Wall Street Journal

U.S. oil prices sank to a fresh three-month low Tuesday as a glut of gasoline keeps weighing on the market.

U.S. oil for September delivery settled down 21 cents, or 0.5%, at $42.92 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Six losing sessions out of the past seven have sunk it to its lowest settlement since April 25. Brent, the global benchmark, gained 15 cents, or 0.3%, to $44.87 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, snapping a three-session losing streak.   Continue reading “U.S. Oil Prices Hit 3-Month Lows on Growing Oversupply Concerns”

Reuters

Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) expects lower refinery utilization over the rest of the year as companies step up efforts to counter slumping refining margins caused by record supplies of gasoline and diesel products.

Shares of Valero, which also reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, were up 3 percent at $51.88 in morning trade on Tuesday.   Continue reading “Valero expects lower refinery utilization as margins tank”

SF Gate – by Jenna Lyons

A San Francisco police officer was arrested after an investigation revealed he manufactured and possessed a prohibited AR-15 style assault rifle, police said Tuesday.

Thomas Abrahamsen, 50, of Berkeley was booked on suspicion of manufacturing an assault weapon and possessing an assault weapon, both felonies.   Continue reading “SF officer suspected of making prohibited assault rifle”

The Daily Caller – by Richard Pollock

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” activities to his tax agency’s exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of “public corruption” was made in a July 15 letter by 64 House Republicans to the IRS, FBI and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They charged the foundation is “lawless.”   Continue reading “IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation”

Against Crony Capitalism

This is sadly par for the Washington course, the way business has often been done, no matter the administration. After all, how else are we to determine who becomes the ambassador to The Bahamas?   Continue reading “Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments”

Washington Post

The Obama administration announced plans Tuesday to expand a refugee program for Central American children who are fleeing danger, part of a broader effort to stem the unregulated flow of unaccompanied minors across the southern U.S. border.

The State Department program, launched in December 2014 after a massive influx of children that year swamped border patrol stations, allows children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to seek protections in the United States by applying within their own country.   Continue reading “U.S. to expand refugee program for Central American minors”

Go Healthy Next – by Eileen Dufree, N.C.

Inflammation, stress, diabetes, and cancer – these are just some of the health conditions that are commonly found today.  Nearly everyone deals with variations of health issues during their lives, whether they are directly affected themselves, or know a friend or family member who suffers.  It does not help that humans continue to contaminate their insides with corrupted food sources. Many people want to try to eat healthy, but pesticides, parasites, bacteria and viruses found among fresh produce, for example, can make otherwise nutritious food harmful.  These contaminants need to be removed from food before human consumption if there is any hope to restore or maintain optimal health.    Continue reading “The common problem with low oxygen.”

Washington Post – by Jennifer Rubin

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) sounded irate in a brief phone interview Monday afternoon with Right Turn. His subcommittee, with strong bipartisan support, has already passed legislation to hike military aid to Israel from $3.1 billion to $3.4 billion for 2017. But as has been reported in Israeli papers, the administration — with one more kick in Israel’s shins before President Obama leaves office — has told Israel there will be no increase this year or in a new 10-year memorandum of understanding (MOU). Moreover, the long-standing offshore procurement (OSP) agreement that allows Israel to purchase a significant percentage of its defense equipment from Israeli companies may get nixed or squeezed.   Continue reading “Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘No time to nickel and dime Israel’”

Bloomberg – by Jonathan Crawford

A joint expedition by India and the U.S. discovered a major deposit of natural gas in the Indian Ocean, offering the potential to significantly expand energy production in a region that’s currently a big importer.

India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the U.S. Geological Survey struck a large, highly enriched deposit of natural gas hydrate — an icy form of the fuel — in the Bay of Bengal off the country’s east coast, potentially the first producible reserve of its kind in the waters, the U.S. agency said in a statement Monday.   Continue reading “India, U.S. Discover Major Natural Gas Reserve in Indian Ocean”

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Tax Revolution Institute – by Guillermo Jimenez

On Thursday, July 14, Tax Revolution Institute (TRI) Executive Director Dan Johnson appeared on Robin Koerner’s Blue Republican Radio to share more details on TRI’s initiative to conduct the first-ever independent audit of the IRS.

“We’re going to audit the people who audit you,” Johnson told Koerner from the convention hall of FreedomFest 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.   Continue reading “Why We Need to Audit the IRS”

Fox News

PARIS –  Two attackers slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest and critically injured at least one other person early Tuesday in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen before being shot and killed by police, a French security official said.

The priest, identified by Sky News as Jacques Hamel, was dead at the scene, and another person, possibly a nun, was clinging to life, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said.   Continue reading “Priest murdered, hostages taken during Mass at French church”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein

Ammon Bundy wants to inspect and copy court records regarding the selection of a grand jury that returned a federal indictment against him and the selection of jurors summoned for his September trial, his lawyer wrote in a new motion.

He has also requested all emails, text messages, handwritten notes, files, voicemail messages, logs and other communications used by the court in connection with the jury selection process, according to the motion filed by attorney Marcus Mumford.   Continue reading “Ammon Bundy’s lawyer wants to inspect grand jury selection records to challenge indictment”

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BBC News

At least 15 people have been killed in a knife attack at a residential care centre for the disabled in the Japanese city of Sagamihara.

The attack happened in the early hours of Tuesday. Another 45 people were reportedly injured, 18 seriously.   Continue reading “Japan Sagamihara knife attack: At least 15 dead, reports say”

Yahoo News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Friday a bill to require anyone planning to build a homemade firearm to first obtain a serial number for the weapon and submit to a background check, his office said in a statement.

The legislation signed by the Democratic governor of the country’s most populous state follows his signing earlier this month of a sweeping package of gun control bills.   Continue reading “California governor signs bill to require registration of ‘ghost guns’”

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Conservative Outfitters

WASHINGTON – The internet is scratching it’s head after strange videos of Hillary Clinton surfaced online. Users of popular websites Reddit and 4chan after asking questions about Hillary Clinton’s health after she appears to have an epileptic seizure on camera. The video in question was recorded by NBC News in June.   Continue reading “Did Hillary Clinton Have Epileptic Seizure On Camera?”

Yahoo News – by Keith Coffman

DENVER (Reuters) – Residents of a small farming community in eastern Colorado have been warned to avoid drinking the town’s water after THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, was found in one of its feeder wells, authorities said on Thursday.

A public works employee in Hugo, a town of about 800 people 90 miles southeast of Denver, detected the chemical and health officials believe it is “marijuana THC-related,” the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook posting.   Continue reading “High water mark: active marijuana ingredient found in U.S. town well”

Washington Post

The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward to help retrieve an assault-style weapon, a handgun and other equipment that was stolen July 10 from an agency vehicle that was parked along the H Street corridor in Northeast Washington.

Authorities said that the vehicle — a Ford Expedition — was locked and that someone smashed a rear window and took a secured gun lock box. The agent reported the missing items to police about 7:50 a.m.; the FBI said they think the break-in occurred between 12 a.m. and 2 a.m.   Continue reading “FBI issues reward for assault-style weapon, handgun stolen from agency vehicle”

UPI – by Ben Hooper

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., July 22 (UPI) — The owner of a Colorado bed and breakfast lassoed and wrestled with a 2-year-old black bear to free the animal’s head from a plastic jug of Cheese Balls.

Jim Hawkins, owner of Four Mile Creek Bed and Breakfast outside of Glenwood Springs, said the bear had been spotted numerous times during the past week with the clear plastic Cheese Balls container on its head, but it always wandered away before authorities arrived. Continue reading “Colorado man lassoes, wrestles bear with Cheese Balls jug stuck on its head”

Fox News

HIGHLANDS, N.Y. –  A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday.   Continue reading “Marine vet, 81, held hostage in motel room for 4 years, police reveal”

The Daily Caller – by Larry Keane

In response to the recent tragedies in Dallas and Baton Rouge, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called on law enforcement officers to join in advocating for stricter gun control laws.

“It is far past time for those of you in law enforcement to join with other responsible Americans and take on the mindless, industry-driven gun lobby that values an illogical individual ability to possess military-grade weapons more than the lives of the American people, in general, and our law enforcement personnel, in particular. Speak up,”said Holder.   Continue reading “Eric Holder Calls For Police To Support Stricter Gun Control”