Year: 2016

Market Watch – by Joe Palazzolo

Americans have no Second Amendment right to carry concealed guns in public, a federal appeals court in California ruled on Thursday in a significant blow to gun-rights activists and gun owners in a large swath of the Western U.S.

The San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 ruling, upheld a California law requiring residents to show “good cause” for carrying a concealed handgun.   Continue reading “Appeals Court says no 2nd Amendment right to carry concealed guns”

Reuters

U.S. burger chain operator Wendy’s Co (WEN.O) said it had discovered additional instances of unusual credit card activity at some of its franchise-operated restaurants, widening the scope of an earlier cyber attack on the company.

The company in January said it was investigating reports of unusual activity with payment cards used at some of its restaurants.   Continue reading “Wendy’s says it finds more unusual card activity at restaurants”

1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

The Logan Act. When in 1798 a Philadelphia Quaker named Logan went to Paris on his own to undertake a negotiation with the French Government with a view to averting war between France and the United States, his enterprise stimulated Congress to pass “An Act to Prevent Usurpation of Executive Functions,” ^[574] which, “more honored in the breach than the observance,” still survives on the statute books.^[575] The year following John Marshall, then a Member of the House of Representatives, defended President John Adams for delivering a fugitive from justice to Great Britain under the 27th article of the Jay Treaty, instead of leaving the business to the courts. Continue reading “Logan Act.”

Reuters

The Israeli military on Thursday revoked permits for 83,000 Palestinians to visit Israel and said it would send hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault by two gunmen on Wednesday in a trendy shopping and dining market near Israel’s Defence Ministry, but Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups were quick to praise it.   Continue reading “After deadly Tel Aviv attack, Israel suspends Palestinian permits”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

I always find it amusing when the world’s top mainstream science journals follow and repeat the same things I said years ago. In this latest case, the globally recognized science journal NATURE has published a warning about runaway genetic pollution that almost exactly mirrors my own published warning from four years ago.   Continue reading “Top science journal ‘NATURE’ invokes the same science warnings the Health Ranger originally wrote in 2012… genetic pollution from gene tinkering endangers us all”

Breitbart – by Merrill Hope

A North Texas high school valedictorian gave quite a different kind of commencement speech at a graduation ceremony on Friday. She announced she was in the United States illegally, blamed the U.S. immigration system for her illegal status, and even took a few veiled swipes at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.

McKinney Boyd High School valedictorian Larissa Martinez also mentioned she was Yale University bound when she stood before a packed auditorium and declared: “I am one of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows of the United States.”   Continue reading “Texas Valedictorian Reveals She’s ‘Undocumented,’ Blames U.S., Blasts Trump in Graduation Speech”

Oddity Central

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have an espresso machine for beer and bypass the whole fermentation process? It sounds like simple wishful thinking, but it turns out such a thing actually exists, and has for some time now.

SodaStream has been selling home carbonation machines that let you turn tap water into soda for over two and a half decades, and now it looks all set to enter the beer market, as well. The company has apparently come up with an instant beer concentrate that works with their soda machines, allowing anyone to turn water into beer at the press of a button.   Continue reading “Just Add Water – Machine Makes Instant Beer from Concentrate”

Huffington Post – by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Continue reading “Damning Report On Mexico Another Blot On Clinton’s Record”

The National Interest – by Joshua W. Walker, Hidetoshi Azuma

This year’s G7 summit in Ise-shima, Japan was full of spectacles worthy of arresting headlines, including U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima on May 27th. Prime Minister Abe as host has enjoyed a considerable boost for his efforts as host and now is confidently heading into an upper house election on July 10th. Like most international summits, however, what lies beyond the headlines are the agreements made among leaders even if not declared in the moment. Much of what the G7 leaders was focused on was the creation of a joint approach to the global rise of revisionism led by China and Russia, who resent not being part of the gathering. The most consequential outcome of the two-day event on Japan’s idyllic island was the emergence of a new phase in the ongoing Sino-Japanese geoeconomic competition. It characterizes a global trend for the world’s leading liberal economies for years to come.   Continue reading “China and Russia Are No Match for World Order”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Federal taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $20,000 just to settle each refugee and asylum seeker, who are then immediately eligible for cash welfare, food stamps, housing and medical aid, according to a new report on the “refugee industry.”

The report provided federal budget figures showing that the government spends $19,884 on each refugee the U.S. takes in.

And that number is set to jump if President Obama gets his way and brings in an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees in this year.   Continue reading “Feds spend nearly $20,000 to settle every refugee”

Dallas Morning News – by Todd J Gillman

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Ken Paxton today accused the state of Delaware of swiping up to $400 million in unclaimed checks that rightfully belong to Texas and the 48 other states.

Texas’ share, he said, would be about $10 million.   Continue reading “Texas AG Ken Paxton unveils 21-state lawsuit accusing Delaware of swiping $400M in unclaimed checks”

AP

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — For the world, the photograph of a Syrian 3-year-old in a red T-shirt and black sneakers, his lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach, was a horrific symbol of the desperation of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

For Mary Poole, a young mother haunted by “those little shoes … the little face,” it was an inspiration.

She and members of her book club asked: Why not bring a small number of Syrian families to Missoula?   Continue reading “In Montana, neighbor vs neighbor over welcoming refugees”

AP

NEW YORK (AP) — A new power player has emerged among the feuding factions behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, one that through the bonds of marriage enjoys a direct line to the Republican billionaire.

Despite limited political experience and some family baggage, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is playing an active role in virtually every aspect of the New York real estate magnate’s presidential bid. And empowered through his marriage to Trump’s trusted daughter Ivanka Trump, the 35-year-old Kushner operates with an extraordinary level of autonomy within an organization now struggling to shift its focus toward the general election.   Continue reading “Trump son-in-law emerges as quiet force”