Mises Institute – by Chris Calton

In 1984, as part of Ronald Reagan’s renewed war on drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration launched Operation Pipeline. This program was inspired by the strategies employed by state troopers in New Mexico who, after pulling somebody over, asked specific questions designed to determine whether the driver might be a drug trafficker. Combined with the financial incentives of federal grants for drug enforcement and civil asset forfeiture laws, state and local police had strong new incentives to find reasons to stop vehicles and search for drugs. Operation Pipeline was meant, in part, to train officers how to legally harass drivers.  Continue reading “Federal Judges Are Waging War on the Fourth Amendment”

Mondoweiss – by Michael Arria

The State Department has updated the working definition of anti-Semitism detailed on its website to include comparisons between current Israeli policies and those of the Nazis. The move comes just two weeks after the House passed a resolution denouncing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and amidst consistent attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for introducing a bill that affirms the right to boycott foreign countries in the name of human rights.  Continue reading “State Dept updates antisemitism definition to include comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany”

Daily Mail

Bloomberg’s ranking of the world’s richest families has revealed how heirs at the top of the list are watching their fortunes grow by millions of dollars every hour.

Currently ranked the world’s richest family, The Walton family, behind US super-giant Walmart Inc., is accumulating $4 million more every hour.  Continue reading “The richest 25 dynasties on earth control £1.16 TRILLION and watch fortunes grow millions every HOUR”

Washington Examiner – by Hunter Lovell

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham claimed on Friday that he owns an AR-15 to protect himself in case of a hurricane or another scenario in which law enforcement would not be able to defend him.

The South Carolina senator made the comments to reporters aboard Air Force One that he maintains an AR-15 in case “there’s a hurricane, a natural disaster, no power, no cops, no anything.”  Continue reading “Lindsey Graham says he owns an AR-15 to defend himself against looters during natural disasters”

Post Gazette

Neighbors of a Penn Hills High School teacher who officials say pointed a gun at police before officers shot and killed him Tuesday in Shaler, described his behavior as “shocking” because he was usually a “straight-laced guy.”

Don Babbit, 49, was shot and killed by police around 3 p.m. in the 800 block of Spencer Grove Lane after he was acting “erratically” and reportedly waved a gun at officers, Allegheny County police said.  Continue reading “‘A straight-laced guy’: Neighbors say behavior of Penn Hills teacher killed in Shaler was unusual”

New York Post – by Brad Hamilton

he following account is from a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan, where Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive Saturday, and declared dead at a hospital of an apparent suicide. The ex-convict, who spoke to The Post’s Brad Hamilton and Bruce Golding on the condition of anonymity, spent several months in the 9 South special housing unit for high-profile prisoners awaiting trial — like Epstein.   Continue reading “Former MCC inmate: There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself”

New York Daily News, August 9, 2019

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Britain’s Prince Andrew and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson were among those whose names surfaced Friday after a trove of documents were released in a case with strong ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Thousands of long-awaited court documents have been unsealed in a lawsuit against a woman accused of being Epstein’s fixer, and the papers include references to the names of seedy book titles purchased by Epstein.  Continue reading “Names are named as court documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are unsealed”

Free Beacon – by Adam Kredo

The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels, a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws and open up what legal experts describe as a “Pandora’s box” of litigation, according to multiple sources involved in the legal dispute who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.  Continue reading “Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

Brushing off overwhelming public opposition, the Trump administration this week re-approved the use of so-called “cyanide bombs” to kill wild animals on public lands.

Known officially as M-44s, the devices “can’t be used safely by anyone, anywhere,” said Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity, noting that they claim the lives of target animals like coyotes as well as non-target animals including foxes, bears, and family pets.  Continue reading “Trump Administration Reauthorizes ‘Cyanide Bombs’ to Kill US Wildlife”

Washington Examiner – by Jerry Dunleavy, August 8, 2019

The billionaire owner of Victoria’s Secret said Wednesday accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein stole huge amounts of money from him and his family.

The claim Les Wexner, the founder and CEO of the Columbus-based L Brands fashion retailer, had been bamboozled by the jet-setting financier he said in a letter sent to members of the Wexner Foundation, his charity.  Continue reading “Victoria’s Secret owner claims Epstein stole tens of millions from his charity”

New York Post – by Larry Celona, Eileen AJ Connelly

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died overnight in an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told the Post Saturday.

A gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m. and headed to New York Downtown Hospital. A call for a reported cardiac arrest came in at 6:38 a.m., Fire Department sources said.  Continue reading “Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide”

Ammo.com

The Second Amendment guarantees American citizens the right to bear arms, but both federal and state governments determine how citizens may legally exercise that right. And while both federal and state gun control laws regularly change, laws at the state level change more frequently and often without the media coverage that surrounds changes at the federal level.  Continue reading “State Gun Control in America: A Historic Guide to Major State Gun Control Laws and Acts”

Unz Review – by Gilad Atzmon

In this part study I intend to delve into a deeply troublesome topic. Due to the growing sensitivity concerning ‘anti-Semitism’ and new legislation designed to restrict discussion of topics related to Jewish politics, culture and history, I have limited myself to sources that are Jewish, Israeli or mainstream news.   Continue reading “Predators United”

Sputnik

The site of the Jewish temple is still considered holy by believers. There is a prophecy that promises the temple will one day be rebuilt. A glimmer of hope that the foretelling could come to pass has arisen after a connected prediction about foxes heading to the remains of the Second Jewish Temple, the Western Wall, was fulfilled literally.  Continue reading “Foxes Spotted on Jerusalem Temple Mount in Claimed Prophetic Sign About Third Temple”

The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

Top law enforcement officials in the state of Ohio are upset at lawmakers, accusing the politicians of accidentally legalizing cannabis throughout the state.

As a result, prosecutors are now upset that they are no longer able to prosecute misdemeanor marijuana cases as they previously could, according to WBNS. And now, Ohio prosecutors are either holding off on pursuing charges against those in possession of the plant or throwing them out altogether.  Continue reading “Ohio Lawmakers Accidentally Legalized Marijuana, Top Cops Say”

Middle East Monitor

A US court has convicted Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Israel-based Yukom Communications, of three counts of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a global binary options scheme.

Barry Pollack, a lawyer for Elbaz, told Reuters by email on Thursday that the court jury in the US state of Maryland “got it wrong” and his client would appeal against her conviction on Wednesday. The US Justice Department did not immediately respond on Thursday to requests for comment.  Continue reading “US court convicts Israeli for role in binary options fraud”

BBC

The US has called China a “thuggish regime” after a Chinese state newspaper published the name and photo of a US diplomat talking to activists.

China dismissed the remark as what it called “gangster logic”. The Chinese have repeatedly accused the US of interfering in Hong Kong.  Continue reading “Hong Kong: US calls China a ‘thuggish regime’ amid fresh protests”

Daily Mail

An elderly man in Washington is suspected of fatally shooting his wife before killing himself because they could not afford to pay her high medical bills.

The couple has been identified as Brian Jones, 77, and Patricia Whitney-Jones, 76, reported the Lynden Tribune. Continue reading “Elderly couple found dead in murder-suicide left notes that they couldn’t pay high medical bills”

Yahoo News

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants from Oregon to force the nation’s first sanctuary state to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane, in Eugene said in his ruling late Wednesday that the Trump administration lacks the authority to impose conditions on the grants that were provided by Congress.  Continue reading “Judge rules for Oregon in sanctuary state case with Trump”

Times of Israel

AFP — In the heat of the summer, Sivan Noel and her sister Michal say they rarely venture outside of their family’s small, basement apartment in Tel Aviv.

The two girls, 11 and nine, risk being deported to the family’s home country, the Philippines, even though they’ve never set foot there.  Continue reading “Born in Israel, hundreds of Filipino children risk expulsion”