the move.

Mike Judge saw the connection between music videos and couch potatoes, and a crudely animated show called Beavis & Butt-head was born. Judge’s comic crystal ball, as it turned out, was just warming up. Now, as his new HBO comedy

Hollywood’s Running Out of High Concepts? — — This is the kind of “high-concept” that every wannabe screenwriter has come up with and then was never able to execute or was wise enough to cast aside as too stupid. With

In a three-part series of outrageous invectives that seem over-the-top even for North Korean state media, the newspaper Rodong Sinmun is accusing South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of lying about their healthcare program, inflicting “malignant abuses” upon North Korea, and

The Boone and Crockett Club–“North America’s oldest hunting and conservation organization”–says that “no game scouted or taken with the help of drones” will be eligible for “its record program.” According to The Spokane Spokesman-Review, the club prides itself in recognizing

On March 27, Facebook announced that it was working on plans to use drones, satellites, and solar-powered planes to deliver wireless Internet service to under served areas of the world. “We’ve been working on ways to beam Internet to people