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Texas’ farmers were among the first to applaud the rain that abruptly halted a grueling multiyear drought that had tormented the region.
But what began as a blessing has turned quickly into a disaster, as corn and wheat crops rot in flooded fields. Continue reading “Texas farmers facing ‘total loss for this year’”
The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as it buckled under the weight of unusually heavy snowfalls and a resurgent dollar, but activity has rebounded modestly.
The government on Friday slashed its gross domestic product estimate to show it shrinking at a 0.7 percent annual rate instead of the 0.2 percent growth pace it estimated last month. Continue reading “US 1Q revised GDP contracted 0.7% vs. 0.8% drop expected”
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Alive 11 – by Christopher B Buchanan
FORT BENNING, Ga. — Officials with the Fort Benning Police Department have confirmed a shooting near Columbus, Ga.
Police have taken one person into custody but they are still searching for between three and five black males who are believed to be in the woods in the Patton Village area. Continue reading “Shooting reported in Fort Benning; one in custody”
The Obama administration issued controversial new rules Wednesday aimed at protecting the nation’s drinking water but decried by congressional critics as a regulatory “power grab.”
The Environmental Protection Agency, in announcing the finalized Clean Water Rule along with the Army Corps of Engineers, said the changes mark a “historic step for the protection of clean water” and would help roughly 117 million Americans who get drinking water from streams not clearly protected before these regulations. The rule would clarify which smaller streams, tributaries and wetlands are covered by anti-pollution and development provisions of the Clean Water Act. Continue reading “EPA unveils comprehensive water regs, critics decry ‘power grab’”
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Officers arrived at the branch where Church Road meets Ladypool Road in Birmingham at about 8.40 am yesterday, while the suspects were still inside.
West Midlands Police arrested three men, who were reportedly armed with machetes, at the scene. Continue reading “Police foil machete gang during raid on Post Office”
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FOLEY, Minn. (KMSP) –
Federal investigators raided a Foley, Minn. farm on Thursday morning. Officials didn’t reveal the nature of the investigation, but the owner of the farm told Fox 9 all of his migrant workers are there legally. Continue reading “Foley, Minn. vegetable farm raided by federal investigators”
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PITTSBURGH, PA — A police lieutenant has been charged with three felonies involving child sexual abuse.
Lt. Stites faces a count of lewd molestation as well multiple charges of sexual abuse.
The victim is said to be under 12 yrs old.
In fact, reports say that Lt. Stites assaulted a 3-yr-old girl multiple times. Continue reading “Cop Charged with Lewd Molestation and Abuse of 3-Yr-Old Girl”
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Residents of Arivaca, Arizona and supporters are shutting down the US Border Patrol checkpoint on Arivaca Road, calling on US Congressman Grijalva to deliver on his promise to hold a federal hearing on the issue before DHS officials. Community members are demanding the removal of all internal Border Patrol checkpoints, starting with the one on Arivaca Road, and are calling for an end to the militarization of their community. Today’s protest is part of a day of action being organized by communities throughout the Arizona-Mexico borderlands and on the Tohono O’odham Nation.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is running out of time to save sections of the Patriot Act that the White House deems crucial to national security.
Top lawmakers and their aides are scrambling to find a last-minute deal to save the law, which is speeding toward expiration — at midnight Sunday — after a series of Senate votes failed to resolve an impasse over the National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading “Scramble begins as Patriot Act teeters”
Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration badges have gone missing, sparking fears that the lost or stolen badges can be used to gain access to secure areas at airports.
Doug McKelway reported on “On The Record” tonight that Congress has known for more than two months about the missing Secured Identification Display Area (SIDA) badges. Continue reading “Hundreds of TSA Badges Missing From Airports”
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Relying on the provisions of the Constitution as ultimate proof, the petition presents incontrovertible evidence that no contemporary federal court has jurisdiction anywhere within the exterior limits of any of the 50 freely associated compact states of the Union.
This means that federal law is enforceable only in the District of Columbia and the Territories—and every United States District Judge in every United States District Court throughout the Union is usurping exercise of jurisdiction in extra-constitutional geographic area and culpable for treason to the Constitution: Continue reading “Landmark Supreme Court Case”
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Experts say that a Supreme Court ruling last week has set the stage for Obama’s federal government to start seizing 401K pensions from hardworking Americans.
Noted economist Martin Armstrong has warned that the outcome of the Tibble v. Edison, which found that it is up to employers to protect their workers’ 401(k) plans from mutual funds that don’t perform well, could open the door for the feds to seize private funds and prosecute companies that manage mutual funds performing poorly. Continue reading “Obama’s Government Preparing To Seize 401K Pensions”
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) — A $24 T-shirt that was for sale online and at some PacSun stores could now cost the company thousands of dollars in lost sales.
The upside-down American flag upset one shopper in Alabama, who took to social media. Countless other shoppers chimed in tweeting “respect the flag #BoycottPacSun” and “there are repercussions to your free speech. I will never spend another penny there.” Continue reading “PacSun Removes T-Shirt Featuring Upside-Down American Flag Following Controversy”
Independent Sentinel – by S. Nobel
Al Sharpton is demanding nationalized police over the Cleveland incident in which a white police officer was acquitted of killing two black offenders. The Revolutionary Communist Party is out in the streets of Cleveland with other paid protesters in the Marxist-driven and Obama-supported police brutality protests.
In December the DOJ cited Cleveland for excessive force and they have obviously been looking for a case to back them up, otherwise this is just too convenient. Continue reading “Cleveland Police Are Latest Targets of Marxist-Driven Demands for Nationalized Policing”
A federal appeals court refused Tuesday to lift a temporary hold on President Barack Obama’s executive action that could shield as many as 5 million immigrants illegally living in the U.S. from deportation.
The U.S. Justice Department had asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a Texas judge who agreed to temporarily block the president’s plan in February, after 26 states filed a lawsuit alleging Obama’s action was unconstitutional. But two out of three judges on a court panel voted to deny the government’s request. Continue reading “Court Won’t Lift Hold on Obama Immigration Action”
Oath Keepers – by Shorty Dawkins
After an administrative law judge put on hold any plans by a federal agency to enforce an order to stop mining, Oath Keepers of Josephine County will stand down from the Sugar Pine mine.
According to Mary Emerick, Information Officer for the Josephine County chapter of Oath Keepers, in a statement made on Thursday, the guards are leaving the Sugar Pine Mine outside Galice in Southern Oregon, where they have been for five weeks. But they will maintain a staging area north of Grants Pass. Continue reading “Oath Keepers To Stand Down From Sugar Pine Mine”
A manhunt continues in New Orleans after a police officer was found shot dead in his marked patrol car Sunday.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office identified the victim Monday as James Bennett, Jr., 45.
Bennett, a Housing Authority of New Orleans Police Officer since 2013, had previously worked in the sheriff’s office Reserve Division – a volunteer unit that supplements regular officers. Continue reading “Manhunt Continues Following New Orleans Police Officer’s Shooting Death”
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On May 18, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order prohibiting enforcement of provisions of D.C. law that effectively grant to the police chief the discretion to decide who may lawfully exercise the right to bear arms in public for self-defense. This follows on the heels of an earlier ruling in which the District lost the argument that the right to “bear arms” does not apply outside the home, leading to the hasty enactment of an “emergency” may-issue concealed carry licensing scheme. Such a license is the only means by which most people can lawfully carry firearms in D.C. for self-defense. Monday’s case, Wren v. District of Columbia, made a preliminary ruling that D.C.’s policy of discretionary issuance would likely run afoul of the Second Amendment. Continue reading “Court Rebukes D.C. for Discretionary Licensing Regime, Orders Issuance of Concealed Carry Licenses to Eligible Applicants”
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The Government Rag – by Jack Mullen
Driving around the State of Maryland (State slogan: “The Free State”) one could get the impression he or she has passed into an alternative universe where the State had morphed into a dystopic, Orwellian-Jumbo-Tron surveillance state complete with big screen outdoor billboards advising ‘citizens’ to be ever vigil of possible terrorist activities and encouraging ‘citizens’ to report any ‘suspicious’ activities they might observe. Continue reading “Maryland’s Bit Part in Homeland Security Theatre”
The Daily Caller – by Scott Greer
The deadly Sunday biker battle at a Waco, Texas breastaurant has convinced one University of Texas at Austin professor that Americans aren’t cut out for the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.
John Traphagan, a professor of religious studies and anthropology at UTA, wrote in an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News that the most overlooked security threat to this country is its “own heavily armed population” and that America’s culture does not “lend itself well to allowing the proliferation of guns.” Continue reading “Texas Professor To America: You Can’t HANDLE Gun Ownership”
