Dallas News – by James Barragán

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed the state’s sanctuary city ban into law, achieving one of his major goals for the legislative session and enacting a bill that is almost certainly headed for legal challenges from opponents.

“Texans expect us to keep them safe, and that is exactly what we are going to do by me signing this law,” Abbott said before inking his signature during a Facebook Live video Sunday night — the first time a Texas governor has signed a bill through an Internet live stream.    Continue reading “Gov. Greg Abbott signs ‘sanctuary cities’ ban into law on Facebook Live”

Business Insider – by Sonam Sheth

President Trump’s son, Eric Trump, reportedly told golf reporter James Dodson three years ago that the family’s company got much of its funding to build its golf courses from Russia, according to an interviewDodson gave to WBUR on Friday.

Dodson said he was visiting the Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina after Trump’s public relations representative invited him there.    Continue reading “Eric Trump: ‘We have all the funding we need out of Russia’ for Trump golf courses”

Independent – by Narjas Zatat

A major US city has passed a resolution calling on Congress to investigate if any of Donald Trump’s actions warrant impeachment.

Los Angeles Council member Bob Blumenfield spearheaded the move, which the council backed by 10 votes to zero.

It is alleged that Mr Trump may have breached the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from accepting financial benefits including monetary payments and purchase of goods and services, from a foreign power.   Continue reading “Donald Trump impeachment probe resolution passed by Los Angeles council”

Florida Today – by James Dean

Sonic booms awakened some Space Coast residents Sunday morning as an unmanned military space plane made its first touchdown at Kennedy Space Center, completing a nearly two-year, mostly classified mission.

The Air Force shortly after 8 a.m. reported that the experimental X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle had landed safely on NASA’s former space shuttle runway. The exact time was not confirmed.   Continue reading “Air Force’s X-37B space plane lands at KSC with a boom”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The system used by the Dept. of Education to collect on defaulted student loans came to a standstill in the last month, leaving an estimated 91,000 accounts in limbo, when the agency ordered debt collectors under contract to stop making collections on accounts.

As Consumerist’s Ashlee Kieler reports, consumers who expected their student loan payments to be deducted from their bank accounts this month have reportedly found the funds untouched, and their calls to the companies unanswered thanks to a Department of Education’s order prohibiting the debt collection companies from working on default accounts in response to two lawsuits against the agency.   Continue reading ““The Crisis Has Become Pandemic” – System To Collect Defaulted Student Loans Is No Longer Functioning”

Las Vegas Review-Journal – by Jenny Wilson

Federal prosecutors said this week they want to retry the first group of defendants in the Bunkerville standoff case before moving forward with the trial of rancher Cliven Bundy and others charged as leaders of the 2014 armed protests.

Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre disclosed the decision, which still needs a judge’s approval, in a Wednesday court filing.
Continue reading “Prosecutors ask to retry gunmen before Bundys go to trial”

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The Advocate

Two large groups have planned Sunday protests and counter-protests over the planned removal of three Confederate monuments in New Orleans.

Sunday’s rally was originally called by Take ‘Em Down NOLA, an organization that has called for the removal of all statues and street and institution names that the group says honor white supremacists. It promises a march and second-line at 1:30 p.m. from Congo Square, next to Municipal Auditorium, to Lee Circle to celebrate the removal of the first of four Jim Crow-era statues in the city last month.   Continue reading “Tensions high at opposing Confederate monument protests in New Orleans”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – Police in San Diego responding to an emergency call about someone in distress shot and killed a 15-year-old boy on Saturday after he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at them.

The boy had made the original call, police said in a statement.

According to the statement, two officers responded to a 911 call requesting a welfare check on a 15-year-old standing in front of a school. The caller said the boy was not armed.   Continue reading “San Diego police shoot, kill teen holding a BB gun”

Inependent – by Emily Rauhala

The Kushner family came to the United States as refugees, worked hard and made it big – and if you invest in Kushner properties, so can you.

That was the message delivered Saturday by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s sister to a ballroom full of wealthy Chinese investors, renewing questions about the Kushner family’s business ties to China.   Continue reading “Kushner family sells $500,000 ‘investor visa’ to rich Chinese at Beijing ballroom event”

Futurism – by Karla Lant

MINDHACK FOR FASTER LEARNING

In March 2016, DARPA — the U.S. military’s “mad science” branch — announced their Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT) program. The TNT program aims to explore various safe neurostimulation methods for activating synaptic plasticity, which is the brain’s ability to alter the connecting points between neurons — a requirement for learning. DARPA hopes that building up that ability by subjecting the nervous system to a kind of workout regimen will enable the brain to learn more quickly.   Continue reading “DARPA Is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us “Upload” Skills”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Billionaire globalist and altogether controversial figure, George Soros, is now the subject of a $10 billion lawsuit accusing him of being a “racketeer billionaire” for meddling in the affairs of a sovereign African nation — purely for personal reasons — in what critics say typifies his modus operandi.

For those who skimmed that first sentence, yes, that’s Billion — with an emphatic capital “B.”   Continue reading “Federal Suit Hits Soros for $10 Billion For ‘Political Meddling…Motivated Solely by Malice’”

CBC News – by  Kristen Everson

The Canadian Forces and Veterans Affairs are setting up a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of using medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in military members and veterans.

A briefing note to the veterans affairs minister from October reveals a senior psychiatrist with the Canadian Forces “has drafted a preliminary protocol to conduct a clinical trial” that would look at how effective and safe marijuana is in treating PTSD. But as of October the biggest obstacle was finding a way to fund the study and research team needed to implement it.   Continue reading “Military, Veterans Affairs to test effects of medical marijuana on PTSD in clinical trial”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The school district should not halt anything especially a Bible class over an atheist. If you are an atheist, look, we can still be friends. If you do not like the Bible class then start an atheist class. I will not like it, but it is within your rights to do so. It is no ones right to take away my rights or my fellow citizens.

Also, why does the source of this article constantly call an atheist group “prominent”? There is nothing “prominent” about an athesit.
Continue reading “Tennessee School District Temporarily Halts Bible Club Following Complaint From Atheist Activist Group”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Another “internet tough guy”. When you become a lawless nation as the United States has you start to let in trash like this boy. He is an illegal immigrant, but allowed to come into this nation and receive a college education and he wants to beat the “S” out of white people? Has the child lost his mind? I know there are many other Mexican people who abhor this boys words and they are good people who were either born here or came here legal. They are our neighbors and friends and we love them. You need to enforce the laws of the land or your nations culture vanishes and by this boys statements you can see that has already happened. Have you read the curses of Deuteronomy 28 lately? You might want to read it again around verse 43.

Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Student Suggests Attacking White People”