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Jerusalem Post – by Herb Keinon
Israel and many countries in the region and the world welcome the strategic change in American foreign policy ushered in by US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday.
Netanyahu, speaking in his office before a meeting with visiting US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, said that Israel senses “a great change in the direction of American policy.” Continue reading “Netanyahu welcomes Trump’s strategic change of US foreign policy”
Washington Post – by Orin Kerr
In a new case, Alexander v. City of Round Rock, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit considers the following question: If the police pull over a driver and the driver indicates he will refuse to answer any police questions, does it violate the Constitution for the police to retaliate against the driver to punish him for refusing to answer their questions? Continue reading “Can the police retaliate against a citizen for refusing to answer police questions?”
The U.S. Secret Service said it would end public access to a sidewalk along the south fence of the White House beginning on Wednesday night.
The sidewalk has been closed nightly from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. since 2015 and will now be off-limits around the clock, the Secret Service said in a statement.
The closure will “lessen the possibility of individuals illegally accessing the White House grounds,” Secret Service Communications Director Cathy Milhoan said. Continue reading “White House sidewalk to be closed to public permanently”
North Korean state media threatened to launch a “super-mighty pre-emptive strike” that would reduce South Korea and the United states “to ashes.”
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper for North Korea’s ruling Worker’s Party, wrote, “In the case of our super-mighty pre-emptive strike being launched, it will completely and immediately wipe out not only U.S. imperialists’ invasion forces in South Korea and its surrounding areas but the U.S. mainland and reduce them to ashes,” according to Reuters. The rogue nation also claimed the U.S. and its allies “should not mess with us.” Continue reading “North Korea: ‘Super-mighty pre-emptive strike’ will reduce US to ashes”
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was launching an inter-agency review of whether the lifting of sanctions against Iran was in the United States’ national security interests, while acknowledging that Tehran was complying with a deal to rein in its nuclear program.
In a letter to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, on Tuesday U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Iran remained compliant with the 2015 deal, but said there were concerns about its role as a state sponsor of terrorism. Continue reading “U.S. says Iran complies with nuke deal but orders review on lifting sanctions”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is directing the administration to investigate whether steel imports are jeopardizing U.S. national security.
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump signed a memo ordering the investigation while surrounded by executives from U.S. steelmakers. Continue reading “Trump orders probe into whether steel imports harming US”
For the second consecutive night, Russia flew two long-range bombers off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday, this time coming within 36 miles of the mainland while flying north of the Aleutian Islands, two U.S. officials told Fox News.
The two nuclear-capable Tu-95H bombers were spotted by U.S. military radar at 5 p.m. local time. Continue reading “Russian bombers again fly near Alaska”
Secure Arkansas, January 22, 2017
An Article V Convention of States equals a Constitutional Convention that will put our existing Bill of Rights in jeopardy. An Article V Constitutional Convention is NOT a conservative movement, and we believe it WILL be misused. This movement is supported by both the Left AND the Right. Click_here to see all the different groups who are supporting a Constitutional Convention.
One supporter of a Constitutional Convention is billionaire George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management and Chairman & Founder of Open Society Foundation. He has VOWED to replace the U.S. Constitution by year 2020 and is in a position to take advantage of a convention to do so. Thus, we have Constitution 2020 movement, as mentioned in our previous article. Continue reading “Warning: 2nd Amendment in Danger? Part 2: Disturbing Radical Agenda Behind Article V Amendment Convention (Con-Con)”
National Catholic Reporter – by Colman McCarthy
It was in a Tucson barrio in 1991 that Charles Booker, a Presbyterian seminarian, came to know and never forget the “feet people”— strapped and desperate refugees fleeing U.S.-financed death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala. Booker was on an internship from his studies at the San Francisco Theological Seminary from which he would be ordained in 1995.
In Tucson, he joined the ministry of Pastor John Fife, co-founder of the sanctuary movement that, beginning in the 1980s, would grow to over 500 churches. Many would defy federal immigration laws by giving havens to the fleeing. Prosecutions of the safe houses, known as “The Sanctuary Trials,” often followed. Continue reading “Presbyterian pastor stands with today’s sanctuary movement”
Gulf Coast refineries in Texas and beyond need new oil pipelines from Canada to cut down on their supply costs, a new report Tuesday from the IHS Markit research firm concludes.
Western Canada is projected to increase its crude oil sands production by nearly 1 million barrels a day by 2020, putting increased pressure on an already constrained pipeline system, and forcing more oil to be transported by rail unless new pipelines come online, the report contends. Continue reading “Texas refineries need new Canadian oil pipelines, report says”
A gunman with an apparent dislike of white people and government killed three people in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, before he was taken into custody while shouting “Allahu Akhbar,” police said.
The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, was also wanted in connection with the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6 in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters at a press conference. Continue reading “Three killed in Fresno, California, shooting spree, suspect arrested”
A pair of Russian nuclear-capable bombers flew near Alaska Monday night, two U.S. officials told Fox News, coming as close as 100 miles from Kodiak Island — the first time since President Trump took office that Moscow has sent bombers so close to the U.S.
The two Russian Tu-95 “Bear” bombers flew roughly 280 miles southwest of Elmendorf Air Force Base, within the Air Defense Identification Zone of the United States. Continue reading “Russian bombers fly near Alaska; Air Force scrambles jets”
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury has resumed deliberations in the trial of six men who had assault-style weapons during a standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014.
Jurors spent a full day at work Monday before sending questions to the judge that appeared to suggest they may not reach a unanimous verdict for each defendant. Continue reading “Jury resumes work in Bundy ranch standoff case in Nevada”
Bloomberg – by Jennifer A Dlouhy
As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers.
A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy companies to lend their support ahead of a high-level White House meeting on the subject taking place as soon as Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the effort who asked not to be identified. Continue reading “Exxon, Shell Join Ivanka Trump to Defend Paris Climate Pact”
President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday meant to rein in abuses in a visa program that lets some companies replace American workers with foreign ones.
The order would target so-called H-1B visas, which Congress created in 1990 as a way to help companies that can’t find highly skilled technical workers hire foreigners able to do the job. Many companies still abide by the intent of the program, but others seem to be using H-1B visas simply to replace American workers with foreigners willing to work for less. Continue reading “Trump takes on outsourcing with new executive order”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a turbulent debate over illegal immigration on Monday, turning away an appeal by a group of asylum-seeking Central American women and their children who aimed to clarify the constitutional rights of people who the government has prioritized for deportation.
The families, 28 women and 33 children ages 2 to 17 from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, had hoped the justices would overturn a lower court’s ruling preventing them from having their expedited removal orders reviewed by a federal judge. Continue reading “U.S. top court leaves intact ruling against Central America asylum seekers”
Boeing Co. plans to lay off hundreds of engineers in Washington state and other locations — and may eliminate more jobs later this year as the planemaker contends with slowing aircraft sales.
The latest workforce reduction, which should take effect June 23, follows a separate exodus of 1,500 mechanics and 305 engineers and technical workers who agreed to leave voluntarily earlier this year. Both union and non-union workers will be affected, Doug Alder, a Boeing spokesman, said Monday. Continue reading “Boeing to Dismiss Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown”
According to a report by South Korea’s primary news outlet, Yonhap, the Pentagon has directed a total of three US aircraft carriers toward the Korean Peninsula, citing a South Korean government source.
Yonhap reports that in addition to the CVN-70 Carl Vinson, which is expected to arrive off the South Korean coast on April 25, the CVN-76 Ronald Reagan – currently in home port in Yokosuka, Japan – and the CVN-68 Nimitz carrier group – currently undergoing final pre-deployment assessment, Composite Training Unit Exercise off Oregon – will enter the Sea of Japan next week. According to the senior government official. the US and South Korea are discussing joint drills, which will include the three aircraft carriers and other ships. Continue reading “US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap”