Year: 2015

Ammoland

Washington, DC -(Ammoland.com)- The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday decided Henderson v. United States — a case where Gun Owners of America and its foundation have been very active.

The Court’s unanimous (9-0) ruling further protects Second Amendment rights and erects a higher barrier against the confiscation of firearms. The case involved Tony Henderson, a former Border Patrol agent with a previous pot conviction. Because of his felony, the government tried to take his firearms collection, which totaled more than $3,500.   Continue reading “Gun Owners of America (GOA) Victory in the U.S. Supreme Court”

Courthouse News – by LORRAINE BAILEY

(CN) – Civil libertarians cannot force a full disclosure of the nearly 7,000-page Senate report on the CIA’s use of torture in interrogations, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

The 6,963-page “Final Full Report” by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has been in a quasi-limbo since Republicans took control of Congress at the beginning of this year.   Continue reading “Judge Won’t Give Public Access to Senate Report on CIA Torture”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Only law enforcement and the military would have access to body armor if a California Congressman gets his way.

Democratic Rep. Mike Honda (D-California) would also like to ban the sale of “lower receivers” that are used to make homemade AR-15s and require the regulation of other homemade firearms in some of the most restrictive gun control legislation ever introduced in Congress.   Continue reading “Say Goodbye To Homemade Guns If These New Bills Pass”

Yahoo News – by RACHEL LA CORTE

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched peacefully in Washington state‘s capital city to protest a police shooting that wounded two unarmed stepbrothers suspected of trying to steal beer from a grocery store.

The officer reported he was being assaulted with a skateboard early Thursday before the shootingthat left 21-year-old Bryson Chaplin in serious condition and 24-year-old Andre Thompson in stable condition. Both were expected to survive.   Continue reading “Hundreds protest Washington police shooting of 2 unarmed men”

Lew Rockwell – by William Norman Grigg

Scott Boyler, a resident of Evans, New York, is a low-level registered sex offender who was convicted of attempting to receive child pornography. He was recently arrested and jailed for several days not for something he had received, but rather something he had posted online – comments critical of the local police in a website entitled “Lackawanna Police Corruption.”

One of Boyler’s recent posts described an illegal cell phone search conducted by an officer he identified as “Joseph `Pig Face’ Leo.” Leo filed a complaint against Boyler, who was arrested for “aggravated harassment.” That charge was quickly dismissed, as the officer most likely knew it would be. But it did lead to Boyler being incarcerated for several days as summary punishment for “contempt of cop,” which was the objective. Boyler has filed a $1.25 million lawsuit.   Continue reading “In a Police State, People are Punished for Criticizing the Police”

Global Research – by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Memorial Day commemorates soldiers killed in war.  We are told that the war dead died for us and our freedom. US Marine General Smedley Butler challenged this view.  He said that our soldiers died for the profits of the bankers, Wall Street, Standard Oil, and the United Fruit Company.  Here is an excerpt from a speech that he gave in 1933:   Continue reading ““War is just a Racket”: Memorial Day Is A Hoax. “Our Soldiers Died for the Profits of the Bankers””

American Survival 

Since we published our article, “Catholic Church Captured by ‘Progressive Forces,’” it is starting to dawn on many in and out of the media that Pope Francis has come down on the side of the “progressive,” and even Marxist, forces in the world today.

Writing at the Blaze.com and commenting on the pope’s friendly meeting with Cuban dictator Raul Castro, Catholic writer Stephen Herreid of the Intercollegiate Review called the pope’s dealings with Castro and other Marxists “a new Catholic scandal” as significant and terrifying as the presence of pedophiles in the church. He wonders how conservative Catholics can continue to pay respect to a pope “intent on making friends with the enemies of religious liberty.”   Continue reading “The Catholic Church Has Gone Socialist”

Public Intelligence

The following documents were produced by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) studies program which features research conducted by the National Security Analysis Department of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.  The research follows along the tradition of the “Special Operations Research Office (SORO) of American University in the 1950s and 1960s.”  Along with these casebooks and studies, individual histories of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary activities in Greece, Guatemala, Algeria and Cube are also available from their website.   Continue reading “U.S. Army Special Operations Command Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategy Studies and Casebooks”

Convention of States – by Mark Meckler

The Alabama state motto is “We dare defend our rights,” and that sentiment was on display today in the Alabama State Capitol.

Earlier this afternoon, Alabama become the first state in 2015 to pass the Convention of States application to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.

The Senate passed HJR 112 today, which had been first passed by the House a few weeks ago. Then, because of minor amendments to the resolution, it was sent back to the House where it passed by a vote of 92-7.   Continue reading “Alabama joins Florida, Georgia, and Alaska and passes the Convention of States resolution”

Ammoland – by Rob Morse

California – -(Ammoland.com)-  Politicians make political profit by passing ineffective laws.  I study firearms laws, so that is where I noticed it first.  When it comes to violence in our society, a politician doesn’t need to actually improve things with their legislation.  In fact, the next gun law they pass can actually make things worse rather than better.

We buy our politics like an impulse shopper.  We don’t look beyond the packaging to see what is really inside.   Continue reading “Prohibiting Firearms for Political Profit”

Huffington Post

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 21 (Reuters) – Florida gun owners who do not have concealed-weapons permits could pack their firearms for two days during an emergency evacuation, under a law signed on Thursday by Governor Rick Scott.

The measure was among 44 bills passed during the recently concluded legislative session and approved on Thursday by the Republican governor.   Continue reading “Florida Expands Gun Owners’ Rights During Emergencies”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is located in Tucson, Arizona. It occupies an area of over 10 square kilometers, equal to roughly 1,870 football fields. The base is the location of the Air Force Materiel Command’s 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, or AMARG in short. It is also known as the “boneyard.” 

With the area’s low humidity in the 10%-20% range, meager rainfall of 11″ annually, hard alkaline soil, and high altitude of 2,550 feet, it has the “just right” conditions to avoid corrosion and not to need paving when moving massive objects. It has emerged as the perfect venue for one thing: the largest aircraft boneyard in the world, with a typical inventory of more than 4,400 aircraft.   Continue reading “Where America’s Airplanes Go To Die”

CNBC – by Jeff Cox

At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don’t have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.

The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows.   Continue reading “40 percent of unemployed have quit looking for jobs”

The Intercept – by Lee Fang

Dacheng, one of the biggest law firms in the People’s Republic of China, is set to merge with two major American law firms, Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge, making it the largest law firm in the world.

The merger will reportedly give Chinese companies that Dacheng represents — including major Chinese state-owned firms — access to advice from attorneys and policy professionals in the United States employed by Dentons and McKenna Long — and vice versa. Continue reading “Chinese Law Firm to Merge With American Firms, Employ Howard Dean, Newt Gingrich”

Daily Mail – by Ted Thornhill

Prosecutors are attempting to break up America’s most violent motorcycle gangs by claiming rights to their logos.

If the government is successful, it will become illegal for a member of the 600-strong notorious Mongols Nation gang to wear its trademarked patch – a black-and-white image of 12th century conqueror Genghis Khan riding a motorbike in a pair of sunglasses.

Police sources say that removing gang logos diminishes the gang’s power and identity.   Continue reading “Feds go after biker gang members… by claiming the rights to their logos”