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Students at Cottonwood Preparatory School have voted for their 2015 prom theme, and the winner is communism.
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“Our students are in the International Baccalaureate program, so they are very academically focused,” said Sam Obenshain, executive director at Cottonwood. “One of the classes they enjoy the most is a world history class.” Continue reading “Cottonwood High School Votes to Have Communist Themed Prom: Prommunism”
Appearing on KATU’s “Your Voice, Your Vote” program to discuss the topic of guns in schools, Brady Campaign representative Erin Thomas suggests “non violent vocabulary training” as a way to stop school shooters. This, after she laments the “militarization of the world” and lack of a “full time psychologist” at her child’s school. Continue reading “Brady Campaign’s Brilliant Strategy To Stop School Shootings”
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, which rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, according to a video posted online. The pledge came in an Arabic audio message with English subtitles alleged to have come from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and posted Saturday on Twitter, according to the SITE Intelligence monitoring service.
“We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims … and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity, in hardship and ease, and to endure being discriminated against, and not to dispute about rule with those in power, except in case of evident infidelity regarding that which there is a proof from Allah,” said the message. Continue reading “Boko Haram declares allegiance to Isis”
If this is happening in a small city like Edmonton, Alberta you can bet your ass that steroid use is wide spread in most police services.
After an almost two-year investigation, two Edmonton police officers are finding themselves on the other side of the law after being charged with illegally selling steroids to other officers, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team announced Friday afternoon. Continue reading “Two Edmonton police officers charged with selling steroids”
The number of Americans aged 16 and older not participating in the labor force hit 92,898,000 in February, tying December’s record, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Over the longer trend, the labor force participation rate was between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent from April 2014 through February, and has been hovering around 62.9 percent or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013, the BLS data revealed. Continue reading “33% of Americans out of workforce, highest rate since 1978”
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — If the massive undersea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turns up nothing by the end of May, the three countries leading the effort will go “back to the drawing board,” Malaysia’s transport minister said Saturday, a day before the anniversary of the plane’s disappearance.
Liow Tiong Lai told a small group of foreign reporters that he remains cautiously optimistic the Boeing 777 is in the area of the southern Indian Ocean where the search is ongoing. Despite the exhaustive search for the plane, which disappeared last March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, no trace of the jet has been found. In late January, Malaysia’s government formally declared the incident an accident and said all 239 people on board were presumed dead. Continue reading “Malaysia: ‘Back to the drawing board’ if jet not found soon”
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The top U.S. general predicts the one-two punch of Iranian-backed militias and Iraqi government troops will prevail over Islamic State fighters in the unfolding battle for Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown.
But U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the expected successful push in Tikrit, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, would not be possible without U.S. airstrikes that have tied down IS elsewhere in the north. Continue reading “Top US general optimistic about outcome of Tikrit battle”
BANGKOK (AP) — The towering Danish ship Kobenhavn set sail from Argentina one December day, bound for Australia with five dozen souls aboard. Eight days later, as it traversed the South Atlantic, it radioed a nearby ship. All seemed well.
That was Dec. 22, 1928. The vessel was never heard from again. There were reports of a “phantom ship” spotted through the haze, but searches of the icy waters turned up nothing. A year passed. “Never in the history of shipping has a missing vessel been searched for more thoroughly,” Associated Press correspondent Alex Gerfalk wrote then. “Science has exhausted its resources in an attempt to find a plausible explanation for the complete disappearance of the largest sailing vessel in the world.” Continue reading “AP Essay: Of a plane still missing, and a planet still vast”
Chicago Heights Patch – by Dennis Robaugh
Homeless and hopeless, David Allen Potchen is the bank robber who didn’t want the money, he just wanted to be caught.
His “career” as a stickup man began in 2001, when he walked into a Lowell, Ind., bank armed with a shotgun and took nine employees hostage. But he didn’t ask for money in the four hours he spent chatting with the terrified tellers and bank manager as FBI and SWAT surrounded the bank. He asked for two Big Macs and cigarettes. Continue reading “Luckless, Hopeless Welder Robs a Bank Just to Get Caught”
New York Times – by NEIL MacFARQUHAR
MOSCOW — Two suspects have been detained in the killing of the opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov, the head of Russia’s internal law enforcement agency announced on Saturday.
Alexander Bortnikov, the director of the Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., named the two suspects as Anzor Kubashev and Zaur Dadayev and said the men were residents of the southern Caucasus, state-run television reported. Continue reading “2 Suspects Are Detained in Killing of Kremlin Critic”
Shark Tank – by Nicole Sanders
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday he is prepared to dismantle the Ferguson police department if that’s what it takes.
Even though the Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge officer Derrick Wilson for killing black teen Michael Brown, the DOJ said they discovered evidence the Ferguson police department was discriminating against black residents. Continue reading “Holder Said He is Prepared to Dismantle Ferguson’s Police Department”
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