Category: News

Inforum

FARGO – A Fargo first-grade class won’t be participating in the school’s talent show after a concerned parent called a planned act “racist.”

The students were supposed to be performing the song “Y.M.C.A.” during Bennett Elementary School’s May talent show.

For the show, a first-grade teacher asked parents to have their kids wear clothes like the Village People, the group that recorded the hit song in the 1970s. Some would come dressed as a policeman, a cowboy, a biker dude, a construction worker or a Native American.   Continue reading “Fargo parent calls school’s ‘Y.M.C.A.’ talent show act ‘racist’”

Fox News Insider

Some online guns stores say they are being targeted by the Obama administration. Federal regulators have classified those stores as “high risk” along with porn stores and head shops. Critics slam the move as an unfair way to put gun dealers out of business.

Today on America’s Newsroom, Katie Pavlich said she doesn’t buy the government’s argument that it’s a way to crack down on fraud.   Continue reading “Feds Hit Online Gun Stores With “High Risk” Label”

Pat Dollard

Excerpted from The Boston Herald: The Wolfeboro, N.H., police commissioner who has stood by his comment calling President Obama a racial slur is facing a growing cascade of calls to step down, including from the tiny lakeside town’s most famous summer resident — one-time Obama opponent Mitt Romney.

“The vile epithet used and confirmed by the commissioner has no place in our community,” the former Bay State governor, who owns a home in the popular Granite State vacation spot, said in a statement to the Herald. “He should apologize and resign.”   Continue reading “Mitt Romney, Scott Brown Call For NH Police Commissioner To Resign For Calling Obama ‘Nigger’”

Independent – by Adam Withnall

RT News

The state of Colorado has signed a law giving terminally ill patients the right to use experimental drugs. Governor John Hickenlooper signed the ‘Right to Try’ bill into law in Fort Collins.

It’s a proposal being advanced in several states by patient advocates who are frustrated by the amount of time the federal approval process takes for experimental drugs in the pipeline. Missouri and Louisiana also passed similar legislation recently.    Continue reading “Colorado governor signs nation’s first ‘Right to Try’ bill into law”

Mail.com

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The Pontiac Silverdome was the place Elvis, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones played. And Pope John Paul II prayed. It’s where Barry Sanders and Isiah Thomas became Detroit sports legends.

A marvel of 1970s-era engineering, the stadium covered by a 10-acre, Teflon-covered roof supported by air once was THE place to see big events — the Super Bowl, the NBA finals, the World Cup, WrestleMania.   Continue reading “Everything must go: Silverdome’s assets for sale”

Mail.com

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Laura Juarez is supposed to receive close to $1,200 as her share of a $3.4 billion settlement among hundreds of thousands of Native Americans whose land-trust royalties were mismanaged by the government for more than a century.

The Bakersfield, California, notary public was going to pool that money with her husband’s share, along with a portion of what was coming to her father’s estate, to send her 17-year-old daughter to a student-ambassador program in Australia.   Continue reading “Frustration grows over $3.4B settlement delay”

It Ain’t Holy Water

Jon Rappoport

A federal bill, HR 3717 (Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013), is being refined in the hope of gaining big support from both sides of the political aisle.

Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) is the key point man for the American Psychiatric Association.

This bill is playing off of Aurora, Sandy Hook, Boston, and other recent “mass events.”   Continue reading “Alert: imperial psychiatric empire is invading the mind”

USA News – by Roger Yu

AT&T agreed Sunday to buy DirecTV for about $48.5 billion in yet another mammoth deal in the pay-TV space this year that would immediately boost the telecom giant’s customer base at a time of confounding industry challenges.

The merger, which both boards approved Sunday, is the latest evidence of TV-industry consolidation, one born of telecommunications companies’ desire to amass customers and control content and delivery. With streaming and wireless technology upending the industry, cable and satellite service providers are rushing to add product options while boosting revenue per customer to please shareholders.   Continue reading “AT&T buys DirecTV for $48.5 billion”

ABC News – by PIERRE THOMAS and MIKE LEVINE

The United States government is set to file charges against government officials in China for allegedly hacking U.S. business interests, marking the first time ever that the U.S. government has formally accused another nation of using the Internet to break into U.S. businesses and gain unfair economic advantage, ABC News has learned.

The move carries enormous diplomatic implications, as the Justice Department and FBI are expected to announce charges today against several Chinese officials, according to sources. The charges will include economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.   Continue reading “US to Charge Chinese Officials in Hack Attack Thefts”

The National Patriot – by Craig Andersen

Government Land Grabs: The Truth Exposed – Part 1

It’s a word one doesn’t hear often, and more often than not, it’s associated with some medical terminology. Acute nasal drip. Acute arthritis… something along those lines but the word acute has a specific definition.

Acute – adjective: acute; comparative adjective: acute; superlative adjective: acutest    Continue reading “Government Land Grabs: The Truth Exposed – Part 1, 2, 3 and 4”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Many countries classified as ‘third world’ are looking for inexpensive ways to purify water that has become contaminated by industrial waste, and individuals in the US, Europe, and other more prosperous nations could stand to find new ways of minimizing the contaminates in municipal water supplies as well. At a national meeting of the American Chemical Society, new evidence was presented that cilantro, the herb most commonly known as an ingredient in salsa and many Asian dishes, can help to leech toxins from water.   Continue reading “New Research Shows Cilantro can Remove Lead, Copper, Mercury from Tap Water”

Crockett Lives

Q: Why are there so many millionaires in Congress?

A: Because the grass is always greener over the cesspool.

Given that Barack Obama has increased his net worth by some 438% since coming to Washington, it’s not just Congress that flourishes from a proximity to excrement.

With Barbara Walters heading off to the glue factory, where oh where will we find unbiased journalists capable of conducting hard hitting interviews like this:

Continue reading “Obama Goes Green”

Green Med Info – by Dr. Kelly Brogan, M.D. and Sayer Ji

“Could you please make sure the eggs aren’t runny? I’m pregnant.”

At their first prenatal appointment, pregnant women are doled out a list of NO’s including deli meats, fish, and unpasteurized cheese. There is a growing awareness of the fact that this list may be dangerously NON EXHAUSTIVE (and largely misguided, especially when it comes to unpasteurized dairy and eggs).   Continue reading “Monsanto’s Darkest Secret: Roundup’s Effect On The Fetus”

Video Rebel’s Blog

There will be many messages coming from Shanghai when the Presidents of Russia, China and Iran meet. In my lifetime there has never been an American war that I liked or even thought was necessary. But to people like me who yearn for peace the end of American wars of aggression and greed will be the Good News of Shanghai.   Continue reading “Message Of The Shanghai Summit: No More Dollar Imperialism Wars”

RT News

Ukraine’s crisis was, predictably, at the center of Vladimir Putin’s annual televised interview. He said the situation can only be solved through a compromise between internal players. Below are the president’s ten most significant quotes.   Continue reading “Putin’s annual Q&A: 10 most compelling quotes”