Year: 2014

Sipsey Street Irregulars

A couple long-time friends and readers brought this to my attention from 1994:

In a city where name recognition is synonymous with success, Ron Klain has made a virtue of being unknown. As Attorney General Janet Reno’s chief of staff, he is all but invisible to the public but recognized in Democratic circles as the man to have on your side in a political or legal fight. A rare mix of top-flight lawyer and savvy politician, Klain shepherded the nominations of Reno and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg through the Senate and steered the omnibus crime bill through the turbulent legislative process.   Continue reading “Well, well. I had forgotten about THAT. Ebola Czar Ron Klain was Janet Reno’s Chief of Staff at the time of Waco.”

Detroit Free Press – by Susan Tompor

Jennifer Blanzy, 53, returned home from exercising one Saturday morning in September only to find out that someone was threatening to put her in jail because she wasn’t responding to letters from the IRS.

The message left on the answering machine at her Grosse Pointe Park home said: “Do not ignore this phone call.”

“So I called right away,” Blanzy said.   Continue reading “Fake IRS agents scare many consumers into paying up”

Sent to us by a reader.

I’m just writing to pass on some information that came to me last week nobody seems to be covering about this Dallas Ebola issue.

I have full confidence in this because of the close personal ties I have with the source.

1. Every nurse/staff that treated Duncan at Presby was made to sign a paper stating they would self quarantine due to the obvious facts. Obviously Amber Vinson did not.   Continue reading “Misinfo”

Washington Post – by David Ignatius, May 29, 2012

As an intelligence operation, it must have seemed like pure genius: Recruit a Pakistani doctor to collect blood samples that could identify Osama bin Laden’s family, under cover of an ongoing vaccination program. But as an ethical matter, it was something else.

The CIA’s vaccination gambit put at risk something very precious — the integrity of public health programs in Pakistan and around the globe. It also added to the dangers facing nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in a world that’s increasingly hostile to U.S. aid organizations.   Continue reading “2012: A CIA gambit in Pakistan threatens a global vaccination program”

ABC News – by Maria Versa

Federal police have taken control of 13 municipalities in southern Mexico where local police are suspected of links to organized crime and possibly to the case of 43 missing students, a top official said.

The municipalities are all within a roughly 125-mile (200-kilometer) radius of Iguala, the town where the students from a rural teachers’ college disappeared more than three weeks ago after a confrontation with police. Twelve of the municipalities are in Guerrero state and one is in Mexico state. Among them are the tourist destinations of Taxco and Ixtapan de la Sal.   Continue reading “Federal Police Take Control of 13 Towns in Mexico”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

The tiny village of Oakley, Michigan looks fairly unremarkable as you drive through it. Located along the M-52 highway, it consists of little more than a single traffic light, with a bar on one side and a gas station on the other. It’s a village of secrets, however, or so it would seem.

Oakley has 290 residents. They also have over 100 police, for some reason. Those police are also, more or less entirely anonymous.   Continue reading “ISIS Cited as Michigan Village’s Police Push for Secrecy”

Fox Radio – by Todd Starnes

Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in daily fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene.

“Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted,” attorney Jeremy Tedesco told me. “The threat of enforcement is more than just credible.”   Continue reading “City Threatens to Arrest Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Weddings”

Activist Post – by Amanda Warren

The Atlantic recently did a piece highlighting the use of tasers by law enforcement and the National Park Service on people for light infractions. The darkly comedic or disturbing title is:  Zap! Should the State Keep Shocking Citizens to Enforce Minor Laws? A rhetorical question with this possible answer: “WTF, No!” The url words are also notable: “modest-limits-on-when-the-state-can-electrocute-americans.”

It centers around Californian Gary Hesterberg jogging with his unleashed terrier which he then leashed. It ended with a National Park Service woman deploying taser barbs in his back and calling for backup. The twists and turns are well written in depth and are interesting. But…   Continue reading “No Real Limitations on Tasers Used for Minor Infractions or Just Because”

Police State USA

MERIDIAN, ID — A SWAT team swarmed into a charity-based community yard sale pointing weapons and “scaring the heck out of” bystanders.

The raid took place at the “Neighborhood Angel” yard sale in Meridian, Idaho, which annually sells donated items to benefit a young girl suffering from cancer.  When a 39-year-old man arrived on a motorcycle to browse the tables on September 22, 2014, the event organizer described him as an “Every day kind of a guy, [an] all-American boy.”   Continue reading “Idaho SWAT team storms community yard sale in front of customers, children”