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Washington Post – by Petula Dvorak
If you’ve spent any time in downtown Washington, you’ve probably seen 80-year-old Wanda Witter.
Shock white hair, a determined, unsmiling set to her mouth, jeans. She may have asked you for some change and probably didn’t smile if you gave her some. This month you may have also been taken aback by the black eye and stitches across her face. Continue reading “‘I wasn’t crazy.’ A homeless woman’s long war to prove the feds owe her $100,000.”
An elementary school in Albuquerque, NM has a new policy to go along with the new school year. Just in case kids are gender confused, teachers are no longer allowed to address children as “boys and girls.”
After the Bathroom Hullabaloo of 2016, you would have thought that things might settle down and we could go about our business, peeing wherever we want to pee and that would be that. Continue reading “If Kids Aren’t Gender Confused Yet, They Will Be When School Is Done With Them”
A cross-discipline study has challenged the belief that human sexuality and gender identity are determined by biology and remain fixed, saying that there is no scientific proof of this. The study cautioned against drastic medical treatment for transgender children.
The notion that sexual orientation is predetermined by biology is an important part of the current LGBT discourse. If a person has no choice over whether to be gay or not, society cannot demand that he or she be straight, so the argument goes. Continue reading “Gay people not ‘born that way,’ sexual orientation not fixed – US study”
The Pentagon has warned Syria and Russia that the US is ready to shoot down their planes, which Washington claims threaten American advisers in northern Syria.
The warning came after US fighter jets tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived. Continue reading “US ready to target Russian, Syrian jets in Syria: Pentagon”
Yahoo News – by Jon Herskovitz
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. district judge on Monday denied a motion from three University of Texas professors who wanted to ban guns in their classroom after the state gave some students that right under a law then went into effect this month.
The professors had argued academic freedom could be chilled under the so-called “campus carry” law backed by the state’s Republican political leaders. The law allows concealed handgun license holders aged 21 and older to bring handguns into classrooms and other university facilities. Continue reading “U.S. judge denies Texas professors who sought gun ban in their classrooms”
As the nation battles an opioid epidemic, one city wants to try something radical. Seattle’s Heroin Task Force has endorsed creating a safe heroin injection site and homeless shelter that would allow residents to use without costing them their housing.
Seattle is looking to kill two birds with one stone. The city’s rate of homelessness has increased by 19 percent since 2015, and in 2014, the city had the highest rate of deaths from heroin overdoses in 20 years. Continue reading “Pins ‘n’ needles: First heroin free-use zone endorsed in Seattle”
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a decade, lawmakers have been pointing at their counterparts to take the blame for what just about everyone agrees is a broken immigration system. Republicans say President Barack Obama’s immigration enforcement policies encourage more people to sneak into the country. Democrats blame Republicans for blocking legislation that would allow people already here to gain legal status and create a path for future, legal immigration. Continue reading “Hunting for the root of immigration woes? Look to the past.”
NEW DELHI (AP) — Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said Tuesday. The 42-year-old man is recovering in a hospital in Punjab state after undergoing surgery Friday in which doctors removed the knives — some folded and some with exposed blades up to 18 centimeters (7 inches) long.
Dr. Jatinder Malhotra, who assisted during the five-hour operation, said the man, who works as a police constable, was apparently suffering from a psychiatric disorder and is now being counseled. Malhotra said he had never before heard of a case of a person swallowing knives. Continue reading “Doctors in India remove 40 knives from man’s stomach”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Traffic fatalities were up 9 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year, continuing a surge in deaths that began two years ago as the economy improved and travel picked up, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by the National Safety Council.
An estimated 19,100 people were killed on U.S. roads from January through June, said the council, a congressionally chartered nonprofit that gets its data from state authorities. That’s 18 percent more than two years ago at the six-month mark. About 2.2 million people also were seriously injured in the first half of this year. Continue reading “Traffic fatalities continued to surge in first half of 2016”
Detroit News – by Holly Fournier
A 91-year-old concealed pistol license holder shot a man who was attempting to rob him Monday in Eastpointe, according to police.
The victim was exiting his car around 10:15 a.m. and heading into the Rite Aid on Gratiot near Nine Mile when an unknown suspect in his late 20s approached, Sgt. Martin Campbell said. Continue reading “Police: Man, 91, shoots suspected robber in Eastpointe”
Donald Trump is reportedly delaying a speech on immigration that was set for later this week amid new questions over his position on the issue.
The GOP presidential nominee is slated to attend a fundraiser in Colorado on Thursday but won’t be making his previously scheduled speech on immigration, a spokeswoman for his campaign in the state told the Denver Post. Continue reading “Trump delays immigration speech”
One of the largest real estate developers in the country has submitted plans to demolish a row of five Beaux Arts-style tenement buildings in the East Village to make way for a luxury hotel specifically branded to draw millennials, despite the a push from local preservationists who argue the buildings should be given landmark status.
Opponents to the planned Moxy Hotel also find it suspect that demolition permits have been submitted by Lightstone Group, which is headed by David Lichtenstein—a developer who has made sizable donations to New York Democrats and was recently appointed by Mayor de Blasio to the NYC Economic Development Corporation’s Board of Directors. In defense of their case that the tenements should be protected, opponents note that the Landmarks Preservation Commissionrecommended the block of East 11th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues as a possible historical district as recently as 2008. Continue reading “Activists Fight Demolition Of East Village Tenement Buildings To Make Room For ‘Millennial-Focused’ Hotel”
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Signs and posters appeared in front of Cedars-Sinai, St. John’s, UCLA and Los Angeles Children’s Hospital yesterday and overnight. Continue reading “‘Hillary Hospital’ Signs Welcome Hillary Clinton to LA for Her Hollywood Fundraising Gigs”
WEB Notes: At least the guy is honest and you know which side he stands on. More than I can say for our elected officials who change their tune depending on their audience. Globalism is where the world is going and has been going for years. Need documentation? Look around. When you buy something in the store where is it from? Anywhere but the US most of the time. Wait, some of the trash we buy says Made in China “with American parts” boy that makes me feel better. How many jobs has this nation lost to other countries for cheaper labor? Countless. Now that this nation has been sucked dry we see millions of illegals entering the nation and being welcome by the government who is more than happy to offer your tax dollars to them in the form of welfare. This nation, the last barrier against globalism is coming down and coming down fast.
Continue reading “EU Chief Jean-Claude Juncker Calls For ALL Borders To Be Opened”
The State Highway 130 toll road project, the first of its kind in the Texas, was a failure. The foreign company that owned and operated the route filed for Chapter 11 in March. Now a federal bankruptcy judge will decide who gets to own this infrastructure asset that Cintra, a Spanish company, built almost entirely with borrowed funds. A hearing on the proposed settlement is scheduled for September 21 in the federal bankruptcy court in Austin.
SH130 had little chance for success. Initial traffic forecasts proved wildly inaccurate, and the road posted operating losses month after month — it was $258,941 in the red for May. Without a positive income stream, Cintra was unable to cover payments on the $1.6 billion in liabilities that had accumulated. Continue reading “Texas: Failed Toll Road Divvies Up Ownership”
LACEY TOWNSHIP – Parents and school officials are about to have another tool in protecting school children from the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
The Lacey Township Board of Education approved a new policy Monday night that will create a voluntary random drug-testing program for middle school students. Continue reading “N.J. school district plans drug testing for 7th, 8th graders”
The Atlantic – by Kevah Waddell
Last summer, Kenneth Clavasquin was arrested in front of the Bronx apartment he shared with his mother. While the 23-year-old was being processed, the New York Police Department took his possessions, including his iPhone, and gave him a receipt detailing the items in police custody. That receipt would be his ticket to getting back his stuff after his case ended. Continue reading “Police Can Use a Legal Grey Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings”
Food for Thought
Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many “friends” of the vile Clintons.
1- James McDougal – Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation. Continue reading “The Clinton Body Bags”