Year: 2014

Daily Mail – by Anna Hodgekiss

A British doctor working in Sierra Leone has described the horror he and his team have witnessed since the deadly Ebola outbreak struck.

Dr Oliver Johnson, along with a team of British medics, was working to strengthen the health system in the country’s capital Freetown when the crisis took hold earlier.

When disaster struck, they decided to stay and ‘do everything they could’ to help – despite health workers being among those most at risk of contracting the virus.    Continue reading “British doctor working in Sierra Leone describes the horror of deadly disease”

CNBC

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Gang of Eight immigration bill (S.744) passed by the U.S. Senate last June, and voted for by both Tennessee senators – Lamar Alexander (R) and Bob Corker (R), would have roughly doubled the number of new foreign workers allowed into the country, as well as legalized illegal immigrants. To put into context the possible effects of this legislation on Tennessee, the Center for Immigration Studies has analyzed recent government data on employment.   Continue reading “All Tennessee’s Employment Growth Since 2000 Has Gone to Immigrants; Yet, Natives Accounted for 60% of Population Growth”

Liberty Unyielding – by Howard Portnoy

It takes a village … to stop a school district from loonily handing out condoms to 11-year-olds. From the Statesman Journal viaEAG News):

The Gervais [Oregon] School District’s board of directors agreed to hit the brakes on implementing its condom distribution plan, saying while it’s urgent to address teen pregnancy, more research needs to be done. Continue reading “School district halts condom giveaway to 6th graders after community uproar”

ABC News

The man who recorded video of a fatal police chokehold in New York City has been arrested on gun charges, police said Sunday.

Police said 22-year-old Ramsey Orta was arrested Saturday night on Staten Island, a few blocks from where officers confronted his friend Eric Garner on July 17.   Continue reading “Man Who Shot NYC Choke Video Held on Gun Charge”

Police One – by Ryan Parker, LA Times

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police found a shotgun that fell off an officer’s motorcycle and on Friday arrested the man accused of taking it from the area.

Takee Williams, 43, was arrested for grand theft after officers were able to track down the shotgun a few miles from where it came off the officer’s bike, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.   Continue reading “LAPD finds cop’s missing shotgun; man arrested”

Zero Hedge – by Chris Hamilton

US is Bankrupt: $89.5 Trillion in US Liabilities vs. $82 Trillion in Household Net Worth & The Gap is Growing. We Now Await the Nature of the Cramdown.

There are many ways to look at the United States government debt, obligations, and assets.  Liabilities include Treasury debt held by the public or more broadly total Treasury debt outstanding.  There’s unfunded liabilities like Medicare and Social Security.  And then the assets of all the real estate, all the equities, all the bonds, all the deposits…all at today’s valuations.  But let’s cut straight to the bottom line and add it all up…$89.5 trillion in liabilities and $82 trillion in assets.  There.  It’s not a secret anymore…and although these are all government numbers, for some strange reason the government never adds them all together or explains them…but we will. Continue reading ““The US Is Bankrupt,” Blasts Biderman, “We Now Await The Cramdown””

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

Given the Marxist misery the Obama regime is spreading like farmer’s manure on their way to Utopia, legions have long suspected that the Democrats own a monopoly on evil. But recent antics of their star performers Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid et al may indicate that they’re plain crazy too.

Barack Hussein Obama, who has recently taken up repeating “The Bear is Loose’ during his random, royal walkabouts in lunchtime D.C., must have been thinking of Nancy Pelosi, who came on like a screeching banshee, not once but twice chasing down Republican Representative Tom Marino of Pennsylvania through the House Chamber.   Continue reading “Evil and plain crazy not a healthy combination”

American Freedom by Barbara

Governor Brewer orders that flags be lowered to half-staff from sunrise, August 5, 2014 until sunset August 11, 2014.” 

The senator, aged 68, left for a one-hour ride around 10am near Heber-Overgaard, Arizona. When he didn’t return his family went searching for him and found him dead with his horse nearby.   Continue reading “Arizona state senator Chester Crandell dies in horse-riding accident”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Few terms in the gun world capture the imagination of gun owners as much as “Desert Eagle” and “1911″.

Of course, the Desert Eagle has become synonymous with big bore semi-auto handguns, namely the Desert Eagle .50AE hand cannon.

Likewise, there are few gun designs more timeless and more owned than the venerable 1911 pistol.   Continue reading “Desert Eagle 1911 – Yes, Apparently That’s a Real Thing Now”

USA Today – by Jim Michaels and Tom Vanden Brook

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Army major general was killed in an attack at an Afghan military base in Kabul on Tuesday, according to a defense official who asked not to be named.

If confirmed would be the highest ranking American officer to be killed in the war in Afghanistan.

A defense official confirmed the information on the condition he not be named since the family had not been fully notified yet.   Continue reading “Man in Afghan uniform kills U.S. general”

Detroit Free Press – by L.L. Braiser

DELTON — Early morning May 10, Jack Nadwornik stepped behind Tujax Tavern, the bar and restaurant he has owned for 30 years in this small, western Michigan town.

Nadwornik, out drinking with friends for his 58th birthday, urinated in a corner of the empty parking lot because the bar was locked up. Continue reading “Michigan township rebels after new chief beefs up police force”

MassPrivateI

Increasingly, post-9/11, under the rubric of “privatization,” though it should more accurately have been called “corporatization,” the Pentagon took a series of crony companies off to war with it.  In the process, it gave “capitalist war” a more literal meaning, thanks to its wholesale financial support of, and the shrugging off of previously military tasks onto, a series of warrior corporations. Continue reading “Private corporations have become the fourth branch of our govt.”

Daily Mail – by Richard Spillett

An incoming plane has been escorted into Manchester Airport by the RAF ‘as a result of information received by the pilot about a possible device on board’, Greater Manchester Police said.

It is thought that the plane involved was a Qatar Airways Airbus A330, which had reportedly come from Doha, and that the RAF plane was a Typhoon from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire.   Continue reading “RAF fighter jet escorts passenger plane into Manchester airport amid captain’s fears of device on board”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Gideon, the pseudonymous public defender who blogs at A Public Defender, has a thorough rundown of a very disturbing ruling recently issued by the Connecticut Supreme Court. It involves every Connecticut citizens’ civil liberties, which have now been thrown under a bus bearing the name “officer safety.”

The court’s decision basically makes everyone a suspect, even if they’re suspected of nothing else than being in the relative proximity of someone a police officer suspects of committing a crime, or someone simply “matching the description.” How does this work in practice? Gideon posits a single scenario, as interpreted by the person being (wrongly) detained and those doing the actual detaining.   Continue reading “Connecticut Supreme Court Says State Cops Can Detain You Simply For Being In The Vicinity Of Someone They’re Arresting”