Month: May 2015

No boots on the ground in Syria?

CNN – by Barbara Starr, Laura Smith-Spark and Ray Sanchez

Continue reading “Abu Sayyaf, key ISIS figure in Syria, killed in U.S. raid”

Yahoo News Digest

In a surprise announcement Monday, the White House said, effective immediately, the federal government will no longer fund or provide to police a number of military-grade weapons: armored vehicles that run on a tracked system instead of wheels, weaponized aircraft or vehicles, firearms or ammunition of .50-caliber or higher, grenade launchers, bayonets or camouflage uniforms. A longer list of equipment will be more tightly controlled, including wheeled armored vehicles like Humvees, manned aircraft, drones, specialized firearms, explosives, battering rams and riot batons, helmets and shields.   Continue reading “Obama: No more tanks or grenade launchers for local police departments”

Chron – by Dylan Baddour

A two-bed, one-bath house in the Heights just hit the market for $150.

The real estate is valued at more than $300,000, but interested buyers need only submit a 200-word essay—that’s half a page—for a chance to buy the home for the price of an OK desk chair.

“We just wanted to try it out,” said Michael Wachs, 33, who is selling the home with his wife Stephanie. “There’s something appealing in kind of an anarchic way about a person or family being able to get into the heights for $150 in 2015.”   Continue reading “$300K+ Houston home for sale for $150 … plus a 200-word essay”

MassPrivateI

A D.C. appeals court ruled DHS can shutdown cellphone service anywhere for any reason and there’s NOTHING we can do about it!

In Feb. 2015 the appeals court agreed with the government’s contention that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows DHS to withhold documents if their exposure could “endanger” public safety. Continue reading “Court: DHS can use it’s cellphone kill switch anytime, anywhere”

WND – by Aaron Klein

Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a 13-point national “Progressive Agenda” that is being touted as the liberal “Contract with America.”

The aim is for the “Progressive Agenda” to become the basis for the Democratic Party’s main economic policies, including those of its 2016 presidential candidate.   Continue reading “Dem’s new agenda hauntingly similar to communism”

Gateway Pundit – by Michael Strickland

Now that Oregon’s SB 941 has been signed by the Governor, gun rights activists have banded together and are organizing a facebook event page for a rally entitled “SB 941 I Will Not Comply Demonstration“. The rally is set for May 30th, at the Capitol building in Salem, and will feature a host of speakers. SB 941 is the “universal background check” bill, meaning that if you want to trade guns with your next door neighbor whom you’ve known for 10 years, you must both submit yourselves to background checks and get permission from the state police before the exchange can take place.   Continue reading “Oregon Gun Owners Plan Noncompliance Rally”

CBS Philadelphia – by Diana Rocco

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (CBS) – A mother says her son was suspended over a Nerf bullet in New Jersey.

This Styrofoam Nerf bullet with a toothpick stuck in it is what Atlantic City educators call a weapon.

“From their lookings that the quote unquote weapon looked like it was an imitation of a shank,” said mother Michelle Moody.   Continue reading “Mother Says Son Suspended Over Nerf Bullet In New Jersey”

KXAN – by Patrick Tolbert and Jackie Vega

WACO, Texas (KXAN) — Some 192 people have been arrested and charged with engaging in organized crime in connection to the deadly shooting that broke out between five biker gangs at a Twin Peaks in Waco. Under a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission mandate, the restaurant is shut down for the next seven days as the investigation continues early Monday morning into the shooting that left nine people dead and at least 18 people injured — an investigation that has included biker gang death threats made against uniformed officers.   Continue reading “Deadly Waco biker gang shooting: 192 people booked into jail”

Courthouse News – by VICTORIA PRIESKOP

ALBUQUERQUE (CN) – Albuquerque police responded to a report of a man throwing rocks with a tank, robots, flash bangs and 150 rounds of tear gas, the dead man’s family claims in court.

Santiago Chavez killed himself after a 12-hour standoff that began when officers were dispatched to investigate a report of someone throwing rocks, his estate claimed Wednesday in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Police Answered Rocks With Tank, Mom Says”

Conservative Heritage Times

Here is some rare good news. In the past we have covered the case of Kent Hovind. Briefly, Hovind is already in jail on tax and financial charges, including the ridiculous charge of “structuring.”* He was being tried a second time on some new charges. He may or may not be technically guilty of some crime, it’s too esoteric to dig into, but the charges against him are gratuitous as is the potential penalty. The Feds should have better things to do than go after harmless thought criminals like Kent Hovind.

In the initial second trial, Hovind was found guilty on some contempt of court charges but the jury hung (reportedly 11-1) on the other charges. This was the new trial on the unresolved charges. The link above covers the details pretty well. It is from Forbes and the author is clearly skeptical of Hovind and his claims, but I thought it covered the facts of the case well. The charges were dismissed “without prejudice,” so the Feds can refile them later if they want to.   Continue reading “Charges Dismissed Against Kent Hovind! For Now?”

Video Rebel’s Blog

I want to respond to two events. One is the crushing defeat of Labour and the Liberal Democrats in the UK elections. It appears that the Tories could have stolen 20 marginal seats by padding postal ballots. The BBC was surprised when Cameron’s party ran well ahead of their exit polls. I was not.

Labour had taken the point in stealing votes during the Scottish referendum so the SNP abandoned them and the Liberal Democrats. But, if Labour had run a campaign to defend the people against the City of London, no amount of vote rigging could have produced a Cameron majority.   Continue reading “The Collapse Of Liberalism Is Good News Because We Can Do Better.”

BATR, August 19, 2003

The New Deal had its feet of clay mired “one in the Red mud of Soviet communism and the other in the stinking cesspool of pagan plutocracy.”
Father Coughlin

When a nations fails to learn the true history of its past, the people are doomed to reside within a fairy tale of delusions. Once that deception becomes ingrained into the popular culture, the task of the tyrant simplifies. How soon the country is transformed into a civic ordeal and betrayal of principle and heritage. Then, the masses cling to the big lie as fact; the new gospel for the social order becomes transformed into a somber reality. Finally, only the very few question its veracity.   Continue reading “The New Deal built the New World Order”

ArsTechnica – by David Kravets

The Justice Department on Tuesday withdrew its appeal of a lower court’s December ruling that said it was illegal for police to attach a webcam to a utility pole and spy on a suspected drug dealer’s house in rural Washington state for six weeks.

The government did not comment on its decision to drop the appeal in a brief filing to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals.   Continue reading “Feds drop case in which cops nailed webcam to utility pole to spy on house”

The Guardian – by Chris McGreal and Matt Isaacs

Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino magnate and key Republican party donor, spent four combative days in a Las Vegas court this week defending his gambling empire from accusations of bribery and ties to organised crime.

By the time the hearing was over, Adelson had argued with the judge, contradicted the evidence of his own executives and frustrated his lawyers by revealing more information than he was required to in response to simple yes or no questions. But most importantly, far from laying the allegations against his Las Vegas Sands conglomerate to rest, the billionaire’s answers threw up yet more questions which he is likely to have to return to court to answer.   Continue reading “Sheldon Adelson faces new scrutiny as documents challenge his testimony”