Year: 2016

BATR – by James Hall

The UK media is out in force to scare Brits from voting to leave the European Union. Thursday June 23: Date of the in/out referendum is set for the vote. Just the notion that an actual plebiscite will take place on such an important issue, is encouraging. Proponents of exiting the EU are natural allies in the struggle to promote national populism. The long and distinguished history of England has an opportunity to show the world that the voice of the people can register a resounding repudiation against the technocrats of an unelected European Union.  Continue reading “Brexit Defiance of the EU”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Edmond, OK – Two teenagers were arrested for the murder of their best friend – not because they pulled the trigger, but because they witnessed the murder, and happened to be involved in a different, less serious ‘crime’ at the same time, which had nothing to do with the violence that occurred.

The young men, Jessey Gonzalez, and Nicolas Gedela, along with the victim Carlos Santos, were attempting to sell a quarter pound of marijuana to three strangers. The strangers ambushed the young men and shot and killed Santos while his two friends managed to escape.   Continue reading “Teens Arrested for Murder Because Their Friend Was Executed in Front of them During a Pot Deal”

Reuters

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for tougher U.S. border security after the attacks in Brussels.

The billionaire businessman, in an interview on NBC’s “Today” program, said authorities “should be able to do whatever they have to do” to gain information in an effort to thwart future attacks.   Continue reading “Trump urges waterboarding and more after Brussels attacks”

The Blaze – by Billy Hallowell

A coalition of more than 80 gay rights groups are expressing profound frustration after unsuccessfully demanding that the National Collegiate Athletic Association divest from “religious-based campuses” that have “requested discriminatory Title IX waivers toward LGBTQ youth.”

“The NCAA through its member institutions sends a message about their core values of integrity, inclusive culture and sportsmanship,” read a March 9 letter from Campus Pride, an pro-LGBTQ rights organization, to the NCAA sports authority. “Fifty-nine religious-based colleges and universities have requested a Title IX waiver for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ youth.”   Continue reading “Gay Rights Activists Target ‘Religious Colleges’ With Letter Asking the NCAA to ‘Divest.’ How the Sports Authority Responded Isn’t Going Over Too Well.”

The Hill – by Rafael Bernal

A group of elected officials from the Texas-Mexico border is criticizing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump‘s call to “close up” borders following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels.

“Closing our land border with Mexico would be a ridiculous staging of security theater: the practice of false efforts intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it,” the Texas Border Coalition (TBC) said Tuesday in a release.    Continue reading “Border mayors: Closing border would be ‘security theater’”

WCAX – by Tyler Dumont

BURLINGTON, Vt. – A 76-year-old man is dead– shot by police after a standoff in a Burlington apartment. Police were called to the downtown building at about 5 p.m. Monday for a welfare check, after complaints of what they described as threatening behavior.

Police say Ralph “Phil” Grenon met officers at his door armed with knives and then went back inside. After several hours of negotiations, authorities say Grenon advanced toward officers, so one decided to pull the trigger.   Continue reading “‘Mentally ill’ Burlington man killed in standoff with police”

RT

A new two-shot, double-barreled handgun can be neatly folded into the shape of a box resembling a smartphone – and its release is making police nervous.

The concept handgun, patent pending, would be manufactured by Ideal Conceal, a Minnesota startup. The .380 caliber pistol is small enough to be folded into a palm-sized square that can be easily slipped into a back pocket. Because it looks similar to a smartphone, it could be left out in plain view on a shop counter without arousing suspicions.   Continue reading “‘Ready to fire’ cellphone-shaped double-barrel handgun could be released”

Mail.com

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian pilot to 22 years in prison after convicting her for complicity to murder in the 2014 deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, opening a door to a possible prisoner swap between the two countries.

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko quickly offered to exchange two Russians held in his country for the return of the pilot, 34-year old Nadezhda Savchenko. Moscow has refused to consider a swap until the legal proceedings were finished.   Continue reading “Court finds Ukrainian pilot guilty of complicity to murder”

Mail.com

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — A 6-year-old girl who spent most of her life with California foster parents was removed from her home on Monday under a court order that concluded her Native American blood requires her placement with relatives in Utah.

Lexi, who is part Choctaw, cried and clutched a stuffed bear as Rusty Page carried her out of his home north of Los Angeles to a waiting car. Los Angeles County social workers whisked her away. “How is it that a screaming child, saying ‘I want to stay, I’m scared,’ how is in her best interest to pull her from the girl she was before that doorbell rang?” he told KNX-AM radio.   Continue reading “Native American girl, 6, removed from California foster home”

DHS-FBI-OregonOccupation

Sometime this year, we taxpayers will again receive another ‘Economic Stimulus’ payment.

This is indeed a very exciting program, and I’ll explain it by using a Q & A format:   Continue reading “Why yard sales are important”

The germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body – working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall render powerless the check of one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
Thomas Jefferson

CNN

“We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened,” Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told reporters.   Continue reading “2 explosions at Brussels airport, 1 at subway station; 28 killed”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

Once the Oligarchy is above the law, the Republic is already dead.

To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: How did you lose your Republic? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly. The Romans experienced this when their Republic was extinguished by Empire.   Continue reading “If Hillary Isn’t Indicted, the Rule of Law and the Republic Are Dead”

Washington’s Blog – by Carl Herman

Forward

Tell Ambassador Noah Bryson Mamet He Can’t Deny Americans Our Passports

Written in 1789, year of the French Revolution that beheaded the king and queen of France, the American Bill of Rights was accepted as law of the new land called the United States on December 15, 1791.   Much has happened since then. Both the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were inspired by Oliver Cromwell’s Glorious Revolution and the Magna Carta. In 1215, the Magna Carta was issued by King John and established the precedent that no monarch was above the law. The rule of law has been a core concept of Anglo-Saxon civilization ever since. Colonists born in British America felt entitled to the same rights as Englishmen in England.   Continue reading “The Updated Bill of Rights”