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WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas — A lawsuit over hiring questions about religion, abortion and marriage in Williamson County got the green light to head to trial this week.
A judge dismissed a request for summary judgement in the case regarding the Williamson County Precinct 3 Constable’s Office.
It all began when Robert Lloyd, a 25-year veteran in law enforcement interviewed for a job as constable in 2013. Continue reading “Lawyer claims WilCo Commissioners want Baptist employees only”
There are papal pendants. There are life-size papal cardboard cutouts. There are papal mugs, ideal for drinking your specially brewed papal beer.
There is even a papal toaster, which will sear the image of the smiling, waving Pope Francis onto your sliced bread.
But heaven forbid you try to find a taxi when Francis visits Philadelphia, where the security ramifications of his arrival later this month are becoming clear. Continue reading “Philadelphia plans intense security for Pope Francis’ visit — some say too intense”
AURORA, Colo. — The Aurora Police Department was on high alert Monday after a dispatch operator received an alarming and anonymous call. It is a concern for police and something the community should be aware of as well.
FOX31 Denver obtained the audio of the chilling call. Continue reading “Colorado police on alert after threatening call to 911 dispatch”
Breitbart – by Displaced Disney Cast Member
As a patriotic and proud citizen of the United States, I have a story to share that has not only impacted my family, hundreds of colleagues, but also current and future United States workers.
I used to have a dream career at one of Americas most iconic and admired companies. Twenty years of hard work, technical skill building, the fostering of relationships and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology guided me to a coveted position as an Information Technology Engineer for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Continue reading “Displaced Disney Cast Member: How They Replaced Me, Other Americans, With Cheap Foreigners On H1B Visas”
Hillary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI for using her personal email and personal server for sending and receiving classified information. She said those who question her email use are confused and she’s not going to apologize. Now she wants to move along to other topics, like how she plans to throw employers in jail if she’s our next president.
“We’re going to go back to enforcing labor laws,” Clinton said. “I’m going to make sure that some employers go to jail for wage theft and all the other abuses that they engage in.”
Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Wants To Send Employers To Jail”
Pax Britannica lasted 116 years from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the default on gold payment by the Bank of England on September 21, 1931.
Pax America did not officially begin until the conclusion of the Bretton Woods Conference had created the IMF and made the US Federal Reserve Note the world’s reserve currency. Continue reading “From Pax Britannica To Pax America To The Petrodollar To Helter Skelter.”
More than 90 percent of the Gaza Strip’s water is undrinkable. The rest is quickly running out. A combination of factors is rapidly depriving the population of this most basic of needs. RT investigated day-to-day life under these conditions.
Just one fresh water source exists today, according to the locals – a coastal aquifer beneath the ground that is shared with Israel and Egypt. But Gaza is situated downstream from Israel, and Palestinians accuse the Jewish state of using the situation to its advantage, employing water deprivation as a tactic against the civilian population. Continue reading “Gaza water shortage catastrophic: ‘We can’t drink, cook or wash with it’”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man reportedly identified as an aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was shot in the head and critically injured after gunfire erupted in the pre-dawn hours on Monday before the West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn, police said.
The 43-year-old man was the “unintended target” of the shooting, which took place at 3:41 a.m. at 1680 Bedford Avenue, said a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department. Continue reading “Man shot in head before Brooklyn parade is reportedly Gov. Cuomo aide”
New York Times, August 25, 1994
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24— The Atomic Energy Commission staged a nuclear rocket accident in the Nevada desert in 1965 that sent a radioactive cloud more than 200 miles to Los Angeles, documents released today showed.
The newly released documents also showed that in 1960, military planes were sent through radioactive rocket exhaust, and radiation doses to flight crews were measured. Continue reading “U.S. Nuclear Accident in 1965 Was Staged, Documents Show”
A massive fireball, believed to be a meteorite, has fallen on Thailand. Awestruck commuters witnessed the spectacle, describing a green and orange glow, as it took a nosedive toward Earth.
The event took place during the morning rush hour at about 8:45am local time in Bangkok, although the meteor did not make an audible sound as it struck the ground. Continue reading “Thai meteorite: Huge fireball lights up sky over Bangkok”
As staged multi-agency drills go, they don’t come much bigger than this one.
This afternoon a mass manhunt was underway by law enforcement in Fox Lake, Illinois to find suspects following the shooting of a local police officer, fatally shot while in pursuit of the three men on Tuesday morning. Continue reading “‘G.I. Joe’ Shooting: Massive Multi-Agency, Martial Law Drill Underway in Fox Lake, Illinois”
Stonehenge is one of the most iconic examples of a prehistoric monument we have, but it turns out that it may be dwarfed in size by something buried underground less than two miles away. Researchers have been going over the area using ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive technologies for the past few years and their data seems to show a major new stone monument.
“Our high resolution ground penetrating radar data has revealed an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones a number of which have survived after being pushed over and a massive bank placed over the stones,” professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection (LBI ArchPro), said in a release. Continue reading “Huge, newly discovered monument dwarfs nearby Stonehenge”
More than a year after suing the Cabinet agency that oversees China’s biggest state-owned companies, lawyers for people who say their homes were ruined by Chinese drywall are still trying to get the lawsuit served.
And arguments are scheduled in December about whether other defendants are shielded as Chinese government agencies. Continue reading “Chinese Drywall Suit and Chinese Government Agencies”
Wall Street Journal – by Colleen McCain Nelson
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday requiring federal contractors to offer paid sick days to their employees and pressed Congress to pass legislation that would provide family and medical leave to private-sector workers.
The president’s executive action was the latest in a series of administration moves imposing new requirements on companies that contract with the U.S. government. It will give about 300,000 employees of federal contractors the chance to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave each year. Some workers who already have sick-leave benefits will have access to additional sick days. Continue reading “Obama Orders Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractor Employees”
The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
At a resort in Mexico, representatives of the U.S. government met with delegations from other countries to gauge just how far America is willing to go in letting the United Nations repeal the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
The First Conference of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was held from August 24 to 27 in Cancun, Mexico. Attendees promulgated rules for future meetings, set budgets for enforcement of the terms of the treaty, and, perhaps most importantly, established procedural rules that will determine how much power agencies of the international body will have over future domestic enforcement mechanisms. Continue reading “U.S. Official: “Energetically” Enforce UN Arms Trade Treaty”