Month: May 2019

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

More than 168,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the US this fiscal year – a number sure to surge as the border crisis worsens, according to Nathalie R. Asher, acting chief of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation branch.

In Wednesday comments to Congress, Asher added that according to the results of a pilot program, 87% of released immigrants fail to show up for their court hearings, resulting in judges ordering them deported in absentia, according to the Washington Times, which adds that tracking them down has been a daunting task for officials.  Continue reading “Border Crisis: Most Arrests In 12 Years; Over 168,000 Released Into US; Measles, Chickenpox Found”

Chuck Baldwin

Evangelical leaders, Christian leaders, the Religious Right, TV evangelists: Call them what you will. So many of them have lost all claim to the high road. They have not only lost their integrity and honesty, many of them are nothing more than self-aggrandizing spiritual prostitutes. They have become little more than pandering, groveling, bootlicking toadies for political potentates—one political potentate in particular: President Donald Trump.  Continue reading “Evangelicals’ Blind Idolatry Of Donald Trump Continues Unabated”

Eric Peters Autos

If you don’t wan’t your dog to run away, you leash him. The government doesn’t want you to run away, either – but has a different kind of leash in mind.

The commuter tax.

It’s called the mileage tax but like so many things being pushed down our throats the term used doesn’t describe what’s actually meant.  Continue reading “The Commuter (and Privacy and Other Things) Tax”

Reason – by Scott Shackford

More police officers were killed by attackers in 2018 than in 2017, but it’s still, fortunately, a very rare occurrence according to FBI statistics released this week.

In all, 106 law enforcement officers were killed during the line of duty last year. Of those, 55 were killed by felonious attacks, and 51 died a result of accidents. In 2017, 46 officers were killed in attacks, and 47 died in accidents. Continue reading “In 2018, 55 U.S. Law Enforcement Officers Were Killed by Attackers”

Politico – by Josh Gerstein

A settlement in a seven-year-long legal battle between the House and the Justice Department over records related to a gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious was publicly announced Wednesday just as similar clashes continue to intensify between the House and the Trump administration.

The deal ends a civil suit the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee filed in 2012 following the House’s historic vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to release some records the panel demanded about the probe, during which law enforcement officials monitored but did not intervene as up to 2000 weapons were illegally sold.  Continue reading “Subpoena fight over Fast and Furious documents finally settled”

Big League Politics – by Shane Trejo

Although no motive has been found for the murderous high school rampage committed by 18-year-old Devon Erickson yesterday, he posted many messages on social media indicating his hatred of Christians and love of the LGBT agenda.

“You know what I hate? All these Christians who hate gays, yet in the bible, it says in Deuteronomy 17:12-13, if someone doesn’t do what their priest tells them to do, they are supposed to die. It has plenty of crazy stuff like that. But all they get out of it is ‘ewwwwww gays,’” Erickson wrote on his Facebook account. Continue reading “STEM School Shooter Was Pro-LGBT Leftist Who Hated Christians”

Fox News

FAWN RIVER TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Latest on a 9-year-old boy accused in the fatal shooting of his mother in southern Michigan (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

Court records show a 9-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of his mother with a rifle in their southern Michigan home.  Continue reading “9-year-old boy charged in mom’s shooting death”

AOL

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and President Trump’s efforts to obstruct the probe.

“This is not a step we take lightly,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said before the vote. “This is a culmination of three months of requests, discussions and negotiations with the Department of Justice.”  Continue reading “House committee votes to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt”

The Denver Post

Denver is poised to become the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

After trailing in results postings Tuesday night and early Wednesday, final unofficial results posted late in the afternoon showed a reversal of fortune — with Initiative 301 set to pass narrowly with 50.6 percent of the vote. The total stands at 89,320 votes in favor and 87,341 against, a margin of 1,979.  Continue reading “Denver first in U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms”

Axios

Continue reading “Senate Intel subpoenas Trump Jr. over Russia matters”

Weather Channel

Flash flooding has killed at least one person and prompted evacuations, road closures, school closings and rescues in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma as storms trek across the Midwest and southern Plains.

The severe weather may also be responsible for a fire that broke out at a natural gas refinery in Columbia County, Arkansas, Wednesday evening. KSLA News reported the fire was caused by a lightning strike. A dispatcher for the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office told weather.com that firefighters were on the scene but no other information was available. A portion of US Highway 371 was reportedly closed as they battled the blaze.  Continue reading “Flash Flooding Kills 1, Prompts Rescues, Evacuations in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma; Tornado Reported in Texas”

Washington Examiner – by Cassidy Morrison

Three Kennedys have rebuked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his fierce opposition to vaccinations and his help in spreading “dangerous misinformation over social media” about vaccine safety.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Maeve Kennedy McKean wrote in a Politico op-ed published Wednesday that while they support RFK Jr.’s crusade to save the environment, “however, on vaccines he is wrong. And his and others’ work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences.”  Continue reading “Kennedy family denounces RFK Jr. over anti-vaccine stance”