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Washington Examiner – by Joel Gehrke
A federal judge has ordered annual ethics classes for Justice Department attorneys as a punishment for being “intentionally deceptive” during litigation over President Obama’s executive immigration orders.
“Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word ‘Justice,'” U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen wrote in a withering order released Thursday. Continue reading “Judge orders ethics classes for ‘deceptive’ DOJ attorneys”
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NAPLES, Fla. – Collier County Public Schools officials are ready to break with the federal government and forfeit $57 million over a U.S. Justice Department directive about the use of school facilities by transgender students.
Pres. Barack Obama launched the directive and told media outlets it is about protecting children. Continue reading “Collier schools consider parting with federal funding over transgender directive”
The Washington Free Beacon – by Jack Heretik
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) said that he will introduce gun control legislation to expand background checks on Monday after being pressured by a leading gun control organization.
The Hill reports that Schumer’s proposed legislation would impose universal background checks, which would expand checks on gun show and online sale purchases. Continue reading “Schumer to Introduce Further Gun Control Legislation”
Rence.com – by Stephen Lendman
In November, US voters get to choose between two deplorable business as usual presidential aspirants – a billionaire demagogue v. a war criminal/Wall Street tool, both hugely anti-populist.
There’s no hope for responsible change under Trump or Clinton after 16 devastating Bush/Obama years – the most ruthless administrations in US history, responsible for endless wars of aggression and creeping homeland tyranny, heading toward becoming full-blown. Continue reading “Trump and Kissinger Discuss Realpolitik”
Have you ever wanted to take a holiday from being human?
Thomas Thwaites did just that, spending a week living as a goat foraging in the Swiss Alps.
The 35-year-old researcher from London, England, spent three days living among a herd before wandering off on his own for another three days. Continue reading “‘Goatman’ inspired by shaman joins herd, eats grass in week-long experiment”
The first genetically modified food animal has been approved for sale in Canada.
At a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday, Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced AquaBounty’s genetically modified salmon has been approved for sale as food in Canada. AquaBounty said it will be at least a year before the salmon will be available in stores. Continue reading “Genetically modified salmon approved for sale as food in Canada”
The Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., today announced a voluntary recall of a small quantity of Quaker Quinoa Granola Bars after an ingredient supplier was found to have distributed sunflower kernels that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (L.mono). There have been no reported illnesses to date. However, Quaker is initiating the voluntary recall in an abundance of caution to protect public health.
Listeria monocytogenes (L.mono) is an organism, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. Continue reading “The Quaker Oats Company Issues Voluntary Recall of Quaker Quinoa Granola Bars Due to Possible Health Risk”
How do you teach the history of the world in California schools, where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from newly immigrated families?
That’s the challenge facing a California panel charged with establishing a new history and social studies framework for the state’s 6.2 million public school students.
On Thursday, the Instructional Quality Commission is scheduled to consider whether to forward a proposed plan to the California Board of Education. The framework will guide publishers in choosing material for textbooks. It was last overhauled in 2000. Continue reading “California Aims to Reflect Diversity in Classroom Studies”
Seattle and King County officials have stopped several migrants with suitcases full of American dollars leaving the United States.
Continue reading “Seattle Officers Stop Several East African Migrants with Suitcases of Cash Leaving US – And They’re ALL ON WELFARE”
Breitbart – by Logan Churcwell
Two foreign airline companies have begun offering steep discounts to Cuban migrants–set for border crossing into western Texas–as thousands rush to the United States in the aftermath of thawing relations with the communist island. Children under age 11 fly free of charge.
The Panamanian government confirmed to the Associated Press Wednesday that Panama City-based Copa Airlines and Mexico’s Global Air are now offering roughly 30 percent discounts for adult Cuban migrants hoping to cross into the United States with children enjoying complimentary seats. Since May 9, the airlines have reported that almost 2,500 have been shuttled to Ciudad Juarez for easy crossing into El Paso thereafter. An estimated 1,300 await flights booked in the weeks ahead under the promotion. Continue reading “Mexican Airline Offering Migrants Free Airfare to Texas Border”
Mint Press News, Jerusalem Post
A Republican California assemblyman introduced a bill into the state legislature on Monday that would forbid the state – whose campuses have been a focal point of BDS activity – from doing business with companies boycotting, sanctioning or divesting from Israel.
Travis Allen, of Huntington Beach in southern California’s Orange County, introduced the bill – called the California- Israel Protection Act – to “require the State of California to divest from companies that boycott Israel.” Continue reading “New Law Introduced Into California Legislature Would Punish Companies That Boycott Israel”
Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill
Today, nearly forty years later, new truck drivers with no experience starting pay, if they work as an employee for a corporation, is around 23 cents per mile. Even many owner operators with experience do not get $1.50 per mile. I would be thrilled with $1.50 per mile on every load! Can I take a time machine and go back to 1978?
My friend Kenny Capell sends along this very interesting gem, about trucking and what trucker’s got paid almost 40 years ago! Continue reading “Trucker Wages $1.50 Per Mile 40 years ago! BJ & The Bear Pilot Episode Contrasts American Wage Disparity”
The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin
According to US District Judge Julie Robinson (above), Kansas’ proof-of-citizenship voting requirement violates a provision of the National Voter Registration Act requiring only “minimal information” to vote. Continue reading “Kansas Judge Rules People Don’t Have To Prove They Are US Citizens To Vote Here”
D.C. police have charged a security guard at a Giant grocery store with simple assault after a transgender woman said the guard forced her out of the women’s restroom.
Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went to the Giant in northeast D.C. with a friend to pick up a delivery from the Western Union.
While at the Giant, she asked a store employee to point her to the restroom and passed a female security officer standing in the hallway. Continue reading “Guard Charged With Assault After Confronting Transgender Woman Using Women’s Restroom, Police Say”
Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed GIs burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become the iconic 60 Minutescorrespondent whose stylish stories on America’s most-watched news program made him one of television’s most enduring stars, died today in Manhattan. He was 84. He had homes in Manhattan and Chester, Conn.
Safer was in declining health when he announced his retirement last week; CBS News broadcast a long-planned special hour to honor the occasion on Sunday May 15 that he watched in his home. Continue reading “60 Minutes’ Morley Safer dies at 84”
George Soros Hungarian: Soros György; Hungarian: [ˈʃoroʃ]; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American business magnate,[4][5] investor, philanthropist, and author who is of Jewish-Hungarian ancestry and holds dual citizenship (Hungary and the United States).[a] He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.[8][9][10] Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world.