In The News Today

ITNT – Reporting about China’s coronavirus is turning into a (dis)information war. From fearmongering and war propaganda to inflating numbers of infections and deaths. Who is saying what? ITNT News is taking notes (at this point we don’t see any reason why unsubstantiated claims, by monostream media outlets, about “150,000” and “300,000” infected people are true).  Continue reading “Coronavirus: The Daily Numbers”

WIS News 10

Waukesha County, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) – It’s something you don’t see every day: The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile pulled over by authorities.

In a Facebook post, the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department said it gave the driver a verbal warning for failure to follow the state’s Move Over Law.  Continue reading “Wienermobile runs afoul of the law in Wisconsin”

Reason – by Zuri Davis

The city council of Austin, Texas, has passed a measure in an attempt to decriminalize low-level offenses of weed, but police are threatening to continue arrests.

The recreational use of marijuana is still very much illegal in Texas, but the state’s 2019 legalization of marijuana’s nonpsychoactive cousin, hemp, has left law enforcement with no simple way to distinguish the two substances. (In Texas, hemp is defined as having less than 0.3 percent THC.)  Continue reading “The Austin City Council Voted for Marijuana Reform. Austin’s Police Chief Says He’ll Keep Arresting People.”

Reason – by Nick Gillespie

“I’ve never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled,” says Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old musician who took home five statues—including ones for album of the year, song of the year, and best new artist—at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Eilish told the music magazine Pitchfork last summer that she views traditional K-12 education as the equivalent of being forced to eat vegetables. Continue reading “Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell Praise Homeschooling”

Fox 8

An earthquake that hit offshore of Jamaica Tuesday has been upgraded to magnitude 7.7, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The quake hit 77.6 miles north-northwest of Lucea in Jamaica.

A tsunami threat message has been issued by the U.S. National Weather Service’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center after the earthquake hit.  Continue reading “Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits Caribbean Sea off the coast of Jamaica, tsunami threat message issued”

Breitbart – by Robert Craychik

Michael Bloomberg warned of “history’s dark echoes” — referring to Nazism — emanating from contemporary border security measures in a Monday statement regarding Holocaust Remembrance Day. He additionally characterized President Donald Trump as aligned with “white supremacy.” Continue reading “Bloomberg Compares America to Nazi Germany on Holocaust Remembrance Day Address”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to begin implementing rules that make it easier for the government to deny limited-income immigrants residency or admission to the U.S. because they use public-assistance programs or might use them in the future. Continue reading “Supreme Court gives Trump administration green-light to implement income-based restrictions on immigration”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party, Jane Timken, is defending Republican governors like Ohio’s Mike DeWine for asking the federal government to continue resettling refugees in their states.

For the fiscal year 2020, President Donald Trump will continue cutting refugee admissions by reducing former President Barack Obama’s refugee inflow by at least 80 percent. This reduction would mean a maximum of 18,000 refugees can be resettled in the U.S. between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020. This is merely a numerical limit and not a goal federal officials are supposed to reach.  Continue reading “Ohio GOP Chair Defends Republicans Importing Refugees to Fill U.S. Jobs”

Fox News

President Trump on Tuesday called for a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as he unveiled the details of his administration’s much-awaited Middle East peace plan.

Trump announced the proposal alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during remarks in the East Room of the White House at noon. Continue reading “Trump unveils Middle East peace plan with two-state solution, tunnel connecting West Bank and Gaza”

Toronto Sun – by Joe Warmington

Just like that, more than 1,000 people on three flights from China walked into Canada without medical screening.

If the coronavirus happens to be incubating in any one of those passengers who arrived at Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 3 on Monday, they are now mingling with Canadian residents. Continue reading “No medical screening for arrivals from three China flights”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Mt. Juliet, TN — As our readers know, police officers killing dogs in the Land of the Free is such a common occurrence that it has its own name: puppycide. Despite postal workers, delivery drivers and pizza personnel coming into contact with dogs on a much more regular basis, it’s the police who are in the news because they can kill them with impunity. As the following story illustrates, an off duty police officer in Tennessee felt it necessary to try to kill a neighbor’s dog—by stabbing it six times.  Continue reading “Neighbors Horrified After Cop Caught on Video Repeatedly Stabbing Family’s Elderly Dog”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Tempe, AZ — As TFTP reported in 2017, the Trump administration lifted a ban on military surplus hardware being transferred to police departments across the United States. The controversial 1033 program became a source of citizen outrage after images of police armed with military grade weaponry, including grenade launchers and armored MRAPs, were beamed into people homes across the country during the battlefield-style police response to the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.  Continue reading “The Standing Army We Were Warned About: 25 SWAT Cops Raid Man for ‘Penis Man’ Graffiti”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was formally indicted in court on Tuesday on corruption charges after he withdrew his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

Netanyahyu was in Washington for meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of the release of Trump’s long-delayed Israel-Palestinian peace plan when Israel’s attorney-general filed the charges in a Jerusalem court. Continue reading “Netanyahu formally indicted in court on corruption charges”