Oregon Live – by Les Zaitz

BEND – An FBI agent is suspected of lying about firing twice at Robert “LaVoy” Finicium and may have gotten help from four other FBI agents in covering up afterward, authorities revealed Tuesday.

The bullets didn’t hit Finicum and didn’t contribute to his death, but now all five unnamed agents, part of an elite national unit, are under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Inspector General Michael Horowitz is leading the independent inquiry.   Continue reading “FBI agents under investigation for possible misconduct in LaVoy Finicum shooting”

Las Vegas Review Journal – by Jeff German

Cliven Bundy’s family is using social media to plan a rally outside the federal courthouse on Thursday before his arraignment on felony charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near Bunkerville.

The defiant Nevada rancher, who is in federal custody, is to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bill Hoffman at 2 p.m. Thursday.   Continue reading “Bundy supporters plan courthouse rally in Las Vegas this week”

Ron Paul Institute – by Daniel McAdams

According to a recent New York Times series of articles, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the key Obama Administration figure arguing for a US attack on Libya back in 2011. She promised it would be a triumph of “smart power,” but with billions wasted, tens of thousands killed, and a country in ruins, it looks more like “dumb power.” Now the US and its allies are readying a new military force to go back into Libya to fight an ISIS that was not present before the US “liberation.” Score another defeat for interventionism. The full story today in the Liberty Report:   Continue reading “Hillary’s Libya: Arab Spring Or Dark Winter?”

Instructables – by PenfoldPlant

Ever find yourself needing to tar and feather someone, but lacking an angry mob to back you up? Maybe you wish to exact quick and messy physical revenge in a hurry? Or perhaps you just want to dominate the neighbourhood water gun fight once and for all?

The Tar and Feather Gun* is for you. Live out all of your Bugsy Malone fantasies with this fun and messy contraption:   Continue reading “Tar and feather gun”

Haaretz

The Jewish federations umbrella organization disbursed $2.8 million in federal grants to assist Holocaust survivors.

With matching private funds, required under terms of the Department of Health and Human Services allocation announced last year, the Jewish Federations of North America said its disbursement announced Wednesday will result in $4.5 million in assistance for Holocaust survivors.   Continue reading “Distribution of U.S. federal funds for Holocaust survivors begins”

McClatchy DC – by Maria Recio

WASHINGTON – Ted Cruz, tagged as “Canadian” by a needling Donald Trump since the GOP race tightened in January, rejects any idea of being ineligible to be U.S. president.

While Trump hasn’t followed up on his threat to sue Calgary-born Cruz over what he says is the Texas senator not meeting the constitutional requirement of being a “natural-born citizen,” plenty of other people have. Trump has warned that Democrats will disrupt the electoral process by suing if Cruz is the nominee.
Continue reading “Ted Cruz, facing suits on Canadian birth, lawyers up”

21st Century Wire

In one of his most candid and detailed interviews to date, decorated national school safety executive Wolfgang Halbig raises serious concerns and identifies a long list of anomalies and unanswered questions surrounded the Sandy Hook ‘event’ that took place in December 2012.

In addition to being one of the country’s foremost experts on school safety and emergency management, Halbig was also a veteran response worker assigned to the tragic Columbine Shooting in Colorado in 1999.   Continue reading “‘Sandy Hook Was Not Like Columbine’: Expert Whistleblower Tears Apart Gov’t Story”

Conservative Tribune

Of the many various scandals that surround Bill and Hillary Clinton, the mysterious death of a close friend and White House counsel during the Clinton administration has been one of the more sinisters clouds casting shade on them.

In 1993, Vincent Foster was discovered dead in Fort Marcy Park in the Washington, D.C., area, apparently the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.   Continue reading “Report Reveals 2nd Wound On Dead Clinton Attorney… Still a Suicide?”

The Stranger – by Alex Garland

A ginormous container ship, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, made its way to Terminal 18 at the Port of Seattle early this morning.

Cranes soon began lifting containers off the ship, possibly carrying recent Amazon purchases. In a press conference this morning, Stephanie Bowman, a Seattle Port commissioner, reminded the audience they were in a “unique position” to “get a close, personal look at the future of our region.” Bowman also stressed the importance of a working waterfront, stating, “We want to see our working water front filled more with working cranes rather than more ferris wheels.” Continue reading “A Massive Container Ship They’re Calling “the Future of Our Region” Just Floated Into the Port of Seattle”

Fox News 1450 KZNU – by Kate Dalley

I’ve thought about you. All three of you, with your guns pointed at LaVoy Finicum. The video still haunts me.

I would have been the first one to give you the benefit of the doubt. I was raised around law enforcement. I know good men in law enforcement. But that changed for me, as it did thousands of Americans, with the events that unfurled in Oregon as I felt utterly stunned at what I viewed in that video.   Continue reading “An Open Letter To The Three FBI Agents That Killed LaVoy Finicum In Oregon”

Redress Online – by Rich Forer

Colorado House Bill 16-284, which requires the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) to divest from companies that have economic prohibitions against Israel, passed the State House of Representatives on Friday 26 February.

On Tuesday 23 February I testified against the bill before a house committee. The state representatives who co-sponsored the bill went first and said the bill was needed to combat anti-Semitism and the delegitimisation of.   Continue reading “Anti-BDS legislation moving through Colorado legislature: the case for the Israel boycott BDS”

Samidoun

UPDATE/11:44 am/26 February: Bulgarian media and police sources are reporting that Omar was killed by falling from a high story of the building. They have noted that him being pushed is “not excluded.”  “Israeli media have been the first to report explicitly that Omar was ‘assassinated.’ This comes as no surprise. They’re simply the most knowledgeable and honest about the workings of their government and its intelligence agencies,” said Joe Catron of Samidoun.   Continue reading “Omar Nayef Zayed assassinated inside Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria”

Common Dreams – by Howard Friel

Black’s Law Dictionary defines “recusal” as “removal of oneself as judge or policy-maker in a particular matter, esp. because of a conflict of interest.”

In the federal judiciary—a coequal branch with the executive—judges as well as Supreme Court justices are expected to recuse themselves, and do recuse themselves, from hearing cases with conflicts of interest that are less pronounced as Mrs. Clinton’s.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton’s Pay-to-Play Speaking Fees Disqualify Her as a Presidential Candidate”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Earlier, when we reported that based on Hillary Clinton’s latest tax disclosure, she and her husband had made $139 million in gross income since 2007 most of its from private speaking fees, the one aspect that readers founds most fascinating was the breakdown of all the bribes better known as speeches given by the two Clintons (who in Hillary’s words came out of the White House “dead broke”) in 2013 as well as the going rate.   Continue reading “The Complete Breakdown Of Every Hillary And Bill Clinton Speech, And Fee, Since 2013”

Top Right News – by Brooke Bosca

Mississippi’s state flag will continue to include the Confederate battle emblem for the foreseeable future, after state lawmakers on Thursday refused to support bills to remove the controversial symbol.

Despite “massive” pressure from the Obama Administration, and boycott threats from left-wing groups and ‘Black Lives Matter,’ the flag is here to stay.   Continue reading “It’s NOT Coming Down: Mississippi Votes To Keep It’s Confederate State Flag”