Month: February 2015

The Eagle – by Andrea Salazar

Falls County Precinct 3 Constable Richard Aleman has a new deputy constable in Stephen C. Stem, the former Hearne police officer who shot and killed an armed 93-year-old woman last May.

Stem has been volunteering about 20 hours a month as Aleman’s deputy constable since Oct. 27, almost two months after a Robertson County grand jury cleared him of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of Pearlie Golden.

Continue reading “Former Hearne officer fired after death is volunteering as a deputy constable”

Huffington Post – by Matt Ferner

Marijuana is now legal for adults in Alaska.

Alaska on Tuesday becomes the third U.S. state to end prohibition of marijuana, officially putting into effect Ballot Measure 2, approved by 53 percent of state voters in November.

Alaskans age 21 and older may now legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana, grow as many as six marijuana plants in their homes (with no more than three flowering), and possess any additional marijuana produced by those plants.   Continue reading “Marijuana Is Officially Legal In Alaska”

New York Times – by Andrew Pollack

Turning what was once conventional wisdom on its head, a new study suggests that many, if not most peanut allergies can be prevented by feeding young children food containing peanuts beginning in infancy, rather than avoiding such foods.

About 2 percent of American children are allergic to peanuts, a figure that has more than quadrupled since 1997 for reasons that are not entirely clear. There have also been big increases in other Western countries. For some people, even traces of peanuts can be life-threatening.   Continue reading “Feeding Infants Peanut Products Could Prevent Allergies, Study Suggests”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Mainstream media clamor for mandatory vaccines, ignoring official statistics that show the drug is more dangerous than the disease. Should government force parents to vaccinate their children?

The deaths of more than 100 children have been officially linked to receiving a measles vaccine during the past decade, according to the federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Yet the childhood measles mortality count over the same period remains at zero, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Put another way, in the last 10 years an American child would have been highly more likely to die after receiving a measles shot than from contracting the disease itself. Thousands more have suffered from adverse reactions to the measles inoculation and other vaccines. The explosive numbers have massive implications for public health efforts, analysts say.   Continue reading “Vaccine vs. Virus: Which Is the Bigger Threat?”

CBS News Los Angeles

OXNARD (CBSLA.com) — A Metrolink train derailed Tuesday morning after it collided with a truck on the track in Ventura County, officials said.

The VC Line 102 train, which was headed southbound to Los Angeles, hit the car around 5:45 a.m. near 5^thAvenue and Rice Street in Oxnard, according to the Ventura County Fire Department.   Continue reading “Metrolink Train Derails In Oxnard, California After Colliding With Truck On Tracks”

CNN – by Dana Ford

Privately the same year, the Israeli spy agency Mossad assessed the threat as more remote, according to reports by Al Jazeera and The Guardian newspaper, which both cited leaked intelligence documents.   Continue reading “Reports: Netanyahu, spy agency at odds over Iran’s nuclear program”

End of American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Most parents assume that when they send their kids to college that they will receive training which will prepare them for a lifetime of employment.  Sadly, the truth is that very little time is actually spent imparting practical skills to students at most of America’s colleges.  Instead, an extraordinary amount of classroom time is spent telling students what they should think and what they should believe.  At this point, most institutions of “higher learning” in this country have been transformed into political correctness indoctrination centers.    Continue reading “America’s Colleges Have Become Political Correctness Indoctrination Centers”

WINK News – by Dave Culbreth

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. – WINK News is learning more about the Charlotte County Jail recording  conversations between an attorney and his client. The chief public defender in the county believes the conversations protected by the attorney-client privilege are in the hands of the prosecution.

The attorney-client privilege is, at all times, supposed to be confidential. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, clearly violated that privilege. WINK News is learning the extent of that violation.   Continue reading “Jail report details recordings of attorney/client consultations”

Washington’s Blog

In a question and answer session on Reddit earlier today, Edward Snowden wrote:

The progress of Western civilization and human rights is actually founded on the violation of law. America was of course born out of a violent revolution that was an outrageous treason against the crown and established order of the day. History shows that the righting of historical wrongs is often born from acts of unrepentant criminality. Slavery. The protection of persecuted Jews.   Continue reading “Snowden Calls for Disobedience Against the U.S. Government”

ABC News – by EILEEN SULLIVAN and RONNIE GREENE

On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in a small cul-de-sac on the west side of the city when he stopped to ask for a glass of water.

The 70-year-old widow whose yard he was mowing told him to wait on her porch. Instead, she said, he jerked the storm door open, slammed her against the wall, forced her into the bedroom and raped her. The parolee pushed her with such force, she said, that her front teeth were knocked loose.   Continue reading “States Predict Inmates’ Future Crimes With Secretive Surveys”

The current issue of National Geographic is all about putting down the deniers of climate change, the paranoid nutcases who are concerned about fluoride and vaccines and GMOs, lumping together the creationists with the doubters that we landed on the moon, the rift between scientists and “regular folks.”

It’s all about the scientific method and being rational.

National Geographic – by Joel Achenbach

There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece Dr. Strangelove in which Jack D. Ripper, an American general who’s gone rogue and ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, unspools his paranoid worldview—and the explanation for why he drinks “only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol”—to Lionel Mandrake, a dizzy-with-anxiety group captain in the Royal Air Force.   Continue reading “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?”

Seattle Times – by Steve Miletich

Balancing free speech against public trust, Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole unveiled a sweeping new social-media policy Friday that bars officers from privately posting comments that reflect negatively on the department and its ability to serve the community.

“The Seattle Police Department is working tirelessly to rebuild community trust and restore pride in our organization,” O’Toole said in a statement addressing inflammatory posts attributed to two officers. “It’s unfortunate that behavior on social media by a few has contributed to the erosion of our collective efforts.”   Continue reading “Seattle Police Chief unveils policy to curb cops’ social-media comments”

Chron – by Dylan Baddour

It seemed like a typical congressional meeting for the Republic of Texas. Senators and the president gathered in the center of a Bryan, Texas, meeting hall, surrounded by public onlookers, to debate issues of the national currency, develop international relations and celebrate the birthday of one of their oldest members.

But this wasn’t 1836, and this would be no ordinary legislative conference. Minutes into the meeting a man among the onlookers stood and moved to open the hall door, letting in an armed and armored force of the Bryan Police Department, the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, Agents of the Texas District Attorney, the Texas Rangers and the FBI.   Continue reading “Feds raid Texas secessionist meeting”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – by Mike Vanderboegh

Speech, Alabama Firearms Freedom Conference, 21 February 2015.

You know, I was glad to hear Jan Morgan from Arkansas. My second (and last) wife Rosey is from Arkansas and she told me very quickly when I met her thirty years ago that Arkansas girls don’t divorce, they commit homocide, so I’m with her ’til I die, one way or the other.

I am here today to brief you on the national firearm rights movement — on where we are and where we’re headed and the news is not good.  What I am about to say is unpleasant and many of you will not like it.  I don’t like it myself.  The only thing I can tell you is that it is the unvarnished truth.  If you feel better being spoon-fed horsecrap and wishful thinking, you should have invited someone else.  Wayne LaPierre or Alan Gottlieb, maybe.  I’ll try to wrap this up as fast as I can so that we might have time at the end for your questions.  If not I’ll try to hang around after the last speaker.   Continue reading “Defiance: The Armed Civil Disobedience Movement. “How many of us are they willing to see dead?””

Fortune – by Geoffrey Smith

What do you do when the CEO is part of the problem rather than part of the solution?

That’s the question for HSBC Holdings Plc HBC after weekend disclosures that its current boss, Stuart Gulliver, stashed away millions in an anonymous account in Panama in the past, while he was running the company’s operations in Asia.   Continue reading “HSBC CEO used offshore accounts to hide bonus payments from colleagues”