American Mirror – by Kyle Olson

President Obama’s final speech to Americans wouldn’t have been complete if he hadn’t talking about himself dozens of times.

The outgoing commander-in-chief focused on himself 75 times to be exact during the 51-minute farewell address.   Continue reading “Obama talks about himself 75 times during 51-minute farewell speech”

The Daily Caller – by Alex Pfeiffer

An undercover video exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller Tuesday claims to show an immigration official in New York giving advice on how illegal Syrian immigrants can receive asylum with fake passports.

Laura Loomer, an undercover activist for Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), visited a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office Jan. 6 in Port Chester, N.Y. Loomer told an employee who AFDI identified as “Sergio” that she knows a family from Syria who is afraid to come into the office because they are in the country illegally. She said that she wants to make sure the family is “integrated” and has “immigration services.”   Continue reading “Immigration Official Okays Syrian Immigrants With Fake Passports”

Politico – by Josh Gerstein

President Barack Obama has selected his close aide Anita Decker Breckenridge to act as his representative in the process that will lead to many of his White House records becoming public in future decades.

A letter Obama sent to the National Archives in July authorizes Breckenridge to convey Obama’s wishes about which of his presidential files can be made public and which should be kept under wraps for a period of time.   Continue reading “Obama taps longtime aide to oversee presidential records process”

The News Tribune – by Craig Sailor

Two local transgender cops — one a Seattle police officer and the other a King County Sheriff’s deputy — are the subjects of a documentary on HBO.

“VICE News Tonight” correspondent Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani interviewed Seattle police officer Tori Newburn and King County Sheriff’s deputy Jamie Deer for the show.

Newburn is the first openly transgender cop on Seattle’s force. He had already begun his transition to male when he enrolled in a police academy in 2014.   Continue reading “Seattle area transgender cops come out in HBO documentary”

ABC News

A 57-year-old convicted killer serving a life sentence in California became the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery, the prisoner’s attorneys confirmed Friday to The Associated Press.

California prison officials agreed in August 2015 to pay for the surgery for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, who was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery for ransom and has no possibility of parole.   Continue reading “California Funds 1st US Inmate Sex Reassignment”

Yahoo News

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — For the first time, the Marine Corps has put three enlisted female Marines in a ground combat unit once open only to men, officials said Thursday.

They will serve as a rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine, said 1st Lt. John McCombs, spokesman for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejuene.   Continue reading “3 women become 1st female US Marines in ground infantry unit”

NBC News

The nation’s top intelligence official on Thursday defended his colleagues’ findings that Russian agents interfered in the U.S. election — and dismissed the credibility of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a day after the president-elect appeared to back him over the intelligence community.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also took a swipe at the president-elect for “disparaging” the intelligence community.   Continue reading “DNI Chief Clapper Takes Swipe at Trump, Assange as He Defends Russia Hack Intel”

ABC 15 News

PHOENIX – Sheriff Paul Penzone was sworn in Wednesday as metro Phoenix’s new top law enforcer.

The retired police sergeant defeated six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio in November.

“It’s an organization that’s had one form of leadership for 24 years, so being a new person coming into that, it can be challenging, or in some ways uncomfortable, getting to know each other, but that hasn’t been the case,” Penzone said.

Continue reading “New Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone takes oath in public ceremony”

Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe

QUANTICO, Va. — Drill instructors at the Marine Corps recruit center at Parris Island, S.C., drank alcohol on the job and repeatedly ordered recruits to do illegal calisthenics in a decrepit building called “the dungeon,” recruits testified here Thursday.

The allegation emerged as Staff Sgt. Antonio B. Burke, a Parris Island drill instructor, became the first Marine to face a hearing in a series of cases involving hazing and abuse allegations over the last couple of years. Burke is charged with cruelty and maltreatment, failure to obey a lawful general order and making a false official statement.   Continue reading “Marine drill instructors accused of using a ‘dungeon’ on recruits and drinking on the job”

Washington Post – by Dan Morse

A 22-year-old man who had been lured to Maryland from New Jersey — expecting to rendezvous with a woman after an exchange of Facebook messages — was killed and buried in a shallow grave in Montgomery County, according to police documents filed in court Wednesday.

The killing, which took place in October, appears to be related to the MS-13 street gang, authorities said. The gang has made a resurgence in the Washington area over the past year.   Continue reading “Prosecutors: MS-13 murder victim lured to Maryland using fake woman, Facebook”

MRC TV – by Brittany M. Hughes

Last week, in one of his final moves out of the Oval Office, Obama executively designated more than 1.5 million acres of land as national monuments, preserving their untouched façade while closing them to human expansion, development, energy use, ranching or state or local jurisdiction.

In a move ignored by the liberal media last week, Obama unilaterally seized more than 1.3 million acres from Utah to establish the Bears Ears Monument, preserving it at the behest of conservationist groups and Native American tribes who claimed the land was sacred. Utah’s state legislature, however, opposed the unilateral land grab across party lines, with many speculating that Obama’s move is the latest in an attempt to limit efforts from incoming President Donald Trump to expand domestic energy production.   Continue reading “Obama Seized Enough Land and Water in 8 Years to Cover Texas Three Times”

The Hill – by Lydia Wheeler

Legislation to allow Congress to repeal in a single vote any rule finalized in the last 60 legislative days of the Obama administration sailed through the House Wednesday, the second time in less than two months.

The GOP-backed Midnight Rule Relief Act, which passed the previous Congress in November, was approved largely along party lines by a vote of 238-184 on the second day of the new Congress, despite Democratic opposition.   Continue reading “House passes bill to overturn ‘midnight’ regulations en masse”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Driven by terror threats and a potential Hillary Clinton administration, sales of guns in America soared to record levels in 2016, according to the FBI.

Just released FBI background check numbers, which roughly equate gun sales, totaled some 27,538,673, 4 million more than in 2015 and nearly double the number in President Obama‘s first year.   Continue reading “Boom: Record 27 million guns bought in 2016”

Independent – by Jon Sharman

Bill Gates has warned that the world’s emergency response systems are not yet strong enough to cope with a deadly flu epidemic – one he is crossing his fingers will not arise in the next 10 years.

The Microsoft co-founder said the Ebola and Zika virus crises showed that global health infrastructure had room for improvement, the BBC reported.   Continue reading “Bill Gates says the world is not prepared to cope with a deadly flu epidemic”

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At only 17-years-old, Jessica “SASS Kicker” Kirkham has been the top female shooter for the last two years at the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) End of Trail World Championship in Edgewood, New Mexico.

Shooting since the age of 12, Kirkham’s favorite weapon is the rifle according to The Verde Independent.   Continue reading “Anyone who says a lever-gun is ‘too slow’ needs to see this cowgirl”