Reuters

The chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, charged with defying federal court rulings that permit same-sex marriage, was suspended on Friday for a second time after being found guilty of violating judicial ethics, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary ruled.

Chief Justice Roy Moore had gone on trial Wednesday on charges that he violated Alabama’s canons of judicial ethics with a Jan. 6 order that said probate judges were bound by state law banning gay marriage.   Continue reading “Alabama Chief Justice suspended over gay marriage stance”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Seemingly confirming the rumor, Agence France Press reports that Deutsche Bank is nearing a $5.4 billion settlement with the US Justice Department. This has catalyzed another leg higher in Deutsche Bank stock and lifted the whole market as it would appear that unconfirmed sources have ‘fixed’ the world’s most systemically dangerous bank (despite the fact that short-dated counterparty risk is soaring).

Here is the tweet…   Continue reading “Stocks Soar After French Press “Confirm” Deutsche Bank Near Settlement With DOJ”

The New American – by Alex Newman

The opening shot in a widely anticipated establishment crackdown on educational freedom may have been fired last week. Speaking at a breakfast with reporters, Obama’s controversial Education Secretary, pro-Common Core activist John King (shown), said he was “concerned” that some home-educated children were not getting the “breadth of instructional experience” they would get at a traditional school. While the senior Obama bureaucrat acknowledged that many homeschool families are doing it well, he also repeated the debunked smear that homeschooled children lack opportunities for socialization. Experts and critics, though, promptly lambasted King for his naive or malicious comments, suggesting that, if anything, he ought to be far more concerned about children in public schools. Some experts even offered to help educate Obama’s education chief on the issue.     Continue reading “Obama’s Education Secretary “Concerned” About Homeschooling”

Journal News – by Crystal Bonvillian

Louisiana law enforcement officials are trying to determine what caused a man described as a “nuisance” by neighbors to gun down a West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy and her 20-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself.

Deputy Donna LeBlanc had just arrived Tuesday afternoon at her home in Glynn in neighboring Pointe Coupee Parish when she spotted 29-year-old Gregory Phillips talking to her daughter, Carli Jo LeBlanc, on their porch, the Baton Rouge Advocate reported. Donna LeBlanc’s 9-year-old daughter was in the house, locked inside by her older sister.   Continue reading “‘Nuisance’ neighbor kills sheriff’s deputy, daughter in mystery murder-suicide, authorities say”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Montreal, CA – The city council of Montreal recently voted to ban ownership of pit bulls, causing outrage from dog lovers everywhere.

The measure was voted by a 37-23 majority, in response to controversy caused by a random dog attack, which was an isolated incident.   Continue reading “City Passes Law Banning Pit Bulls — Will Take and Kill All ‘Pit Bull-Type’ Dogs Without a Permit”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Manville, NJ — Time out, lunch detention, and in-school suspension are all forms of discipline, among others, which teachers have employed to punish students for misbehavior. But after Frank Harvey, 17, a Manville, NJ, high school senior, completed a pro-2nd Amendment project, his school ordered him to get his head checked.

The incident began Monday after Harvey, as many students sometimes do, left his USB drive in the computer lab. Another student opened Harvey’s 11th-grade project and reported him to school officials.   Continue reading “Student Suspended, Visited by Cops, Forced Psych Eval — For Pro 2nd Amendment School Project”

Reuters

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy shot and killed his father then drove to an elementary school playground where he wounded two children and a teacher with a handgun before being tackled by a firefighter who held him for police, authorities said on Wednesday.

The suspect, whose name has not been released, was accused by police of fatally shooting his 47-year-old father, Jeffrey DeWitt Osborne, then driving a pickup truck about 2 miles (3.2 km) to Townville Elementary School where he crashed into a fence surrounding the playground.   Continue reading “Teen kills father, opens fire on South Carolina schoolyard: police”

RT

Russia is fully ready to continue the dialogue with the US regarding joint actions to combat terrorists in Syria, the Russian Ministry of Defense has said. It stressed, however, that this is only possible if Washington abstains from “any hints of threats to Russia’s military and citizens.”

The statement came in response to comments made by US State Department spokesperson John Kirby at a press briefing on Wednesday. Kirby said that if the war in Syria continues, “more Russian lives will be lost, more Russian aircraft will be shot down” as“extremist groups will continue to exploit the vacuums that are there in Syria to expand their operations, which could include attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities.”   Continue reading “Russian MoD: We’re ready for Syria dialogue with US, but threats against our military unacceptable”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In the most dramatic diplomatic escalation involving the Syrian conflict in the past years, yesterday John Kerry issued an ultimatum to Russia, in which he warned his colleague Lavrov to stop bombing Aleppo or else the US would suspend all cooperation and diplomacy with Russia.   Continue reading “US To Suspend Syria Diplomacy With Russia, Prepares “Military Options””

Red State – by streiff

Yesterday, my colleague Susan Wright covered the House Judiciary roast testimony of FBI Director James Comey. As she said, watching Trey Gowdy in action is always a thing of beauty.

One of the more amusing incidents in the hearing came when Comey tried to play the “offended dignity card” to deflect a lot of very specific criticism of the way the investigation was managed:   Continue reading “FBI Director James Comey Declares He Isn’t A ‘Weasel’”

Moonbattery

Progressivism represents a war of total eradication against American culture. There is not a single tradition that will not be perverted into grotesquerie and then swept away. For example:

A high school in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Md. has eliminated the traditional roles of homecoming king and queen in favor of a completely gender-neutral “homecoming court.”
Continue reading “Homecoming King and Queen Made Gender Neutral”

Fusion Laced Illusions – by JayWill7497

The US and Israhell are attempting to redirect the world’s focus to Saudi Arabia as the criminal of the September 11, 2001 attacks, in an effort to conceal their own role as the main plotters of the fatal event that transformed the world, states a political analyst in Chicago.

Stephen Lendman, an author and radio host, made the comments on Wednesday, while talking about US President Barack Obama’s full-blown opposition to legislation that would enable 9/11 victims to prosecute Saudi Arabia for their losses.
Continue reading “US, Israel Utilizing Saudi Arabia To Conceal Own Role in 9/11”

Off the Grid News – by Kevin Danielsen

When you’re in the sticks, you absolutely, positively must maintain some semblance of self-reliance out there — no matter how long your backwoods stay happens to be. Simply put, the duration of your trek or tramping may not necessarily last for a week, but you’ve got to be prepared for the possibility that it might.

At the same time, you might very well be planning on staying out there for more than a week, but nothing will dampen your camp like a massive rip in the roof of your tent. These things happen, but that’s why we plan for such events in advance … because Murphy’s Law tends to kick in when it’s least convenient.   Continue reading “Superglue Can Do THAT?! Yes, And Here’s 3 Reasons It Should Be In Every Survival Kit”

The Anti-Media – by Darius Shahtahmasebi

The various email scandals that continue to plague the current presidential election race are gifts that keep on giving. The latest culprit of the most recent leaked email scandal, allegedly courtesy of Russian hackers, is none other than Iraq-war intelligence-manipulating mastermind, Colin Powell.   Continue reading “Leaked Colin Powell Emails Confirm Israel’s Secret Nuke Stash”

Breitbart – by Charlie Nash

Pepe the Frog has been added to the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate Symbol Database, where it currently sits alongside symbols such as the Nazi swastika, burning crosses, and SS lightning bolts.   Continue reading “ADL Adds ‘Pepe the Frog’ Meme to Hate Symbol Database”

The Daily Caller – by Thomas Phippen

Nearly 8.1 million Americans paid $1.7 billion in penalties in 2014 for not having health insurance — more than the IRS initially predicted.

The individual mandate, or what the IRS calls “individual shared responsibility payments,” requires everyone either have insurance or pay a fine, and was one of the last pieces of Obamacare to go into effect. IRS set the fine at $96, or 1 percent of the reported adjusted gross income, whichever is greater, in 2014.   Continue reading “8 Million Americans Paid $1.7 Billion For Not Having Obamacare”

WYFF 4 News

CHARLOTTE (WBTV) —Sources confirmed to WBTV a suspicious package that was found in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) headquarters’ mailroom in uptown Charlotte, leading to an evacuation, had several electronic devices inside it.

Police said a bomb-sniffing K-9 named Boomer did alert on the package.   Continue reading “Sources: Suspicious package at CMPD headquarters had cellphone, bulb”

Yahoo News

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A black man reportedly acting erratically at a strip mall in suburban San Diego was shot and killed by police after pulling an object from his pocket, pointing it at officers and assuming a “shooting stance,” authorities said.

One of the officers tried and failed to subdue the unidentified man with a stun gun before the other officer fired several times, El Cajon Police Chief Jeff Davis said at a late night news conference. Davis would not say what the object was, but acknowledged it was not a weapon.   Continue reading “Police shoot, kill man in San Diego area; protesters gather”

Sputnik

As Congress attempts to override a presidential veto of legislation that would allow US citizens to sue foreign governments over terror attacks, an organization representing Iraqis killed or wounded by the US military is threatening to sue the American government for war crimes.

The Iraqi National Project has stated that the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which would allow 9/11 victims and families to sue Saudi Arabia over the nation’s role in the attacks, has opened a pathway for lawsuits against foreign governments.   Continue reading “Obama’s Nightmare: Iraqis Set to Sue US Government for War Crimes”