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Yahoo News – by MARY HUDETZ and BOB SEAVEY
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police charged a man with murder Wednesday night in the road-rage killing of a 4-year-old girl, who was shot in the backseat of her father’s truck after he picked her up from school — a death that horrified the public.
Tony Torrez, 32, was arrested Wednesday and also charged with a series of weapons violations in the death of Lilly Garcia. Continue reading “Man charged with murder in road-rage killing of girl, 4”
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was accused of inciting violence against Palestinians and “trivialising” the Holocaust after he claimed it was the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem who convinced Hitler to exterminate the Jews.
Speaking at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu said Haj Amin al-Husseini, who served as the grand mufti from 1921 to 1948, “had a central role in fomenting the final solution” by telling Hitler to kill the Jews.
Continue reading “Netanyahu causes uproar by blaming Palestinians for Holocaust”
New Hampshire Business Review – by Bob Sanders
Sturm, Ruger & Co. is getting into the ammunition business for the first time, partnering with a Georgia company to produce what it calls a “revolutionary bullet” that “changes everything you know about ammo.”
Ruger, which is headquartered in Connecticut but has a major facility in Newport, will be putting its brand on bullets produced by Savannah-based PolyCase Ammunition LLC for a .45-caliber handgun and .38-caliber pistol. PolyCase has a pending patent on its process, which injects a dense polymer copper matrix into a mold. The resulting bullet in the PolyCase Ruger ARX line has several advantages over the traditional metal jacket bullet, according the company’s website, most notably that it’s cheaper and faster to produce with very little waste and doesn’t contain lead. Continue reading “Ruger enters ammo business with ‘revolutionary’ technology”
Pew Research Center – by Drew DeSilver
Amid all the coverage of House Republicans’ unruly efforts to select a speaker who can command broad support from their fractious ranks, one name keeps coming up: theHouse Freedom Caucus. But what, exactly, is the House Freedom Caucus?
Pew Research Center has confirmed the identities of 36 Freedom Caucus members through representatives’ public statements, their comments to the media or their offices’ direct responses. A handful of other House members who reportedly belong to the group could not be confirmed. (The communications director for Rep. Darrell Issa of California, for example, said he could neither confirm nor deny Issa’s membership in the caucus.) Continue reading “What is the House Freedom Caucus, and who’s in it?”
Wall Street Journal – by SIOBHAN HUGHES and KRISTINA PETERSON
WASHINGTON—In setting conditions on a run for the speakership, Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is turning the tables on the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, which had laid out its own demands for the next speaker—but now must choose whether to endorse him or risk prolonging the chaos that has engulfed the House for almost a month.
The struggle is expected to play out over the next few days, given Mr. Ryan’s statement Tuesday that before he would run, various caucuses in the House Republican conference would have to endorse him by Friday, including the centrist Tuesday group and the Republican Study Committee, a larger caucus of conservatives within the House GOP. Continue reading “Paul Ryan Confronts Dissident GOP Conservatives in Offer to Be House Speaker”
An angry Jewish mob lynched an unarmed Eritrean migrant worker in the southern city of Beer Sheba after an Israeli security guard repeatedly shot him on Sunday. The crowd cursed and kicked him, chanting, “Death to Arabs!” “Arabs out!” and “Am Israel Hai!” (“The people of Israel still live”).
The murder underscores the noxious atmosphere of xenophobia, racism and fear that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has stoked up in a bid to deflect rising social discontent among Jewish Israelis, whose living conditions are in many cases only marginally better than those of the Palestinians. At the last elections, Netanyahu urged Jewish Israelis to vote, saying that “swarms of Arabs” were going to the polling stations. Continue reading “Israel: Racist mob lynches migrant as violence intensifies”
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked legislation to crack down on cities that don’t comply with federal immigration law.
Senators voted 54-45 on a measure to end debate on legislation from Sen. David Vitter. Sixty votes were needed to overcome the procedural hurdle and move toward a vote on the bill itself. Continue reading “Senate Dems block ‘sanctuary cities’ bill”
The Intellihub – by Alex Thomas
In what will go down as one of the most disgusting, hate filled articles ever published on the hard left clickbait rag Salon.com, an author and liberal college professor has written a piece that calls for all gun owners to be shot.
No, you did not read that incorrectly and this is not hyperbole.
The article, written by Coppin State University teacher D. Watkins, not only calls for all gun owners to be shot but also ridiculously compares them to slaveholders while claiming that there is no legitimate reason to own a weapon. Continue reading “Liberal Professor compares law-abiding gun owners to slaveholders, calls for them to be shot”
Truthstream Media – by Aaron and Melissa Dykes
“Seeing” and “hearing” haven’t been equal to “believing” for a long time.
Some people have claimed that Project Blue Beam — a government conspiracy to attempt to instill a New World Order by making the masses believe in a technologically simulated second coming of Christ — was completely made up and has no real basis in reality. Continue reading “Project Blue Beam: Yes, the Gov’t Researched Projecting Holograms of God as a Mass Psyop”
The New American – by Selwyn Duke
The media has dubbed him “Clock Boy,” but critics have pointed out that he’s really just Crock Boy. This hasn’t prevented Ahmed Mohamed (shown), the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing to school a device that could be taken for a bomb, from making the rounds as a celebrity and meeting world leaders. This included an encounter Barack Obama at the White House’s Astronomy Night last evening, even though the meeting was left in doubt after Mohamed met last Wednesday with an African president wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Continue reading “Ahmed the “Clock Boy” Meets with Obama and War Criminal”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
The Department of Homeland Security is readying a plan to expand a program that pays U.S. employers to hire foreign STEM students taught in America, a move that could end up punishing American college grads and even the elderly, according to an immigration think tank.
In pushing to allow more foreign students into the so-called “optional practical training program,” DHS said that it will help businesses and colleges by keeping those foreign students in the U.S. following their American-taught science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, curriculum. Continue reading “Feds dangle $12,000 bonus to firms that hire foreign students”
JERUSALEM (AP) — With no end in sight to weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israel’s prime minister headed to Germany on Wednesday for a high-profile meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at restoring calm to the region.
As Benjamin Netanyahu departed for Berlin, a Palestinian stabbed a female soldier near Jerusalem, critically wounding her, police said, before he was shot and killed by forces. Earlier, Israeli troops shot a 15-year-old girl in the West Bank after she allegedly approached a settlement with a knife. She was taken to an Israeli hospital, and details on her condition were not immediately known. Continue reading “Israel’s Netanyahu heads to Berlin to meet Kerry”
Let’s examine which nation has the most tactical advantages in case war breaks out in either the Ukraine or the Mideast.
1 Electronic Warfare is the ability to use the electromagnetic spectrum to block or impede an enemy attack. A recent example was the April 2014 USS Donald Cook incident. One unarmed SU-24 plane shut down the electronics of the AEGIS defense system of an American destroyer in the Black Sea. It flew over the USS Donald Cook 12 times coming as close as 1,000 yards (914 meters). All modern Russian aircraft are equipped with the Khibiny Electronic Warfare system. It can be put on Russian helicopters as well. This system increases the ability of a Russian jet to survive because it shuts down NATO radar from our jets, naval ships and ground installations. In the case of the USS Donald Cook their radar screens went blank so they could not fire their missiles and their radar controlled guns were rendered useless. Continue reading “Tactical Military Advantages: Putin 9 Obama 0.”
Song Mr. Blue sky ELO. Guess I should have filmed that chopper this morning too!
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University has expelled a 19-year-old sophomore accused of attacking Muslim woman over the weekend, trying to remove her headscarf and shouting racial slurs, a school official said Tuesday.
School spokesman Mark Land said IU’s dean of students “dismissed” Triceten D. Bickford on Monday night as a “direct result of what happened over the weekend” when the woman was attacked Saturday evening outside of a Bloomington cafe. Continue reading “Indiana University expels student in attack on Muslim woman”
A northern New Jersey elementary school has canceled Halloween parties at the school this year; officials cite community diversity and say some students felt left out at past parties.
NJ.com reports that a school letter sent to parents says different cultures are represented in the Seth Boyden Elementary School community and many students felt left out at past Halloween celebrations. Principal Mark Quiles and two PTA co-presidents said about 20 percent of the student body didn’t participate last year. Continue reading “NJ elementary school cancels Halloween parties, cites diversity”
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A former Romanian president appeared on Wednesday before the nation’s top court, which is prosecuting him for crimes against humanity during a bloody anti-government protest 25 years ago in which six people died and hundreds of others were injured.
Ion Iliescu, 85, went to the High Court of Cassation and Justice on Wednesday to hear charges connected to the violent repression of the June 1990 protest. He denies wrongdoing, but made no statements during the session. Continue reading “Romania’s ex-president prosecuted for crime against humanity”
DETROIT (AP) — A man has been arrested in the stabbing and slashing of two emergency medical technicians as they tried to help an injured woman on a Detroit street, police said.
The Detroit Police Department announced the man’s arrest Tuesday night by members of its Violent Crimes Task Force. Police said the man was also being held on warrants in an inactive 2006 homicide case and a sexual assault case. Continue reading “Man arrested in vicious stabbing attack on 2 Detroit EMTs”