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WASHINGTON – The Senate voted to allow further consideration of bipartisan legislation banning gun sales to people on the no-fly list.
Senate Republicans could have killed the measure, but some sided with Democrats in allowing it to go forward. But it is not clear it has enough support to pass. Fifty-two senators voted to keep considering the bill, but it will ultimately need 60 votes to be adopted. Continue reading “Senate gun compromise survives first test vote”
Infowars – by Clifford Cunningham
As citizens of the United Kingdom prepare to cast their votes in a nationwide referendum to decide whether or not to leave the European Union, a plan detailing the initial framework for the creation of a European Union army are being kept hidden from the public until the day after the vote.
The Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy, which envisions the formation of new European military and operational structures, was drafted by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Continue reading “EU army proposal to remain hidden From British voters until day after Brexit vote”
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Tax Revolution Institute – by Guillermo Jimenez
“You’re always looking over your shoulder. When you think you’re doing the right thing, you wonder, ‘Am I doing the wrong thing, even though I think I’m doing the right thing?” This is how Maryland farmer Calvin Taylor describes his experiences with the Internal Revenue Service, and unfortunately, the sentiment is all too common.
Continue reading “IRS Seized Millions from Innocent Small-Business Owners through “Coercion and Power of Government””
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): Police officers and K9s from across America will be in Fort Wayne next week, but don’t be alarmed — they’re coming for a workshop, not an investigation. Continue reading “Police officers and K9s come to Fort Wayne for workshop”
An armed man has been killed after opening fire at a cinema complex in western Germany, according to German media. Up to 50 people were wounded in the shooting.
The German Interior Ministry confirmed that the man was shot in the town of Viernheim, according to local media. Continue reading “Gunman dead after wounding dozens at cinema complex in Germany – reports”
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Office Caesar Goodson, who was driving the police van inside which Freddie Gray incurred his fatal neck injury, has been found not guilty of second-degree “depraved heart” murder Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams.
Goodson, 46, has also been found not guilty on charges of manslaughter, assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. Continue reading “Freddie Gray Van Driver Found Not Guilty of Murder”
The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 Thursday over a challenge to President Obama’s immigration policy, a result that prevents the administration from putting the program into effect during the rest of him term.
Announced in late 2014, it would shield more than four million people from deportation. But lower courts blocked its implementation after Texas and 25 other states sued, claiming the president had no power to order the changes. Continue reading “Supreme Court Tie Dooms Obama Immigration Policy”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the affirmative action program at the University of Texas at Austin, ending a protracted legal battle.
It was not immediately clear how far-reaching the ruling will be because of the specifics of the Texas program at issue. Continue reading “Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action in College Admissions”
Washington Free Beacon – by Natalie Johnson
Authorities are investigating a Department of Homeland Security employee with a top-secret clearance after he was caught bringing a gun, knife, infrared camera, pepper spray, and handcuffs into the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., CBS News reported Wednesday.
Government officials said in court documents that investigators had “probable cause” to pursue a probe after Jonathan Wienke entered the building June 9 with the contraband. Continue reading “DHS Employee Arrested After Bringing Gun, Knife, Radios Into D.C. Headquarters”
After claiming responsibility for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee’s database, hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ has now published research allegedly compiled by the DNC on ways to protect presidential candidate Hillary Clinton from political attacks.
The anonymous hacker (or hackers), who goes under name Guccifer 2.0, revealed Tuesday what he called the “Dossier on Hillary Clinton from DNC” that includes “a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server.” Continue reading “Hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ publishes DNC campaign docs with strategies for defending Clinton”
Fox News Latino – by Elizabeth Llorente
Immigration officials arrested 331 undocumented migrants in a month-long sweep that ensnared people who had ignored deportation orders, who had criminal convictions and who had re-entered the country after being expelled, among others.
The operation, which began May 9 and ended on Monday, was carried out in six Midwestern states: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri. Continue reading “Feds arrest more than 300 immigrants in 6 Midwestern states in month-long sweep”
Michigan Capital Confidential – by Derick Draplin
A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended that WSU drop its university-wide requirement in mathematics, an idea that was carried out on June 13.
“We are proposing the creation of specific ‘Diversity’ courses, with students required to take one course in this designation,” said a document from the General Education Reform Committee, which is recalibrating what the university will expect from all students who earn a degree from the state university. It released the proposal in May. Continue reading “Wayne State University Drops Math As General Requirement, Will Replace It With “Diversity””
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Tax Revolution Institute – by Alejandro Vidal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Tax Revolution Institute (TRI), whose mission includes promoting transparency, accountability, and integrity in our tax system, has been educating legislators on Capitol Hill for several weeks and is now alerting the public: The only oversight organization identified by the IRS as “independent,” the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board (IRSOB), does not have a quorum, and as a result has suspended operations.
Continue reading “The IRS Has No Independent Oversight This Tax Season”
When Dennis Hastert served as the nation’s longest-reigning Republican U.S. House speaker, he had a secure phone to the White House and could look upon the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial from the balcony of his posh Capitol office.
But, when the disgraced Illinois politician surrenders this week at a federal prison hospital in Minnesota, a life that began from humble beginnings while working on the back of a feed truck amid Midwestern farmland will once again take a dramatic, unexpected turn.
Continue reading “Dennis Hastert scheduled to report to prison this week”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place gun control laws in New York and Connecticut that ban military-style assault weapons like the one used in last week’s massacre at an Orlando nightclub, rejecting a legal challenge by gun rights advocates.
The court’s action underlined its reluctance to insert itself into the simmering national debate on gun control. The Supreme Court issued important rulings in gun cases in 2008 and 2010 but has not taken up a major firearms case since. Continue reading “Supreme Court rejects challenge to state assault weapon bans”
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Unknown
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is reaffirming his stance on potentially restricting individuals on the terror watch list from being able to purchase firearms, a week after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
“We have to make sure that people that are terrorists or have even an inclination toward terrorism cannot buy weapons, guns,” Trump told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl in an interview to air Sunday on “This Week.” Continue reading “Donald Trump: Those With ‘Even an Inclination Toward Terrorism’ Shouldn’t Buy Guns”
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“I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
— Liza Minnelli
“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.”
— Sidney Poitier Continue reading “Some folk’s thoughts on their fathers”