Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The US is in a tough spot militarily.

In Syria, Russia and Iran have taken advantage of the fact that the plan hatched by the West and its regional allies to destabilize the Assad regime took far too long to develop. The idea was to foment discord and provide covert support for the various armed militias fighting to overthrow the government. But the effort is entering its fifth year and Assad is still there. Not only that, there have been a series of unintended (well, at least we hope they’re unintended) consequences.   Continue reading “With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?””

NBC News

Hawaii Gov. David Ige has declared a state of emergency to deal with the state’s homelessness crisis just days after city and state officials cleared one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments.

The move will help the state speed up the process of building a homeless shelter for families, and the state is considering four possible sites, Ige said at a news conference Friday.   Continue reading “Hawaii Declares State of Emergency Over Homelessness Crisis”

Fox News

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. –  A gunman who was randomly firing a semi-automatic rifle in the parking lot of a northeastern Pennsylvania shopping center in the middle of the day Saturday provoked a shootout with police that left him with two bullet wounds, but did not harm anyone else, state police said.

State police Capt. James Degnan said police responded at around 12:30 p.m. to multiple 911 calls about the gunfire, which struck some vehicles. The man shot at local police when they arrived and they returned the fire. Multiple rounds were exchanged, he said.   Continue reading “Suspect wounded in shootout with police at Pennsylvania Wal-Mart”

Fox News

The Federal Bureau of Prisons may have bitten off more than it could chew by banning pork from prison menus earlier this month — and apparently has reversed course on the decision.

After the bureau drew complaints from the American pork industry and most recently from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley for the ban, the senator’s office tells FoxNews.com that the bureau informed them they’re backing off the decision and returning pork to the menu.    Continue reading “Swine and Dine: Federal prisons reverse pork menu ban after outcry”

The Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

Elkhart County, IN — Brad Rogers, Sheriff of Elkhart County, Indiana, has encouraged residents not to register their firearms and has promised to defy any executive order requiring gun confiscation. While a federal gun grab remains a hypothetical proposition, Rogers — a self-described constitutional sheriff – could take immediate action to battle ongoing federal abuses in his county committed in the course of the patently unconstitutional “War on Drugs,” including the variety of government-licensed theft called “civil asset forfeiture.”   Continue reading “Sheriffs Defying a Hypothetical Federal Gun Grab Means Nothing if they Will Cage You Over a Plant”

Seattle Times – by Molly Hennessy-Fiske

HOUSTON — A federal judge ruled Friday that Texas officials can continue to deny U.S. birth certificates to the children of immigrants who cannot supply required identification because they entered the country illegally.

Though children born in the United States are entitled by law to U.S. citizenship regardless of the immigration status of their parents, Texas authorities have been placing significant barriers to immigrants who have entered the country illegally and are seeking birth certificates for their U.S.-born children.   Continue reading “Judge: Texas can deny birth certificates for U.S.-born children of immigrants”

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Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

During an October 16 town hall meeting at Keene State College, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Australia’s confiscation of firearms via a national buyback provides “a good example” for how other countries responded to mass shootings and she said it is “worth looking at” when considering gun policy in the U.S.

Clinton made these statements in response to a questioner who asked if we could ban handgun ownership in the U.S.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton: Australia Gun Ban ‘Worth Looking At’ In U.S.”

New York Daily News – by Tobias Salinger

The family of a Michigan teen who flashed a car’s brights at a sheriff sergeant’s SUV and wound up dead filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday.

A complaint on behalf of slain 17-year-old Deven Guilford accuses Eaton County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jonathan Frost of unconstitutional violations of privacy and excessive force in a Feb. 28 traffic stop in the rural central Michigan county outside Lansing.   Continue reading “Family of unarmed Michigan teen fatally shot by officer in traffic stop over flashing car’s brights files wrongful death lawsuit”

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Liberty Under Attack – by Kyle Rearden

“Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people obey the orders of the government, whether they like it or not. As far as the government’s jurisdiction extends, there is coercion, not freedom… [b]ut the fact remains that government is repression not freedom. Freedom is to be found only in the sphere in which government does not interfere. Liberty is always freedom from the government.” [Emphasis added]  

Continue reading “Political Field Trips: A Tutorial on How to Experience Government Directly”

Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish

San Bernardino National Forest — “The Story of Stuff Project, the California-based Courage Campaign Institute, and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit this week against the U.S. Forest Service for allowing Nestle to continue to bottle millions of gallons of water from the San Bernardino National Forest with a permit that expired 27 years ago,” the just-released press brief states.

If you’ve been following the Anti-Media’s investigation (spurred by Ian James’ articles in The Desert Sun) into Nestle’s irresponsible tapping of Arrowhead Spring — and all the questionable circumstances surrounding that, including censorship by Reddit of our exposé articles — you have some idea how exciting the announcement of this lawsuit is. It continues:   Continue reading “Forest Service Being Sued to Stop Nestle from Drawing Water in National Forest”

Boston Globe – by Erik Eckholm

MILWAUKEE — Closing arguments were heard Monday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, in what has been a rarity in the last decade: a jury trial on the obligations of gun dealers who make questionable sales.

A victory for two wounded police officers, legal analysts say, could bring renewed energy to civil litigation aimed at making the gun industry safer.   Continue reading “Wisconsin jury weighs gun dealers’ role in officers’ shooting”

ABC News

A man resisting eviction died after he barricaded himself in his apartment for hours and fired shots at police, authorities said, adding one officer was injured in the standoff.

The standoff drew a SWAT team to the community of Brookhaven shortly after 6 p.m. Monday and ended just before midnight, said spokesman Warren Strain with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.   Continue reading “Police: Standoff ends in Mississippi with suspect dead”

Seattle PI

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A convicted felon charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Memphis police officer is set to make his first court appearance in the case.

Court records show 36-year-old Lorenzo Clark is scheduled to appear before a judge by video arraignment Tuesday in Tennessee’s Shelby County. He is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm in the death of his neighbor, 31-year-old officer Terence Olridge.   Continue reading “Court appearance for man charged in Memphis officer killing”

Fox News – by Lucas Tomlinson

The U.S. military airdropped 50 tons of small arms ammo and grenades in northern Syria on Sunday, a senior defense official told Fox News, representing the Pentagon’s shift from training rebel fighters to equipping them.

Coming just two days after the Defense Department announced it was effectively ending its current training program, the airdrop delivery was made Sunday by four C-17 transport aircraft. The 112 pallets contained ammunition for M-16s and AK-47s.    Continue reading “US military airdrops 50 tons of ammo for Syrian fighters, after training mission ends”

Fox News

The House overwhelmingly approved a bill Friday that would lift the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil, a restriction that critics say hurts job creation and U.S. national security.

The House approved the bill on a bipartisan 261-159 vote. However, the White House has threatened to veto the bill should it make its way to the president’s desk, calling it unnecessary and arguing that the decision rests with the commerce secretary.    Continue reading “House votes to lift 40-year-old ban on US crude oil exports”

Fox 59 – by Matt Adams

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (Oct. 12, 2015) – The president of Olive Garden personally apologized to an on-duty police officer who was told to leave a Missouri restaurant because of his gun.

The incident happened in Independence, Mo., on Sunday, according to WDAF. Kansas City police officer Michael Holsworth went to the restaurant for a birthday lunch with his family when he was asked to leave. He wrote about the experience on Facebook.   Continue reading “Olive Garden apologizes after Kansas City police officer asked to leave because of gun”

NBC News – by SHAMAR WALTERS and ALEXANDER SMITH

Three people were arrested in connection with two new shootings on Interstate 10 in Arizona on Sunday, according to officials.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the incidents, which both occurred in the Phoenix area, were not connected to a spate of almost a dozen shootings on or near the same freeway in August and September.   Continue reading “New Shootings on Interstate 10 Near Phoenix, Arizona; 3 Arrested”