FEE – by Brittany Hunter

For more than two decades, John Monem’s furniture store has been a staple of downtown Brockton, Massachusetts. But a week ago, city officials gave Monem an early Christmas present: a notice to vacate his property.

Brockton Furniture is currently located on the first floor of the tallest building in the city, 93 Centre Street. But in four months, Monem will be forced to relocate his business because the local government doesn’t think he has made enough of an effort to revitalize his own property.   Continue reading “Local Government Says Merry Christmas by Using Eminent Domain to Take Small Business Owner’s Building”

Tenth Amendment Center – by TJ Martinell

Just as some gun rights groups flip-flop on protecting the right to keep and bear arms from federal encroachment, so has Republican President Donald Trump. Not only has he ramped up federal gun control enforcement, but he has unilaterally implemented new federal gun control in the form of a bump stock ban.

As we’ve pointed before, the effectiveness of this policy is moot: the feds have no constitutional authority to restrict firearms.   Continue reading “Trump and Obama? A Tale Of Two Gun Control Proposals”

LifeSite News – by Calvin Freiburger

DENVER, December 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Christian baker in Colorado who won a high-profile religious liberty case earlier this year is back in court, this time going on offense against the state officials he says are continuing to persecute him for refusing to create pro-LGBT products.

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Colorado officials had discriminated against the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner’s religious beliefs while trying to force him to bake a cake for a same-sex “wedding.” But on June 26, Autumn Scardina filed a complaint against Phillips for declining to bake a cake that would be pink on the inside and blue on the outside, to celebrate his “transition” from male to female.   Continue reading “Christian baker sues Colorado officials for pressuring him to make LGBT cakes”

Toronto Sun – by Brad Hunter

Three men have been arrested following the grisly decapitation murders of two female backpackers in Morocco.

The women were found dead in their tent — apparently butchered while they slept near the village of Imlil in the High Atlas mountain range late Monday.   Continue reading “Female backpackers decapitated while hiking in Morocco: Source”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Over the weekend, US warplanes have carried out at least six airstrikes against the coastal town of Gandarsh, Somalia. US African Command (Africom) says 62 people were killed in the strikes, and all were “terrorists” from al-Shabaab.

34 people were killed on Saturday, and 28 more on Sunday. The identities of the slain are not clear, and there is no way to verify Africom’s claims. This is, however, standard operating procedure for them, to both label all slain as militants, and to say they don’t think any civilians were killed or wounded.   Continue reading “US Airstrikes Kill 62 in Coastal Somali Town”

FEE – by Carey Wedler

On an April afternoon in 2018, Dr. Matthew Roman and a friend drove together to a Philadelphia gun store, Firing Lane Inc. Seeking to purchase a firearm for home defense, Roman walked up to a clerk and asked to see a Smith and Wesson 638.

After Roman, 33, indicated he’d like to purchase the small six-shooter, the clerk began to ask Roman a few questions, including if he possessed a medical cannabis card, pursuant to question 11e on the ATF’s 4473 form. Roman, who has no criminal history, told the clerk truthfully that he has a medical prescription for marijuana. Sorry, the clerk told him, no gun.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania Doctor Denied Handgun over Legal Medical Marijuana Use Sues FBI, ATF”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Muskogee County residents, whose school-aged children accrue four absences over a four-week period of time, get a ticket from police and have to see a judge. The citation, if not signed, also leads to the detainment and potential arrest of their children. In police accountability circles, the truancy to incarceration system is known as the “school to prison pipeline.” One mother, whose son was arrested, placed in handcuffs, and taken to the same building which houses the county jail, is speaking out.   Continue reading “Child Handcuffed, Arrested and Thrown in Jail for Missing Too Many Days of School”

Popular Mechanics – by Avery Thompson

The U.S. government just broke a record by leasing the rights to build new offshore wind power, in a deal reaching upwards of $405.1 million late last week. This is the most expensive offshore wind deal in the country’s history. In a few years, a small region in New England could start producing enough electricity to power around 1.5 million homes, according to a new Utility Drive report.

The process started about a year ago, when two different turbine manufacturers—Statoil and PNE Wind—approached the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management with an offer to build new wind turbines in an area off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. Because both companies were interested in the same area, the agency held an auction to determine who would get the rights.   Continue reading “The U.S. Just Finalized The Largest Offshore Wind Sale in the Nation’s History”

ABC 12

KALKASKA COUNTY (WJRT) (12/17/2018) – The police report and body camera footage from the Nov. 16 arrest of Midland County Sheriff Scott Stephenson shed new light on his drunken driving case.

Stephenson blew a 0.23 percent blood alcohol level on a preliminary breath test at the scene, nearly three times Michigan’s 0.08 percent legal limit for drunken driving.   Continue reading “Police body cam shows Midland County sheriff ‘super drunk,’ asked to avoid arrest”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

The United States on Tuesday pledged a total of $10.6 billion to Mexico and Central America.

This comes on the same day White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders announced there will be no shutdown over border wall funding.   Continue reading “Wow! US Government Announces $10.6 Billion in Aid to Mexico and Central America — But ZERO DOLLARS for Border Wall”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Houston, TX — A police officer’s actions recorded on video over the weekend have led to charges against him. Officer Omario Gatheright was captured on video running over 50-year-old woman and then fleeing the scene.

The incident happened Sunday night as Gatheright, who is an officer with the Aldine Independent School District police department, was pulling out of a driveway in the 13400 block of Topeka street. As the officer pulled out, he is seen on video plowing his cruiser into Alice Limone and then driving off.   Continue reading “Cop in Police Cruiser Runs Over 50yo Woman Carrying Groceries, Then Drives Off”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

The Belgian government gassed its own people on Sunday at a 5,000-strong rally protesting against the government signing the UN Migration Pact, also known as the “UN Suicide Pact,” against the will of the public.

While the Western media went crazy over US border patrol using tear gas — a “weapon banned in war” — against a group of migrants attempting to invade the US, they’re totally fine with the tyrannical government of Belgium using this “weapon of war” against their own citizens for protesting open borders globalism.   Continue reading “Belgian Government Gasses Its Own People At Protest Against UN Migration Pact”

Haaretz – by Eran Azran

As Britain anguishes over its effort to negotiate a deal to leave the European Union, one Israeli is swimming against the tide and is hoping to make a fortune off Brexit. He has bought up 1,200 apartments in London over the past half year.

Yakir Gabay bought the properties for about 500 million pounds ($630 million) through his company, Grand City Properties. The real estate was purchased in cash.   Continue reading “Riding the Brexit Wave: An Israeli Just Bought 1,200 London Apartments – in Cash”

Times of Israel – by Shoshanna Soloman

Israel’s Declaration of Independence and national anthem. The Bible. The memories of a Holocaust survivor. Children’s drawings of space and the moon; art, science, literature and technology; the Traveler’s Prayer and a note from former president Shimon Peres containing a verse from the Book of Genesis. All of these — three discs containing hundreds of digital files — were inserted Monday in a time capsule scheduled to head to the moon sometime next year, when Israel hopes to launch and land its first ever spacecraft to the moon.   Continue reading “Israeli moon-bound craft to carry Holocaust survivor story, and best of humanity”

FAIR – by David Jaroslav

On November 29, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued a directive turning the Garden State into a sanctuary state. The New Jersey Attorney General, unlike those of most states, is appointed by the governor, in this case Governor Phil Murphy (D), so this appears to be the first case of a state being made into a sanctuary for illegal aliens by the unilateral executive action of a non-elected official.

In short, the directive prohibits all state and local law enforcement agencies and officers in New Jersey from:  Continue reading “New Jersey Becomes a Sanctuary State By Order of Its Attorney General”