Light from the Right – by Bob Adelmann

When NBC News learned that two anti-gun authors had created another “study” that proved (this time) that private gun ownership resulted in more police officers being murdered, they were only too happy to ignore the study and its flaws and instead give one of its authors plenty of ink. Wrote Maggie Fox, “The report is sure to be controversial but it adds a new dimension to a conversation that’s been recently focused more on police shootings of unarmed Americans.” The study, “Firearm Prevalence and Homicides of Law Enforcement Officials in the United States,” authored by a couple of PhDs, David Swedler and David Hemenway, and published on August 14 in the American Journal of Public Health, blames the prevalence of police murders on guns in private hands without saying that those hands belong to criminals and not innocent private citizens.   Continue reading “More Proof the Media Cannot be Trusted”

My Fox Memphis

UPDATE Monday 8 a.m.:

Sunday night, the Dickson County School District sent an email to FOX13 to set the record straight about a story we first brought you this weekend.

School leaders in Dickson County decided, after a summer of controversy surrounding the confederate flag, the wise thing to do would be to ban all flags and banners.

They now say they are not banning all flags at school, they are only banning flags from flying on the back of pick-up trucks on school property.   Continue reading “School district issues email clarifying flag ban”

MSN – by DONNA BLANKINSHIP and BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press

OKANOGAN, Wash. (AP) — The massive fire burning in north-central Washington is now the largest in state history.

The Okanogan Complex of wildfires has surpassed last year’s Carlton Complex blazes, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said Monday morning.   Continue reading “Washington wildfire is now largest in state history”

BBC News

People who work illegally in England and Wales will face up to six months in prison, under proposals to be included in the forthcoming Immigration Bill.

The bill, to be introduced in the autumn, will also contain measures against takeaway restaurants and off-licences which employ illegal migrants.   Continue reading “UK Immigration Bill: Illegal workers ‘may face six months’ jail’”

USA Today – by John Bacon

A Louisiana state trooper died Monday after authorities say he was shot in the head and then taunted when he stopped to provide aid to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch.

Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the State Police, said Kevin Daigle shot Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, then said, “You’re lucky, you are going to die soon.”   Continue reading “Louisiana trooper dies after being shot, taunted”

RT

Since Sputnik 1 captured the world’s imagination in 1957, thousands of artificial satellites have followed suit in orbiting Earth. Now a software designer’s ingenious map documents how man-made objects there are in space, and how many actually work.   Continue reading “Spectacular space map shows 14,000 satellites orbiting Earth”

The Telegraph – by Julian Ryall

North and South Korea appeared on the verge of war on Friday night after Kim Jong-un issued an ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action.

Pyongyang ordered its military to full combat readiness as Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, declared a “quasi-state of war” after an exchange of gunfire across the border on Thursday.

Continue reading “North and South Korea ‘on brink of war’”

USA Today – by Deirdre Shesgreen

Chinese officials reported a blast at a chemical plant in eastern China on Saturday, triggering a fire and leaving one person dead and at least nine injured.

The explosion occurred at a chemical facility in Shandong province, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency.

Big plumes of smoke and a raging fire could be seen in photographs posted by the government, which said that 150 firefighters were battling the blaze. Firefighters put out the resulting fire just before 2 a.m. on Sunday and the case was under investigation, Xinhua said.   Continue reading “Blast hits chemical plant in eastern China”

NY Daily News – by Nicole Hensley

A gunman critically wounded the Louisiana State Police trooper who stopped to check on his stalled car — but passing drivers tackled him before he could flee the scene, authorities said.

Suspected shooter Kevin Daigle will likely be charged with attempted murder of a police officer for shooting Trooper Steven Vincent, a 13-year force veteran, in Lake Charles Sunday.   Continue reading “Passing motorists take down shooter who shot La. trooper in head with sawed-off shotgun during traffic stop”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Cecil County, MD – Late Friday night, in a well-populated rural town about an hour north of Baltimore, a Maryland State Police trooper shot and killed a man in a Walmart parking lot. Local and state police refused to comment on the matter or release the victim’s name when they were contacted by The Free Thought Project.

The incident went viral after a video was posted to Youtube showing the scene that developed around the murder just after it occurred. In the video, a woman who is seemingly a loved one of the deceased can be seen crying uncontrollably shouting that “You are a murderer! He was not armed! You killed my husband!” In one part of the video, she can be seen sobbing and punching the police car. It was later reported that this woman was subdued by police and put in restraints on a stretcher. Continue reading “Woman Watched Cops Kill her Husband at Walmart, Just Before They Took Her Away in a Stretcher”

Reuters

A North Carolina judge declared a mistrial on Friday when a jury deadlocked in the trial of a police officer charged in the death of an unarmed man.

Randall Kerrick, 29, faced a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the September 2013 death of Jonathan Ferrell, 24, a former Florida A&M football player who had wrecked his car on a dark road and was seeking help when he encountered officers. Ferrell ran and Kerrick opened fire at point-blank range and killed him.   Continue reading “Mistrial for North Carolina policeman who shot unarmed man”

Jon Rappoport

Libertarians see big government as an obstruction to a free-market economy.

Some Libertarians believe the FDA is unnecessarily restraining commerce by driving up the cost of drugs and slow-tracking the approval of new drugs.

This is not how the game works. The FDA has clients, and those clients are the drug companies. On the whole, the FDA speeds up its drug approvals and thereby unleashes a torrent of toxic compounds on the public, killing, at a conservative estimate, 100,000 Americans every year, or a million Americans per decade.   Continue reading “A message to Libertarians about the FDA”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Americans are notorious for our litigiousness. One of the many curiosities of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings of December 14, 2012, is that, unlike other school shootings, the families of the alleged victims of alleged killer Adam Lanza had not filed lawsuits. (See my post of March 29, 2014, “Why are there no Sandy Hook lawsuits?”)

Two long years after the alleged massacre, however, some of them finally sued,although each victim family had already received MILLIONS of dollars in donations from individual Facebook sites, organized Sandy Hook charities like United Way, and the $11.6 million Sandy Hook School Support Fund. Some of those Facebook and charity sites, curiously, had been created before the alleged massacre, that is, before the alleged victims actually became victims. See:   Continue reading “Sandy Hook families each gets $94k to settle lawsuits against Lanza estate”

Intel News – by JOSEPH FITSANAKIS

A German intelligence officer, who is accused of spying for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, has been officially charged with treason by authorities in Berlin. The 32-year-old man, identified in court papers only as “Markus R.”, worked as a clerk at the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND, Germany’s external intelligence agency. He was arrested in July 2014 on suspicion of having spied for the CIA for approximately two years. German prosecutors say they have evidence that shows Markus R. supplied the American spy agency with around 200 classified German government documents in exchange for around €25,000 —approximately $30,000.   Continue reading “German government charges CIA spy with treason”

RT

In a shocking incident witnessed by the entire courtroom, an alleged murderer on trial was stabbed by one of the victims he was accused of stabbing.

Eric McCullough, who stood accused of stabbing his niece Tyecha McCullough and Antwon Lee during an altercation last month, had his back turned to his alleged victim, Lee, who himself was in orange fatigues and handcuffs. Continue reading “Murder suspect attacked in court by his own stab victim”

Forward – by JTA, July 29, 2014

The Department of Homeland Security allocated to Jewish institutions $12 million, or 94 percent, of $13 million in funds for securing nonprofits.

The Jewish Federations of North America’s Washington office director, William Daroff, said Tuesday that the allocation made sense particularly in light of an intensification of threats on Jewish community targets in the United States and overseas.   Continue reading “Jewish Groups Get 94% of Homeland Security Grants”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Stevie Wonder just wrapped up a series of three short concerts in Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington DC, all of which he used as an opportunity to talk about his desire for more gun control in America.

All three concerts took place on August 17.   Continue reading “Stevie Wonder Uses Concert Stops to Campaign for More Gun Control”

Seeing Red AZ

The Washington Examiner reports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship in the United States “could revive a similar proposal in Congress that has never gained traction despite past support from top leaders.” The article cites Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, (watch him in linked video) and House Speaker John Boehner, (R-OH), who is all over the map on any given subject on any given day. We can count on them for nothing.   Continue reading “Ending birthright citizenship = end to anchor babies”

Natural News – by JD Heyes

The debate over global warming and climate change got uglier recently after California Gov. Jerry Brown of “no vaccine choice” fame insulted the intelligence – and genetic makeup – of everyone who disagrees with his premise that these phenomena are real.

Like all global warming alarmists, Brown – who was attending a “climate change summit” in Canada – made the same old tired, dire predictions of doom and gloom if the world continues to burn fossil fuels. But he also had a special descriptor for those who dare to call a hoax a hoax.   Continue reading “California governor says people who don’t buy into climate change agenda are genetically inferior ‘troglodytes’”