The New York Times – by Tamar Lewin

Nearly 40 years after the world was jolted by the birth of the first test-tube baby, a new revolution in reproductive technology is on the horizon — and it promises to be far more controversial than in vitro fertilization ever was.

Within a decade or two, researchers say, scientists will likely be able to create a baby from human skin cells that have been coaxed to grow into eggs and sperm and used to create embryos to implant in a womb.

Continue reading “Babies From Skin Cells? Prospect Is Unsettling to Some Experts”

Grand Jury Foundation

Article 39 and all that

A Tolerably Accurate but Brief History of Juries, Grand and Otherwise

Someone once wrote that the origins of the jury, grand or otherwise, are “lost in the mists of antiquity.” That being so, this historical summary omits birth dates and birth places. We also omit quotations, footnotes, and a lengthy bibliography. Instead, we offer several leads to consider if you embark on your own research into the provenance of this ancient institution. Continue reading “The Grand Jury”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – Police in San Diego responding to an emergency call about someone in distress shot and killed a 15-year-old boy on Saturday after he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at them.

The boy had made the original call, police said in a statement.

According to the statement, two officers responded to a 911 call requesting a welfare check on a 15-year-old standing in front of a school. The caller said the boy was not armed.   Continue reading “San Diego police shoot, kill teen holding a BB gun”

ABC 3340 – by  Andrew Donley & Emma Simmons

CULLMAN, Ala. — It’s a video that brings back memories of Carrie Underwood bringing out the Louisville Slugger, smashing out head lights. In this case it started with a shovel to the windshield.

We were able to get Barbara Lowery, the woman behind the smashing on the phone.

“I prayed about it first, and I slept on it, and I decided it wasn’t a good idea. Then I saw a shovel,” Lowery said.   Continue reading “Cullman woman stomps out car windshield, arrested for disorderly conduct”

ABC 3340 – by Lauren Walsh

Walker County, Alabama is a governor’s signature away from voting on a sales tax increase.

Walker county borrowed money fifteen years ago for road repairs, salaries and equipment. It hasn’t started paying it back yet. Now, it owes more than double what it borrowed. The commission is hoping an extra penny sales will help repay the debt and keep the county afloat.   Continue reading “Walker County Commission Chairman: Bankruptcy a possibility if sales tax doesn’t pass”

Metapedia

The Bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945 were war crimes committed by the Allies of World War II. In four raids, 1,300 heavy bombers dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city, the Baroque capital of the German state of Saxony. The resulting firestorm destroyed 39 square kilometres (15 sq mi) of the city centre. [1]   Continue reading “Bombing of Dresden in World War II”

CBS News, September 14, 2016

In 1961 we almost lost North Carolina, when a plane carrying two bombs armed with nuclear warheads broke up over Goldsboro.  The only reason the state didn’t suffer the first unplanned nuclear explosion on American soil was because an on-off switch happened to be in the “off” position.

Stories such as this, which were examined in Eric Schlosser’s critically-acclaimed 2013 book, “Command and Control,” show just how lucky we have been when it comes to the safety of our nuclear arsenal.   Continue reading ““Command and Control”: The day Arkansas was almost nuked”

The Daily Caller – by Michael Bastasch

A group of executives who want to fight global warming has published a new report calling for countries to spend up to $600 billion a year over the next two decades to boost green energy deployment and energy efficiency equipment.

The Energy Transitions Commission’s (ETC) report claims “additional investments of around $300-$600 billion per annum do not pose a major macroeconomic challenge,” which they say will help the world meet the goals laid out in the Paris agreement.  Continue reading “Al Gore’s New Group Demands $15 Trillion To Fight Global Warming”

History Channel – by Jesse Greenspan

On April 30, 1803, U.S. representatives in Paris agreed to pay $15 million for about 828,000 square miles of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. This deal, known as the Louisiana Purchase, nearly doubled the size of the United States. President Thomas Jefferson called it “an ample provision for our posterity and a widespread field for the blessings of freedom.” Yet it also had detractors on both the French and American sides. Explore eight facts about the wars, negotiating tactics and lucky coincidences that made the Louisiana Purchase possible.   Continue reading “8 Things You May Not Know About the Louisiana Purchase”

Truth Seeker Times – by John

It is a common misconception that the word Human comes from the latin Humanus derived from the words Humus, meaning earth or ground and man. The problem is that the first know use of the word Humus (1796) came after the first use of the word Humanus (?-1384) of which it was supposedly composed. This deception of etymology is to cover up the true origins of the word human.

It is actually a composition of the words hue (?-900) and man, together literally meaning the colour of man or the appearance of man.   Continue reading “Origins of the Word Human”

Wikipedia

The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub.L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.[1] The Sedition Act of 1918 stated that people or countries cannot say negative things about the government or the war.   Continue reading “One Example of Illegal “Law”: Sedition Act of 1918″

AL.com

Embattled Gov. Robert Bentley this afternoon agreed to a deal that forced him to resign the office of governor, plead guilty to two misdemeanors and agree to never again to hold public office.

The extraordinary agreement, hammered out over the weekend and throughout the day by lawyers for the Alabama Attorney General’s office and Bentley attorneys Chuck Malone and Cooper Shattuck, requires Bentley to repay the state for misused funds and perform community service.    Continue reading “Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigns amid sex scandal”

Washington Post – by Lindsey Bever

Federal and local law enforcement in Wisconsin are searching for a 32-year-old man they say stole numerous guns with a possible plan to target area schools and public officials.

Authorities said Friday that more than 150 local, state and federal agents have been working over the past several days to locate Joseph Jakubowski, who is suspected of stealing about 16 high-end firearms Tuesday evening from a gun shop in Janesville, a town not far from Wisconsin’s southern border.   Continue reading “Manhunt underway for gun theft suspect who was ‘highly agitated by national politics,’ police say”

Science News – by Ashley Yeager

Scientists studying dinosaur evolution are finding many more bones to pick.

Researchers from London have found hints of blood and fibrous tissue in a hodgepodge of 75-million-year-old dinosaur bones. These fossils had been poorly preserved. That now suggests residues of soft tissues may be more common in dino bones than scientists had thought. Details appeared June 9 in Nature Communications.   Continue reading “More dinosaur bones yield traces of blood, soft tissue”