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RAMSEY — A controversial proposal to open a 60,620-square-foot indoor firing range –which triggered both fierce opposition and support – has been withdrawn, borough officials announced Monday.
The move comes after months of back-and-forth with the owners of the Spring Street property where the range would have been located, Mayor Deirdre Dillon said in a statement. Continue reading “Ramsey gun range application withdrawn”
Daniell Rider, a Hobby Lobby consumer, found a decoration at one of their stores so offensive, she shared the image on Facebook requesting that they remove the decor from their shelves.
What was it?
Rider on Thursday shared a photo of a shelf with glass bottles containing what appear to be replicas of raw cotton plants. Continue reading “Hobby Lobby’s ‘offensive’ decoration has gone bonkers viral — 33k Facebook reactions and counting”
Life Site News – by Fr. Mark Hodges
PAUL, Minnesota, May 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A mother’s lawsuit against a Minnesota school system for secretly helping her 15-year-old son “transition” to “female” was dismissed by a federal judge.
Anmarie Calgaro of Iron Junction discovered all too late last November that her son’s school was secretly giving him female hormone treatments with funding from the government. She sued the school district, the county health board, and a local health care entity for violating her rights as a parent. Continue reading “Mom loses lawsuit against school that secretly gave her son ‘transgender’ treatment”
Former President Barack Obama was known for going on lavish vacations, and now taxpayers know the updated cost of his family’s various trips and travels.
What was it before?
According to McClatchy, it was previously known that vacations the Obama’s took during their eight years in office cost tax payers more than $85 million. Their most well-known vacation, the annual Christmas trip to Hawaii, cost taxpayers approximately $3.5 million, it was reported. Continue reading “The total amount of taxpayer dollars Barack Obama spent on vacations & travel has just been revealed”
St. Louis, Missouri braced itself for protests following the verdict on the Stockley trial, in which police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty for shooting and killing a black man after a car chase.
But the demonstrations Friday night were more violent than city officials had anticipated–reaching the home of Democratic Mayor Lyda Krewson. Nearly 1,000 agitators surrounded Krewson’s home, smashing windows and smearing the house with red paint. Continue reading “Army of protesters, some flashing guns, swarm St. Louis, trash mayor’s home, injure cops, in night of rage”
Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins
As many Americans struggle to get back on their feet after their homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the United States government has insisted that the only way to raise money for relief efforts is to increase the national debt—while setting aside another $75 million in aid for Israel.
Just one year ago, the Obama Administration signed the largest military aid deal in U.S. history, promising Israel $38 Billion over the next 10 years. However, while the deal stated that Israel was expected to return any money that was more than the original amount, the Trump Administration is breaking the rules. Continue reading “As Thousands Left Homeless from Hurricanes, Trump Sends $75 Million MORE to Israel”
Jeffrey Sandusky, the 41-year-old son of convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky, plead guilty to 14 counts of child sexual abuse on Friday.
The plea came a week before his child sex abuse trial was scheduled to begin. In a press release, the Centre County District Attorney said he will be registered at the highest tier of sex offender status in Pennsylvania.
Jeffrey will have to submit information on his home, work and school addresses as well as his vehicle, with state police every three months for the rest of his life. Continue reading “Jeff Sandusky, son of Jerry, pleads guilty child sex abuse”
List of Statues of Lenin in the United States
Universities known for being hotbeds of campus protest and liberal activism are struggling with declining enrollments and budget shortfalls, and higher education analysts say that’s no coincidence.
Take Oberlin College. According to a document leaked to The Oberlin Review, the school’s student newspaper, the small liberal arts college famous for social justice hoaxes has had trouble attracting and retaining students, missing this year’s enrollment mark by 80 and racking up a $5 million budget deficit in the process. Continue reading “Enrollments, budgets fall short at universities known for ‘social justice warfare’”
Burbank police are searching for a suspected purse snatcher after a woman was caught on camera allegedly stealing the bag from an elderly woman in a Ralphs supermarket.
The incident occurred sometime around 10:45 on Tuesday as an 82-year-old woman was shopping in the Ralphs at 2600 W. Victory Blvd. Sgt. Derek Green, a spokesman for the Burbank Police Department, said the woman was maneuvering through the store using a mobility scooter and kept her purse on its floorboard.
When the woman reached to grab something off a store shelf, a woman believed to be in her 20s came up from behind and took the bag. Continue reading “Elderly woman’s purse snatched at Burbank grocery store”
Activist Post – by Derrick Broze
Will the ongoing transition to self-driving cars come at the cost of passenger privacy?
On September 6 the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill which spurs on further development of autonomous vehicles, but civil liberties advocates fear the further erosion of privacy. The so-called “SELF DRIVE Act” has been hailed as an opportunity to improve traffic safety and reduce vehicle deaths. If the bill passes the Senate and becomes law it would prevent states from passing certain laws to regulate the technology. The Hill reports the bill would also “allow car manufacturers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving cars a year that don’t meet normal safety standards. In the first year, however, that number will be capped at 25,000.” Continue reading “The Self-Driving Vehicle Future Will Be The End Of Privacy”
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii said Tuesday that it aims to be the first state to have marijuana sales handled without cash, saying it wanted to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting dispensaries.
All of Hawaii’s eight licensed dispensaries have agreed to go cashless by Oct. 1, the governor’s office said. The dispensaries will ask patients to use a debit payment app to buy their pot instead of cash. The app is already an option for marijuana transactions in six states, including California and Colorado. Continue reading “Hawaii says it’s 1st state to go cashless for pot sales”
Somaliland, a self-declared republic in East Africa, faces high illiteracy and has an economy ravaged by a civil war. But it might just become the first cashless society on Earth.
Half a dozen men crowd round one of the many small colourful wooden shacks off a main street in Hargeisa, Somaliland, shouting and arguing over the quality of khat – a mild narcotic that has been likened to both coffee and cocaine – that they’ve just been hastily handed by the vendor. Continue reading “The Surprising Place Where Cash Is Going Extinct”
Baltimore Sun – by Colin Campbell and Sean Welsh
Mayor Catherine Pugh says she has no plans to remove the Francis Scott Key monument in Bolton Hill that was vandalized before dawn Wednesday and has directed art preservation experts to determine the cost of cleaning it.
Exactly 203 years after the Maryland attorney wrote the poem that would later become the national anthem, the city awoke to find the words “Racist Anthem” spray-painted on the Eutaw Place monument and red paint splashed on it.
Continue reading “Baltimore to keep, clean defaced Francis Scott Key statue”
A group of 100 student activists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have covered the statue of its founder Thomas Jefferson with a black tarp, calling him a racist and a rapist and sending a list of demands to the administration.
Chanting “F*** White Supremacy” and “Black Lives Matter,” the activists covered up the statue of one of America’s founding fathers on Tuesday evening. Continue reading “Charlottesville activists target founder Jefferson”
Fellowship of the Minds – by DCG
Why is following the law so hard for folks to understand? I hope this series bombs.
From LA Times: By all appearances, Rafael Agustin had been the all-American high school student: he was class president, prom king and an honor roll student. But there was one hitch: he was also in the country illegally.
It was a discovery Agustin learned while applying for college in 1998 — before there was a program like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Continue reading “Hollyweird is stuck on stupid: Gina Rodriguez’s “Dreamers” series hopes to rid America of the term “illegal””