Year: 2016

National Review – by Nick Sibilla

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Susette Kelo’s little pink house in New London, Conn., could be seized with eminent domain, its decision ignited a political firestorm. Practically everyone in the nation was outraged, with Kelo v. City of New London uniting figures as diverse as Bernie Sanders and Rush Limbaugh in opposition. In the years since, 44 states have reformed their eminent-domain laws.

But as time went by and memories began to fade, lawmakers pounced to undo those reforms. In California, a bill is now on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk that could unleash a new wave of eminent-domain abuse across the state.   Continue reading “The Golden State’s New Eminent-Domain Temptation”

Chicago Tribune

Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in what is believed to be the biggest digital break-in at an email provider.

The massive security breakdown disclosed Thursday poses new headaches for beleaguered Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer as she scrambles to close a $4.8 billion sale to Verizon .   Continue reading “Yahoo confirms huge data breach affecting 500 million accounts, blames ‘state-sponsored actor’”

Daily Mail

Haunting photographs taken the day after the Japanese city of Nagasaki was hit with an atomic bomb have emerged 70 years after being confiscated by American forces.

The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened landscape, mass death and desperate plight of survivors immediately following the nuclear blast.   Continue reading “The hidden horrors of Nagasaki: Confiscated photographs of the devastating effects of America’s atomic bomb – taken 12 hours after the blast – are revealed 70 years on”

ABC News

A Southern California elementary school student has been found to have leprosy, public health officials said Thursday, though they emphasize that the student’s school and community remain safe.

Two children from Indian Hills Elementary School in Jurupa Valley had initially been diagnosed by a local doctor with the condition known medically as Hansen’s disease, Riverside County health officials said. But this week they received results from the National Hansen’s Disease Laboratory Research Program in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and they showed that only one of the children had tested positive.   Continue reading “Southern California Child Tests Positive for Leprosy”

National Post – by Nicole Bergot

EDMONTON — Paper terrorists will no longer be tolerated.

In a precedent-setting move against a self-proclaimed Freeman on the Land, a 45-year-old man has been charged with intimidation of a justice system participant by filing a deluge of documents in court.

The charges against Allen Boisjoli of Vegreville stem from a speeding ticket issued by a community peace officer outside Edmonton in May 2015.   Continue reading “In Canadian first, Edmonton police charge Freeman on the Land with ‘paper terrorism’ in speeding ticket dispute”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

Hordes of industry executives will descend on the city to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s nomination for president and renew close associations that vexed the Democratic standard-bearer throughout her primary battle with Bernie Sanders. 

Blackstone, one of the nation’s largest private equity firms, will hold an official reception in Philadelphia on Thursday featuring its president, Tony James, sometimes mentioned as a possible Treasury Secretary in a Clinton administration.    Continue reading “Wall Street Goes “All In” for Hillary Clinton”

Fox News

An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday.

The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible “due to the election year.”   Continue reading “Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens ‘due to election’”

Yahoo News

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a white Oklahoma police officer with first-degree manslaughter Thursday, less than a week after she fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street and just days after police released videos of the shooting, saying in court documents that the officer “reacted unreasonably.”

Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler charged Tulsa officer Betty Shelby in the Sept. 16 shooting death of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher. Kunzweiler said arrangements were being made for Shelby’s surrender.   Continue reading “Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer charged in man’s death”

Keloland Television – by Leland Steva

If you’re looking to light up a cigarette in the City of Sioux Falls, you may soon have fewer options. A new proposal is looking to ban outdoor tobacco use at all city owned property.

The proposal would not allow people to use tobacco outside at public owned places like parks, golf courses, libraries, bike trails, the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center and the Convention Center. The ban includes smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. The proposal was put together by a committee who says it’s for improving the health of Sioux Falls.    Continue reading “Sioux Falls Considering Outdoor Smoking Ban On All Public Property”

Reuters

Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against nine men, including two former advisers to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a corruption and fraud case involving state contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The charges followed a federal investigation into Buffalo Billion, a signature $1 billion economic development project by Cuomo aimed at revitalizing the area around the one-time industrial powerhouse city of Buffalo.   Continue reading “Ex-Cuomo aide, eight others charged in New York corruption case”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’sBreitbart News Daily to talk about the latest Clinton scandal updates.

Marlow pointed to the story about hundreds of Clinton Foundation donors rewarded with seats on advisory boards by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and The Wall Street Journal’s suspicions of a pay-for-play arrangement between Bill Clinton and the perfume industry.   Continue reading “‘Clinton Cash’ Author Peter Schweizer Confirms: Clinton Foundation Gives Only Six Percent to Charity”

Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry demanded on Wednesday that Russia and the Syrian government immediately halt flights over Syrian battle zones, in what he called a last chance to salvage a collapsing ceasefire and find a way “out of the carnage”.

An impassioned Kerry faced off with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the U.N. Security Council in New York, during a tense televised showdown, saying the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria raised “profound doubt whether Russia and the Assad regime can or will live up to” ceasefire obligations.   Continue reading “Kerry demands Russia, Syria ground warplanes to save truce”