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The number of gun-owning households in the United States appears to be on the rise.
At least 44 percent of American homes now have guns compared to 51 percent without, according to research released Friday by the Pew Research Center.
The new study indicates a sharp change in gun trends in America, as other polls had shown ownership was declining in past years. Continue reading “44%of US households have at least one gun, showing increase: Pew”
Fellowship of the Minds – Dr. Eowyn
Deutsche Bank (DB), Germany’s and Europe’s largest bank, is in serious trouble:
Continue reading “Germans lose faith in banks, stash cash in home safes”
If you’re at all passionate about health, it’s likely you will eventually reach the conclusion that you need to grow your own food. Hendrikus Schraven, founder of Hendrikus Organics, is a magnificent resource in this regard.
Hendrikus has an innovative approach to environmental landscape design, including a focus on edible landscaping, and he’s an expert at restoring contaminated soils, which so many of us have. The key to this approach, of course, is to improve the quality of the microbiome in the soil. Continue reading “Restoring Your Soil: Advice by an Old School Soil to Health Expert”
NEW DELHI (AP) — The United States and India agreed Tuesday to boost counterterrorism cooperation by expanding intelligence sharing about known or suspected extremists and terrorist threats. Speaking after conclusion of the second U.S.-India strategic dialogue in New Delhi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the two countries also renewed their commitment to track down and prosecute perpetrators of several terrorist attacks on Indian soil, including the 2008 strike in Mumbai that killed 172 people and a January 2016 attack on the Pathankot Air Force base. India has blamed Pakistan-linked groups for the attacks. Continue reading “United States, India agree to boost anti-terror cooperation”
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle leaders have proposed new rules for retail and food-service businesses with hourly employees, including requiring them to schedule shifts two weeks in advance and compensate workers for some last-minute changes — the latest push by a city that has led the nation in mandating worker benefits.
Seattle was among the first to phase in a $15 hourly minimum wage, mandate sick leave for many companies and offer paid parental leave for city workers. Now, the mayor, city officials and labor-backed groups are targeting erratic schedules and fluctuating hours they say make it difficult for people to juggle child care, school or other jobs, to count on stable income or to plan for the future. Continue reading “Seattle weighs new rules for businesses with hourly workers”
Sent to us by Bill.
I want to be perfectly clear with something: The people have the right to enforce the law when the state fails to. The state would like to have a monopoly on enforcement, because it allows those in power to commit crimes without consequence. It also allows “friends of the state” to commit crimes without consequence. And when this goes to an extreme, we end up with what we have now. Continue reading “It is time for the people to think seriously about law enforcement”
Elena Kagan (pronounced /ˈkeɪɡən/; born April 28, 1960)[2] is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan is the Court’s 112th justice and fourth female justice.
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Guns America – by Jordan Michaels
There’s an old saying that says, “To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” Hammers can only do one thing: whack stuff (that’s the technical term). If a hammer happens upon a loose screw, it’s just going to keep hammering until that screw either breaks or magically transforms into a nail.
Where am I going with this? Good question. Here’s what I’m thinking—anti-gun politicians are kind of like hammers. To them, every problem that kind-of-sort-of-has-something-to-do-with-firearms can be solved by enacting gun control. Continue reading “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Biggest Gun Grabs of the Last Eight Years”
The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Grants, NM — As the Free Thought Project pointed out many times before, police departments in America can legally discriminate against hiring individuals if their IQ is too high. Couple this with the fact that thieves aren’t always the sharpest tools in the toolbox, and you get the makings of a scenario like the one that unfolded in New Mexico last week. A Grants cop was caught on his own body cam stealing weed.
Grants Police Department Sgt. Roshern C. McKinney, 33, was arrested last week after an investigation found that he’d stolen both money and marijuana from the police department. McKinney has since been charged with marijuana distribution, conspiracy, and felony embezzlement. Continue reading “You Can’t Make This Up! — Cop Caught on His Own Body Cam Stealing Pot from Police Dept”
ArsTechnica – by CYRUS FARIVAR
With a single shotgun blast, a 65-year-old woman in rural northern Virginia recently shot down a drone flying over her property.
The woman, Jennifer Youngman, has lived in The Plains, Virginia, since 1990. The Fauquier Times first reported the June 2016 incident late last week. It marks the third such shooting that Ars has reported on in the last 15 months—last year, similar drone shootings took place in Kentucky and California. Continue reading “Woman shoots drone: “It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.””
Not an ice floe was in sight as a warming climate and a huge cruise ship combined to usher in a new era of mass tourism in Canada’s Arctic.
After a stop at the community of Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., the 280-metre long Crystal Serenity entered the fabled but dangerous Northwest Passage Sunday and arrived at the hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut on Monday morning. Continue reading “Massive cruise ship brings new era of Arctic tourism to Cambridge Bay”
Watts Up With That – by David Archibald
The warning signs have been there for some time now – persistent failures of the wheat crop in Norway for example. The North Atlantic is cooling. The cooling trend was evident at the time of an expedition to investigate this phenonemon three years ago. The rate of cooling has now steepened up since then based on the latest data collated by Professor Humlum of the University of Oslo. From that data set, this graph shows the heat loss since 2004 for the top 700 metres of the water column: Continue reading “The North Atlantic: Ground Zero of Global Cooling”
If you had a chance to make a difference by speaking to the US Congress, would you hold back? Or would you go all out and make what is possibly one of the best speeches ever heard on that floor? Would you go hard or would you go home?
Michael F. Cannon went hard. Really, really hard.
Cannon is the author of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It and the director of health policy studies for the Cato Institute, “a public policy research organization dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.” (And one of the best sources of information around, in my opinion.) Continue reading “Congressional Testimony: If the Government Is Not Constrained By Law It Is “our revolutionary right to overthrow it””
A flood is a disaster that just keeps coming back to haunt areas affected by it. As the waters recede, it doesn’t mean that the risk of illness is over. After a flood, clean-up itself can be wrought with hazards.
Floods have been all over the news in the past few months, with southern Louisiana being most recently submerged. Before that, just a few months ago Texas was once again hit by heavy rain and flooding. West Virginia suffered a 500 year flood that took 23 lives and destroyed over a thousand homes. According to a report by Michael Snyder, the past year has seen the US hit by 11 historic floods. (You can add Louisiana’s flood to make that a dozen.) Continue reading “What You Need to Know About Health Hazards After a Flood”
Eleven people were killed and at least 56 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, police said.
Nykea Aldridge, a cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, was shot to death Friday afternoon as she pushed one of her children in a stroller in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side. Continue reading “Police: 11 dead, 56 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings”
TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli settlers and intelligence officers forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, according to local sources.
Witnesses said that a group of hardline Israeli settlers accompanied by intelligence officers broke into the Islamic holy site, WAFA reported.
There were no reports of clashes between the entering settlers and worshipers.
Continue reading “Israeli Intelligence Officers Accompany Extremist Settlers in Raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque”
