The Hill – by Julian Hattem

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that kept a lid on a handful of documents related to a lawsuit from Congress over the Obama administration’s botched “Fast and Furious” operation.

The ruling does not necessarily mean that the eight documents will be released. Instead, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit merely referred the matter back to a lower court to seek clarity about another judge’s order.   Continue reading “Court overturns order keeping ‘Fast and Furious’ documents secret”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid wants the government to provide certain illegal immigrants with government-funded lawyers.

“Under current U.S. law, there is no right to appointed counsel in non-criminal immigration removal proceedings, even if the person in question is a child. Imagine that,” Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday. “The humanitarian crisis at our doorstep demands that we, as Americans, affirm our fundamental values of protection and due process.”   Continue reading “Harry Reid Moves to Provide Illegal Immigrants with Government-Funded Lawyers”

The Hill – by Timothy Cama

President Obama will roll out new protections for 1.8 million acres of land in southern California’s desert, designating it as a trio of national monuments.

The new monuments will almost double the amount of land Obama has set aside for conservation.

It brings the total land and water Obama has unilaterally protected under the Antiquities Act to about 265 million acres, far more than any previous president.   Continue reading “Obama sets aside 1.8M California desert acres as monument”

Fox News

The Clinton Foundation was subpoenaed last fall by State Department investigators for records relating to charity projects that might have come before the department when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, a source confirmed Thursday.

The development was first reported by The Washington Post. A representative for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation confirmed the details to Fox News.   Continue reading “State Dept. IG subpoenaed Clinton Foundation in 2015”

KGW 8 News

BURNS, Ore. — All four holdouts at the Malheur refuge have surrendered.

Three of the four remaining occupiers had surrendered around 9 a.m. but David Fry was holding out. He surrendered around 11 a.m. and is in custody of the FBI.

For two hours after the three surrendered, Fry was on a phone call with the FBI, a blogger and supporters of the occupation. He described himself as suicidal and that his grievances have not been heard and acted upon.   Continue reading “Last remaining occupier surrenders at Malheur Wildlife Refuge”

KGW 8 News

BURNS, Ore. — Three of the four holdouts at the Malheur refuge have surrendered without incident to the police.

David Fry was holding out.  As of shortly before 10 a.m., he was telling live to Gavin Seim, a blogger, that he never agreed to come out like the other three. He described himself as suicidal and that his grievances have not been heard and acted upon.   Continue reading “Three occupiers have surrendered, Fry holding out – Live Feed”

Fox News

A North Dakota police officer who was shot during a standoff with a domestic violence suspect sustained a ‘non-survivable’ wound, Fargo’s police chief said early Thursday.

The officer, identified as Jason Moszer, 33, responded to the scene of the standoff and parked near a home where the unidentified suspect had barricaded himself. The suspect fired several times, striking Moszer.    Continue reading “Fargo police officer shot during standoff has ‘non-survivable’ wound, chief says”

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Fox News

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ position on one of the medical marijuana bills being considered by the Utah State Legislature certainly puts it in a difficult spot.

“Well it makes it more difficult,” Senate President Wayne Niederhauser told reporters on Monday. “I don’t know if I would characterize it as dead on arrival.”   Continue reading “LDS Church stance on medical marijuana ‘makes it more difficult’ to pass, Senate President says”

WISH TV

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sister Mary Benedicte wants to focus on feeding the hungry lined up outside a soup kitchen in a gritty part of San Francisco.

But the city’s booming economy means even seedy neighborhoods are demanding higher rents, threatening to force out an order of nuns who serve the homeless.   Continue reading “Nuns who help homeless face eviction in San Francisco”

Fox News

An animated film designed as a lesson in “racial discourse” for students at a Virginia high school has led to backlash from community members who’ve taken issue with not-so subtle references to so-called white privilege throughout the video.

“They are sitting there watching a video that is dividing them up from a racial standpoint. It’s a White guilt kind of video,” Don Blake, whose granddaughter attended the assembly where the video was shown, told told WWBT. “I think somebody should be held accountable for this.”   Continue reading “‘White guilt’ video shown to high school students irks community”

New York Daily News

A young man wandering around a Texas neighborhood in the nude was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly charged the cop.

The 18-year-old suspect, who was black, became the subject of several posts on a neighborhood Facebook page before an Austin police officer confronted the man 10 miles northeast of the city’s downtown.   Continue reading “Naked man, 18, shot and killed by Texas cop after residents see him running around neighborhood”

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Washington’s Blog

Why Americans Are Backing Trump and Sanders Over the Mainstream Candidates Backed By the Political Machines

We’ve previously noted that polls show that Americans are in a “pre-revolutionary” mood, that less than 1 in 5 Americans think that the government has the “consent of the governed”, that government corruption tops the list of Americans’ fears, and that 3 times as many Americans supported King George during the Revolutionary War than support our OWN Congress today.   Continue reading “Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything … “This, In Fact, Is A Revolution””

Prison Planet – by Paul Joseph Watson, July 24, 2007

A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler.

In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President’s grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.   Continue reading “Flashback: BBC: Bush’s Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup In America”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

As the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border continues, school districts across the U.S. are feeling the strain of educating the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally and are now entitled to an education in the U.S. — despite their immigration status.   Continue reading “At Least 95,000 Illegal Immigrant Children Flood U.S. Schools”

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Antonius Aquinus

The dramatic fall in the global price of oil is being cited by the financial press, government officials, and academia as the catalyst for the recent abysmal U.S. economic data which shows that the economy is, in all likelihood, sliding into a recession or worse.   Continue reading “Falling Oil Prices Not the Reason for U.S.’s Economic Woes”

Salt Lake Tribune

McALLEN, Texas • A 19-year-old killed his mother and two neighbors before turning his gun on himself in a shooting that brought SWAT and various emergency vehicles to a rural area in Texas, authorities said Sunday.

Uvalde County Sheriff Charlie Mendeke said Dylan Westerburg gunned down his mother Friday afternoon in their home near Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio. He then went next door and killed two brothers, Arthur and Phinny Norton, Mendeke said.   Continue reading “Sheriff: Texas teen kills mom, 2 neighbors, then himself”

The Economic Populist – by Robert Oak

The January 2016 unemployment report is being reported as nothing but good news.  The official unemployment rate is 4.9%, a rate not seen since February 2008.  This is the weird month where annual population adjustments are applied and not backwards adjusted.  Therefore January to December comparisons are not valid.  Still, there are some trends to look at.  The labor participate rate is a very low 62.7% and those not counted in the unemployment rate who say they want a job is almost six million.  Overall, this month’s CPS report shows a mediocre unemployment situation for most, in spite of the official unemployment rate breaking five percent.   Continue reading “Unemployment Report Starts the Year By Breaking the 5% Unemployment Rate Barrier, Big Deal”

Yahoo News

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Saturday, toppling at least one high-rise residential building and trapping people inside. Firefighters rushed to pull out survivors.

Firefighters scrambled to the site with ladders, cranes and other equipment and pulled survivors from the building in the southern city of Tainan, footage from local TV broadcasters showed. It was unclear how many people were trapped inside. Some reports said dozens or scores of people might have been in the building at the time of the collapse.   Continue reading “Strong quake hits Taiwan, many trapped in toppled building”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick, Feb 3, 2016

About an hour ago, representatives from 12 different nations officially signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP) agreement in Auckland, New Zealand. The date, February 4th (New Zealand time) is noteworthy, because it’s 90 days after the official text was released. There was a 90 day clock that was required between releasing the text and before the US could actually sign onto the agreement. The stated purpose of this 90 day clock was in order to allow “debate” about the agreement. Remember, the entire agreement was negotiated in secret, with US officials treating the text of the document as if it were a national security secret (unless you were an industry lobbyist, of course). So as a nod to pretend “transparency” there was a promise that nothing would be signed for 90 days after the text was actually released.    Continue reading “Countries Sign The TPP… Whatever Happened To The ‘Debate’ We Were Promised Before Signing?”