Sen-Dianne-FeinsteinThe Hill – by Jeremy Herb

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has led the effort in the Senate to pass new gun control legislation, said she does not plan to try again in the wake of the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday where a TSA agent was killed.

Feinstein said that passing a gun reform bill through Congress was simply not possible, after a bill failed this year following the shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.   Continue reading “Feinstein: ‘Gun owners and gun people’ have a ‘hammerlock’ on Congress”

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpiThe Daily News – by Neal Mccluskey , Williamson Evers AND Sandra Stotsky

The Common Core — effectively national math and English curriculum standards coming soon to a school near you — is supposed to be a new, higher bar that will take the United States from the academic doldrums to international dominance.

So why is there so much unhappiness about it? There didn’t seem to be much just three years ago. Back then, state school boards and governors were sprinting to adopt the Core. In practically the blink of an eye, 45 states had signed on.   Continue reading “Stop the rush to the Common Core”

Suarez class KY pics 096Taipan Magazine – by Randy Harris

The years following World War Two found every major military in the world looking to upgrade their current battle rifles. This was no big surprise, as many nations were still fielding bolt action rifles. The United States was the only country fielding a reliable semi auto main battle rifle in the M1 Garand. The Garand had performed admirably during WWII, but by the 1950s many new designs clearly eclipsed the Garand.   Continue reading “Battle Rifle Breakdown”

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Excerpted from The Hill: The Senate’s No. 3 Democrat Charles Schumer (N.Y.) endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Saturday as he urged her to make another run for the White House.

Schumer announced his endorsement at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson dinner Saturday, declaring his “full and unwavering support” for the former secretary of State and New York senator three years before the 2016 election.   Continue reading “She ‘Will Vanquish The Tea Party’: Chuck Schumer Formally Endorses Hillary Clinton For President”

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Rhodesian Farmers Defensive Arrangements

The following is a general overview:

1) Most farmers fitted hand-grenade grills to the outside of all windows and Doors leading outside were likewise security grilled.

2) Many farmers built thick sand bag walls in front and under bedroom windows to stop bullets passing through walls and providing secured firing arc’s. Beds were never placed against the outside walls of a farmhouse.   Continue reading “Home hardening in a real SHTF scenario”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Eastern Libya has declared an autonomous regional government with an official ceremony, challenging the country’s weak central government that failed to assume unifying power over rebels and various tribes since the 2011 war toppled Muammar Gaddafi.

Leaders of an autonomy movement met on Sunday in the small town of Ajdabiya to launch the government under the name of Barqa, or Cyrenaica as it is also known, supporters said.   Continue reading “East Libya Declares Self-Government”

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

The oil regions of the Middle East are slated for a major upheaval. A recent discovery by an Israeli oil company found as much as 3.5 billion barrels of oil in Israel That, combined with natural gas reserves discovered off the country’s coast will change the power dynamics in the Middle East and around the world.

One news outlet points out that this discovery is a major game changer: ”If WEC’s estimates for Israel stand, the economic balance of power between the Jewish state and surrounding Muslim countries will shift dramatically.”   Continue reading “Israeli Oil Discovery Will Change Face Of Middle East video and pictures”

The Hill – by Megan R. Wilson

Gun rights groups are throwing their weight behind efforts on Capitol Hill to rein in the National Security Agency (NSA).

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is among a number of groups that have signed on to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the secretive government agency.    Continue reading “Gun rights groups go after NSA”

Some of the weapons that have been taken off the streets over the years by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are displayed in the Dublin field office's lobby. Photo: Michael Macor, The ChronicleSF Gate – by Dan Freedman

For gun rights advocates, distrust toward the federal agency charged with enforcing firearms laws dates from a single raid on a gun collector’s apartment.

It was a 1971 raid by agents of what was then the Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on the apartment of Kenyon Ballew in Silver Spring, Md. The agents had been tipped by a burglary suspect that guns and grenades were stashed there.   Continue reading “How the NRA became ATF’s biggest enemy”

Town Hall -by Michael Schaus

I assume people with billions of dollars wake up in the morning – every morning – thinking to themselves, “should I use my money for good. . . Or for evil?” Mayor Bloomberg, in his Blofeld style lair, apparently decided to utilize his monetary powers in an effort to impact the lives of citizens thousands of miles away. (From a libertarian point of view, this would fall in the category of “evil.”)

It is one type of annoying authoritarian-idiocy to ban guns, high-capacity sodas, and trans fats; but his efforts to export his New York socialist utopia on unsuspecting citizens (of other states) adds a whole new level of “Billionaire Elitism” to the mix.   Continue reading “The Bond Villain, Mayor Bloomberg, Strikes Again”

PARDON Abused Mother Marissa Alexander for Standing Her GroundCare 2 – by Susan Vaughan

Update #3 November 2, 2013

Prosecutor Corey did not drop Marissa’s case last week, so a new trial is scheduled to begin in March, 2014. However on November 8, the court will decide if Marissa, who’s been away from her children for nearly three years, will be able to live with them outside of prison in the meantime. Please keep the pressure on prosecutor Corey to drop the case and at least allow Marrissa to be with her children until she is finally acquitted.   Continue reading “PARDON Abused Mother Marissa Alexander for Standing Her Ground”

ABC News – by TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press

The 23-year-old charged as the gunman in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport told authorities at the scene that he acted alone and had been dropped off by a friend, a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Authorities do not believe the friend knew that Paul Ciancia, the man charged in the attack, planned to open fire inside LAX’s Terminal 3 just moments later, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding three other people, including two more TSA workers, said the official, who is not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and requested anonymity.   Continue reading “Gunman Told Police He Acted Alone in LAX Shooting”

foodNatural News – by Mike Adams

The federal food stamp program known as the “Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program” (SNAP) has now been cut by a small amount — just $36 / month for a family of four. But even this tiny reduction in a national entitlement program is causing shockwaves across the nation as food banks scramble to handle the anticipated surge in “hungry masses.”

“Food banks across the country, stretched thin in the aftermath of the recession, are bracing for more people coming through their doors in the wake of cuts to the federal food stamp program,” writes USA Today.   Continue reading “Food banks brace for wave of hungry masses as federal food stamp cuts kick in”