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Everyone knows that a farmer works “from sun to sun”, but few people understand why he’d be stupid not to, so a brief look into the economics of food growth is in order. Let’s imagine, for the sake of having a model, that this short list is everything you have to do to get a tomato plant to grow in a pot, and produce food: Continue reading “Economics and Politics of Gardening”
Right now there’s national conversation about civil rights for transgender people. In the North Country, many schools and workplaces are figuring out how to help everyone feel included. But according to activists in Plattsburgh there’s a long way to go.
Outside a church where a brainstorming session was about to start Wednesday evening, Jamie Young from Plattsburgh lit a cigarette. She started transitioning from male to female back in the 1980s, and now she’s comfortable being herself. But she said her family still doesn’t fully accept her; they still refer to her as “him.” “And there are people like that, where you can debate them until you’re blue in the face, and you’re always wrong and they’re always right,” Young said. Continue reading “Activists outline LGBTQ priorities in Plattsburgh”
Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames, the Federal Rail Administration said.
The accident, which forced the evacuation of a school and the closure of a highway, has renewed calls for stronger regulation to guard communities against crude-by-rail accidents. Continue reading “Fire extinguished in Oregon after train carrying oil derails”
AT&T and Cricket Wireless customers are reporting widespread service outages in the Houston area and throughout the country, according to reports on social media.
The outage seemingly began at some point on Friday afternoon. Continue reading “AT&T, Cricket customers report widespread wireless outages”
Jonathan Greenblatt is an American entrepreneur, political consultant, and the sixth National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).[1] Prior to heading ADL, Greenblatt served in the White Houseas Special Assistant to Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.[2]
WEB Notes: Is everyone paying attention to what is happening here? Righteousness is being stomped into the ground. During the course of the last few years homosexual marriage popped up here and there and became a huge issue and then the Supreme Court ruled in favor of it and people interpret that as some new law which it is not. Just after that transgenderism and the discussion of open bathrooms became a big issue. We are seeing a huge trend right now. Anything unrighteous is creeping in and within a year or two it becomes common place and is accepted by the masses. This little boy handing out Bible verses OUTSIDE of the school is considered “offensive”. But men going into a woman’s bathroom is not. A man who will be in the same bathroom as your daughter.
Continue reading “Elementary School Calls Police On 7-Y-O Boy For Sharing Bible Verses”
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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win…”
— Muhammad Ali
“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”
— Muhammad Ali
“I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”
— Muhammad Ali
“How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!”
— Muhammad Ali Continue reading “Crazy, I’m havin’ tears – R.I.P. Ali”
Go to college, study hard, get a good paying job – that’s the mantra heard by most students across America as they wind down their high school careers.
Intuitively taking out loans just to go to college because everyone says so isn’t a good idea, and a new study by the NBER finds that in fact, students who left for-profit schools during the 2006-2008 timeframe were worse off after attending. A key factor, as the WSJ reports, is that most of these students never earned a degree, they dropped out.Making matters worse, and certainly contributing to the fact that over 40% of student borrowers don’t make payments, is the fact that these students borrowed to attend the colleges. Continue reading “Get To College, Get A Job, Get Poorer: Students Are Worse Off After Attending For-Profit Colleges”
FORT HOOD, Texas — Officials at Fort Hood have confirmed they’ve found the bodies of four missing soldiers, bringing the total dead to nine after a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle overturned in flood waters Thursday morning.
“Our focus now is on notifying next of kin and caring for our soldiers who have lost one of their teammates ,” said Maj. Gen. John Uberti during a news conference early Friday night. Continue reading “Bodies of missing Fort Hood soldiers found; 9 dead”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, Border Patrol sources tell Judicial Watch. The government classifies them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and this week around 35 were transferred 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. Judicial Watch was present when one of the white vans carrying a group of OTMs arrived at the Phoenix Greyhound station on Buckeye Road. Continue reading “DHS Quietly Moving, Releasing Vanloads of Illegal Aliens Away from Border”
New York Post – by Kaja Whitehouse
The feds have collected months of wiretaps and as many as 30,000 e-mails in the case against a restaurant owner who was pals with high-ranking NYPD officers facing a corruption probe.
“The discovery is fairly voluminous,” Manhattan Assistant US Attorney Russell Capone said Friday at Hamlet Peralta’s arraignment in an alleged Ponzi scheme. Continue reading “Feds have trove of evidence from restaurant owner popular with NYPD bosses”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Two teenage girls were charged with assault late Friday, after a 78-year-old woman was beaten at a subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn a day earlier.
Jazmine Watson, 16, of Brooklyn, was charged as an adult with second-degree assault, police said. Another girl, 15, was also charged with assault, but her name was not released, police said. Continue reading “NYPD: 2 Charged After 78-Year-Old Woman Beaten At Brooklyn Subway Station”
Michael Bloomberg’s gun control lobby Mom’s Demand Action and Everytown has officially endorsed anti-gun extremist Hillary Clinton for president.
“Today, I’m proud to announce that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund are endorsing Hillary Clinton for president of the United States,” Mom’s Demand Founder Shannon Watts declared in an email Friday. “Last week, the NRA named Hillary Clinton as their biggest threat. And we couldn’t agree more. Hillary Clinton wears her ‘F’ rating from the NRA as a badge of honor, and has shown that she is the only candidate who has the conviction to take on the NRA’s extremist worldview of guns everywhere, for anyone, no questions asked. We want to make the 2016 election a historic victory for gun safety — and prove once and for all that it is a winning political issue.” Continue reading “Bloomberg’s Gun Control Lobby Endorses Hillary Clinton; NRA Responds”
NEWTOWN, Conn – -(Ammoland.com)- Editors Note: [The National Shooting Sports Foundation has issued the following statement regarding the recent admission by “Under The Gun” producer Stephanie Soechtig that she appears to have violated multiple Federal Gun Laws.]
Journalists and filmmakers investigating what they see as shortcomings in laws are not absolved of their responsibility both to gain the requisite understanding of how those laws work and to abide by them. Continue reading “National Shooting Sports Foundation Calls for ATF Investigation Of ‘Under the Gun’”
The Obama administration is withholding from Congress and the American people detailed information about more than 86,000 illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes and continue to walk the streets in the United States, according to conversations with a member of Congress, who disclosed to the Washington Free Beacon that “if the public knew about this there would be total absolute outrage” over the matter.
Rep. Brian Babin (R., Texas) told the Free Beacon that the administration is trying to suppress information about the release of some 86,000 criminal illegal immigrants who have committed 231,000 crimes in just the past two and a half years. Continue reading “Congressman: Obama Admin Withholding Info About 86,000 Criminal Illegal Immigrants”
