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Charlotte Observer – by Mark Washburn
On the second day of her dream vacation on exclusive Bald Head Island, Julie Mall went with her family to the beach to catch the sunset. Her 11-year-old son asked to drive the golf cart back to their $1,000-a-day rented cottage.
It was dusk, no traffic on the path and his father would sit next to him. A two-block, 30-second ride. She said sure. What could go wrong? Continue reading “Mother lets son drive golf cart at resort, gets jailed for child abuse”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
Political prisoner and free press reporter Pete Santilli has once again spoken the truth from jail and outed the DC central government’s refusal to admit that their land grab, using the Bureau of Land Management, is all about Uranium.
Santilli claims there is circumstantial evidence that Hillary Clinton is involved in the sale of Uranium to Russia. This is nothing new as we have pointed out that the Russians paid the Clintons millions of dollars to obtain Uranium, which they then supplied to Iran. We also noted that some of that money has been used to fund the Clinton presidential campaign. Continue reading “Bundy Rancy Political Prisoner & Reporter Exposes Govt’s Refusal to Admit Land Grabs are All about Uranium!”
An unidentified person is in critical condition after being shot on a street beside the White House Friday afternoon, authorities said.
A uniformed Secret Service officer, the AP reports, shot an armed person on West Executive Ave. NW, a street that borders the White House to the west. Continue reading “Secret Service shoots armed person near White House”
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The vast majority of illegal immigrants the Border Patrol apprehends are released into the U.S., the head of the agents’ union testified before a Senate panel Thursday.
“We’re releasing basically everybody as long as you’re not from the country of Mexico. And even if you’re from the country of Mexico and you claim that you have a credible fear and you’re asking for asylum for one reason or another — we’re still releasing those individuals,” Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, said before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. Continue reading “Border Patrol Agent: 80 Percent of Illegals the Agency Apprehends Are Released into U.S.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is making it easier for the government to deport or otherwise remove people who are not U.S. citizens if they are convicted of seemingly minor state crimes.
The justices ruled 5-3 Thursday that a man who spent 23 years living in New York as a lawful permanent resident can be barred from re-entering the country because of a 1999 conviction for attempted arson. Continue reading “High court rules non-U.S. citizens can be deported if convicted of minor crimes”
Washington Examiner – by Joel Gehrke
A federal judge has ordered annual ethics classes for Justice Department attorneys as a punishment for being “intentionally deceptive” during litigation over President Obama’s executive immigration orders.
“Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word ‘Justice,'” U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen wrote in a withering order released Thursday. Continue reading “Judge orders ethics classes for ‘deceptive’ DOJ attorneys”
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NAPLES, Fla. – Collier County Public Schools officials are ready to break with the federal government and forfeit $57 million over a U.S. Justice Department directive about the use of school facilities by transgender students.
Pres. Barack Obama launched the directive and told media outlets it is about protecting children. Continue reading “Collier schools consider parting with federal funding over transgender directive”
How do you teach the history of the world in California schools, where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from newly immigrated families?
That’s the challenge facing a California panel charged with establishing a new history and social studies framework for the state’s 6.2 million public school students.
On Thursday, the Instructional Quality Commission is scheduled to consider whether to forward a proposed plan to the California Board of Education. The framework will guide publishers in choosing material for textbooks. It was last overhauled in 2000. Continue reading “California Aims to Reflect Diversity in Classroom Studies”
Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, drawing a rebuke from Beijing, which demanded that Washington end surveillance near China.
The incident, likely to increase tension in and around the contested waterway, took place in international airspace on Tuesday as the U.S. maritime patrol aircraft carried out “a routine U.S. patrol,” a Pentagon statement said. Continue reading “Chinese jets intercept U.S. military plane over South China Sea: Pentagon”
“He’s a magician, he’s a magician,” the partisan crowd chanted as a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu strode into his party headquarters a little over a year ago to declare a come-from-behind victory in Israel’s election.
Now, with the expected entry into his right-wing government of ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman as defense minister, it looks like Netanyahu, in his fourth term as premier, has pulled off another piece of political sleight of hand worthy of a “House of Cards” script. Continue reading “Netanyahu pulls off coalition surprise to upend Israeli politics”
Las Vegas Sun – by Ricardo Torres
Depopulation in California jails and gang members moving to the Las Vegas Valley might be contributing to the rise in violent crime, according to Metro Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo.
There’s a “plethora” of reasons why the valley might be experiencing a hike, Lombardo said during an editorial meeting with the Las Vegas Sun, but Metro has had an increase of interactions with California gang members during arrests and investigations. Continue reading “Sheriff links Las Vegas crime hike to California law to reduce prison crowding”
WGGB-TV reports that Longmeadow, Mass. residents recently voted down a series of controversial gun control initiatives at the annual town meeting last week.
Voters rejected proposals that would require gun owners to provide the police department with descriptions of each firearm they own, limit where guns can be carried in town and ban certain types of guns and magazines inside town lines altogether. Continue reading “Voters Reject Bylaw To Give Police Gun Descriptions”
The Senate today confirmed Eric Fanning to be secretary of the Army, making him the first openly gay leader of a U.S. military branch.
The confirmation of Fanning, who has been serving as the acting Army Secretary since November 2015, was eight months in the making. Continue reading “Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Army Secretary”
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KCRA 3 – by Jonathan J. Cooper
Children and teens brought illegally to the United States gained access to publicly funded health care Monday as California began allowing young people to sign up for the state’s health care program for the poor without regard to their immigration status. Continue reading “California undocumented immigrant kids gain state-funded health care”
Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett
As the government continues to suppress the entire 6,700-page Senate Torture Report, the CIA inspector general’s office recently admitted to “mistakenly” destroying their only copy of the classified report. Although CIA Director John Brennan possesses another copy of the torture report, he refuses to send a replacement to the internal watchdog’s office.
Last summer, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department were privately informed that CIA employees at the inspector general’s office had both destroyed the disk and deleted the file containing the full Senate Torture Report. Despite the fact that the Justice Department ordered all copies of the classified document to be preserved, acting CIA Inspector General Christopher Sharpley was unable to locate another copy and eventually informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that his officers has mistakenly ruined their only copies. Continue reading “CIA “Accidentally” Deleted and Destroyed Its Only Copy of Senate Torture Investigation”
Bloomberg – by Victoria Stilwell
The cost of living in the U.S. climbed in April by the most in three years an indication that inflation may be picking up toward the Federal Reserve’s goal.
Consumer prices increased 0.4 percent, the biggest gain since February 2013, following a 0.1 percent advance in March, a Labor Department report showed Tuesday in Washington. The so-called core measure, which strips out food and energy costs, rose 0.2 percent after a 0.1 percent gain the prior month. Continue reading “Consumer Prices in U.S. Climbed in April by Most Since 2013”
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The southern Albanian town of Saranda is erecting a bust of U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to mark her contribution in the international arena for the Albanian nation.
Town hall spokesman Thoma Nika said the city council unanimously decided a day earlier to display the sculpture of the former U.S. Secretary of State on the main boulevard along the shore, due to her “dimension as a woman in politics, as a representative of the old Albania-U.S. friendship, for her contribution to the Albanian nation in different historical moments.” Continue reading “Bust of Hillary Clinton to be erected in Albanian town”