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Under a proposed new law, Missouri cops will record a person’s race, their perceived sexual orientation, religion, disability and their English language proficiency!
Reams of data now show that “driving while black” is a real offense in the eyes of some Missouri officers and departments and it’s about to get worse! Continue reading “Police to ask about your sexual orientation and English language proficiency”
Buckeye, AZ -(AmmoLand.com)- Are you a terrorist? A potential terrorist? A suspected terrorist? A suspected potential terrorist? Or potentially a suspected terrorist?
As Jeff Foxworthy might say: If you believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the rule of law … you might be a terrorist.
Prohibiting people listed on the government’s secret terrorist watchlist and its secret subsidiary, the federal no-fly list, from buying guns is again on the table. Continue reading “You Might be a Terrorist If…”
DENVER (CBS4)– A Greyhound bus bound for Denver made a pit stop at a motel in Kansas so the driver could rest. The catch– the passengers on board had no idea where he was going or for how long.
The driver left dozens of passengers stranded on the bus for hours outside the La Quinta motel in Salina, Kan. while he went inside to catch up on some sleep.
Continue reading “Greyhound Driver Stops At Motel To Rest With Bus Full Of Passengers”
Florida ballot eligibility legal challenge filed – Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are NOT “natural born Citizens” – complaint filed by Michael Voeltz in December 2015.
Read the FL legal complaint filing here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/293623437/Complaint-for-Declaratory-Judgment-and-Injunction-50 Continue reading “Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Constitutional Eligibility Legally Challenged in FL and VT”
TransCanada Corp. opened one of the largest trade appeals ever brought against the U.S., seeking to recoup $15 billion tied to the Obama Administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The Canadian company intends to start a claim for costs and damages under the North American Free Trade Agreement against the U.S. after President Barack Obama’s rejection of the $8 billion project in November, according to filings Wednesday. The pipeline builder also sued the U.S. government, arguing Obama didn’t have the constitutional power to decide on the cross-border line. Continue reading “TransCanada Fights Keystone Denial With $15 Billion Trade Appeal”
Monsanto announced Wednesday that sales in the company’s agricultural productivity segment, which includes its probable carcinogen Roundup herbicide, fell 34 % to $820 million. Monsanto’s shares fell over 2% as a result.
The Biotech giant also said Wednesday that it now plans to cut a total of 3600 jobs, or about 16 % of its global work force, through fiscal 2018, and expects to record $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion in restructuring charges. Continue reading “Monsanto Cuts 16% of Work Force as Sales in Roundup Herbicide Fall 34%”
Huffington Post – by Dominique Mosbergen
It was the selfie seen around the world; a toothy snap taken inadvertently by a grinning macaque monkey.
As the selfie went viral, a question arose: Just who owned the copyright to this extraordinary photograph — the monkey, the photographer whose camera was left unattended or the public? Continue reading “Monkey Cannot Own Copyright To Viral Selfie, Says Federal Judge”
A man who authorities say was wearing a homemade tactical-style vest, carrying a BB gun and taking photographs of schools was shot and killed by police in a far suburb of Chicago Wednesday.
Lake County Sheriff’s Detective Christopher Covelli said the man was shot after he led officers on a foot chase and a struggle ensued. Investigators did not release any identifying information about the man, except to say that he was a white 38-year-old. Continue reading “Man photographing schools and carrying BB gun shot and killed by Illinois police”
Iran on Thursday accused Saudi Arabia of deliberately launching an air strike on its embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa.
The state-run IRNA news agency reported that a number of guards at the embassy were injured, and part of the building’s wall was damaged in the strike by Saudi warplanes on Wednesday night. Continue reading “Iran accuses Saudis of attacking Yemen embassy”
CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough
A U.S. Special Operations service member was killed and two others were injured after coming under enemy fire in Afghanistan’s Helmand province Tuesday, but asked whether this meant U.S. troops were engaged in combat, a Pentagon spokesman said repeatedly that they were there in their mandated mission to “train, advise, assist” Afghan forces.
Defense officials said two HH-60 Pavehawk medevac helicopters were sent in to provide help, but one was “waved off” after coming under fire and returned safely to base. The other landed, but sustained rotor blade damage after apparently striking a wall. Continue reading “Pentagon Avoids the Word ‘Combat’ After Another U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan”
The TSA announcement on December 18th, 2015, that the body scanners would “sometimes” be mandatory was phrased like this:
While passengers may generally decline AIT screening in favor of physical screening, TSA may direct mandatory AIT screening for some passengers.
Continue reading “TSA Tries to Force Wheelchair Passenger to Stand for Body Scanner”
Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos
Montgomery, AL – On Wednesday, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an order stating that an Alabama Supreme Court ruling remains in effect, and that probate judges “have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary” to Alabama’s law and state constitution, which bans same-sex marriage – in direct violation of a U.S. Supreme court ruling. Continue reading “Alabama Chief Justice Defies Supreme Court, Issues Order Blocking All Gay Marriages in the State”
If internationalists were to get their way fully with the world and future historians write their analysis from a globalist perspective of the defunct American nation, they will probably say simply that our collapse was brought about by our own incompetence – that we were our own worst enemy. Yes, they would treat America as a cliché. They will of course leave out the destructive influences and engineered disasters of elitists, that would just complicate the narrative. Continue reading “Internal War Is Now On The Horizon For America”
Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, has been indicted on a perjury charge, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Bland, an African-American woman, was found dead in her cell three days after being arrested, accused of failing to use her turn signal July 10. She was 28. Continue reading “Trooper who arrested Sandra Bland indicted on perjury charge”
Crystal City Council member Marco Rodriguez was allegedly transporting three illegal immigrants from the border to San Antonio when he was stopped by authorities. Rodriguez reportedly talked with the officer for a short time, but then took off again, KENS-TV reported.
Border Patrol eventually caught up to Rodriquez and reportedly found the three illegal immigrants with him. Rodriquez admitted to being hired to transport them, while adding that he was paid $500 and $1,400 to do the same at least twice before. Continue reading “City Councilman Suddenly Flees After Being Pulled Over by Border Patrol — Agents Soon Find Out Why”
New York Times – by Ian Lovett
LOS ANGELES — Natural gas has been spewing into the air in the Porter Ranch neighborhood here since late October, sickening residents, prompting thousands to evacuate their homes and pouring greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
Gov. Jerry Brown, faced with mounting public anger and no end in sight to the leak, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday for the neighborhood of about 30,000 at the edge of the San Fernando Valley. And residents — who have been demanding to know why the Southern California Gas Company cannot fix the leak to its natural gas storage well, and whether the company will compensate them for their lost property values and health problems — want to know why it has taken so long. Continue reading “Governor Declares Emergency Over Los Angeles Gas Leak”