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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near U.S. warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the American military said Wednesday, causing new tension between the two nations after a landmark nuclear deal.

The vital strait, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that is the route for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea, is crucial for ships taking part in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. In the past, Iran has threatened to block the strait, which lies at the entrance of the Persian Gulf.   Continue reading “US accuses Iran of conducting rocket test near warships”

Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

It isn’t clear what use ISIS or the Pakistani Taliban would have for an 18-year-old American student with an estimated IQ of 51, is marginally verbal, and has little ability to perform routine tasks like tying his shoelaces. Peyton Pruitt, described by family and school officials as a developmentally stunted child, displays little understanding of terrorism and has no skills a terrorist group would covet. However, he is able to participate in online chats, which made him an irresistible target for FBI agents trolling the web in search of patsies to cast in Homeland Security Theater productions.   Continue reading “Immoral Patsy – How the FBI Groomed Mentally Disabled Teen With a 51 IQ into an “ISIS Terrorist””

Courthouse News Service – by Mike Heuer

LOS ANGELES (CN) – A witness who saw a Los Angeles police officer shoot a black man to death was shot to death himself days before he was to give evidence against the officer, despite promises from the highest-ranking officials in Los Angeles that they would protect him, the man’s widow claims in court.

Alice Hill, the widow of Leroy Hill, sued the City and County of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti, District Attorney Jackie Lacey, Police Chief Charlie Beck, City Councilman Curren Price and two other high-ranking police officers, on Monday in Superior Court.   Continue reading “LAPD Killing’s Witness Shot Before Deposition”

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CBS Sacramento – by Kelly Ryan

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A new ban on concealed handguns on college and school campuses will go into effect in California on Friday, as the state joins 19 others with similar bans.

It was just a week after this school shooting in Oregon last October where a gunman killed nine people at a community college when Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to ban the concealed carry of handguns at colleges and school campuses.   Continue reading “Gun Control Opponents Say Campus Firearm Ban Won’t Make People Safer”

Foundation for Economic Education – by Gary Pecquet

The economic concept of private property refers to the rights owners have to the exclusive use and disposal of a physical object. Property is not a table, a chair, or an acre of land. It is the bundle of rights which the owner is entitled to employ those objects. The alternative (collectivist) view is that private property consists merely of a legal deed to an object with the use and disposal of the object subject to the whims and mercies of the state. Under this latter view, the state retains ownership and may at any time regulate or even repossess the property it temporarily cedes to individuals.   Continue reading “Private Property and Government Under the Constitution”

The Hill – by  Kristina Wong

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is proposing a temporary surtax to pay for the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

In an op-ed Sunday in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Coons criticized Congress for not paying for the war.   Continue reading “Dem calls for temporary tax to pay for ISIS war”

Opposing Views – by Michael Allen

A recently released video (below) shows police in Henderson, Nevada, turning a police dog loose on a 17-month-old girl on Jan. 30.

Police ordered Arturo Arenas-Alvarez, whom they mistook for a black male robbery suspect, out of his car, and, later, turned the K9 unit loose. The dog went inside the car and bit the toddler, Ayleen, on the right arm, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Continue reading “Nevada Cop Turns Police Dog Loose On Infant”

The Telegraph – by Harriet Alexander

Yenis Rojas should be a symbol of Cuba’s future. A doctor, she has worked all her life for the state, and is full of drive, energy and ambition.

And yet, despite the announcement a year ago that America and Cuba were re-establishing ties after half a century of hostilities, she sees no promise in her homeland and has fled.

Continue reading “How more Cubans are fleeing for the US than ever”

It’s about time people wake up and look closely at what really happened. The Nazis were not nice people. They did many bad things to Jews and other undesirables. Many died from starvation and typhus. The aerial destruction of logistical supply lines throughout the European Theater certainly did not help anyone illegally placed in a work camp. But 6 million Jewish dead by a centralized euthanasia plan is a propaganda joke.

Jews are still extorting billions from European countries. A “holocaust survivor” is, legally, ANY Jew in ANY AXIS controlled area of occupation during the period of WWII. No camp time or mistreatment required.   Continue reading “Holocaust denial on the rise in Eastern Europe”

Fox News

Valarie Whitner, 57, has lived in the St. Louis suburb of Pagedale for nearly two decades, at first without any major brushes with the city government.

But then, the tickets started arriving in the mail. For tree stumps in her yard. For not filling the recycling bin to the brim. For chipped paint. It seemed no infraction was too small to escape the scrutiny of fine-happy officials.   Continue reading “City’s ‘nitpicky’ fines for tree stumps, blinds trigger civil rights lawsuit”

Press TV

US Senate Republicans’ attempt to prevent President Barack Obama from lifting the Iran sanctions is politically motivated and spearheaded by the Israeli lobby in the United States, says a political analyst in Texas.

New legislation, introduced by Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), is aiming to force Obama to provide a wide-ranging report on a possible military dimension of Iran’s nuclear program before sanctions are lifted at the beginning of the new year, The Hill reported.   Continue reading “Anti-Iran language by GOP ‘typed up in Netanyahu’s office’”

BATR – by James Hall

What does a CEO do when the economy is in a persistent down turn and your business cannot expand or grow? Jump at the time tested strategy of acquisition to gain market share seems to be the response in 2015. Yet a merger is no sure thing. Anyone remember AOL’s deal to buy Time Warner. How did that turn out? Just how much additional efficiency can be squeezed out of any company? In the era of part time contract workers and low wages, all the fat has been long gone. As for research and development in new technology or products, how will such innovation be marketed in an economy infatuated with the promise of Amazon Prime drone deliveries?   Continue reading “Business Mergers Soar in 2015”

Miami Herald

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA – Central American nations have reached a deal to let the first of thousands of stranded Cuban migrants continue their journey north toward the United States next month, officials said Monday.

The humanitarian transfer will airlift an unspecified number of Cubans the first week of January from Costa Rica to El Salvador, from where they will continue by bus toward Mexico, Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Continue reading “Central American nations announce deal on Cuban migrants”

NBC News

Nearly 6,000 police officers — hundreds of them with long guns, radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs — will be guarding New York’s Times Square as a year punctuated by terrorist attacks draws to a close, officials said Tuesday.

The NYPD and the FBI unveiled plans to protect the more than 1 million people who will throng to the Crossroads of the World on New Year’s Eve — including multilayered checkpoints and a new 500-member Critical Response Command of elite counterterrorism cops launched two months ago.   Continue reading “Heavily Armed Anti-Terror Police to Guard Times Square on New Year’s”