Year: 2014

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

A suspected burglar is in police custody after being shot by a female homeowner in Stanton, Delaware.

According to 6 ABC, a woman whose home was empty due to renovations being completed, found quite the surprise in one of her bedrooms,

When the homeowner and her son arrived to check on the home just before 6:00 a.m., she found someone inside. Continue reading “Delaware Woman Shoots Intruder She Found Sleeping in Her Bed”

Tenth Amendment Center

EFFERSON CITY, Mo., Aug. 5, 2014 – By a big margin at the polls on Tuesday, Missouri voters took an important step to protect their electronic communications and data from the prying eyes of state and local law enforcement, and also effectively blocked a small but intrusive practical effect of federal spying within the state.

Wtih a 75 percent YES vote, Missourians approved Amendment 9, giving “electronic data and communications” the same state constitutional protections as “persons, homes, papers and effects.” This eliminates any constitutional ambiguity surrounding electronic data and specifically bars state agencies from accessing it without a warrant in most cases.   Continue reading “Taking a Swipe at Big Brother: Missouri voters say YES to Privacy”

Bloomberg

On a small plot of land incongruously tucked amid a Kentucky industrial park sit five weather-beaten greenhouses. At the site, tobacco plants contain one of the most promising hopes for developing an effective treatment for the deadly Ebola virus.

The plants contain designer antibodies developed by San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. and are grown in Kentucky by a unit of Reynolds American Inc. (RAI:US) Two stricken U.S. health workers received an experimental treatment containing the antibodies in Liberia last week. Since receiving doses of the drug, both patients’ conditions have improved.   Continue reading “Ebola Tobacco Drug Joins Duckweed in Plant War on Disease”

ABC News – by Christopher Sherman, AP

Overwhelmed by the arrival of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, the state of Texas relaxed its standards for the shelters that house them, easing rules governing how much space each child needs and what kind of facilities they should have.

In some ways, the response to the influx resembled the reaction to a hurricane, with federally contracted shelters asking the state licensing agency to temporarily bend some of its regulations to accommodate a large population of children.   Continue reading “Texas Eased Rules for Housing Immigrant Children”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

A whistleblower who claims to work inside the Los Angeles Department of Health Services has told Infowars that L.A. officials are planning to forcibly remove homeless people from the streets later this summer and house them in facilities which they will not be permitted to leave.

The source, an office clerk within the LADHS, said that during a policy meeting on the morning of June 18th last month, his supervisor announced that the Los Angeles County Dept. of Health Services had struck a deal with the government to open up “low cost housing” facilities for homeless people, otherwise known as “FEMA camps.” The source said that his supervisor ordered staff not to use the term “FEMA camps.”   Continue reading “Whistleblower: L.A. Planning to Forcibly House Homeless Citizens in Camps”

Breitbart – by Merrill Hope

DALLAS, Texas — The Collin County Commissioner’s Court in McKinney met on August 4 for a second and final time on the proposed resolution that would ban housing illegal minors in the county. Judge Keith Self, who was not present at the July 28 meeting, presided over a full courtroom. Public comments lasted for more than two hours and were followed by the court’s vote.

This was a kinder, gentler resolution than Commissioner Mark Reid originally presented and it was no longer titled “In Support of Ending Illegal Immigration” but instead asked “What is the proper role of government in providing the housing and care for undocumented aliens?”   Continue reading “Texas County Says ‘No Undocumented Aliens’”

Breitbart – by Kritin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — About half of the nation’s federal criminal cases last year were filed in regions near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an alarming annual report from the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ).

During FY 2013, U.S. Attorney’s offices filed a total of 61,529 criminal cases against defendants, according to the DOJ. Regions along the border each had more convictions than in any other district. 6,341 cases were filed in Western Texas, suggesting it is home to the country’s most severe crime patterns. 6,130 cases were filed in Southern Texas; 4,848 were filed in Southern California; 3,889 were filed in New Mexico; and 3,538 were filed in Arizona.    Continue reading “DOJ: Regions Near Mexico Border Most Crime Ridden in US”

The Smoking Gun

A South Carolina woman yesterday summoned cops to her home after she discovered that her 15-year-old son had been watching pornography on the livingroom television.

According to a police report, Chavonda Gallman, 40, told sheriff’s deputies that she returned to her Spartanburg home yesterday at 3 PM with her two-year-old daughter and a client (Gallman is a real estate agent). Her son was in his room when the trio arrived.   Continue reading “Mom Calls Cops After Discovering Son, 15, Was Watching Porn On Living Room TV”

Breitbart – by John Sexton

Tuesday evening the CDC confirmed to Breitbart News that six individuals in the United States had been tested for Ebola. Those tests came back negative, but the CDC would not identify the states where they originated.

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported Tuesday that half a dozen people had been tested for Ebola. It was not clear whether a patient who walked into Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Monday with “high fever and gastrointestinal problems” was one of those six or in addition to the six.   Continue reading “CDC Refuses to Identify Where Previous Ebola Tests Originated”

Daily Caller – by Patrick Howler

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) quietly changed regulations to allow more undocumented immigrants to keep their taxpayer status through a program that is rife with fraud and abuse, and to delay deactivation of immigrant taxpayer status until 2016.

The IRS now prevents peoples’ Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) from automatically expiring after five years as previously mandated. Now immigrants can keep their ITIN so long as they pay taxes at least once in a five-year period.   Continue reading “IRS Abolishes Mandatory Expiration Dates For Illegal Immigrants’ Taxpayer Status”

USA Today – by Donna Leinwand Leger, Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn

LAS VEGAS — Security researchers say a Russian crime ring has pulled off the largest known theft of confidential Internet information, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.

The cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from at least 420,000 websites, says Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer for Hold Security in Milwaukee, Wisc.   Continue reading “Russian gang stole 1.2 billion Net passwords”

Reuters – by CLAIR MACDOUGALL AND DANIEL FLYNN

Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak of the virus that has killed 887 people.

In Nigeria, which recorded its first death from Ebola in late July, authorities in Lagos said eight people who came in contact with the deceased U.S. citizen Patrick Sawyer were showing signs of the deadly disease.   Continue reading “Bodies dumped in streets as West Africa struggles to curb Ebola”