Fox News

A federal appeals court in Illinois ruled Thursday the Trump administration could not withhold public safety grants from cities solely because those cities had so-called “sanctuary” policies protecting illegal immigrants.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said the administration exceeded its authority in establishing a new condition for cities to qualify for the grants. It upheld a temporary injunction issued by a lower court judge this past September.  Continue reading “Federal court rules against Trump’s sanctuary city crackdown efforts”

The Detroit News – by Francis X. Donnelly

Thetford Township — The two-man police department in this rural community outside Flint has amassed a massive amount of surplus military equipment over the last decade.

The free material, received through a federal program, includes mine detectors and Humvees, tractors and backhoes, hydroseeders and forklifts, motorized carts and a riding lawnmower. The landlocked township also has gotten boat motors and dive boots.  Continue reading “Michigan town’s feud over military gear gets ugly”

AOL

HOUSTON (Reuters) – An explosion set off a huge fire at Valero Energy Corp’s 225,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Texas City, Texas, refinery on Thursday afternoon but the fire was quickly contained, according the City of Texas City Emergency Management office.

No injuries were reported and the blaze, which was burning light hydrocarbons, was contained about an hour and a half after it broke out, Texas City Emergency Management said.   Continue reading “Valero’s Texas City refinery hit by explosion, fire”

AOL

A proposal to allow school staffers to carry guns and spring into action in the event of a school shooting has divided a Florida district.

After the Brevard County sheriff’s office recently suggested the idea, hundreds of school employees quickly volunteered to do double duty as armed undercover marshals.  Continue reading “Florida school district may deploy armed janitors to fight shooters”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

And now for yet more confirmation that the jihadist insurgents operating in Syria which the media has for the past six years labeled “moderate” are the same al-Qaeda terrorists that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, and in some instances this is literally the case.

Kurdish forces currently fighting Turkish-backed FSA groups in northern Syria have captured a well-known al-Qaeda member and German national of Syrian origin who had once been tracked and detained by the CIA – Mohammed Haydar Zammar.   Continue reading “German Al-Qaeda Recruiter Behind 9/11 Attacks Captured In Syria”

RT

The Romanian government has adopted a memorandum to officially transfer the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to the leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party.

“Romania is moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The move has already begun, a memorandum has been approved,” the head of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, told Romanian TV channel ANTENA 3. “We basically pretended the embassy was in Tel Aviv, but practically all of the work was at Jerusalem.”  Continue reading “‘Symbolic move, huge benefits’: Romania to relocate its Israel embassy to Jerusalem”

The Washington Reporter – by Jacob Wohl

Iran now effectively has political and military control of four countries: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, emboldened by the signing, and then the weak enforcement of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran’s Quds Force has successfully trained, equipped and funded its previously beleaguered terror proxies in Hezbollah and Hamas. Within 18-36 months, Iran will be able to hit our allies in the Middle East and Europe with nuclear-armed missiles. For the past 10 years, Iran has been on the march and the West has been on the run.   Continue reading “Jacob Wohl: It’s Time to Mercilessly Bomb Iran”

Free Thought Project –  by Matt Agorist

Over the weekend, the United States led a coordinated attack—along with French and British forces—on the sovereign country of Syria. The attack consisted of hundreds of missiles which were recorded hitting civilian targets and also reportedly struck a cancer research facility. And now, we are learning that all of it was based on an alleged use of sarin gas for which they had no evidence.

According to a report from CNN today, US intelligence agencies have admitted that they were not certain the Assad regime had used the nerve agent sarin against civilians—but launched the massive attack anyway.   Continue reading “US Intel Officials Just Admitted US Bombed Syria with No Proof of Sarin Attack”

CBS News

MEXICO CITY — The remnants of a migrant caravan of Central Americans that angered President Donald Trump continued their journey north through Mexico toward the U.S. border Wednesday. Organizer Irineo Mujica, speaking from the western Mexico city of Guadalajara, said about 500 migrants had been riding trains north since departing Mexico City last weekend. The caravan that left the Guatemala-Mexico border in late March grew to more than 1,000 migrants who found safety travelling in numbers.   Continue reading “Remnants of migrant caravan resume trek to U.S. border”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill, May 31, 2010

Vice president of the United States Joe Biden, who proudly announced “I am a zionist” before taking office, blamed the Branch Davidians in Texas for the fire that took the lives of 76 men, women and children. In reviewing the excellent 1997 documentary  Waco: The Rules of Engagement last month on the 17th anniversary of the federal government orchestrated  massacre near Waco Texas, the final minutes of the film reveal Congressional testimony from the hearings on Waco in which Biden and a gaggle of other disgusting government apologists pronounce that the government was blameless in the entire ordeal. This despite the fact that the Davidian survivors who were charged with murder of federal agents afterwards were acquitted of all charges.  Continue reading “Flashback: Vice President Joe Biden: No improper motive by feds at Waco, the Davidians “committed suicide””

“…let us not get distracted from the bull’s eye, that is from the millenary, Jewish messianic plan which had been concocted thousands of years before any oil had ever been found in the Golan Heights or the Middle East in general. Oil or not, water or not, Israel wants the whole of Syria, she wants the whole of Greater Syria, for one reason and one reason only: GREATER ISRAEL.”
— Mark Glenn, 4/19/18

Politico

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, marking a significant shift in policy for the Democratic leader and lending the movement to lower government barriers to the drug a powerful ally.

The top congressional Democrat told VICE News in an interview set to air Thursday night that legislation to increase access to marijuana is “long overdue” and that far “too many people” have been affected by the government’s crackdown on the drug.   Continue reading “Schumer to introduce bill to decriminalize marijuana”

ABC News 11

TRENTON, Fla. (WTVD) — Two Florida sheriff’s deputies were killed in the line of duty Thursday in an apparent ambush as they dined at a restaurant.

Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz, told ABC News that approximately 3 p.m., two deputies were shot and killed in the Ace China restaurant in downtown Trenton, after a suspect walked up to business and fatally shot both deputies through the window.   Continue reading “Two Florida deputies killed in apparent ambush at Chinese restaurant”

CNBC

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining President Donald Trump‘s personal legal team to help represent Trump in the special counsel’s investigation.

White House lawyer Ty Cobb confirmed the move to CNBC.

“I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller,” Giuliani told The Washington Post.   Continue reading “Rudy Giuliani is joining President Trump’s personal legal team for the Mueller probe”

Palestine Legal

Language aimed at censoring Palestine advocacy at South Carolina’s public colleges and universities was added to a 2018-2019 budget bill last week. If passed, the budget will codify a widely discredited re-definition of antisemitism that classifies virtually all criticism of Israel and Israeli government policy as inherently antisemitic. The legislation would require public colleges and universities in South Carolina to use this overbroad definition when investigating alleged acts of antisemitism on campuses.   Continue reading “South Carolina Moves to Censor Palestine Advocacy at Public Colleges and Universities”