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The Justice Department reportedly is preparing to charge New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez with corruption counts over allegations he used his office to help a Democratic donor.
A person familiar with a federal investigation of Menendez told the Associated Press the Justice Department is expected to bring criminal charges against him in the coming weeks.
The pending charges were first reported by CNN. Continue reading “DOJ reportedly preparing criminal charges against Sen. Menendez”
Job creation boomed in February by 295,000 despite the brutal winter conditions, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent, the Labor Department said Friday.
Despite the strong month, the picture was essentially the same for the American worker: Pay rose just 3 cents an hour, representing a 2.0 percent annualized gain as wage inflation remained elusive after a big jump in January. The average work week was unchanged at 34.6 hours. Continue reading “Surge! Job creation jumps despite tough winter”
Yahoo News – Reuters – by Edward McAllister and Catherine Ngai
A BNSF Railway [BNISF.UL] train loaded with crude oil derailed and caught fire on Thursday afternoon in a rural area south of Galena, Illinois, according to local officials and the company.
The incident marks the latest in a series of derailments in North America and the third in three weeks involving trains hauling crude oil, which has put a heightened focus on rail safety. Continue reading “BNSF oil train derails in rural Illinois; two cars aflame”
A government crackdown on churches has Christians in Lake Worth, Fla., wondering if they live in the United States or the former Soviet Union.
Churches in Lake Worth, population 36,000, have been ordered to acquire a business license. As if the church has to get the government’s permission to preach and pray?
But wait. It gets worse, folks. Continue reading “Florida city wages soviet-style crackdown on churches”
A federal judge was hospitalized late Thursday after being shot in what Detroit police say was an attempted robbery.
Terrence G. Berg, 55, was shot in the leg outside his home on the northwest side of the city shortly after 9 p.m. local time, police said. His condition was not immediately available, but authorities said the injury is not life-threatening. Continue reading “Federal judge shot, wounded in Detroit robbery attempt”
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On February 27 the West Virginia senate passed a bill to eliminate the need for obtaining a permit to to carry a concealed handgun, citing the 2nd Amendment as reason enough to exercise an “inherent right.”
Five other states–Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Vermont, and Wyoming–already recognize the 2nd Amendment as sufficient justification for carrying concealed. And on February 13, Breitbart News reported that the New Hampshire senate voted to rescind their requirement for a permit for concealed carry. Continue reading “West Virginia Senate: The 2nd Amendment Is A Concealed Carry Permit”
Harrison Ford was piloting a private airplane that crash-landed today at Penmar golf course in Venice, California.
According to TMZ, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones icon was piloting what appears to be a vintage 2-seater fighter plane when it made an emergency landing. He was the only person aboard the plane. Continue reading “Harrison Ford involved in plane crash”
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The Truth About the Law – by Legalman
ONWARD! The incremental march to expand the Peoples’ freedoms by taking the rights away from the people continues everyday! Rejoice Komrad and thank the Peoples’ great leaders! Lol
They have taken your “automatic” weapons. They have taken your right to own “military equipment”. They license and control virtually every type of weapon. Now they are going after the ammo. Obviously without ammo, a gun doesn’t do much good. Specifically they are thinking about banning the public from purchasing what are supposedly “dangerous” military “armor piercing” rounds of 223. Of course the government itself will still be able to buy it to use AGAINST the people if it “needs to”. Continue reading “The Second Amendment has nothing to do with why the ATF cannot ban armor piercing 223 ammo. Nothing.”
DENVER — Sheriffs from Colorado and neighboring states Kansas and Nebraska say in a lawsuit to be filed Thursday that Colorado’s marijuana law creates a “crisis of conscience” by pitting the state law against the Constitution and puts an economic burden on other states.
The lawsuit asks a federal court in Denver to strike down Colorado’s Amendment 64 that legalized the sale of recreational marijuana and to close the state’s more than 330 licensed marijuana stores. Continue reading “Sheriffs sue Colorado over legal marijuana”
Florida residents Patrick and Sue Ellen Kilgallon knew the storm was coming. They tried to get out of northern Kentucky on Wednesday night. Instead, they got stuck in the snow on Interstate 65.
The couple and their two dogs were still there Thursday morning, more than 14 hours later.
“We’re just sitting here praying, hoping to get out,” Patrick Kilgallon told CNN on Thursday. Continue reading “‘Hang tight, we are coming,’ Kentucky National Guard assures stranded drivers”
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After about 25 Patriots engaged the Curry County Board of Commissioners, in a sometimes contentious discussion, the 2nd Amendment Preservation Resolution was passed 3-0 making Curry County the 19th of 36 counties to have passed similar motions.
Chair Susan Brown was obviously not in favor of the Resolution and irrationally argued that because she had sworn an oath to the WHOLE Constitution, she didn’t need to support any single Amendment. Huh ???? (Must be some kind of Naturalized Canadian/American Logic.) She had from the beginning of this effort kept insisting on knowing what legislation this was aimed at and would not accept that it was a preemptive Resolution intended to put the State Legislature on notice that the County would not support ANY current or future State efforts, restricting our rights, especially the 2nd Amendment via anti-firearms legislation. Continue reading “Big Win for 2nd Amendment Patriots in Curry County”
Military Times – by Deb Riechmann, AP
WASHINGTON — A Republican effort to quickly pass legislation allowing congressional oversight on any Iran nuclear agreement is angering Democrats.
A key Democratic sponsor of the legislation, which would allow a congressional vote on any deal the United States signs with Iran to curb its nuclear program, said Tuesday night that he’s outraged that GOP leaders want to fast-track the bill. Continue reading “Democrats upset with GOP effort to fast-track Iran bill”
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Outpost of Freedom – by Gary Hunt
Looking Back at Waco
On February 28, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), raided the Branch Davidians Church, just outside of Waco, Texas. After a firefight lasting about 2 1/2 hours in which the Davidians continue, through 911, to have the firing cease, the BATF finally withdrew, with their tail between their legs. The body count was four dead agents and four dead Davidians (a fifth died within a few days). BATF had far more injuries than the Davidians, and they did not accomplish their mission. Disgraced because of the failure of the ill-conceived plan for the raid, the big brother, the FBI, came in and took charge of the remaining operation. Continue reading “Waco – A Lesson in History”
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Geoengineering Watch – by Roger Landry, The Liberty Beacon
So you refuse to get vaccinated, and will never allow vaccines in the system of the children you love and care for so much … Hmmm, sorry but you have little choice in the matter. No I am not talking about mandatory or forced vaccinations … Look … up in the sky … it’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s a delivery system for vaccines that you are not even aware of, never agreed to, and probably never would consent to, but your consent was not sought and was never considered! Continue reading “Vaccinations From The Sky”
On January 29, the White House announced that $1 billion in assistance to Central America would be included in its budget request for fiscal year 2016. The goal of this aid, as Vice President Joe Biden described it in a New York Times op-ed, is to help the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras “change the climate of endemic violence and poverty” that has led to a “dangerous surge in migration,” as exemplified by last summer’s influx of unaccompanied child migrants. Explicitly modeled on Plan Colombia, the aid package would help make the region “overwhelmingly middle class, democratic and secure.” Continue reading “Will Biden’s Billion Dollar Plan Help Central America?”
Fuel Fix – by Jennifer A. Dlouhy
WASHINGTON — The slumping oil prices that have prompted energy companies to lay down rigs and lay off workers hit domestic producers harder than their international counterparts because of the U.S. crude export ban, Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield is expected to tell a House panel on Tuesday.
“Price cycles come with the territory, and we will navigate this downturn as we have in the past,” Sheffield says in prepared testimony filed with the House Energy and Power Subcommittee, ahead of a Tuesday afternoon hearing on “world energy markets.” “Producers of domestic oil are especially disadvantaged compared to foreign producers, however, because they cannot receive global prices.” Continue reading “Oil, gas industry urges lawmakers to lift crude exports ban”
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I’ve been a volunteer monitor ( radiation ) with the radiatonnetwork.com for almost 3 years, due to Fukushima. On 2/28/2015 I had a 145 CPM ( Counts or decays per minute ) Alert. The ONLY other station here in the Bay Area that is a constant participator is 2 miles due north of me, and he registered a 151 CPM peak, so, we had a ” hot plume ” pass through. Shit happens all the time, but this was a hot one. Bio-accumulation is my concern. My Leandro station and SL CERT’s graphs below. Continue reading “San Francisco Radiation Spike – 2-28-15”
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General David Petraeus has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection to his handling of classified material — striking a plea deal with the government that avoids an embarrassing trial and that will likely keep him out of prison over whether he leaked private information to his mistress when he headed up the CIA.
Federal prosecutors will ask the judge for two years of probation for Petraeus. Continue reading “Petraeus pleads guilty to misdemeanor charge in plea deal over claims he leaked classified info to mistress”
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