Year: 2013

Cal Gun Laws – by CD Michael

“It started with a coffee date. Now I’m married with kids. How the heck did that happen?”

How indeed? Life sneaks up on us. Change occurs in tiny increments. Before you know it, the order of life has been inverted.

It’s the same with the law. Aristotle knew what he was talking about when he wrote “Jealously maintain … the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.”   Continue reading “California: Living Proof of the Slippery Slope of Rational Apathy”

Before It’s News

A Mexican Standoff was created last month when the Tea Party pushed GOP leaders to use the threat of shutdown to block a possibly fatally flawed expansion of federally funded health coverage – you can’t even register for it on the govt website.

We still don’t know what was happening behind the smoke screen, though. All we know is that campaign succeeded mainly in undermining popular support for half of the War Party, the Republicans. By late Wednesday, dozens of anxious GOP lawmakers were ready to give President Obama almost exactly what he requested months ago: a bill to fund the government and increase the Treasury Department’s borrowing power with no strings attached.   Continue reading “Obama Signs Bill to Raise Debt Limit, Reopen Government with Over 100% Debt-To-Gdp Ratio”

Natural Blaze

Georgetown University Medical Center researchers say a compound derived from cruciferous vegetable such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli protected rats and mice from lethal doses of radiation.

Their study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests the compound, already shown to be safe for humans, may protect normal tissues during radiation therapy for cancer treatment and prevent or mitigate sickness caused by radiation exposure.   Continue reading “These Vegetables Can Protect You From Fukushima Radiation”

Huffington Post – by JAMES MacPHERSON

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Scientists who helped calculate oil spilled from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico are questioning the methodology used to estimate the amount of crude that recently leaked from a ruptured pipeline into a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota.

Tesoro Corp. said it came up with its more than 20,000-barrel spill estimate using ground analysis. But oil spill experts say a more accurate assessment likely would come from calculating how much crude went into the pipeline versus what was supposed to come out at its terminus.   Continue reading “North Dakota Pipeline Spill Estimates ‘A Guess’ At Best After 20,000 Barrels Spill Into Field”

Alt-Market- by Brandon Smith

Legitimate revolution takes time, patience and fortitude. Unfortunately, this is a strategic concept that is lost on many Americans today who suffer from a now common ailment of attention deficit disorder and an obsession with immediate gratification. Even some who have their hearts in the right place and who work to defend and resurrect our nation’s founding ideals seem to believe that any action to defeat corrupt oligarchy must be effective immediately, otherwise, it’s not worth the attempt. History, of course, teaches us the opposite.   Continue reading “Non-Participation As An Effective Weapon Against Tyranny”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

The internet chatter which states that Obama is going to get Congress to impose a 1% transaction tax is going viral on the internet. When this news arrives in your email box, delete this erroneous email the same as you would any other spam.  The email would have you believe that while you were sleeping, the government planned to introduce a 1% transaction tax which would tax every single transaction in the United States from direct deposit to ATM withdrawals to social security payments. The bill, labeled HR 4646 did indeed propose to impose this requirement upon all financial transactions in the United States. The fact of the matter is that this bill was proposed in 2010 and it died in committee without ever being voted on. This concept was resurrected in 2011 and it, too, died in committee without ever being voted on.   Continue reading “The Importance of October 17”

WND – by AARON KLEIN

Despite the government shutdown, the Obama administration has continued secret negotiations to complete what is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP.

The expansive plan is a proposed free-trade agreement between the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.   Continue reading “Obama Secretly Signing Away U.S. Sovereignty”

NOLA – by Paul Purpura

Louisiana Supreme Court justices are considering the residual and likely unintended effects of the constitutional amendment that voters overwhelmingly approved last year to make gun ownership a “fundamental” right. The question is whether the amended Constitution now lets convicted felons possess firearms, an act that is forbidden by the state criminal code.

Just how far Louisiana’s new gun right, one of the strongest in the country, should extend was a central theme of argument that lawyers gave Monday, on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s law against felons possessing firearms. As Associate Justice John Weimer of Thibodaux framed it, in weighing a public safety policy against the constitutional demands, should the state let people on probation — even people still in prison — have guns?   Continue reading “Louisiana’s new gun rights law considered by state Supreme Court”

    Let’s assume you’re both a very intelligent, and very responsible person. You probably paid close attention to your teachers, did all your homework, all the required reading, scored very high on the S.A.T.s, and went to a good college.

After work you might peruse the websites of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and possibly the Wall Street Journal, because as a responsible citizen, you’re well aware of the importance of being well-informed, so nothing less than America’s “papers or record” will do.    Continue reading “Everything You Know”

My SA – by SCOTT HUDDLESTON

SAN ANTONIO – Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a gun-toting Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is to headline a gun-rights rally Saturday on the state-owned Alamo grounds, where demonstrations historically have been banned — until Patterson’s office took over the shrine.

The rally, billed as “Come and Take It San Antonio!” will be held on the 4.2-acre Alamo complex, which has been under the custodianship of the Texas General Land Office since 2011.   Continue reading “Gun rally on Alamo grounds triggers debate”

Midwest Energy News – by Kari Lydersen

Community activists on Chicago’s Southeast Side are always on the lookout for signs of new pollution, dumping or other threats to the environment and quality of life in this heavily industrialized swath of the city.

In recent years community opposition helped torpedoproposals for a coal gasification plant, a police shooting range and new landfills.   Continue reading “First it was Detroit, now ‘PetKoch’ piling up in Chicago”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

As more details continue to surface, the NYPD’s activities are beginning to make the NSA’s surveillance programs look like the paragon of restraint. We’ve already detailed how the NYPD (with help from a former CIA official) placed entire mosques under surveillance and infiltrated the Occupy movement.

Having effectively neutered the Handschu guidelines in 2003 (which placed severe restrictions on monitoring political activity), the NYPD was free to surveill all sorts of non-criminal, politically-focused gatherings.   Continue reading “The NYPD: Making New York Safer By Spying On Bicyclists, Relief Efforts And Republicans”

The Organic Prepper

Do you get the feeling that we are right on the verge of chaos?  With the government shutdown, the congressional budget deadline of the 17th, the EBT system under threat, and assorted “drills” that, if history proves to be any guide, could be a loose cover for an upcoming false flag, we could be looking at civil unrest in a matter of days.

These are all situations that we, as individuals, have little control over.   Continue reading “Lock and Load: Are You Prepared for Civil Unrest?”

Lolud – by Erik Shilling

A Nanuet man said last year that he was “anxious to start killing various public officials” was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison.

Lawrence Mulqueen has already served around 8 months of the sentence, having been incarcerated since his arrest in February, when prosecutors said that he wrote on his Facebook page that he wanted “all followers of President Barack Obama dead,” calling them “traitor scum” and declaring “death to them all.”   Continue reading “Lawrence Mulqueen gets 15 months after making threats against public officials”

The Telegraph – by Jim Haddadin

NASHUA – When Shannon “Bear” Cothran was threatened by a knife-wielding robber on Monday morning, he didn’t think twice about what to do.

Cothran, who was working after midnight at the Shell gas station at 301 Main St. in Nashua, pulled out his Ruger LCP .380 handgun.

The robber turned and walked out the door, and Cothran called the police, bringing a swift end to the robbery attempt.   Continue reading “Nashua gas station clerk halts robbery with handgun, gets fired hours later; police still looking for suspect”