Gloria DardenMail.com

BALTIMORE (AP) — A medical examiner found Freddie Gray suffered a “high-energy injury,” most likely caused when the Baltimore police van he was riding in suddenly slowed down, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

The report says Gray’s death could not be ruled an accident and is instead a homicide because officers didn’t follow safety procedures “through acts of omission.” Police arrested Gray, 25, on April 12 and he died a week later, prompting protests and rioting. A grand jury indicted six officers on various charges; one officer faces the most serious charge of second-degree “depraved-heart” murder. They have pleaded not guilty.   Continue reading “Report: Autopsy finds ‘high-energy injury’ in Gray’s death”

Seattle man ticketed for warning drivers about 'speed trap' photoKIRO TV 7 – by David Ham

Daniel Gehkle said he plans to fight a $138 ticket for holding up a sign that said, “Cops ahead – Stop at Sign and Lights.”

Gehkle used a black permanent marker to write on a plastic lid to make the sign.

“I think that the problem with my case is I interrupted their revenue for the city and they were like okay we need to stop this guy,” said Gehlke who was ticketed last Wednesday at the intersection of 14th Avenue and South Washington.

Gehlke added, “I saw an injustice so I thought I needed to come out and warn people that something was happening. I thought it was a problem.”   Continue reading “Seattle man ticketed for warning drivers about ‘speed trap’”

“I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government.

We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have….Slavery never was an essential element. It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination. It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded. There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations . . . “

          (President Jefferson Davis, July 1864)

Fox News

MARIETTA, Ga. –  A Georgia special education teacher who was accused of holding an autistic boy upside-down and lowering him head-first into a trash can while comparing him to Oscar the Grouch says she was trying to calm the boy, not hurt him.

At a school system hearing Monday near Atlanta, Mary Katherine Pursley said the second-grader was screaming and upset April 30, and she was trying to “shake out the grouchy.”   Continue reading “Teacher: Lowering boy into trash can was meant to calm him”

AP Photo/Molly RileyBreitbart – by Matthew Boyle

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) cast the deciding vote for Obamatrade on Tuesday as it squeeked through the U.S. Senate 60-37, and his Senate office is still outright refusing to answer whether he even knew what he was voting on.

Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, was the deciding vote necessary for the U.S. Senate to clear the final 60-vote threshold and eventually, later this week, send to President Barack Obama’s desk the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would fast-track at least three highly secretive trade deals that Obama has been negotiating for years.   Continue reading “Marco Rubio Casts Deciding Vote For Obamatrade Without Even Reading It”

Mad World News – by Dom the Conservative

With each horrific mass shooting, liberals are chomping at the bit to immediately slam law-abiding gun owners with stricter legislation, as if those who don’t abuse their right to bear arms are to blame. However, as every new bill pushes us one step closer to the paranoid left’s ultimate goal of banning these particular weapons altogether, the inconvenient facts and statistics begin creeping up that shatter the argument that guns are the problem.   Continue reading “Map Of FBI Stats Shows Gun Ownership Per State — No. 1 Is Surprising”

FILE - In a Friday, June 19, 2015 file photo, the Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, in Columbia, S.C. For 15 years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to consider removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds, but opinions changed within five days of the massacre of nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, as a growing tide of Republicans joined the call to remove the battle flag from a Confederate monument in front of the Statehouse and put it in a museum., File (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, File)Yahoo News – by Rick Newman

Alotta Signs of Sparks, Nev., typically sells about five Confederate flags per week. On Monday, however, 46 orders came in. Then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the stars and bars from her state’s capitol grounds. The next morning, Alotta Signs logged 200 orders for Confederate flags, most of them through Amazon (AMZN). “We don’t even have the lowest price,” says Dave Pearson, owner and president of the company. “It’s nuts.”   Continue reading “Retailers pull Confederate flags–after sales soar”

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The Washington Post – by Colby Itkowitz

In the wake of the Charleston shooting, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are considering ways to renew their failed push to pass meaningful gun-control legislation.

In separate interviews Tuesday night, at a reception before a ceremony hosted by Sandy Hook families where Toomey was honored, the senators discussed their desire to find a new way forward.   Continue reading “Manchin, Toomey both interested in reviving gun control push”

ross ulbricht silk road trialCryptocoin News – by Eliot Maras

The second of two former U.S. government agents charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin has reached a plea agreement with the prosecutors.

Carl Force, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, was charged with stealing bitcoins during the investigation of the illegal Silk Road Internet drug emporium, according to Bloomberg. The investigation led to the conviction of Ross Ulbricht, the site’s founder. Force agreed to plead guilty to money laundering and extortion, according to a court filing Monday.   Continue reading “Second U.S. Agent To Plead Guilty to Bitcoin Theft”

Entre_Feature.jpgBATR – by James Hall

The corporate culture would have you believe that it is the foremost structure of the economy. That the entrepreneur is a nuisance and is tilting at windmills. Since competition is a dirty word, the innovative venture poses no threat, but might qualify as an acquisition. Only if the business model is such that duplicating the endeavor is too time consuming or difficult will the corporatist take interest. Yet, in the end, the design of the corporate organization is more about brute force than creative invention. So why is it so difficult for the enterpriser to get their project off the ground? And what is the compelling motivation to start your own business?    Continue reading “Corporations vs. Entrepreneurship”

Danner GTXDefensive Training Group

When it comes to personal defense, sustainment, load bearing, clothing, and even footwear, regular readers will see a consistent pattern at DTG:  The term ‘General Purpose’ is applied across the board.  We define it loosely as whatever is being considered should be able to do many/most things very well, some things acceptably, and only a few things not so well.  Using this definition in your considerations will take you much farther and actually lighten any load you might have to carry when/if civility fails.  Think about it for a moment:  You have a favorite set of ‘hiking’ boots for land navigation; a favorite pair for range work, still others for SUT training, and still others for ruck walks and so on.  You’ve only got so much room in your ruck, right?  And a reality is that should things go south and you are with your NPT, you’re not going to have time to ‘get used to’ the boots you have set aside for ‘SHTF’ scenarios.   Continue reading “Boots – Get ‘General Purpose’ in Design, and Buy the Best You Can Afford”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Extortion 17 was the call sign of a chinook helicopter carrying 17 Navy SEALs, who were a part of SEAL team six (who allegedly took out Osama bin Laden), along with a few Army Rangers, National Guard Pilots and at least 7 unknown Afghan soldiers. In a recent book, author and former Navy JAG officer Don Brown had outlined things about the largest one-day loss of life in the Afghan ware that many simply refuse to report on. In an exclusive interview, Brown, told Freedom Outpost that is looking at all of the relevant evidence that his conclusion is that American Special Forces in Afghanistan have, in essence, been under the command of the Afghan government. Continue reading “Extortion 17 Bombshell: America’s Special Forces are Under Command of Foreign Entities”

A police K-9 (not shown) was shot after attacking an officer on Tuesday in Richmond, Calif., authorities say.New York Daily News – by Doyle Murphy

A California cop blasted a police K-9 after the dog bit him, authorities said.

The Richmond officer, who isn’t the animal’s handler, fired in self-defense,police told NBC.

The dog, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, apparently escaped from a caged police cruiser about 7 a.m. on Tuesday and attacked the cop in the station’s parking lot, authorities say.   Continue reading “California cop, bitten by police K-9, shoots dog”

Confederate flagAl.com

In the wake of a massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a bipartisan mix of officials across Southern states are calling for the removal of Confederate flags and other symbols of the Confederacy.

Here’s a look at what’s happening and what’s being proposed:   Continue reading “After South Carolina church shooting, call to remove Confederate symbols spreads across South”