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Chron – by Lauren McGaughy

AUSTIN – Land once considered part of Oklahoma that now is in Texas due to shifts along the Red River belongs to the federal government, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has told state officials.

In a letter sent June 20 to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, BLM Director Neil Kornze noted that the 2000 Red River Boundary Compact determined the border between Oklahoma and Texas lies at the “gradient line along the south bank of the Red River.” Previous court cases already determined any land between this line and the mid-point of the river was in the public domain and, therefore, belonged to the federal government, Kornze added.   Continue reading “Feds say new Texas land belongs in public domain”

New York Mag – by Joe Coscarelli

Okay, it does look a little bit creepy. And yet the most ridiculous lawsuit of the day still goes the woman blaming a Dexter poster in between steps at Grand Central Terminal for making her fall.

“The combined nature of the ad along with its placement poses a hazard to people on the steps,” said a lawyer for Ajanaffy Njewadda, the wife of a former Gambian ambassador, to DNA Info. She allegedly lost her husband in a crowd last year and when she saw the face of a serial killer while looking for him, she tripped down the stairs, breaking her ankle and suffering a concussion. Now she’s suing both the MTA and Showtime for the “shocking and menacing” ad for the show’s eighth and final season.    Continue reading “Easily Startled Woman Suing Over ‘Menacing’ Dexter Ad”

NPR – by Hansi Lo Wang

Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the age of GPS and smartphones. But centuries of forced relocation, disease and genocide have made it difficult to find where many Native American tribes once lived.

Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has pinpointed the locations and original names of hundreds of American Indian nations before their first contact with Europeans.   Continue reading “The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  Revising statements he made to Colorado Sheriffs opposed to gun control on June 13, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) now says “he hasn’t changed his tune” and would sign the ban on “high capacity” magazines again if given the chance.

According to Denver’s Fox 31, after the June 13 2014 meeting, Hickenlooper came under intense scrutiny when he “appeared to backpedal on the magazine ban, agreeing with one sheriff that it was unenforceable.” But on June 20–a week after he allegedly said these things to the sheriffs gathered before him–Hickenlooper said: “I didn’t say it’s unenforceable, I said it’s difficult to enforce.”    Continue reading “CO Gov Thumbs His Noes at Sheriff’s, Says He’d Sign Gun Control Again”

AmmoLand – by Tim Macy

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun owners achieved a big win in Colorado during Tuesday’s elections, but also suffered a narrow loss in Mississippi.

In Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, GOA-endorsed candidate Ken Buck won his primary by an astounding 20 points.

This is great news for gun owners across the country.   Continue reading “Big Win for Gun Owners in Colorado, While Bloomberg Money Helps Cochran Squeak By”

Tech Crunch – by Jordan Crunch

Today the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling in the legal tussle between streaming TV service Aereo and major network broadcasters.

SCOTUS ruled that the decision of the second circuit, which upheld that Aereo was within the bounds of the Copyright Act, shall be reversed. It was a 6-3 decision, with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissenting.   Continue reading “Aereo Loses In Supreme Court, Deemed Illegal”

AOL

Florida veteran Larry Murphree has been charged by his homeowners association for displaying an American flag in his flower pot, Fox News reported.

“When I first moved here, I loved it. … But it’s just gotten more … nitpick more and more,” Murphree told WAWS.

WTLV reported that each day Murphree keeps the flag in the pot is a $100 fine. The homeowner is now being billed $8,000 for violation and attorney fees. Continue reading “Florida man may lose home over display of American flag”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  Red state Democrats who are fighting to overcome their support of gun control and get re-elected are asking gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly to stay out of their states.

This comes after Breibart News’ June 4 report that Giffords and Kelly planned to help Senators Mark Udall (D-CO), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Kay Hagan (D-NC) get re-elected this November.   Continue reading “Red State Anti-Gun Dems to Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly: Please Stay Away”

Tenth Amendment Center

SACRAMENTO, June 24, 2014 – Citing the 10th Amendment and support from the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC), the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill which creates a mechanism to turn off all material support and assistance, including water and electricity resources, from California to federal mass surveillance programs. The vote was 5-0.   Continue reading “California Assembly Committee Approves Bill to urn off Resources to the NSA”

AmmoLand

Covington VA –-(Ammoland.com)- More anti-gun double-standards! This time it is ECPI University in Virginia Beach.

A student, Patrick Winslow, simply wants to form a Second Amendment Club, along the line of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, and was told “NO!”

Responding for the School, William C. Salice, the Campus Director of Academic Affairs, wrote in an email: “Patrick, the University wouldn’t sponsor a club like this as it does not correlate to program enhancement or community service.”  

Continue reading “ECPI University in Virginia Beach Bars Second Amendment Club”

KHOU 11 News – by Angela Kocherga

WESLACO, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited the Rio Grande Valley and called on Washington to do more to protect the border and help Texas cope with “a major pending disaster.”

Perry made the comments at the Texas DPS Regional Headquarters after touring an overcrowded detention center filled with Central American children.

In May alone 9000 children crossed the border according to the Department of Homeland Security.   Continue reading “Texas Gov. Rick Perry warns the Border Patrol has been “overrun””

Reuters – by Dan Whitcomb

The U.S. government’s no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Anna Brown, ruling on a lawsuit filed in federal court in Oregon by 13 Muslim Americans who were branded with the no-fly status, ordered the government to come up with new procedures that allow people on the no-fly list to challenge that designation.   Continue reading “Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution”

New York Times – by Benjamin Mueller

In a case weighing the government’s ability to require vaccination against the individual right to refuse it, a federal judge has upheld a New York City policy that bars unimmunized children from public school when another student has a vaccine-preventable disease.

Citing a 109-year-old Supreme Court ruling that gives states broad power in public health matters, Judge William F. Kuntz II of Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled against three families who claimed that their right to free exercise of religion was violated when their children were kept from school, sometimes for a month at a time, because of the city’s immunization policies.   Continue reading “Judge Upholds Policy Barring Unvaccinated Students During Illnesses”

Fox News

Sudanese authorities have re-arrested a young mother a day after she was freed from death row where she’d been sent for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, FoxNews.com confirmed.

Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, was arrested with her husband, Daniel Wani, at Khartoum airport as she tried to leave the country, according to Al-Sharif Ali, a member of her legal team.   Continue reading “Sudanese Christian mom spared death sentence rearrested trying to leave country”

The News Tribune – by Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS — A man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers in a pizza shop and a shopper in a Wal-Mart before they died in a store shootout earlier this month were heavily armed and carried ammunition including armor-piercing bullets, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Monday.

Jerad and Amanda Miller wore adult diapers and carried four handguns, a shotgun, water and food, Gillespie said. The couple also smashed a Wal-Mart sporting-goods display case with a baseball bat to get more ammunition as they exchanged gunfire with SWAT officers, he said.    Continue reading “Police: Cop killers heavily armed, wore diapers”

Las Vegas Sun – by Joe Schoenmann

Fifteen days after the shooting deaths of two police officers and a bystander in eastern Las Vegas, Metro Police have not determined a motive for their killers, Jerad and Amanda Miller.

“It would be pure speculation on my part to say what their motive was,” Sheriff Douglas Gillespie said in a news conference this morning at Metro Headquarters.

Gillespie briefed the media and gave additional details in the deadly June 8 shootings at a CiCi’s pizza restaurant at 309 N. Nellis Blvd., and a nearby Wal-Mart at 201 N. Nellis.   Continue reading “Cop-killer declares, ‘I am in charge now,’ before fatal shootout”

The Wire – by Lucy Westcott

Dozens of children have been rescued and 281 pimps have been arrested as part of a child sex trafficking sting over the past week, according to information released today from the FBI.

The 168 children, many of whom had never been reported missing, were recovered during an annual nationwide FBI crackdown, according to CBS. Dubbed Operation Cross Country VIII, it’s now in its eighth year. While arrests were made across the country, the largest number of juveniles recovered were the 18 found in the Denver area, followed by 16 in the Cleveland area.   Continue reading “FBI Rescues 168 Children From “Living Nightmare” in Nationwide Sex Trafficking Sting”

News Day

RICHMOND, Va. – A Virginia man who has fathered children with several women has agreed to get a vasectomy to reduce his prison term by up to five years in a child endangerment case that has evoked the country’s dark history of forced sterilization.

None of the charges against Jessie Lee Herald, 27, involved a sexual offense. Shenandoah County assistant prosecutor Ilona White said her chief motive in making the extraordinarily unusual offer was keeping Herald from fathering more than the seven children he has by at least six women.   Continue reading “Vasectomy will reduce man’s prison sentence”

AOL

Emma Czornobaj was convicted by a jury on two counts of criminal negligence causing death, a charge that carries a maximum life sentence, and two counts of dangerous driving causing death, which comes with a maximum of 14 years in jail.

The 25-year-old was charged in the deaths of Andre Roy, 50, and his daughter Jessie, 16.

She wiped away tears when the verdict was delivered to a packed courtroom in Montreal. Quebec Superior Court Justice Eliane Perreault said the 12-member jury voted unanimously.   Continue reading “Canada woman stops for ducks; guilty in 2 deaths”