Charlotte Observer

WICHITA, KAN. When Shane Cox began selling his homemade firearms and silencers out of his military surplus store, he stamped “Made in Kansas” on them to assure buyers that a Kansas law would prevent federal prosecution of anyone owning firearms made, sold and kept in the state.

The 45-year-old Chanute resident also handed out copies to customers of the Second Amendment Protection Act passed in 2013 by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Gov. Sam Brownback, and even collected sales taxes. His biggest selling item was unregistered gun silencers that were flying out of the shop as fast as Cox could make them, prosecutors said later. One of those customers — 28-year-old Jeremy Kettler of Chanute — was so enthusiastic about the silencer that he posted a video on Facebook.   Continue reading “Kansas man’s homemade gun silencers clash with federal law”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: You should always research the background of those either running for office, in office or those who help get someone into office. This can help bring a much better understanding of the situation to your mind. Mr. Kushner is also married to one of Trump’s daughters.

It’s been one week since Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset in modern political history, and his headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City is a 58-story, onyx-glassed lightning rod. Barricades, TV trucks and protesters frame a fortified Fifth Avenue. Armies of journalists and selfie-seeking tourists stalk Trump Tower’s pink marble lobby, hoping to snap the next political power player who steps into view. Twenty-six floors up, in the same building where washed-up celebrities once battled for Trump’s blessing on The Apprentice, the president-elect is choosing his Cabinet, and this contest contains all the twists and turns of his old reality show.   Continue reading “How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House”

CNN

President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will not pursue further investigations of Hillary Clinton related to her private email server or the Clinton Foundation, Trump’s former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday, a significant break from a major campaign promise.

“I think when the President-elect, who’s also the head of your party, tells you before he’s even inaugurated that he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone, and content” to fellow Republicans, Conway said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”   Continue reading “Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton”

The Newspaper

High court in West Virginia declares drunk driving laws even apply to roads that are not open to the public.

West Virginians can be charged with drunk driving on their own private land, even if they represent no danger to others. The state Supreme Court of Appeals laid down this new precedent last month, overturning previous interpretations of the state’s driving under the influence (DUI) law.   Continue reading “West Virginia Supreme Court Expands DUI To Private Property”

MassPrivateI

According to a Virginia Police PowerPoint presentation titled, “Domestic Terrorism and Extremist Group” the police are ‘secretly’ classifying citizens as “extremists” and “subversives.”

The Virginia Police presentation, is proof that Americans are being classified as “extremists” based on their political activities.   Continue reading “Activists and police misconduct websites are considered “extremists” by police”

Washington Post – by William Wan, Tanya Sichynsky and Sandhya Somashekhar

Two weeks after the election of Donald Trump, this is how divided America has become: People have moved beyond staring at the vast gulf that divides them and proceeded to arguing over who is to blame for it, what to do about it and even whether it exists at all.

“This idea that we’re now divided is being manufactured and spread by the media,” said Trump supporter Loy Brunson, 60, a musician in Provo, Utah.   Continue reading “After Trump’s election: ‘There are two Americas now.’”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — The blue and gray stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt. She was rummaging through a packed closet during a Long Island tag sale when she immediately recognized the symbol of horror and hate: A jacket worn by a prisoner at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp during World War II.

“I knew exactly what it was, even before I saw the numbers (84679 on the chest),” said Eisman, who purchased the jacket for $2 at the sale last year and donated it to the Kupferberg Holocaust Center in New York City.   Continue reading “Holocaust jacket, and prisoner’s story, found at tag sale”

Mail.com

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The driver of a school bus that was filled with elementary students when it crashed in Chattanooga, killing at least five children, has been arrested and faces charges including vehicular homicide.

Calling the Monday afternoon crash “every public safety professional’s worst nightmare,” Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher told an overnight news conference that 24-year-old bus driver Johnthony Walker was charged with five counts of vehicular homicide. Walker was also charged with reckless driving and reckless endangerment.   Continue reading “School bus driver charged in deadly Chattanooga crash”

Mail.com

LOS EBANOS, Texas (AP) — All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump’s great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric.

Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile frontier with Mexico, they know, collides head-on with multiple realities: the geology of the river valley, fierce local resistance and the immense cost.   Continue reading “Americans who live near border say Trump’s wall is unwelcome”

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Anna Von Reitz

The election is finally over. Thank goodness and mercy for small favors. And Hillary
didn’t win, which would have been four more years of the same old nasty, corrupt,
self-serving disaster. So a hearty “Thank God!” for that. And now we are embarked
on another chapter in United States, Inc.—- not American— history.

This is an important distinction for everyone to learn.   Continue reading “So Trump is President- Elect”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

There’s a new brand of terrorism on the loose and Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen is the only one who can stop it. (h/t Jeff Pohjola)

State Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, said Wednesday he is preparing a bill that would create a new crime of “economic terrorism…”  

Continue reading “State Senator Wants To Turn First Amendment Activity Into ‘Economic Terrorism’”

Activist Post – by Derrick Broze

Both Russia and the United States are rejecting war crimes allegations from the International Criminal Court. 

The International Criminal Court is losing support from super powers Russia and the United States, as well as smaller nations like the Philippines. Last week Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte spoke out against the court, calling it “useless”. The ICC recently stated that they may have jurisdiction to prosecute those who carry out killings as part of the Philippines’ drug war. President Duterte has encouraged the killing of drug dealers, leading to more than 2,400 deaths. Duterte dismissed the court and said it was losing influence.   Continue reading “U.S., Russia Reject Possibility Of War Crimes Investigations”

RT

A Massachusetts college has decided to remove an American flag amid struggles to stop “hate-based violence” that escalated since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. The flag was initially flown at half-staff, but that only triggered more disputes.

From now on, Hampshire College will not be flying American or any other flags, following the school president Jonathan Lash’s decision.   Continue reading “College bans US flag citing ‘hate-based violence’ post-Trump victory”

Breitbart – by Jerome Hudson

Donations to the Clinton Foundation tanked in 2015 amid allegations that Hillary Clinton used the billion-dollar charity to siphon seven-figure donations from foreign governments and corporations, who received favorable government actions while Clinton was Secretary of State.

The Clinton’s troubled charity received $108 million in donations in 2015, down from a $172 million haul in 2014, according to the organization’s tax records.   Continue reading “Clinton Foundation Donations Plummeted by 37 Percent”

Waking Times – by Alex Pietrowski

In the background of modern life, as people go on debating politics and working for a living, something dreadful is happening to the eco-systems which support us. Major disasters like the ongoing radioactive leak at Fukushima, the apocalyptic fires burning throughout Indonesia, even bee colony collapse disorder, seem to fall out of view in day-to-day life, as we seem to have lost our power and will to directly participate in the stewardship of planet earth.   Continue reading “Not Just Bees, Trees Are Dying Off at an Alarming Rate With Little Public Attention”

Reuters

A 31-year-old man was arrested on Monday in the fatal ambush shooting of a San Antonio police officer, one of four officers shot in the line of duty in Texas, Missouri and Florida a day earlier.

The attacks on Sunday, which injured three other officers and led to the shooting death of a suspect, revived memories of deadly ambushes targeting police in July in Dallas and Baton Rouge.   Continue reading “Amid police shootings, suspect arrested in Texas officer’s death”