Month: May 2017

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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will be present this weekend when President Trump visits Saudi Arabia, but only after they received a rabbi’s approval.

Politico reports the president’s eldest daughter-turned-White House assistant and senior adviser needed a rabbi’s permission to travel this weekend, taking into account the weekly Shabbat holiday they usually observe as part of their Orthodox Judaism practice.   Continue reading “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner needed rabbi’s blessing before Saudi Arabia trip”

BBC News

The government in Italy has ruled that children must be vaccinated against 12 common illnesses before they can enrol for state-run schools.

Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni blamed a decrease in vaccinations in part on a “spread of anti-scientific theories”.

Italy has recorded nearly three times as many measles cases so far this year than for all of 2016.   Continue reading “Italy makes 12 vaccinations compulsory for children”

“Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand.”

— Robert E. Lee (1807-1872) General-in-Chief of the Confederate States army.

Source: To Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale (September 1870), as quoted in The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, pp. 497-500

Tampa Bay Times – by Waveney Ann Moore

ST. PETERSBURG — More than a decade ago, Scott Willis got permits to extend and repair his dock and add a boat lift at his property.

But several years ago, he and his neighbors were stunned to learn that their docks actually sit on city-owned waterfront parkland. That’s because the docks — across a body of water from Crisp Park — were built on submerged land that, like the park, belongs to St. Petersburg.   Continue reading “Homeowners upset that city of St. Petersburg owns land under their docks, requires them to sign lease”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Because good ideas are rare but bad ideas eternal, the New York State Senate has just given its blessing to a stupid bill aimed at protecting people armed with guns, power, the weight of the law, and numerous immunity options. The “justification” for New York’s addition of cops and first responders to the state’s hate crime law is this:   Continue reading “NY Senate Passes Bill That Would Add Cops And Firemen To List Of Protected Classes Under State’s Hate Crime Law”

World Newstand, First published in July 1996 by the North Bridge News

“National Emergency: A state of national crisis; a situation demanding immediate and extraordinary national or federal action” Black’s Law Dictionary

“I think of all the damnable heresies that have ever been suggested in connection with the Constitution, the doctrine of emergency is the worst. It means that when Congress declares an emergency, there is no Constitution… for when this bill becomes a law, …there is no longer any workable Constitution to keep the Congress within the limits of its Constitutional powers.” -Spoken by Congressman Beck in 1933 prior to the passage of the Farm Bill.
Continue reading “America’s Constitutional Dictatorship”

Jon Rappoport

“Once private property is abolished, the advocates for utopia win. They build their heaven on earth, which means they can take what they want and run civilization, top-down. They can keep saying nobody owns anything, but in fact they own it all. They execute this squeeze play as if they were messiahs eradicating the prime evil: private ownership. This is such a preposterous stage play that, in a sane society, it would close down after one night.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Newsflash: There is a difference between an idea and the way that idea is applied in practice.   Continue reading “Delusions about private property and the fantasy of equality May 18”

The Daily Caller – by Ted Goodman

The Federal Communications Commission’s 2-1 vote Thursday on “Restoring Internet Freedom” was not a repeal of net neutrality regulations as many are reporting.

Following Thursday’s vote, a host of activists and public interest group leaders took to Twitter, blasting Republican Chairman Ajit Pai and President Donald Trump for “destroying the internet.”   Continue reading “The FCC Did NOT Vote To Roll Back Net Neutrality”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Louisiana district attorney whose office issued bogus subpoenas to trick witnesses into “volunteering” their testimony is now facing multiple lawsuits. DA Leon Cannizzaro’s office was sued on May 12th by the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Foundation for its refusal to turn over copies of every fake subpoena it has issued.

Three days later, it was sued again, this time by the ACLU.   Continue reading “DA’s Office Facing Multiple Lawsuits Related To Its Use Of Fake Subpoenas To Intimidate Witnesses”