Over a week ago many people reported cell phone service outages over a day. Nationwide Internet was also down and is still happening today

I sent KHOU TV Channel 11 news a exclusive this morning.

Cell phone text messaging has been out for days text messages show sending but aren’t sending.   Continue reading “Something VERY FISHY is going on concerning the Internet and Cell Phones.”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs.

The move is part of a multi-pronged strategy by the Obama administration to tame an epidemic of abuse and death tied to opioid painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin. But physician groups see the proposed requirement to check the databases as overly burdensome, another time-consuming task that takes away from patient care.   Continue reading “Federal officials, advocates push pill-tracking databases”

Courthouse News Service – by ERIK DE LA GARZA

SAN ANTONIO (CN) – The family of a paranoid schizophrenic who died after a cocaine-fueled fight with police cannot sue the officers for civil rights violations, a federal judge ruled.

Pierre Abernathy, 30, clashed with San Antonio police after an officer spotted the diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic driving in the wrong direction on Aug. 4, 2011.   Continue reading “Family Can’t Sue Police for Son’s Beating Death”

Weasel Zippers

Even now, they say ‘if he comes into custody’, why is not already in custody, with a guard on the hospital room door?

Via Dallas News:

A 33-year-old who officials say is in the country illegally may face criminal charges after crashing into a volunteer firefighter’s car in Lavon last week, killing him and two children.
Continue reading “Previously Deported Illegal Alien Without License Faces Charges In Crash That Killed Firefighter And His Two Children”

“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.” (I have a pen and a phone?)

This essay is taken from “CENTINEL’s,” letters in The Independent Gazetteer, October 5 and 24, 1787

I am fearful that the principles of government inculcated in Mr. [John] Adams’ treatise [Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America], and enforced in the numerous essays and paragraphs in the newspapers, have misled some well designing members of the late Convention. But it will appear in the sequel, that the construction of the proposed plan of government is infinitely more extravagant.   Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 47 – “Balance” Of Departments Not Achieved Under New Constitution”

Reuters

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Tuesday signed a far-reaching law allowing people with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and protecting other actions considered discriminatory by gay rights activists.

The measure also clears the way for employers to cite religion in determining workplace policies on dress code, grooming and bathroom and locker access, drawing criticism from civil rights leaders.   Continue reading “Mississippi enacts law that allows denying services to gays”

Fox News Latino

The legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s actions on immigration gained the support 43 Republican senators who argue that the president overstepped his constitutional authority in unilaterally expanding programs for millions of undocumented immigrations.

Led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senators filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of United States v. Texas on Monday – a lawsuit with 26 states challenging Obama’s actions. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments later this month with a rule possibly coming in June.   Continue reading “43 senators join challenge against Obama’s executive actions on immigration”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

New York, NY — With all the talk of reducing jail populations and treating drug addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal one, the actions of the New York Police Department (NYPD) seem senseless. In a disturbing form of entrapment, undercover narcotics officers are giving homeless people cash to buy drugs and then arresting them on felony drug-dealing charges.

In one case, a cop posing as a homeless woman on the verge of withdrawal approached 21-year-old Brian L. as he chatted with a friend at a table.   Continue reading “Shameless Cops Giving Homeless People Money to Buy Drugs to Bust Them — Let Dealers Go Free”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

With media attention squarely falling on the foreigners exposed by the Panama Papers offshore tax haven scandal, everyone has been asking for more information on who are the Americans involved in this biggest data leak in history. After all, as we showed, Mossack Fonseca had over 400 American clients. But who are they?

Today, courtesy of McClatchy, we get some answers: while there are no politicians of note are in files but plenty of others. Among them: Retirees, scammers, and tax evaders, all of whom found a use for secrecy of offshore companies.   Continue reading “Here Are Some Of The Americans In The “Panama Papers””

Reason – by Ed Krayewski

Let’s recap: Yesterday, millions of documents related to a law firm that helps people set up off-shore companies were leaked. Those are the “Panama Papers.” They identify the assets of 140 current and former politicians from around the world, as well as a few dozen private citizens.

Governments are up in arms, not because of the endemic corruption the ill-gotten wealth of the politicians in the Panama Papers represents but because, apparently, they didn’t get enough of a cut. And there’s little evidence additional tax enforcement authority would be used to catch corrupt politicians instead of merely curbing your freedom to move yourself or your assets across national borders.   Continue reading “President Obama Uses Panama Papers to Demand More Power for Government”

New York Times

Winston Moseley, who stalked, raped and killed Kitty Genovese in a prolonged knife attack in New York in 1964 while neighbors failed to act on her desperate cries for help — a nightmarish tableau that came to symbolize urban apathy in America — died on March 28, in prison. He was 81.

Patrick J. Bailey, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, confirmed the death on Monday. A medical examiner would determine the cause of death, Mr. Bailey said.   Continue reading “Winston Moseley, Who Killed Kitty Genovese, Dies in Prison at 81”

BATR – by James Hall

For all those sun baked brains that see salvation in renewable nirvana, the imminent demise of SunEdison is the latest case that creative green economics is the path to insolvency. After studying the tangled web of cross collateralization and rehypothecation of debt, the WSJ announcement is inevitable, SunEdison Said to Be Preparing to File for Bankruptcy. “Solar-energy company SunEdison Inc. plans to file for bankruptcy protection in coming weeks, a dramatic about-face for a company whose market value stood at nearly $10 billion in July.”  Continue reading “SunEdison Green Power Bankruptcy Inevitability”

Star Telegram

FORT WORTH In another sign of the fallout of low energy prices, BNSF Railway says it has furloughed about about 4,600 of its employees nationwide over the past several months.

The furloughs amount to about 10 percent of the Fort Worth-based company’s workforce, matching the layoffs made by the railroad in 2007 and 2008, according to statements made by Matthew Rose, executive chairman of BNSF at an energy conference in Billings, Montana.
Continue reading “BNSF furloughs have hit 4,600 employees nationwide”