Month: March 2016

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

The Richmond Police Department is trying an innovative approach to reduce violent crime.  Because the policy targets people who are not allowed to own guns, it might have positive effects.

David Kennedy has shown that most murders are committed by a very small group of violent individuals, usually associated with gangs and/or drug trafficking.  Identifying and focusing on those individuals has been shown to drastically reduce the murder rate.  One of the methods used to do this is to encourage people to turn in violent felons who illegally possess firearms.  Richmond Virginia has decided to run with this idea. From richmondgov.com:   Continue reading “VA: Program Offers $250 Reward for tips on Illegally Possessed Guns”

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, met with President Obama on Thursday for the first official visit by a Canadian leader in 19 years, a diplomatic honor made possible in part by new pledges of cooperation on combating climate change.

Mr. Obama and Mr. Trudeau announced Thursday morning new commitments to reduce planet-warming emissions of methane, a chemical contained in natural gas that is about 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide and that can leak from drilling wells and pipelines.   Continue reading “Obama and Justin Trudeau of Canada Unveil Efforts to Fight Climate Change”

The Organic Prepper

The Self-Reliance Weekly Report discusses acts of nature, along with a healthy helping of information about eggs from the backyard and, of course, unique and frugal DIYs from across the web.

Despite the epic drought in California, the state also has a long history of devastating floods. We have received record amounts of rain recently, and many of us are dealing with just that.    Continue reading “`The Self-Reliance Weekly Report: Acts of Nature, Farm Fresh Eggs, and DIYs”

Lew Rockwell – by Chuck Baldwin

It seems that every time someone such as myself attempts to encourage our Christian brothers and sisters to resist an unconstitutional or otherwise reprehensible government policy, we hear the retort, “What about Romans Chapter 13? We Christians must submit to government. Any government. Read your Bible, and leave me alone.” Or words to that effect.   Continue reading “The Myth of Romans 13”

NOLA – by Robert Rhoden

Fracking opponents were dealt a big blow Wednesday (March 9) by the state’s 1st Circuit Court of Appeal, which upheld a district court ruling that St. Tammany Parish government cannot use its zoning regulations to block a proposed oil drilling project northeast of Mandeville. The controversial case is likely to move to the state Supreme Court.

The appeals court in Baton Rouge, which heard arguments in the case Nov. 5, upheld the April 2015 ruling of 19th Judicial District Judge William Morvant in the lawsuit brought by St. Tammany and the group Concerned Citizens of St. Tammany in an effort to block the project by Helis Oil & Gas of New Orleans.
Continue reading “Fracking opponents lose round in state appeals court”

Mail.com

PHOENIX (AP) — Police were searching Wednesday for the parents of a newborn baby girl who was left in front of a suburban Phoenix home, her umbilical cord still attached. “At this point, our detectives have kind of exhausted all of our initial possible leads that we had,” Mesa police spokesman Steve Berry said at a news conference. “We have had no success in locating either Mom or Dad for this child.”   Continue reading “Arizona family finds abandoned newborn girl outside home”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — A bisexual man charged with shooting a gay man he taunted on a street was found guilty Wednesday of murder as a hate crime despite his assertions that he couldn’t be a bigot because of his own sexual orientation.

A Manhattan jury deliberated over two days before finding Elliot Morales guilty in the May 2013 shooting of Mark Carson in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, a center of American gay life for decades.   Continue reading “Bisexual man is convicted of hate crime for killing gay man”

Mail.com

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of a Texas inmate for a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston that left five people dead (all times local): 8:15 p.m. A man convicted of killing five people including his ex-wife in a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston has been put to death.

Coy Wesbrook on Wednesday became the eighth inmate executed this year in the U.S. and the fourth in Texas, the most active capital punishment state. The execution was delayed about 90 minutes. Prison officials had anticipated an additional appeal would be filed by a death penalty opponent.   Continue reading “Texas man executed for 1997 rampage that killed 5”

Mail.com

WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Five people have been killed in an ambush-style shooting during a backyard party in suburban Pittsburgh and at least two gunmen are at large, police said. Four women and a man were killed late Wednesday during the party in the Borough of Wilkinsburg. Allegheny County police said people scrambled toward the house as bullets began flying. Four of the victims were found dead on the back porch. The other one died at a hospital.   Continue reading “Police: 5 dead, 3 injured in Pennsylvania shooting”

Mail.com

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the death of Nancy Reagan (all times local): 10 p.m. A longtime Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested for allegedly refusing to cooperate with police while transmitting photographs of the funeral motorcade of Nancy Reagan.

Deputy Chief David Livingstone of the Simi Valley police says officers were responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle about three-quarters of a mile downhill from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where the public viewing for the former first lady was being held.   Continue reading “Photographer of Nancy Reagan motorcade arrested”

What is happening to America?

Valley Morning Star – by Raul Garcia

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Next time you look up in the sky at the beach it might not be a seagull that’s flying by.

Police have added two drones to the public safety department to help monitor the beach from the sky.   Continue reading “Drones on the Beach: SPI police to launch drone project during Spring Break”

Newsweek

(Reuters) – The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima’s nuclear reactors have “died”: a subterranean “ice wall” around the crippled plant meant to stop groundwater from becoming contaminated has yet to be finished. And authorities still don’t how to dispose of highly radioactive water stored in an ever mounting number of tanks around the site.   Continue reading “The Robots Sent into Fukushima have “Died””

AJC – by Carrie Teegardin

A private probation company used a “March Madness” bonus program to encourage employees to meet goals for collecting cash from probationers, according to a document revealed in an Augusta court case.

Sentinel Offender Services offered a chance at a cash bonus of up to $1,000 for probation employees who met the program’s “Slam Dunk” requirements. The program also offered the top performers a chance to win a free trip to Hilton Head Island.   Continue reading “March Madness bounty put squeeze on Sentinel probationers”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein, March 8, 2016

It’s drummed into every police officer and federal agent during training: They must report every time they discharge their gun on duty and justify each shot.

So Tuesday’s announcement that a member of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team allegedly failed to disclose two gunshots fired at Robert “LaVoy” Finicum seemed inconceivable to former FBI agents and criminal justice experts.   Continue reading “Investigation of FBI agents involved in LaVoy Finicum shooting shocks justice community”

PNN/Jerusalem

During a joint press conference held in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden condemned what he called “those in the international community who failed to condemn Palestinian terror attacks against Israel.”

Biden, who is in a five-day-trip to the Middle East,  said to the press that his wife and his grandchildren, who have joined him on this trip, were having dinner on the beach nearby where a Palestinian man killed an American citizen and wounded 12 others – and was further killed in cold blood by the IOF.   Continue reading “Biden condemns “Palestinian attacks” despite the Israeli killing of 7”

Maine Republic Email Alert – by Hebiam

If you consider licensed gun hunters in America you can easily see that America has 9 of the top 10 armies in the world. And over 2,000,000 of them have scoped sniper rifles and most have military experience. The pentagon and the military will not enforce disarming Americans so all of this gun control hype is nonsense percolating out of Washington D.C.

Let’s hope the arrests begin soon. The light is shining and it is chasing away the darkness revealing all. The light never fails.   Continue reading “Gun control in America is not an option. Check out America’s owners.”