Year: 2018

NRIS – USA Today

America is once again reeling from yet another deadly mass shooting. The victims at Santa Fe High School were taken from us too soon, and the prayers of Texas and the nation are with their families. There is something especially haunting about a killer targeting a school, where parents send their children on the assumption that they will be safe as they learn. Experience is a hard teacher, and with 2018’s second major school shooting behind us, its lesson is clear: We must secure our schools.   Continue reading “To stop school shootings, use Israel’s approach to fighting terror: Texas attorney general”

Washington Free Beacon – by Adam Kredo

Congress is ordering the Pentagon to immediately begin construction of space-based missile interceptors to counter increasing threats from North Korea, Iran, and other countries with advanced missile technology, according to new legislation viewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The space-based interceptor program—a plan for the United States to deploy satellites into space capable of destroying ballistic missiles before they even take flight—has been on ice for years due to repeated delays by the Pentagon.   Continue reading “Congress Directs Immediate Weaponization of Space to Counter Missile Strikes”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Aurora, CO — Saving a person’s life by rushing them to the hospital after they’ve been shot should not be a punishable offense much less get you beaten and kidnapped. However, for OyZhana Williams, who dropped a man at the emergency room who’d just been shot, that is exactly what happened—thanks to Aurora police officers. Now, however, because of a defunct system, the taxpayers—not the officers—will be held accountable for the abuse.

Last year, Williams, 23, filed an excessive force lawsuit against the Aurora police department whose officers, Sergeant Michal Hawkins, Jordan Odneal, and Jose Ortiz, were seen on video allegedly choking, slamming and stomping the innocent woman just before making up bogus charges against her, according to the lawsuit.   Continue reading “Taxpayers Held Liable After Innocent Mom Choked, Beaten, Stomped by Cops on Video”

Gateway Pundit – by Brock Simmons

Initiative Petition #43 is slowly making its way through the ballot measure process in Oregon. After a massive response of challenges to the “draft ballot title” were submitted a couple of weeks ago, the state “attorney general” has now issued the “certified ballot title” that reads “Prohibits “assault weapons” (defined), “large capacity magazines” (defined), unless registered with state police. Criminal penalties.”

As previously reported, this ballot measure, should it eventually pass, would outlaw 95% of the guns that are currently out there, and instantly turn thousands grampas into felons for having an old tube fed .22 Marlin in the attic or a piece of plastic with a spring inside of it.  
Continue reading “Gun Confiscation Measure Slogs Along In Oregon”

Natural Blaze – by Heather Callaghan

A new story about underground, Brooklyn urban gardeners shows that you don’t need to know much to go forth and bear grafted fruit. 

Trees perform many overlooked services for city life – allowing birds to perch and grace us with their sweet songs, cooling hot temperatures, and dampening noise pollution. Heck, they even clean toxic pollution. But are we overlooking another resource trees can offer? One that we facilitate ourselves?   Continue reading “Guerilla Gardeners Are Grafting Fruit Onto City Trees”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Thursday passed a $717 billion defense policy bill that would give the military a 2.6 percent pay hike, the largest in nine years.

The bipartisan 351-66 vote sends the measure to the Senate, where a key panel completed a companion measure in a closed-door session on Wednesday.   Continue reading “House passes $717B Pentagon policy measure”

Great Lakes Seaway Partnership – February 14, 2018

Construction will soon begin on a new iron plant in Toledo.  The Port Authority there says it’s a big step in the right direction for Great Lakes shipping.

Cleveland Cliffs – an iron ore manufacturer — is opening the plant, the first of its kind in the Great Lakes. It produces hot briquetted iron, using new technology. The iron will then travel to steelmaking companies in Ohio and Indiana.   Continue reading “Manufacturer Sees Growth in Great Lakes Shipping”

Chron

Texas oil and gas companies are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s pending steel tariffs, arguing they would cause job losses and the bankruptcies of some businesses.

The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, which represents 2,600 smaller oil and gas companies, submitted its comments to the U.S. Commerce Department, asking for the elimination of import quotas and exemptions for countries that provide a lot of steel piping to the energy sector.   Continue reading “Texas oil producers fight steel tariffs, import quotas”

ABC 13

NOBLESVILLE, Indiana — Authorities say two victims in a shooting at a suburban Indianapolis school are being taken to a hospital and the lone suspect is in custody.

Bryant Orem, a spokesman for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, says in a news release that the victims in Friday morning’s attack at Noblesville West Middle School are being taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and their families have been notified. He says no other information is available about the victims.   Continue reading “Authorities: 2 victims in Indiana middle school shooting headed to hospital, lone suspect in custody”

The Marshal Project – by Daniel Zwerdling

Police records in Bentonville, Arkansas show that James Bates called 911 on Sunday morning just before Thanksgiving 2015, and reported chilling news: he’d just opened his back door and found one of his buddies floating face down in the hot tub, dead. When police showed up, Bates said he had no idea how it happened.

He also said they could search his home, according to police. And they found his house and yard were equipped with smart gadgets that might have served as digital eyes and ears. Continue reading “Your Home is Your…Snitch?”

Reason – by Christian Britschgi

Improperly stacked wood. A cracked driveway. Chipped paint on a porch.

These are the kinds of offenses the government of Doraville, Georgia, is using to fine residents and threaten them with jail, all in an explicit attempt to balance the budget of the 8,000-person Atlanta suburb. Now people hit by some of those fines are suing the city in federal court, arguing that its direct financial interest in convicting people tried by its municipal court violates the 14th Amendment’s due process guarantee.   Continue reading “Atlanta Suburb Brags About Fines for Chipped Paint and Incorrectly Stacked Wood”