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Reuters

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has signed into law a measure giving police chiefs authority to turn down a resident’s requests to buy a rifle or shotgun if they believe the person may be a danger.

The measure broadens the authority of police, who were already allowed to deny sales of handguns to people who failed background checks. The new measure gives a police chief 90 days to petition a court to deny a firearms identification card to someone the chief believes to be unfit.   Continue reading “Massachusetts governor signs law tightening state gun rules”

Madison St.Clair Record – by Nancy Thorner

As President Obama considers sidestepping Congress to loosen U.S. immigration policy, a Reuters poll shows that 70 percent of Americans are deeply worried that illegal immigration is threatening this nation’s culture and economy. Because Congress cannot agree on comprehensive immigration reform with amnesty as its goal, Obama is threatening to act alone in the next few weeks through an executive order to give work permits to up to five millions undocumented immigrants and delay some deportations.   Continue reading “Illinois taxpayers foot $4.7 billion cost of illegal immigration”

ABC News

Violence erupted in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. for a fourth straight night Wednesday, with police firing smoke bombs and tear gas at demonstrators and some people lobbing Molotov cocktails. Racial unrest lingers in the St. Louis suburb following a weekend police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

“What do we Want? Justice,” the protesters yelled.   Continue reading “Violence in Ferguson: Police Fire Tear Gas, Smoke Bombs at Demonstrators”

Reuters – by MARK FELSENTHAL

President Barack Obama is loosening restrictions on lobbyists who want to serve on federal advisory boards, a White House official said on Tuesday, a setback to the president’s efforts to tamp down special interest influence in Washington.

Obama came to office pledging to curtail the sway of lobbyists and banned lobbyists from serving on such panels, which guide government policy on a range of topics ranging from cancer to towing safety.   Continue reading “White House loosens restrictions on lobbyists”

Reuters

U.S. crude oil production averaged an estimated 8.5 million barrels per day in July, the highest level since April 1987, the Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday.

In its monthly short term energy outlook, the EIA also raised its crude production forecasts for this year to 8.5 million bpd from its previous estimate of 8.42 million bpd and for next year’s output to 9.3 million bpd from 9.27 million bpd previously.   Continue reading “U.S. crude oil production in July highest in 27 years: EIA”

Breitbart TV

ABC 13 in Houston reports that a car accident that killed six people, including a family of four, was caused by a man who was believed to be in the country illegally.

Juan Garcia Ahuezoteco fled from the police at up to 100 miles per hour after he was pulled over for a traffic violation, and ran a stop sign, causing him to crash into a family of four.  The family, Ahuezoteco, and his passenger were are all killed in the accident.  “Ahuezoteco had an outstanding felony warrant for Driving While Intoxicated” according to ABC 13.   Continue reading “Suspected Illegal Alien Kills Family of 4 in High Speed Chase”

USA Today – by Brandie Piper

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – One person was shot by police overnight, not far from the unrest that unfolded for the third night in Ferguson where last week’s shooting of an unarmed black teen sparked outrage.

Last night’s shooting happened just before 1 a.m. Wednesday at Chambers Road and Sheffingdell Court in unincorporated St. Louis County.

Police say they responded to a report about four masked men carrying shotguns in the area. The caller said the suspects had fired shots.   Continue reading “Another police shooting amid Ferguson protests”

Sent to us by a reader who said, “Based on your article concerning the no fly zone over Ferguson I did some searching and found this. If true, they do seem to be trying to hide something.”

Liberty Unyielding – by Renee Nal

Tensions are high in Ferguson, Mo., as police are out in droves after widespread rioting and looting resulted in major damage to local businesses Sunday evening. On Twitter, reports of riot police and tanks getting ahead of further potential violence are adding to the unrest. Continue reading “War zone: Media in town where black teen was shot told to leave or face arrest”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

The federal government unsuccessfully tried to house at least 400 illegal immigrant juveniles at empty stores, hotels, and warehouses in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, like many governors across the nation, was not even notified of these potential plans in July.

Ultimately, the Fox Valley region was unable to provide sites that were “within 100 miles of an airport.”   Continue reading “Report: Feds Wanted to House Illegals in Empty Hotels, Stores in Wisconsin”

Fox News – by Jana Winter, Judson Berger

More than 600 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions were released by federal authorities in early 2013 in advance of the “sequester” budget cuts, according to a government watchdog report obtained by FoxNews.com.

The report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General showed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released “criminal aliens” from jails all over the country as part of a wave of releases in February 2013. The agency came under fire at the time for the decision, which critics described as politically motivated and dangerous.    Continue reading “Watchdog: 600-plus ‘criminal’ illegal immigrants released amid 2013 budget cuts”

Blacklisted News – by Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and John Titus

Paul Craig Roberts and US Senator Charles Schumer published a jointly written article on the op-ed page of the New York Times titled “Second Thoughts on Free Trade.” The article pointed out that the US had entered a new economic era in which American workers face “direct global competition at almost every job level–from the machinist to the software engineer to the Wall Street analyst. Any worker whose job does not require daily face-to-face interaction is now in jeopardy of being replaced by a lower-paid equally skilled worker thousands of miles away. American jobs are being lost not to competition from foreign companies, but to multinational corporations that are cutting costs by shifting operations to low-wage countries.” Roberts and Schumer challenged the correctness of economists’ views that jobs off-shoring was merely the operation of mutually beneficial free trade, about which no concerns were warranted.   Continue reading “The De-industrialization of America”

Fox News

Ukrainian officials said Tuesday that 280 trucks thought to be carrying humanitarian aid from Russia to the war-torn eastern Ukraine city of Luhansk would not be allowed to cross the border between the two countries.

Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said the convoy would not be allowed to pass because it had not been certified by the Red Cross. Lysenko also showed a covertly filmed video appearing to show vehicles similar to the white-canopied trucks dispatched from Moscow on Tuesday parked at a military base in Russia.   Continue reading “Ukraine says trucks carrying purported aid from Russia won’t be allowed across border”

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In 2012, thirteen year old Justina Pelletier was diagnosed with Mitochondrial Disease, a disorder affecting 1 in every 4,000 children in the United States. When she developed a severe flu in February 2013, her parent’s parents took her to Boston Children’s Hospital. Doctors, who were not her regular physicians and were unfamiliar with her case, replaced her mito diagnosis with one of somatoform disorder, a psychiatric condition. When her parents disagreed, the hospital accused them of “medical abuse” – for following the instructions of their own licensed and respected physicians! The state of Massachusetts removed Justina from their custody and placed her in a foster home…   Continue reading “Protecting Your Children, Empowering You: The Parental Rights Amendment”

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) – The United States plans to increase the number of warplanes and troops rotating through an Australian Air Force base near the city of Darwin, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

“The interest here is for tactical aircraft for closer cooperation between the Australian and US air forces,” an Australian defense official told the WSJ.   Continue reading “US to Boost Troops, Warplane Presence in Australia”