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SB Nation – by Tim Cato

A statement issued by the NBA on Thursday put into question Charlotte’s status as a host for the 2017 All-Star Game, following North Carolina passing one of the nation’s most anti-LGBTQ laws on Wednesday. The statement is as follows:

“The NBA is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all who attend our games and events. We are deeply concerned that this discriminatory law runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect and do not yet know what impact it will have on our ability to successfully host the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte.”   Continue reading “NBA implies 2017 All-Star Game could be moved after North Carolina passes anti-LGBTQ law”

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Fox News

Authorities in Florida have arrested a man they say stole a BMW after trying to buy it with a food stamp debit card.

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office tells news outlets in a statement that 36-year-old Nicholas Jackson was arrested Friday and charged with grand theft auto.   Continue reading “Man steals BMW he tried to buy with food stamp card, investigators say”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Not backing off from the threat of tyrants, two Bundy Ranch protesters have made requests for pretrial discover that is sure to expose the corruption in the DC government. Radio show host Peter Santilli has filed a similar pretrial discovery request to that of militia leader Joseph O’Shaughnessy who was also arrested the day that Santill was.

According to the request, which was dated at the first of March, Santilli requested the following:   Continue reading “What These Two Bundy Ranch Protesters Filed For Will Have the Feds Shaking in Their Boots”

Fox News

An American Mormon missionary who was injured in Tuesday’s terror attack at the Brussels airport was a block away from the site of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

Mason Wells, 19, of Sandy, Utah, suffered a severed Achilles tendon, head gash, shrapnel injuries and severe burns when two bombs ripped through the airport’s departure hall Tuesday morning. He is expected to make a full recovery.    Continue reading “Mormon missionary wounded in Brussels survived Boston Marathon bombing”

Life Daily

The Clintons are no strangers to media attention, and certainly no strangers to scandal. During his tenure as President, Bill Clinton implicated himself, and his wife, in several controversial ‘affairs’…

However, with the spotlight now on Hillary and her presidential campaign, pundits and opponents have rebuked the former First Lady for her proven track record of scandalous dealings, both past and present. She may just have a knack for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time; or maybe there’s more to Hillary’s past…   Continue reading “16 Most Notorious Hillary Clinton Scandals”

The Hill – by Rafael Bernal

A group of elected officials from the Texas-Mexico border is criticizing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump‘s call to “close up” borders following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels.

“Closing our land border with Mexico would be a ridiculous staging of security theater: the practice of false efforts intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it,” the Texas Border Coalition (TBC) said Tuesday in a release.    Continue reading “Border mayors: Closing border would be ‘security theater’”

WCAX – by Tyler Dumont

BURLINGTON, Vt. – A 76-year-old man is dead– shot by police after a standoff in a Burlington apartment. Police were called to the downtown building at about 5 p.m. Monday for a welfare check, after complaints of what they described as threatening behavior.

Police say Ralph “Phil” Grenon met officers at his door armed with knives and then went back inside. After several hours of negotiations, authorities say Grenon advanced toward officers, so one decided to pull the trigger.   Continue reading “‘Mentally ill’ Burlington man killed in standoff with police”

CNN

“We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened,” Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told reporters.   Continue reading “2 explosions at Brussels airport, 1 at subway station; 28 killed”

Fox News – by Ted Starnes

Lifelong atheist Patrick Greene has a huge problem with a giant cross under construction alongside Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi, Texas – a city whose name literally means “Body of Christ.”

“It’s tacky as hell,” Mr. Greene told me.   Continue reading “Giant Texas cross sparks atheist lawsuit (and you won’t believe why)”

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Antonius Aquinas

At one time, Holy Week – Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday – was recognized and commemorated by the Western world as a solemn period where earthly matters were put aside and focus was directed to history’s most seminal event.   Continue reading “Holy Week and the Decline of the West”

This is our daughter, ‘Wez Wez’.

I gave her this nickname when she was little she had a speech impairment and talked real quietly.  She was at the library one day asking for a book and the librarian couldn’t hear or understand her.  I said you remind me of that toy in Toy Story 2 that his squeaker was broken, therefore giving her the nickname Wez Wez.   Continue reading “Frost Jack’s Daughter ‘Wez Wez’”

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Supreme Court Case

The Lufkin Judge on March 3, 2016, entered a memorandum order and final judgment (both hyperlinked below), denying Petitioner’s September 30, 2015, motion to dismiss with prejudice and grantingUnited States’ Motion for Summary Judgment, April 24, 2015, motion for summary judgement (11.5 MB).   Continue reading “Lufkin Judge awards judgment to United States; Petitioner files for temporary restraining order in District of Columbia”

Oregon Live – by Noelle Crombie

Oregon collected $3.48 million in taxes from recreational marijuana sales in January, far outpacing estimates and offering the first look at how much pot is moving through the state’s newly regulated retail market.

The answer: a lot.

Oregon dispensaries sold at least $14 million worth of recreational marijuana in January alone. That figure doesn’t take into account medical marijuana sales, which remain untaxed.   Continue reading “Oregon collects $3.48 million in revenue from first month of taxed recreational marijuana sales”

Oregon Live – by Les Zaitz

An armed militant who was part of the security team during the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation was in custody Thursday in Grant County on weapons charges after threatening to shoot federal law enforcement officers, according to Grant County District Attorney Jim Carpenter.

Scott A. Willingham, 49, was arrested Wednesday in the small town of Mount Vernon on allegations of unlawful use of a weapon, a felony, and second-degree disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. He was arraigned Thursday in Grant County Circuit Court and held on $35,000 bail.   Continue reading “Oregon standoff figure arrested after threatening to shoot federal officers, DA says”

CBC

Calgary-based pipeline giant TransCanada says it has struck an agreement to acquire U.S. energy company Columbia Pipeline Group in a $13 billion US deal.

The deal will help expand its already vast natural gas pipeline footprint.

Columbia operates a 24,000-kilometre pipeline network that stretches from New York to the Gulf of Mexico.   Continue reading “TransCanada to buy Columbia Pipeline in $13B US deal”