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Washington Post – by Katie Zezima
More than 20 mayors from around the country have formed a coalition to support and help implement President Obama’s executive action on immigration.
Members of Cities United for Immigration Action said they will work to put the executive action Obama announced last month into effect on the local level, push for congressional action on immigration reform and rally grassroots support. Continue reading “Mayors form coalition to support Obama’s immigration action”
The Telegraph – by Josie Ensor
A mansion in picturesque New Hampshire, complete with 100 acres of land, has gone up for auction in the US with a very reasonable $250,000 starting bid.
There is just one catch – the grounds are said to be lined with an undetermined number of explosive booby traps.
The secluded hilltop home in the town of Plainfield once belonged to couple Ed and Elaine Brown, who infamously held off federal agents there to arrest them for tax evasion in a 90-day standoff back in 2007.
ABC News – by Emily Schmall, AP
RENO, Texas — A Texas hamlet shaken by its first recorded earthquake last year and hundreds since then is among communities now taking steps to challenge the oil and gas industry’s traditional supremacy over the right to frack.
Reno Mayor Lyndamyrth Stokes said spooked residents started calling last November: “I heard a boom, then crack! The whole house shook. What was that?” one caller asked. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that Reno, a community about 50 miles west of Dallas, had its first earthquake. Continue reading “Texas Towns Test Oil and Gas Supremacy on Fracking”
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Patriot mythology occurs when an assumption or rumor is publicized, and people accept it as truth without fact checking, because it fits in with their prejudices and pre-conceived notions.
Case in point — the notion that George Soros has bought up munitions companies. This was reported a couple of years ago in a net publication called The International Forecaster, published by Bob Chapman, who died this year. It was reported specifically as a rumor, that Soros had bought Remington and other companies through a holding company. Continue reading “Cerberus Info: Connecting the Dots”
A deputy shot and killed a mentally ill man who was armed with a knife following a confrontation in Carson early Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The fatal shooting occurred in the 23000 block of Marbella Avenue (map) shortly before 1 a.m., according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Department. Continue reading “Deputies Shoot, Kill Mentally Ill Man in Carson Who Was Carrying Steak Knife: Sheriff’s Dept.”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama’s executive order to spare some immigrants from deportation has galvanized Democrats, immigration groups and health care advocates in California to push for expanding health coverage to a segment of the population that remains uninsured.
The president’s action excludes immigrants who came to the country illegally from qualifying for federal health benefits. But California has its own policy of providing health coverage with state money to low-income immigrants with so-called “deferred action” that allow them to avoid deportation. Immigrant and health care advocates say that means Obama’s executive order will enable hundreds of thousands of low-income immigrants in California to apply for Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid. Continue reading “California pushes to expand immigrant health care”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state health officials have stopped a nonprofit group from providing free medical care to thousands of patients lacking health insurance during a four-day dental conference that starts Friday.
The nonprofit, Remote Area Medical, had raised $3 million and enlisted hundreds of volunteer doctors and other medical workers to offer a range of health services, including dental care, new eyeglasses and other services. The group had planned to treat about 7,000 patients at the New York Sate event. Continue reading “New York State blocks free medical services at event”
Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown in a confrontation in August, has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department nearly four months after the confrontation that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Wilson, 28, had been on administrative leave since the shooting on Aug. 9. His resignation was announced Saturday by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager. The resignation was effective immediately, Bruntrager said. Continue reading “Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson resigns”
Washington Examiner – by Brian Hughes
A new clash over retirement benefits has come to a head following President Obama’s decision to unilaterally protect up to 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation.
The White House now acknowledges that many of the illegal immigrants spared from deportation under Obama’s sweeping executive action will become eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits once they reach retirement age. Continue reading “Fight brewing over Social Security benefits for illegal immigrants”
ABC News – by DENISE LAVOIE, AP
Jaime Caetano was beaten so badly by her ex-boyfriend that she ended up in the hospital. So when a friend offered her a stun gun to protect herself, she took it.
Caetano, who is homeless, never had to use it but now finds herself at the center of a contentious Second Amendment case headed to the highest court in Massachusetts. Continue reading “Homeless woman’s stun gun spurs 2nd Amendment case”
The Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft
On Friday night Communist protesters gathered outside the Ferguson, Missouri police department.
They handed out literature and chanted:
“The only solution is a Communist revolution.” Continue reading “#Ferguson Protesters Wave Commie Flags – Hand Out Commie Leaflets – Chant About Revolution”
The Atlantic – by Allen McDuffee
Last week, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved draft legislation to amend the country’s Basic Law to declare that Israel is “the national homeland of the Jewish people” instead of a “Jewish and democratic state,” as it had been since the state’s founding in 1948, he had to tamp down criticism that the law codifies discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel—20 percent of the country’s population.
“There are those who would like the democratic to prevail over the Jewish and there are those who would like the Jewish to prevail over the democratic,” said Netanyahu. “Both of these values are equal and both must be considered to the same degree.” Continue reading “Israel’s Foreign Minister Wants to Pay Israeli Arabs to Leave”
A UN report has condemned the United States for violating the terms of an international anti-torture treaty. The panel took Washington to task for police brutality, military interrogations, and capital punishment protocols.
“The Committee is concerned about numerous reports of police brutality and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials,” the paper released by the UN Committee Against Torture says, adding that in particular this brutality is seen against persons belonging “to certain racial and ethnic groups, immigrants and LGBTI individuals.” Continue reading “UN panel slams US for police brutality, torture, botched executions”
Two New York boys are recovering after they were inadvertently trapped for about eight hours in a snowbank when a plow operator pushed snow over them, not realizing they were there.
But the boys – ages 11 and 9 – are OK, after police officers, relatives and neighbors frantically dug through the snow to pull them to safety. Continue reading “New York Boys Recovering After 8 Hours Trapped in Snowbank”
AUSTIN, Texas — A gunman targeted three downtown public buildings — the Mexican consulate, federal courthouse and police headquarters — before police shot and killed him, according to local media reports.
Police said the unidentified man was suspected of opening fire on buildings at around 2:30 a.m. local time.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that the Mexican consulate and federal courthouse were among the target locations, as well as the police building. Continue reading “Gunman killed after targeting Austin police headquarters”
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Constitution Society – by Brian T. Halonen
The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:
1709: “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations.”
1714: “The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world.”
Continue reading “The meaning of the phrase “well-regulated” in the 2nd amendment”
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Cleveland.com – by Brandon Blackwell
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Cleveland police officer fatally shot Tamir Rice immediately after leaving his moving patrol car while his partner stayed at the wheel, surveillance video shows.
The video showed Wednesday by police captures the Saturday afternoon shooting at a West Side recreation center in which 12-year-old Rice was shot. Continue reading “Cleveland police officer shot Tamir Rice immediately after leaving moving patrol car”
The United States is in the midst of renewing its 35-year-old commitment to supply Israel with oil in emergency situations after the pact expired on Tuesday, a U.S. State Department official said.
The United States “is in close contact with the government of Israel on extending the longstanding memorandum of understanding” between the two countries on emergency oil supplies, a State Department official said on the condition of anonymity. Continue reading “U.S. government working to renew oil agreement with Israel”
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