Category: News

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

The Midland-Odessa shooter who attacked innocents on Saturday reportedly acquired his gun privately in order to avoid drawing attention to himself via a background check.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) noted Monday that the Midland attacker had “previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas.” At that time no one knew the means by which the gun used in Midland was acquired, but on Tuesday CBS DFW reported the shooter acquired the gun privately “to evade the background check where he would have been flagged.”  Continue reading “Report: Midland Shooter Acquired Gun Privately, Seller May Face Charges”

WVVA

MERCER COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) As mass shootings become more and more commonplace, Walmart and Kroger are both changing their policies regarding  guns.

Walmart is no longer selling ammunition for hand guns and short-barrel rifles, requesting customers to refrain from openly carrying firearms including ‘open carry’ states.  Continue reading “Gun owners respond to Walmart and Kroger gun policy change”

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Walmart and the parent company of Fred Meyer stores are both asking customers not to openly carry firearms into their stores, even if it’s legal in their state.

Walmart announced that they would be taking the step on Tuesday, and Fred Meyer’s parent company Kroger followed suit.  Continue reading “Fred Meyer’s parent company, Kroger, joins Walmart in asking customers not to open carry”

Chicago Sun Times

This is it.

Jussie Smollett is smokin’.

The actor, once a star of the hit-TV series “Empire,” is making one last attempt to get a city lawsuit against him tossed out of federal court before it proceeds to trial.  Continue reading “Jussie Smollett lawyers: Even if actor faked attack, it was cops’ call to investigate it so vigorously”

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A vegan woman is taking her neighbors to court over the smell of their backyard barbecue, according to Australia’s 9News. 

Cilla Carden, who lives in the Australian city of Perth, has filed a complaint with her region’s highest court over the issue. Carden’s claim states that her neighbors cook fish so often that she’s unable to even go outside.  Continue reading “Vegan woman in Western Australia takes neighbors to court because she can smell their barbecue”

The New Republic – by Lena Solow

When teachers and other school staff in West Virginia walked off the job in 2018, news coverage of the historic strike focused on bread-and-butter issues like their rising health-care premiums and low wages. There were horror stories of teachers working extra jobs and struggling to pay for emergency medical costs. But there were other galvanizing factors that, though less discussed, were no less galling—indignities that have become increasingly familiar to workers across the country.  Continue reading “The Scourge of Worker Wellness Programs”

Breitbart – by Penny Starr

Mexicans living abroad, primarily those working in the United States, are adding billions of dollars to the Mexican economy, and this year marks the second-highest amount since Mexico’s central back starting keeping records 24 years ago.

Mexico Daily News reported that in July Mexicans sent home $3.27 billion — 14.4 percent higher than they sent in July of 2018. The number of transactions was up by 9.1 percent and the average amount of a transaction was up five percent to $340.  Continue reading “Report: Mexicans Sent Home $3.27 Billion in Remittances — Mostly from the U.S.”

Ron Paul Institute – by Ron Paul

The US Constitution never granted the federal government authority to create a central bank. The Founders, having lived through hyperinflation themselves, understood that government should never have a printing press at its disposal. But from the very beginning of America’s founding, the desire for a crony central bank was strong.

In fact, two attempts were made at creating a permanent central bank in America prior to the creation of the Fed. Fortunately, the charter for The First Bank was allowed to expire in 1811, and President Andrew Jackson closed down the Second Bank in 1833.  Continue reading “Forget the Russians: It’s the Federal Reserve Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections”

Fox News

Philadelphia police on Wednesday were hunting a gunman who fired at an officer sitting in an unmarked car — the third incident in which cops have been targeted in the city over the past three weeks.

The plainclothes officer was conducting surveillance around 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Kingsessing neighborhood when an unidentified man saw him and opened fire, striking his vehicle twice, FOX29 reported. The officer escaped unharmed and the gunman, who is said to have fired off eight rounds, has been described as a male around 6 feet tall last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt.  Continue reading “Philadelphia officer fired at in city’s third shooting incident targeting police in past three weeks”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Australian special police forces seized a total of 475 guns across the country in a week-long crackdown on illegal firearms, according to AAP (via Yahoo).

Dubbed Operation Athena, the crackdown targeting firearms trafficking involved all police jurisdictions – including the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Border Force and the Department of Home Affairs.  Continue reading “Australian Feds Seize Hundreds Of Illegal Firearms From Citizens”

Reuters

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Wednesday withdrew an extradition bill that triggered months of often violent protests so the Chinese-ruled city can move forward from a “highly vulnerable and dangerous” place and find solutions.

Her televised announcement came after Reuters reports on Friday and Monday revealing that Beijing had thwarted an earlier proposal from Lam to withdraw the bill and that she had said privately that she would resign if she could, according to an audio recording obtained by Reuters.  Continue reading “Hong Kong leader pulls extradition bill, but too little too late, say some”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization” and urged the federal government to do the same – the latest escalation in the heated rhetoric from Democrats regarding the NRA in the wake of several deadly mass shootings.

The resolution, which passed Tuesday and says the U.S. is “plagued by an epidemic of gun violence,” accuses the NRA of using “its considerable wealth and organization strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence.”  Continue reading “San Francisco officials brand the NRA a ‘domestic terrorist organization’”

If Americans Knew – by Kathryn Shihadah

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) – a global organization with thirty offices worldwide and net assets of almost $158 million – has taken a full-throated public stand against an event in sleepy Clovis, California, as has the Anti-Defamation League (ADL – with $81 million in assets), and StandWithUs (annual revenue: $12 million). A director of the Weisenthal Center, another global organization (with assets of $54 million) has spoken up as well.  Continue reading “Why are global organizations attacking a talk in small town of Clovis CA?”

Video Rebel’s Blog

A black child with two parents and a library card will grow up to make more money than the average white. Apparently, the ability to read and to behave in public is a far greater predictor of income than skin color and Identity politics would allow us to believe.

The African slave trade was gradually ended by Great Britain as white working men gained the right to vote. So much for white privilege holding back blacks. It was white men who ended the African slave trade. Continue reading “What If The Deep State Had Left Black People Alone?”

Breitbart – by Ian Hatchet

During an interview with the Fox News Channel on Monday, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (R) stated that a “strong look” should be taken at preventing people who have failed background checks from getting a gun and stated that private purchases between strangers are “a real loophole in the law, and I think the NRA needs to get behind the president on that issue and really address that issue.”  Continue reading “TX Lt. Gov Patrick: The NRA ‘Needs to Get Behind’ Trump on Private Sales Between Strangers”