Month: October 2019

Ammo.com

There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison.

The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. (It’s worth noting that China’s incarceration statistics are dubious, and they execute far more people than the United States. Indeed, the so-called People’s Republic executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.)  Still, that’s more than 2.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons as well as county jails.  Continue reading “Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail”

New York Post – by Dean Balsamini

Dumbo’s getting hosed.

A diminutive fire hydrant in the well-heeled Brooklyn neighborhood is responsible for more parking fines than any of its more robust cousins across the city, startling stats show.

Like most things in the Big Apple, part of the 2.5-foot-tall hydrant’s secret to success is location, location, location.  Continue reading “Hidden Dumbo fire hydrant continues to trick drivers into getting tickets”

AOL

Journalists from across the TV-news sector will miss Shepard Smith at Fox News. The bean counters at the cable-news outlet’s parent, Fox Corp., will not.

Smith sent media circles teetering off their centers Friday by announcing in the final minutes of his mid-afternoon show that he was leaving the network as soon as he finished uttering the last sentence on his teleprompter. “I heard Shepard’s sign off in real time on my car radio and had to pull over to process it,’says Alisyn Camerota, the CNN “New Day” anchor who worked at Fox News for more than a decade. Continue reading “Shepard Smith boosted Fox News’ credibility, not its bottom line”

New York Post – by Lee Brown

A 12-year-old Kansas girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs and charged with a felony — for making a finger gun with her hands, according to reports.

The unidentified Overland Park youngster made the gesture during a class discussion last month in which another student asked which classmates she would kill if she could pick five, sources told the Kansas City Star.  Continue reading “Kansas girl hauled out of school in handcuffs for making finger gun with her hands”

Activist Post – by TJ Martinell

Bump stock owners aren’t complying with an illegal federal ban approved through an unconstitutional bureaucratic process via the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

According to the Washington Times, only 1,000 bump stocks were collected in the run-up to the March deadline. There are between 280,000 to 520,000 bump stocks in circulation, according to the Justice Department.  Continue reading “Bump Stock Owners Refuse To Comply With Federal Ban”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

update: Turkey has now given Trump every reason to unleash the newly authorized sanctions, as Newsweek reports that American special forces troops have come under Turkish fire.

According to the breaking exclusive: “A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.” It was “apparently by mistake,” the report adds.  Continue reading “US Special Forces In Syria ‘Mistakenly’ Bombed By Turkey”

Daily Mail

A Northern California man dependent on oxygen died just 12 minutes after Pacific Gas and Electric shut down power to the area as part of an effort to prevent fires.

El Dorado County Fire Chief Lloyd Ogan said on Friday that a call was placed to the fire department from Pollock Pines after 3.30am on Wednesday.  Continue reading “California man, 67, who relied on oxygen pump dies 12 minutes after PG&E cut down power to his home to prevent wildfires”

The Epoch Times – by Thomas Del Beccaro

One of the biggest scandals of the Obama administration is seriously endangering U.S. national security. The federal government’s approval of the sale of the Uranium One mining company to the Russian state-owned nuclear company leaves our country vulnerable to the Russians. Only President Donald Trump can restore our national security, and the time to do that is now.

Not surprisingly, the Uranium One scandal received little attention in the mainstream media. That was likely due to the involvement of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who would soon become the Democratic nominee for president. Continue reading “Trump Needs to Fix America’s Dependency on Foreign Uranium”

MSN

A former police chief, court clerk, and an officer – all family – have been indicted in an alleged scheme to extort several people, threatening severe charges and jail time if victims didn’t comply.

Cherokee District Attorney Rosemary Greene said in the indictment that the city of White’s former police chief, David Johnny King, city clerk Jane Lanette Richards and officer Blake Douglas Scheff operated an illegal enterprise to pocket ill-gotten gains using their positions in the city.  Continue reading “Former Georgia police chief, family indicted in citation extortion scheme”

CBS Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people.

The bill was vetoed twice by former governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, and goes beyond a measure that he signed allowing only law enforcement officers and immediate family members to ask judges to temporarily take away peoples’ guns when they are deemed a danger to themselves or others.  Continue reading “Gov. Newsom Signs Gun Violence Prevention Law”

Breitbart – by Joel B Pollak

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which awaits a vote in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump announced the USMCA one year ago, after extensive negotiations with both Canada and Mexico. The trade deal will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which Trump has long criticized and which he promised to replace. The new deal includes terms more favorable to U.S. businesses and workers, and is one of the most significant economic and foreign policy achievements of the Trump presidency.  Continue reading “Mexican President AMLO to Nancy Pelosi: Pass USMCA Already!”

Legal Insurrection

Michael Drejka, the Florida man who shot and killed Markeis McGlockton after being physically attacked by McGlockton in a dispute over a handicap parking spot, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison. He was convicted in August of manslaughter.

This case always seemed to me to be sufficiently ambiguous that an acquittal was very possible at trial if the criminal charge against Drejka was vigorously and skillfully defended. Unfortunately for Drejka, my observation of his legal counsel at trial revealed neither a vigorous nor skillful defense. Faced with an aggressive prosecution, such a weak defense is almost certain to result in a conviction.  Continue reading “Handicap Spot Shooter Sentenced to 20 Years”