Fox News

A college student in California who says he was assaulted by a classmate for wearing a ‘MAGA’ hat on campus said he plans to file criminal charges against his attacker.

Matthew Vitale, a member of the University of California, Riverside Republicans, said he was “stunned” when classmate Edith Macias snatched his “Make America Great Again” hat from his head during a campus meeting.   Continue reading “UC student who stole ‘MAGA’ hat in viral video could face felony charges”

Fox News

Funny man Ralphie May has died at age 45.

“We are heartbroken to announce the untimely death of our friend, Ralphie May,” his rep confirmed to Page Six on Friday. “Earlier this morning at a private residence in Las Vegas his body was discovered, cause of death is cardiac arrest.”

We’re told May had been battling pneumonia and cancelled “a handful” of upcoming gigs to recover.   Continue reading “Comedian Ralphie May dead at 45”

Publication date: Jan 14, 2003

ABSTRACT
Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near ½ Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. Continue reading “Patent US 6506148 B2 – Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors”

Philly.com

So far, no one has tried to yank the Christopher Columbus statue off its pedestal in South Philadelphia, but that doesn’t mean everyone reveres the monument or the man.

Vienna Enos and Signe Espinoza-Nelson don’t.

Both young women launched online petitions: one to abolish Columbus Day, the other to remove two city memorials that celebrate the Italian explorer.   Continue reading “Should Philadelphia say ‘Goodbye, Columbus?’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Russia no longer even has to lift a finger (or buy a few thousands dollars worth of Facebook ads) to steal influence from the US in key geopolitical hotspots: the US can do so on its own.

According to the WSJ, the Pentagon halted military exercises with Gulf allies in a symbolic rebuke to countries caught in the ongoing diplomatic spat with Qatar that has eroded counterterrorism cooperation in the region, soured relations between historical allies, and allowed outside powers to establish substantial footholds in the region.   Continue reading “One Day After Historic Saudi-Russian Summit, US Suspends Military Exercises With “Arab Allies””

Breitbart – by Michelle Moons

California officially became a sanctuary state for illegal aliens on Thursday with the stroke of Gov. Jerry Brown’s pen.

Senate Bill 54 will go into effect in January 2018. Brown signed the bill entitled the “California Values Act” and released a signing statement. Brown explained what the bill does and does not do.   Continue reading “California Becomes ‘Sanctuary State’ with Gov. Brown Signature”

“James Murren: CEO of Mandalay Bay/MGM Resorts International is a sitting member of the Homeland Security National Infrastructure Advisory Council-he’s responsible for getting legislation and regulations passed for security & technology infrastructure in public places. Things such as x-ray backscatter machines. So the CEO of Mandalay Bay is a sitting member of the Homeland Security National Infrastructure Advisory Council? This is not normal people!   Continue reading “Of potential interest: CEO of Mandalay Bay Casino”

Now that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has successfully defeated or neutralized much of the insurgency in his country, domestic and international attention has begun to turn toward stabilization and reconstruction. It is now possible to envision a postwar Syria, at least in parts of the country.

Yet large sections of the international community—including, critically, key donor countries—continue to reject the legitimacy of Assad and his regime. The United States and its allies have given up on their proxy war in Syria, with which they had pushed for Assad’s negotiated removal from power. But now restoration seems like the next battle to shape Syria’s political order. For backers of the so-called moderate Syrian opposition, restoration funds are their last remaining tools to pressure the Government. Experts are now proposing convoluted schemes for how the West can rebuild Syria in spite of Assad or how it can condition its restoration money on political concessions from the regime.   Continue reading “Restoration of Syria: Who will Gain What?”

Fighting between U.S.-backed militias and Islamic State in the jihadist group’s former Syria stronghold has peppered mosques and minarets with machine-gun fire while air strikes flattened houses. No building is untouched. Senior council member Omar Alloush estimated at least half the city has been already completely destroyed.

“The old clock tower could be heard from outside the walls once. It’s damaged now. It’s silent,” Mohammed Hawi, a Raqqa-citizen, said at a nearby home occupied by the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance (SDF). Driving militants out has caused destruction that officials say will take years and cost millions of dollars to repair. A major bridge leading into eastern Raqqa lies collapsed after a latest coalition air strike. Beyond it, damaged water towers and the skeletons of teetering residential blocks dot the skyline. “We’re waiting for help to repair the east bridge,” co-president Leila Mustafa, a civil engineer, said. “If it doesn’t arrive soon, we’ll begin ourselves, using any means we have, though we have practically nothing.”   Continue reading “What did the US-led Coalition Decide to Defeat: Islamic State or Raqqa?”

Fight the Bias

We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly … [Now] there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.   Continue reading “Quotes – Bill Clinton”

Lansing State Journal

EAST LANSING – An item found on a stairwell door handle in a Michigan State University residence hall and initially believed to be a noose was, in fact, a shoelace, MSU police say.

MSU President Lou Anna Simon released a statement Wednesday morning  condemning what appeared to be an instance of racial intimidation and saying, in part, that “No Spartan should ever feel targeted based on their race, or other ways in which they identify.”   Continue reading “Police: ‘Noose’ found in Michigan State dorm was a shoelace”

Boston Globe

The state’s highest court on Thursday will take up a challenge to pretextual stops — the practice of police stopping a person for a motor vehicle violation when they really want to investigate a different suspected crime.

Attorneys for Rogelio Buckley argue that the Supreme Judicial Court should reverse a 1995 SJC decision in the case of Commonwealth v. Santana that authorized pretextual stops. The decision “grants the police carte blanche to stop people traveling on a public way for any reason,” Buckley’s attorneys said in a brief filed with the court.   Continue reading “Can police use a traffic stop as a shortcut to arrest you?”