Washington Free Beacon – by Ali Meyer

A majority of cities—71 percent—will see Obamacare premiums rise by double-digits next year as more health insurers drop out of the exchanges, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The foundation analyzed data in the 20 states and in Washington, D.C. that had submitted rate filings to examine how much premiums were rising and how many insurers were participating on the exchanges.   Continue reading “71% of Cities Will See Double-Digit Premium Increases as More Insurers Drop Out of Exchanges”

Reuters

Undeterred by the violence over the planned removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, municipal leaders in cities across the United States said they would step up efforts to pull such monuments from public spaces.

The mayors of Baltimore and Lexington, Kentucky, said they would push ahead with plans to remove statues caught up in a renewed national debate over whether monuments to the U.S. Civil War’s pro-slavery Confederacy are symbols of heritage or hate.   Continue reading “U.S. cities ramp up removal of Confederate statues”

The Hill – by Morgan Chalfant

The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.

Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.   Continue reading “Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site”

San Gabriel Valley Tribune – by Stephanie K. Baer

Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control officials will begin canvassing West Covina residences early next month to check compliance with rabies vaccinations and dog licensing requirements.

The campaign is one of several measures aimed at increasing revenue for the city this year. Pet owners are required to pay licensing fees of $60 per dog to the city, according to a city statement. Fees for spayed or neutered dogs are $22 or $10 for dogs belonging to senior citizens. Disabled veterans are required to pay a reduced fee of $10 for spayed or neutered dogs.   Continue reading “Animal control officers to go door-door to make sure dog owners have paid their license fees”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

The entire Left-wing media has erupted today over the so-called “white nationalist” protest in Charlottesville where right-wing groups are protesting the systematic destruction of war monuments and white history in general. It’s worth noting that if the same event were flipped to Muslims, or African-Americans or women, it would be heralded by the Left-wing media as “courageous resistance” against tyranny and oppression. But because the attendees are mostly white conservatives, the event is portrayed as a neo-Nazi, almost “KKK” rally-ish in nature, which is of course a wild misrepresentation of what’s actually happening there. As usual, the Left totally freaks out over everything and sees pointy white hats everywhere they look.   Continue reading “Why this all ends in civil war: Radical Left-wing fascism and intolerance meets right-wing nationalism and resistance”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

I’m going to keep this relatively short. I’ve written thousands of articles over the years, and anyone who’s read me for any period of time knows where I stand when it comes to hatred, bigotry and violence. I find all these things repulsive, and think people who gravitate to such behavior to be operating on such a low level of awareness, it’s genuinely hard for me to believe these people exist in real life.

I published my seminal piece discussing the repulsion I feel with today’s political environment back in February in the post, Lost in the Political Wilderness. Now’s a perfect time to reread that piece, but here’s an excerpt if you’re short on time:  Continue reading “Don’t Play Into The Divide & Conquer Game”

Daily Mail

There is no conclusive evidence that marijuana helps with chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, experts say.

Since legislation, 80 percent of medical marijuana patients use it for chronic pain and about 33 percent use it for PTSD.

However, experts warn that there isn’t enough research to confirm it is effective for users.  Continue reading “There is NO conclusive evidence that marijuana helps with chronic pain and PTSD, 20-year study finds”

Mercury News – by Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Restrictions placed by a federal judge on what defendants can say about being at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014 are leading to tense moments in the Las Vegas retrial of four men accused of wielding assault-style weapons to stop federal agents from rounding up cattle belonging to the anti-government figure.

Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro refused Monday to order a mistrial sought by the defense attorney for Eric Parker. Navarro had ordered Parker off the witness stand last week and told the jury to disregard his testimony.   Continue reading “Bundy ranch case: Judge issues list of things defendants can’t say”

Daily Mail

A video showing an extremely rare white moose in Sweden has captured the world’s interest.

Explorer Hans Nilsson spotted the animal after searching for a glimpse of one for three years.

He saw the moose on the banks of a stream in Värmland, Sweden. The video he posted online has been viewed more than a million times on Facebook.   Continue reading “Swedish explorer captures extremely rare white moose on camera after three years of searching for the elusive animal”

Jon Rappoport

In the Information Age, a person has several choices.

He can give in and accept mainstream news as a valid picture of the world.

He can resort, instead, to some version of so-called alternative news and surrender to that without much thought.

Or he can become a true independent judge of any source of information, armed with the tools to analyze it sharply and clearly.   Continue reading “Logic & Analysis: a course for home-schooled children”

USA Today – by Sean Rossman

A Walmart gun display prodding customers to “Own the school year like a hero,” was a prank, the company confirmed Saturday.

Walmart spokesman Charles Crowson told USA TODAY the company is “certain” the incident was a ruse, but offered no other details.

Walmart started its own investigation of the incident Wednesday, after a photo of the display spread across Twitter. The photo showed a glass gun case in a Walmart store with a sign on top reading, “Own the school year like a hero,” the store’s back-to-school slogan.  Continue reading “Walmart: Back-to-school-themed gun display was a prank”

Patch – by Simone Wilson

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — One of the leaders of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend was Mike Peinovich, aka “Mike Enoch,” a popular neo-Nazi blogger and podcaster who was outedback in January as an Upper East Side software developer with a Jewish wife.

After his identity was exposed last winter, Peinovich separated from his wife, according to a co-host on his unabashedly racist and anti-Semitic podcast, sarcastically named “The Daily Shoah.”   Continue reading “Mike ‘Enoch’ Peinovich, Upper East Side Neo-Nazi, Was Behind Charlottesville Rally”

IBankCoin – by ZeroPointNow

The following was published in the NY Post on Friday, reportedly from a former FBI agent, ripping the former FBI Director a new asshole for failing to convene a grand jury against Hillary Clinton, execute search warrants, and for being “cowardly” and “juvenile.”

Enjoy…   Continue reading “James Comey Destroyed In Letter By Anonymous FBI Agent Who Calls Him ‘Cowardly’ and ‘Juvenile’”

Fox News

A crowd of protesters in Durham, N.C., tied a cord to a Confederate statue and toppled it to the ground Monday night to loud cheers, a symbolic response to the violence at the rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va.   Continue reading “Confederate statue toppled in North Carolina during protest”

 

Zero Hedge – by ZeroPointNow

‘Unite the Right’ organizer Jason Kessler was reportedly an Obama supporter involved in the Occupy movement as recently as November 2016, before establishing his white supremacist group “Unity & Security for America” in January, 2017.

Per the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.   Continue reading “Report: ‘Unite the Right’ Organizer Jason Kessler Was Obama Supporter Involved With Occupy Movement”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With U.S. Congress members focused during their August recess on finding ways to lower the corporate tax rate, industry groups and other sectors of society are gearing up to fight proposed changes to the personal income tax.

While tax cuts for business have garnered the most headlines, lobbyists and lawmakers have conceded that rewriting the corporate tax code will be a long slog.

Tackling personal tax rates will be easier, many argue. Looking for an easier legislative win ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, most lawmakers in the Republican majority want to cut individual incomes taxes. President Donald Trump has been pushing hard for tax changes this year.   Continue reading “U.S. tax change proposals anger builders, realtors, charities”