Category: News

New York Post – by Dana Sauchelli

New York’s Finest need to become New York’s funniest.

The NYPD’s new Twitter handbook urges top cops to channel their inner comedian in a set of out-of-touch instructions about how to use “humor” to gain followers, The Post has learned.

Top brass are turning to a “Do’s and Don’ts” section on Page 6 of the handbook — obtained exclusively by The Post — for advice on how to churn out knee slappers to promote a better image of cops.   Continue reading “NYPD teaches cops how to be Twitter comedians”

Vermont Watchdog – by Bruce Parker

It’s a best-seller at bake sales, a king of American confections, even a mandatory munchie of marijuana users. But the iconic chocolate brownie, that perfect blend of cake and cookie, is banned in Vermont schools.

In its place are new hoped-for kid favorites like fruit shish kebab, kale and even gluten-free paleo lemon bars.   Continue reading “Vermont bans brownies, turns kids on to kale, gluten-free paleo lemon bars”

Kotaku – by Brian Ashcroft

The black buns? We’ve seen those before. But why, Burger King, why black cheese? Why?

NariNari reports that Burger King Japan is rolling out another “Kuro Burger” (“Black Burger”), with buns made from bamboo charcoal, an onion and garlic sauce made with squid ink, beef patties made with black pepper, and black cheese, which is also apparently made with bamboo charcoal.

Continue reading “In Japan, Burger King Has a Black Cheese Burger”

Stripes

LEMOORE, Calif. — Two Navy fighter jets crashed Friday in the far western Pacific Ocean, with one pilot safely ejecting but the other missing in the waters off the U.S. territory of Wake Island.

The F/A-18C Hornet fighter jets were from Carrier Air Wing 17 based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The air wing is embarked on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.   Continue reading “Search continues for 1 of 2 pilots after 2 F/A-18 Hornets crash in Pacific”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

Do not dare challenge the Masters of the Universe, the Party of Davos, or the Permanent Political Class with facts.

After Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), in a thunderous Wednesday speech on the Senate floor, denounced Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for pushing amnesty on foreign soil and high-tech executives for demanding more guest-worker permits while laying off American workers, Facebook board member Marc Andreessen maligned the Alabama Senator in a series of incensed Tweets.   Continue reading “Facebook’s Marc Andreessen: Jeff Sessions ‘Clinically Insane’ for Supporting U.S. Workers”

Refugee Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran

Update:  First Syrian family to arrive in Greensboro living in hotel, here.

This is follow-up story to our post of a few days ago where we learned that Syrians are arriving in the Triad area of North Carolina.  Resettlement contractor World Relief/Evangelicals expects 30-100 this next year (the fiscal year begins October 1).     Continue reading “More on those Syrian refugees going to North Carolina”

Free North Carolina

“…….. they have already been hard at working removing them.”

No truer words have been said…exactly.

When we heard all the hype about Obama building a Citizen military, I said then it wasn’t going to happen, in that he didn’t have to build anything, all he had to do was dismantle what was already in place, and replace it with his own personnel, to do that, fire (replace) the existing Patriots with Obama loyalists, wouldn’t cost a dime and it could be done in a matter of a few years… Continue reading “On getting rid of Patriotic Officers”

(Government) business as usual huh?

Mr. Conservative – by Robert Rich

As America has recently watched in horror as ISIS terrorists behead both American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, more about the neglectful, and ultimately harmful, dealings Obama previously had in the matter are still coming forward. It’s recently come out that the Federal government even went so far as to threaten the Foley Family and demand they not help their son.

According to recent allegations released by Foley’s mother, Diane, agents of the government stated that they would be charged with aiding a terrorist organization should they pay the ransom demanded of them in exchange for their son. “We were told that several times and we took it as a threat and it was appalling.”   Continue reading “The Government Threatened Foley’s Family Before Execution”

New York Daily News – by SARAH RYLEY, TINA MOORE

The city’s top cop says he would shake hands with Satan himself if it would help keep New York safe.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton made the fiery comment on Wednesday, as he tried to deflect criticism directed at him and Mayor de Blasio for having the Rev. Al Sharpton participate in a roundtable discussion at City Hall last month in the wake of Eric Garner’s chokehold death.   Continue reading “Devil is in details, not Al Sharpton, NYPD’s Bratton says after Eric Garner roundtable comment”

Amsterdam News – by Herb Boyd

Nothing leaped from Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s mouth like the words “Chokeholds are not illegal,” during his oversight appearance Monday before the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety.

This was a stunning revelation after it’s been reported again and again by the media that chokeholds have been illegal in the NYPD since 1993 or 1994, depending on the source.

“Illegal” may be the troubling word here and not seen as the same as “banning” by Bratton. Chokeholds been prohibited by the NYPD since Anthony Baez was killed in a chokehold by Office Francis Livoti in 1994.   Continue reading “‘Chokeholds not illegal,’ Bratton says”

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WND – by Leo Hohmann

President Obama’s Homeland Security chief may have let the cat out of the bag about the real reason for Obama’s decision to delay plans to declare amnesty for 5 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, in a meeting Wednesday with the influence-wielding Council on Foreign Relations, indicated the president didn’t want to add fuel to an already burning fire of conservative anger over illegal immigration before this November’s critical mid-term elections. To do so might cause a repeat of the historic Democrat losses of 1994 and 2010.   Continue reading “Homeland Security Chief Drops Amnesty Bombshell”

NY Post – by Rebecca Rosenberg and Lia Eustachewich

Another ringleader of the widescale, multimillion-dollar Social Security disability scam copped a plea deal Friday that could involve testifying against his co-defendants.

Retired NYPD officer John Minvera, 62, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and conspiracy charges in Manhattan Supreme Court for his role in recruiting dozens of retired FDNY and NYPD officers — some who claimed to be sick from working at Ground Zero — in the 26 year-long disability scheme.   Continue reading “Another ringleader in FDNY, NYPD disability scam pleads guilty”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the cusp of intensified air strikes in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama is using the legal grounding of the Congressional authorizations President George W. Bush relied on more than a decade ago to go to war. But Obama has made no effort to ask Congress to explicitly authorize his own conflict.   Continue reading “Can Obama wage war without consent of Congress?”

Mail.com

DUBLIN (AP) — Much like the Ulster weather, Ian Paisley could offer beaming sunshine one minute, stinging hailstones the next.

The international image of Paisley — that of Northern Ireland’s most dangerous demagogue, a belligerent bigot committed to keeping Irish Catholics at bay and out of power — was well-documented in its own right. But understanding the worst of the public Paisley wouldn’t prepare you for meeting him in the flesh.   Continue reading “Ian Paisley’s many faces: orator, inciter, charmer”

Mail.com

BLACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) — A woman who lived at a squalid, vermin-infested home where the bodies of three infants were found this week was arraigned Friday on charges including fetal death concealment and ordered held without bail as the search for more possible bodies continued.

Detectives investigating a case of reckless endangerment of children found the bodies at a house in Blackstone, about 50 miles southwest of Boston, littered with soiled diapers. Four other children had been removed from the home two weeks earlier.   Continue reading “Woman held without bail after 3 dead babies found”

Mail.com

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A judge convicted Oscar Pistorius of culpable homicide Friday in the death of his girlfriend, ruling that the former track star was negligent when he opened fire in his home after hearing what he said sounded like an intruder in a bathroom in the middle of the night.

The judge acquitted Pistorius of a more serious murder charge, a day after saying that the onetime Olympian could have called security guards or screamed for help on the balcony instead of grabbing his handgun and blasting multiple rounds through the door of a toilet stall.   Continue reading “Oscar Pistorius convicted of culpable homicide”

NewsMax – by Drew MacKenzie

A British aristocrat has taken a swipe at activists and politicians who fan the fears of climate change as he claimed that recent research shows there’s been no global warming for almost 18 years.

Lord Christopher Monckton announced on ClimateDepot.com that his scientific satellite data show the temperatures have remained fairly stable between October 1966 and August 2014, despite a rise in greenhouse gas emissions.   Continue reading “British Researcher: No Global Warming in 18 Years”