Author: Enemy of the State

Bloomberg

Fast-food restaurants are already grappling with rising wages and a smaller pool of workers. Now 11 U.S. states want to restrict chains’ ability to bar employees from jumping to another franchisee across town.

The investigation by states including Massachusetts, California, New York and Illinois, announced Monday, is targeting so-called no-poaching agreements at some of the industry’s largest chains. The states argue that the companies — the list includes Arby’s, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts and Wendy’s — are depressing workers’ earnings by preventing them from moving to different franchisees of the same chain.   Continue reading “States Want Fast Food Chains to Allow Employee Poaching”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

Years ago when analysts used the term “globalist, there was an immediate recognition among liberty advocates as to who they were referring to. This was back when the movement for small government, the non-aggression principle and true free markets was small but growing. These days, it’s difficult to gauge how many liberty groups there are or even if they know what small government and the non-aggression principle represent, let alone what makes a “globalist” a globalist.   Continue reading “Globalists Are Telling Us Exactly What Disasters They’re Planning For The Economy”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – by Campbell Lutz

Two men disguised as Walmart employees attempted to steal several thousand dollars worth of merchandise from a metro Atlanta store, according to Peachtree City police.

About 2:46 p.m. June 29, the men entered the back of the retailer’s location in the 2700 block of Ga. 54 and began loading pallet carts, police spokeswoman Lt. Odilia Bergh said Friday.   Continue reading “Men dressed as Walmart employees try to steal from metro Atlanta store”

Market Watch – by Mike Murphy

A little-known Florida company may have exposed the personal data of nearly every American adult, according to a new report.

Wired reported Wednesday that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.   Continue reading “A new data breach may have exposed personal information of almost every American adult”

Yahoo News

A father who was shot and killed in front of his 2- and 4-year-old daughters last week has been identified as a scientist from Irvine, California.

Tristan Beaudette, 35, was camping with his daughters in Malibu Creek State Park, Calabasas, when he was fatally shot in the upper torso on Friday. He was found by deputies in his tent, along with his daughters, around 5 a.m.   Continue reading “Father Shot and Killed While Camping With His 2- and 4-Year-Old Girls”

Thought Co. – by David Emery

The viral text below claims that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama surrendered their Illinois law licenses to avoid criminal prosecution. This viral message has been circulating since June 2010 and is mostly considered a false statement.

The following email text was contributed in June 2012 and focuses on a story about how they voluntarily relinquished their law licenses in the name of lies on the bar application and rumors of insurance fraud.   Continue reading “What Happened to the Obama’s Law License”

“An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. ‘A fight is going on inside me,’ he said to the boy. ‘It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil — he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.’

He continued, ‘The other is good — he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you — and inside every other person, too.’  Continue reading “Cherokee Legend”

The American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

David Hogg is a VIP now.

The 18-year-old attended the Parkland, Florida school where a student murdered 17 people in February, then made himself famous with relentless calls for gun control in the wake of the tragedy.

Now he’s got a book deal, and publicists — and armed guards.   Continue reading “Anti-gun protester David Hogg — protected by armed guards?”

Yahoo News

On Friday, the millionaire and political activist tweeted a bizarre claim to explain why he had recently gone dark on Twitter. “I apologize for my three-day absence but I was unconscious for two days at the Vidant Medical Center in North Carolina and just woke up,” he wrote. “My enemies [managed] to spike something that I ingested. However, I am more difficult to kill than anyone can possibly imagine. I am back.  Continue reading “Millionaire tech mogul John McAfee claims his ‘incompetent enemies’ tried to kill him”

Yahoo News

A billboard near Vega, Texas, caused a bit of a stir with its message — so much so that the individual who rented it agreed to take it down.

The billboard, which Kyle Mccallie captured on his drive to work and posted on his Facebook, read: “Liberals please continue on I-40 until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.”   Continue reading “A billboard in Texas has advice for liberals: Keep driving until you leave the Lone Star State”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — The Obama White House’s chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia’s attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to “stand down” his efforts in the summer of 2016.

The comments by Michael Daniel, who served as White House “cyber security coordinator” between 2012 and January of last year, provided his first public confirmation of a much-discussed passage in the book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” co-written by this reporter and David Corn, that detailed his thwarted efforts to respond to the Russian attack.   Continue reading “Obama cyber chief confirms ‘stand down’ order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016”

Yahoo News

TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — A gunman injured a teen and shot a man in a pair of carjacking attempts Sunday, before being killed by a bystander outside a Washington state Walmart store.

The incident at the Walmart in Tumwater happened about 5 p.m.

A witness told KOMO-TV that people were in line when they heard gunfire in the store. Witnesses told other media that they were inside the store and heard shots.   Continue reading “Gunman wounds 2, fatally shot by bystander at Walmart store”