Month: January 2015

Straight Line Logic – by Robert Gore

What would it take to overthrow the U.S. government? The question may seem academic, but all governments fail. The U.S. government will too, for the usual reasons: its ever increasing size, rapacity, and attempts to control all aspects of life; the corresponding shrinkage of its constituents’ liberty; imperial overreach; welfare-state bread and circuses; debt; spreading poverty; crony capitalism, rampant corruption; widening income disparities, and oligarchic arrogance. As clearly odious as the government is, shouldn’t we do all we can to move it towards its inevitable rendezvous with failure?   Continue reading “Revolution In America”

RT

Nine people are confirmed to have contracted measles when they visited Disneyland in California in mid-December. Another three cases are suspected, according to state health officials who are investigating the outbreak.

The California Department of Health said the nine people, including children, visited the park from California and Utah, and that it’s likely that a single person with measles visited during that period, exposing the other visitors. People near a measles patient could be at risk if they haven’t had the illness or two doses of the vaccine.   Continue reading “Measles outbreak tied to Disneyland, California health officials say”

RT

FBI agents are seeking a middle-aged white man in connection with an explosion outside the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Colorado. The agency thinks it might be a hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism.

The NAACP office in Colorado Springs shook Tuesday morning when an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated just outside. Two NAACP volunteers were inside the office at the time, but there were no injuries. Some items were knocked off the walls.   Continue reading “Bombing at NAACP’s Colorado office might be domestic terrorism – FBI”

Mail.com

CLARION, Pa. (AP) — Two people died and nearly two dozen were injured in an 18-vehicle crash during a snow squall in western Pennsylvania that left drivers with little visibility.

Authorities said the chain reaction pileup happened Wednesday afternoon in whiteout conditions on Interstate 80 in Clarion Township. Nine trucks, several of them tractor-trailers, and nine cars were involved in the crash in the highway’s westbound lanes, state police said. At least one of the trucks was carrying hazardous material, but no leaks were found, a county official said.   Continue reading “2 dead in 18-vehicle pileup on Pennsylvania highway”

Mail.com

WHITE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — After suffering years of abuse at home, a 15-year-old girl broke into her parents’ locked room through a window, took their gun while they were away and shot her 16-year-old brother to death, authorities said.

On Wednesday, authorities released police documents and interviews describing the abuse, including that the girl was locked in a room for weeks at a time with only a blanket and a bucket to use the bathroom.   Continue reading “Documents: Girl, 15, who shot brother, 16, suffered abuse”

The Daily Caller – by Casey Harper

One North Carolina city has finally surrendered in a long-fought battle to preserve a veteran’s memorial with a praying soldier and Christian flag.

The city, after spending $50,000 in legal fees, and with little hope of winning a court battle estimated to cost $2 million, ceded to the U.S. army veteran suing the town, the Winston Salem-Journal reports.

The statue of the soldier kneeling before a cross will be removed, as will the Christian flag, from the memorial in the city’s park, ending a four-year dispute.   Continue reading “NC City Agrees To Remove Statue of Praying Soldier, Christian Flag”

ABC News

A family in a minivan called 911 this morning when their car was stuck under a moving semi-truck in Michigan, police said.

A dispatcher received a call at 1:57 a.m. this morning from the family of Matthew Menz, 46, who was traveling northbound on I-75, south of Roscommon, Michigan, according to the Roscommon County Sheriff’s Office.   Continue reading “Desperate 911 Call as Semi Drags Minivan 16 Miles Through Snowstorm”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

Two shootouts in the Mexican state of Michoacán have left 9 dead and led to the arrest of 44 suspects.

The first shootout took place near the city hall of the city of Apatzingan when federal police forces tried arrest a group of gunmen, Alfredo Castillo who is Michoacán’s National Security Commissioner said in a televised press conference.

As a result of that shootout one gunman died and authorities arrested 44 other gunmen and seized 23 vehicles, Castillo said.   Continue reading “Mexican Gunfights Leave 9 Dead and 44 Behind Bars”

CBS DFW – by Jennifer Lindgren

IRVING (CBSDFW.COM) – North Texas has been rattled by 11 earthquakes in just over one day. The latest one took place just before 10:00 a.m. and measured 2.7 in magnitude. Another quake about 90 minutes earlier registered in at a 2.6 in magnitude.

There have been 12 total small earthquakes in the DFW area so far this year, all centered around the old Texas Stadium site in Irving. While none of the tremors have been particularly strong, they have caused a lot of concern about what to do if a big quake does strike.   Continue reading “11 North Texas Earthquakes In Around 27 Hours”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While various CNBC anchors may be willing to say that the US is “growing gangbusters” yet again confusing the liquidity-oozing equity markets with the economy, there are a couple hundred million Americans who would bet to differ (which incidentally may also explain why the Comcast channel no longer wishes to have its viewership calculated by Nielsen): the reason is that according to the latest Bankrate survey released today, more than three in five Americans don’t have money in their savings accounts to cover any unexpected bills such as a $500 car repair or a $1,000 emergency room visit.   Continue reading “3 In 5 Americans Don’t Have Savings To Cover Unexpected Bills”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

A Democrat Texas Congressman wrote a letter to U.S. Vice President Joe Bidden asking him to focus on the worsening security situation in Mexico which “has ripped apart our way of life on the U.S. Mexico Border.”

The letter was written prior to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s meeting with Obama and other officials during the Mexican president’s visit to the White House.

Breitbart Texas obtained a copy of the letter and Congressman Filemon Vela asked government officials to stop drug cartels and provided a glimpse into the harsh reality of the Mexican border cities While Mexico claims they are safe, in fact they are   “the location of extortions, kidnappings and killings.”   Continue reading “Texas Congressman to Biden: Mexican Violence ‘Has Ripped Apart Our Way of Life’”

Yahoo News

Eleven people were reported dead and four others were critically injured in a shooting at the office of a Paris-based satirical magazine Wednesday, France’s president said, calling the attack a “terrorist operation.”

The shooting at the office of Charlie Hebdo was a “cowardly attack,” said President Hollande, speaking at the shooting scene.   Continue reading “Youngest Suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack Turns Himself In”

CNN – by Aaron Smith

FBI background checks, the most reliable measure of gun sales, surged in December, capping a year that experienced strong growth in the last three months.

Background checks totaled more than 2.3 million in December, according to the FBI, compared to about 2 million in the same period in 2013.   Continue reading “Gun sales surged in December”

The Smoking Gun

JANUARY 7–Bill Cosby must be jealous of Jeffrey Epstein, the perverted financier.

The comedian’s career and public image have been swiftly ruined by allegations that he drugged and molested a series of female victims. Cosby, of course, has never been convicted of a crime.   Continue reading “Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime”

The Firearms Blog

Since I got into machine guns one of the most unusual things I have noticed is that an astounding amount of people who shoot most commonly available submachine guns will get ready, anchor their feet into the ground, cock the bolt to the rear, and then look at me confused and say “it won’t cock” or “the bolt won’t close”. I used to simply say “oh, it fires from an open bolt,” but that typically led to more confusion, even among people you would assume would be familiar with that type of action (including military folk and police officers). Hell, I have been to competitions where the range officer was insistent upon me walking around the range with the gun’s bolt open in the ready to fire position, even though I explained how the bolt closed with no mag in it is correct and that to render the gun completely safe I would have to remove the magazine and walk the bolt forward. Nowadays instead of explaining how an open bolt gun works I just say “it’s fine, just pull the trigger” and people will shrug it off and dump a magazine.   Continue reading ““Open Bolt” Explained: A Tale of Two Uzis”

NBC News – by PETE WILLIAMS, M. ALEX JOHNSON AND JON SCHUPPE

One of the suspects in the Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine has been killed and the two others are in custody, two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News.

Authorities earlier had identified the three men as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both French and in their early 30s, and 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn’t immediately clear.   Continue reading “Paris Attack Suspect Dead, Two in Custody, U.S. Officials Say”

RT, November 23, 2014

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned it would be a “grave mistake” for the French parliament to follow the suit of several other European nations in recognizing a Palestinian state in a vote scheduled early December.

“Recognition of a Palestinian state by France would be a grave mistake,” Netanyahu told reporters in Jerusalem. “Do they have nothing better to do at a time of beheadings across the Middle East, including that of a French citizen?” apparently referring to Herve Gourdel executed by Algerian jihadists in September.   Continue reading “Flashback: Palestinian state recognition will be a ‘grave mistake’, Netanyahu warns France”