Michael D. Brown

Ships still believed to be hijacked by pirates: CAPT. STEPHANOS: Seized Sept. 21. The freighter was flying the Bahamas flag. It was carrying a cargo of coal and has 17 Filipinos, one Chinese and a Ukrainian aboard. FAINA: Seized Sept. 24. The ship was carrying 33 T-72 tanks, grenade launchers and ammunition destined for Kenya’s [...]

Today as I prepared to host “Caplis & Silverman” on Clear Channel’s 630KHOW in Denver, I realized that I was turning more and more to blog sites, Twitter and online sources for up-to-date information on events on the other side of the world.  I was even exchanging emails with a friend who happened to be [...]

This photograph taken by Reuters in Mumbai could just as easily have been a photograph from New York’s Penn Station or Washington, DC’s Union Station or, for that matter, Denver’s Union Station. On the day the FBI released a warning of discussion of plans to attack New York City subways, terrorists attacked hotels and transportation [...]

Was I ever amazed to read the Drudge Report’s interpretation of Professor Igor Panarin’s interview in the Russian newspaper, Izvestia, where he predicts (according to the Drudge interpretation at least): A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for [...]

1964: 2008: Brian Kennedy, a member of The Independent Working Group on Missile Defense writes in the Wall Street Journal: Gamma rays from the explosion, through the Compton Effect, generate three classes of disruptive electromagnetic pulses, which permanently destroy consumer electronics, the electronics in some automobiles and, most importantly, the hundreds of large transformers that [...]

The free market in 2009 Presidential Inauguration tickets may die a swift death! Even before President-Elect Obama takes office, there are already moves afoot on Capitol Hill to stifle free enterprise, to snuff out the free and open market. Want tickets to the Inauguration? Willing to pay for those tickets, even though free tickets are [...]

Once again, Politico has a fascinating story that bears more attention. At the Politico/University of Southern California conference on the 2008 election, Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin stated the obvious, but largely ignored by the guilty media, that bias was rampant in the 2008 Presidential election: “It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business [...]

New Madrid Earthquakes 1811-12. Landslide trench and ridge in the Chickasaw Bluffs east of Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, resulting from the New Madrid earthquake (from US Geological Survey Archives): All over the news the past twenty-four hours are the stories about FEMA’s release of a study done by its HAZUS program estimating the damage done by [...]

The delegates to the International Association of Emergency Managers have just released a statement calling for the removal of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from DHS. I’m not surprised. But what I am very pleased with is the rationale for doing so. In their press release today IAEM stated: IAEM-USA believes that mixing the DHS [...]