Axios – by Mike Allen

John Dowd, President Trump’s outside lawyer, outlined to me a new and highly controversial defense/theory in the Russia probe: A president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice.

The “President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case,” Dowd claims.

Continue reading “Trump lawyer claims the “President cannot obstruct justice””

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Utah on Monday to announce big cuts to the state’s sprawling wilderness national monuments, a move that is likely to trigger legal challenges from tribes and environmental groups.

Trump’s visit to the state follows a months-long review by the Interior Department that he ordered in April to identify which of 27 monuments designated by past presidents should be rescinded or resized to make way for development.   Continue reading “Trump to shrink Utah monuments, riling tribes and environmentalists”

It’s something that Patriotic Americans had better be keeping a close eye on, for the last 80 or 90 years America has become the goto bailout center for the world, Saudi Arabia plays a huge part, we have been buying their oil at huge inflated prices, those days are disappearing and fast. It’s is no surprise that the current crown prince of Saudi Arabia is detaining royals and clawing back hundreds of billions. Any Saudi who made big money over the years is suspect, and have been questioned or detained, some say tortured.

What should be understood about all of this is this clawback of billions has much to do with money invested here in America, involving equally compliant American bankers, knowing this money was illegally obtained, just like taking money from the drug cartels, no different whatsoever. This paradigm shift in thinking by the Saudi prince to clawback money and assets is something that has become a dirty little game nobody is talking much about.   Continue reading “Saudi Empire in Big Trouble – Revenues Disappearing – Clawbacks Screwing American Nationals”

Trucker News

The topic of safety in truck driving covers many different aspects of the job. Everything from the upcoming ELD mandate to propositions for new maximum speed-limits on large commercial vehicles ties into safety in some way.

However, the subject of gun ownership is one that has a major place in this conversation. This is especially true since many in the industry claim drivers are disproportionately targeted by criminals due to the nature of their work arrangement.   Continue reading “Truckers And Guns: The Debate Continues”

The Hill

Senate Republicans have approved the repeal of ObamaCare’s individual mandate as part of their tax-cut bill, a major step toward ending an unpopular part of the health-care law.

“Families ought to be able to make decisions about what they want to buy and what works for them — not the government,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said, hailing the accomplishment.   Continue reading “Senate GOP repeals ObamaCare mandate”

Daily Mail

San Diego on Friday opened the first of three industrial-sized tents to house the homeless as part of the city’s efforts to contain a hepatitis outbreak stemming from the deplorable conditions people were living in on the streets.

About 20 people made their way to a bunk bed Friday in the tent that will house 350 single men and women.

Two other giant tents will open later this month – one for families and one for veterans. The tents will house a total of 700 people.   Continue reading “San Diego opens giant tent to contain hepatitis outbreak”

Fox News

The Department of Justice unsealed an arrest warrant Friday for Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, the illegal immigrant acquitted Thursday in Kate Steinle’s murder trial.

Zarate was found not guilty of murdering Steinle on a pier in San Francisco in July 2015. Steinle was walking with her father and a family friend when she was shot, collapsing into her father’s arms.    Continue reading “DOJ files arrest warrant for illegal immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle case”

The Hill – by Jeff McCall

Just a few decades ago, citizens who wanted to stay on top of the daily news had a narrow range of options. They could read a newspaper, watch an evening network newscast, or maybe just have a conversation with a trusted neighbor or co-worker. Today, the digital world today has created a Wild West of information resources. One could question, however, whether we’re really more informed compared to pre-digital news consumers.

Much depends on the quality of the gatekeepers who determine what news topics get traction in the public mindset. Those media agenda setters used to be grizzled, professional journalists who understood news and public dialogue. Sure, power was centralized in the hands and heads of powerful news editors of the big television networks, wire service and major dailies. But, at least, they were journalists who had some conception of their civic duties as public surrogates and had the noses to sniff out news of substance.   Continue reading “Google, Facebook and Drudge: What the new titans of media mean for America”

The College Fix – by Nathan Rubbelke

The student newspaper at Evergreen State College has a section in its opinion pages described as “for people of color by people of color.”

“This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under white supremacy and having to see things from a white perspective. This is why when we do cover these issues it will be in the context and from the perspective of POC and POC only,” according to the section’s editors as they reintroduced it to readers in September.   Continue reading “Evergreen State’s student newspaper includes no-whites-allowed opinion section”

East Bay Times – by Damin Esper

ALBANY –– A United States District Court judge in San Francisco issued a divided ruling this week on a portion of a case involving an Instagram account created by a former Albany High student that had several racist memes posted on it.

The lawsuits were filed on behalf of 10 students disciplined after the discovery of the account in March. The Albany Unified School District and several employees as well as district officials and an AUSD board member were the defendants.   Continue reading “Judge issues ruling on Albany High online posting lawsuits”

New York Times – by Farhad Manjoo

The internet is dying.

Sure, technically, the internet still works. Pull up Facebook on your phone and you will still see your second cousin’s baby pictures. But that isn’t really the internet. It’s not the open, anyone-can-build-it network of the 1990s and early 2000s, the product of technologies created over decades through government funding and academic research, the network that helped undo Microsoft’s stranglehold on the tech business and gave us upstarts like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Netflix.    Continue reading “The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.”

The Sun – by Charlie Parker and Brittany Vonow

AMAZON employees are exposed to such gruelling working conditions, they fall asleep on their feet, it has been claimed.

Bone-weary workers reportedly have just nine seconds to process a package during the long-hours at the online store warehouse, with a Mirror investigation claiming employees are suffering panic attacks as they struggle to keep up with demand.   Continue reading “Amazon warehouse life ‘revealed with timed toilet breaks and workers sleeping on their feet’”

USA Today

WASHINGTON — The FBI was flooded Friday with more than 200,000 background check requests for gun purchases, setting a new single day record, the bureau reported Saturday.

In all, the FBI fielded 203,086 requests on Black Friday, up from the previous single-day highs of 185,713 last year and 185,345 in 2015. The two previous records also were recorded on Black Friday.   Continue reading “Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000”

Daily Mail

A New York woman was shot dead after a hunter said he mistakenly took her for a deer, according to police.

The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office says 43-year-old Rosemary Billquist, of Sherman, had taken her two Labradors for a walk in her hometown near the Pennsylvania border around 5.30pm on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Woman, 43, is shot dead by a hunter who mistook her for a deer”

Daily Mail

The Las Vegas gunman who killed dozens of people at a concert last month fired more than 1,100 rounds and had 4,000 more rounds left.

The newly released estimate from Sheriff Joe Lombardo offers more detail about the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

Paddock murdered 58 people and injured hundreds more when he used his Mandalay Bay hotel suite as a vantage point to fire on crowds enjoying the country music show. He then turned one of his weapons on himself.    Continue reading “Las Vegas gunman fired 1,100 rounds when he shot dead 58 and injured 500 and he had 4,000 MORE rounds left”

NBC News

As many as 10 members of the gang MS-13 stabbed a man more than 100 times in a Maryland park, ripped out his heart and buried him, officials say.

Court documents released Wednesday reveal gruesome details about the killing of a man officials in Montgomery County still have not been able to identify.

Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, 19, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.   Continue reading “Police: MS-13 Members Maimed, Decapitated Man in Maryland Park”