The Daily Signal – by Melissa Quinn

Last year, two Michigan self-described “soccer moms” were the victims of raids conducted by local law enforcement officials, who took telephones, televisions and cash from the women’s homes under civil asset forfeiture laws.

The women, Ginnifer Hency and Annette Shattuck, have never been found guilty of a crime.

Inspired by cases such as these, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the state legislature are working to reform the very laws that gave law enforcement the power to take Hency and Shattuck’s belongings.   Continue reading “How Michigan Lawmakers Want to Make It Harder for Law Enforcement to Take Your Stuff”

American Mercenary

You’ve probably heard “Barrel length doesn’t affect accuracy!” at some point when discussing firearms.  Like all good urban legends, this one has a kernel of truth, at short ranges a few inches more or less than a “standard” barrel isn’t going to make much difference.

But the myth doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny beyond that. A 20″ AR-10 pushing a Berger 185gr bullet scored a perfect 200 at 1000 yards in the hands of a USAMU shooter, and the M16A2NM USAMU custom shop rifle can clean the target at 1000 yards using handloaded ammunition as well. Logic would say that if you can reach 1k you should be able to reach 1.5k right? I mean if the sights could adjust that much (and yes, I do know people who shoot 308 Win out past a mile, but at that point they have to use hold UNDERs to make shots under 300 yards because they’ve canted the scope so much).   Continue reading “Ballistic Myth: “Barrel Length Doesn’t Affect Accuracy””

Columbus Dispatch – by Mark Gillispie

CLEVELAND — A grand jury will determine whether criminal charges should be filed against two Cleveland police officers in the death of a woman having a mental-health crisis in November, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.

Tanisha Anderson, 37, died on Nov. 12 after her family called police asking for help because Anderson, who had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was disoriented and walking outside on a cold day wearing only a nightgown.   Continue reading “Grand jury to consider charges against 2 officers”

Or so they say …

But didn’t they just sufficiently demonstrate such abilities in the Black Sea with the Donald Duck?

Where do you think they got the Patents for such?   Continue reading “Russia claims to have developed secret ‘superweapon’ capable of switching off foreign satellites and enemy weapons”

WYTV

WARREN, Ohio (WYTV) – A Mercy Health police officer is facing an aggravated menacing charge following what police said was a road rage incident last week in Champion Township.

Brian Kelly was charged with aggravated menacing and had his bond set at $2,500 during his arraignment Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court. He is due back in court on Aug. 4.   Continue reading “Ohio cop arrested after he pulled his gun on a driver who flipped him off”

Breaking Israeli News – by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a leading authority in mainstream Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, has been giving clear and unequivocal messages recently that the coming of the Messiah is imminent. He is urging Jews to make Aliyah as soon as possible. Aliyah, the Hebrew verb for “going up”, refers to immigrating to Israel, which is seen as higher spiritual action that can help herald in the coming of the Messiah.   Continue reading “Leading Israeli Rabbi Says the Arrival of the Messiah is Imminent”

RT

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has destroyed evidence in an ongoing lawsuit against it, which alleges that police use a secret quota system to make arrests, new documents claim.

The class action suit alleges that NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly and former Chief of Department Joseph Esposito were secretly applying pressure to officers to issue more arrests after falling short of quotas for traffic offenses and low-level crime, resulting in up to 850,000 wrongful summonses – or written notifications to a party telling them where and when they need to be in court. Some summons cases leave the recipient with a criminal record.   Continue reading “NYPD destroyed evidence in class action lawsuit against department”

Natural Blaze – by Erin Elizabeth

The past two weeks I’ve reported on three alternative doctors (two MD’s and one DC, PhD) who were found dead in less than two weeks (Click through for stories and funds for families as well as numbers to report tips to authorities) It was with heavy heart, as I knew a few of the doctors and have many mutual friends with all three. The only update on the third one, Dr. Teresa Sievers MD, is that they have absolutely no suspects in mind, and her husband and kids were out of state in Connecticut at a family reunion that she left early to get home to see patients. (update: Initially I said I would not post a link Dr. Sievers in this article and I didn’t. People started questioning me. So, as much as it pains, me, here is the most recent article from NBC. Click through at your own risk. I’m not posting the details here out of respect.   Continue reading “2 More Doctors Go Missing, after 3 Found Dead in 2 Weeks”

This will backfire…..now you will see the Rebel flag come back even stronger. If that is biting into their hands, so be it.

Yahoo News – by Jeffrey Collins

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.   Continue reading “SC Senate votes to remove flag from Statehouse grounds”

Refreshing News

An Orangeburg County man who shot and wounded a DEA agent during a surprise pre-dawn drug raid outside his home last fall was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday.

Just before U.S. Judge Michelle Childs passed sentence on Joel Robinson, 33, the agent Robinson shot told the judge there was no excuse for Robinson’s shooting him and that he almost lost his life.   Continue reading “Man gets eight years in prison for shooting DEA agent during surprise raid on his house. No drugs were found during the raid.”

BATR

The hideous disgust, that so many American have for politics, has raised its wretched head once again. The culprits are familiar. The tactics are well established. And the source of the slime comes out of a pathetic nihilism that is known as “Political Correctness”. The cultural assault that has turned political dialogue into an authoritarian inquisition lies at the foundation of much of what is wrong with public life. Free Speech does not exist for those, who presume to challenge the sacred tenants of totalitarian assimilation. Any society that punishes someone who opposes the mythical postulates that racism, equal rights and a collectivist world view is dangerous. When the only allowable viewpoint is dictated by Marxist comrades, coexistence is not possible.   Continue reading “Playing the Trump Card for Political Correctness”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

There are many constitutional sheriffs in America, those that stand for the rights of the people and defend those rights, even when it means that are facing a behemoth federal government hell bent on infringing those rights. One such sheriff is Sheriff John D’Agostini of El Dorado County, California. Sheriff D’Agostini has had enough of the US Forest Service and has decided to strip them of any “perceived authority” they have of enforcing state law within the county.   Continue reading “This Sheriff Has Had It With Federal Overreach and Does Something About It”

Yahoo News – by Stephanie Pappas

A high-profile shooting, like the June 17 crime that left dead nine members of a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, is typically followed by calls for greater gun control, along with counter arguments that the best way to stop gun crimes is with more guns.

“The one thing that would have at least ameliorated the horrible situation in Charleston would have been that if somebody in that prayer meeting had a conceal carry or there had been either an off-duty policeman or an on-duty policeman, somebody with the legal authority to carry a firearm and could have stopped the shooter,” presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said in a Fox News interview on June 19.   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: Guns Don’t Deter Crime, Study Finds”

All Confederate veterans and memorials are to be honored with full U.S. military honors and protections.

Public Law 85-425, May 23, 1958 (H.R. 358) 72 Statute 133 states – “(3) (e) for the purpose of this section, and section 433, the term ‘veteran’ includes a person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, and the term ‘active, military or naval service’ includes active service in such forces.”   Continue reading “Confederate Veterans and Memorials Protected”

Yahoo News – by Josh Lederman

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama portrayed the U.S.-led coalition Monday as gaining ground against the Islamic State amid an expanded U.S. effort and ample signs of progress, but conceded more difficulties lay ahead in fighting what he described as a nimble and opportunistic enemy.

“We’re starting to see some progress,” the president said during a rare visit to the Pentagon, ticking off a list of towns in Iraq and Syria he said had been wrested from IS control in recent weeks.   Continue reading “Touting progress, Obama says Islamic State is losing ground”