The Hill

The House on Wednesday easily passed a measure to strengthen school safety and security, a vote that coincided with the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.

The bill does not include gun control measures despite the growing calls for action on that front. Students across the country staged walkouts Wednesday on gun violence, with one of the protests taking place outside the Capitol.   Continue reading “House passes school safety bill”

Huffington Post

A longtime personal assistant to President Donald Trump was reportedly fired and escorted out of the White House on Monday, with one report claiming the ouster was due to a criminal investigation.

John McEntee was unceremoniously removed from his position because the Department of Homeland Security is investigating him for “serious financial crimes,” CNN reported, citing an unidentified source familiar with his termination. The alleged crimes are said to not be related to Trump.

Continue reading “Trump Personal Assistant Reportedly Fired Over Security Issue”

Jon Rappoport

In the 1990s, I watched a federal trial in a Los Angeles courtroom. The defendant was charged with selling medical drugs without a license to practice medicine.

The defendant was prepared to argue that a) the substance he was selling was naturally produced in the body and b) it was effective.  Continue reading “Would the government let Jesus cure cancer?”

Edge Canopy – by Markab Algedi

A certain kind of new field of biotechnology is coming up now, and it is receiving some significantly negative publicity. It is a CRISPR-type, “biohacker” scene that seems to originate from Silicon Valley.

At the Austin, Texas “BodyHacking Convention” earlier this month, the CEO of biotech company Ascendance Biomedical took the stage. Aaron Traywick paced around nervously. He was about to inject himself with an experimental herpes vaccine, and it was last-minute. One of his peers was originally going to take it, but Aaron actually has herpes so it was decided that he would fulfill the task for his company.   Continue reading “Biotech CEO Injects Own Experimental Herpes Shot, Spirals Into Erratic Behavior”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Pasadena, TX — A disturbing video was submitted to the Free Thought Project this week showing a police officer shove a woman, throw her to the ground and then choke her out. After she was brutalized by the officer, the woman arrested and charged with his assault.

Adilene Guerrero, 22, was arrested Sunday night outside of a Pasadena nightclub after she allegedly got into an altercation with another woman.
Continue reading “Raging Cop Throws Woman to the Ground and Proceeds to Strangle Her”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update 3:

Some more soundbites out of Russia, via Reuters:

  • RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS OPTED FOR FURTHER ESCALATION BY EXPELLING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS
  • RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS BRITISH PM STATEMENT IS A FLAGRANT PROVOCATION
  • RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS CHOSEN CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA

Continue reading “UK Expels 23 Russian Diplomats, Freezes Russian Assets, Suspends High-Level Contacts”

The Organic Prepper – by J. G. Martinez D.

Dear fellows, I want to tell a little story of this last week.

My son had a rash in his little armpits and other parts. So his mom took him to the doctor, within walking distance from our subdivision (our SUV is still busted). After the subsequent blood test (according to my wife it was a real spectacle. He is a strong kid and a task force between my wife, the doctor and a nurse was needed to get the blood sample…well at least we know he is able to defend himself.) The lab result (freaking expensive because the reactants are scarce) was salmonella.   Continue reading “Venezuela Faces the Return of Forgotten Diseases”

Forbes – by George Leef

In the first century or so of our national existence, one of the Constitution’s provisions that was most often at issue was the Contract Clause. But following New Deal era decisions that eviscerated it, hardly any cases have since centered on it. The clause has been so forgotten that few Americans even know it’s there, in Article I, Section 10, reading, “No state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.”

The Constitution’s drafters had good reason to include that language, meant to assure people that contracts would be inviolate. During the years under the Articles of Confederation, the states frequently undermined the confidence in contracts by enacting debt relief laws and revoking business charters. The first state law to be declared invalid by a federal court was a Rhode Island statute that let a politically connected state businessman out of his debts. Unless contracts were reliable, the Founders knew, the new nation’s commercial development would itself be impaired.  Continue reading “The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide: Uphold The Contract Clause Or Let It Die?”

AL.com

In September, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin and his wife Karen purchased an orange four-bedroom house with an in-ground pool and canal access in an upscale section of Orange Beach for $740,000.

To finance the purchase, Entrekin got a $592,000 mortgage from Peoples Bank of Alabama, according to public real estate records. The home is one of several properties with a total assessed value of more than $1.7 million that the couple own together or separately in Etowah and Baldwin counties.  Continue reading “Etowah sheriff pockets $750k in jail food funds, buys $740k beach house”