Thanksgiving is the oldest national holiday in the United States. However, it’s observation is not a continuous presence in American history. While the celebration of Thanksgiving predates even the founding of the nation, it was proclaimed by George Washington, then ignored by Thomas Jefferson. From then on, it was sporadically observed until Abraham Lincoln, who once again introduced a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving to the United States. Continue reading “Thanksgiving: The Forgotten History of America’s Thanksgiving and What It Commemorates”
Texe MarrsTexe Marrs passed to his heavenly home Saturday evening, November 23, to be with his Saviour whom he loves with all his heart. Texe had been physically failing for some time with a combination of heart, kidney and lymphedema issues. He would be down for a time, bounce back for a bit, and then relapse, each time recovering less and less. Continue reading “Texe Marrs Has Gone Home to Be With the Lord”
President Trump has put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of overseeing the construction of the border wall, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Current and former administration officials told the Post that Kushner has taken the lead on the wall construction project, holding biweekly meetings covering the progress of the wall, contractor data, the location of the wall and how funding is being used. Continue reading “Trump puts Kushner in charge of overseeing border wall construction: report”
Strategic Culture – by Finian Cunningham
It seems more than coincidence that as the legal noose tightens around Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Israeli military have suddenly stepped up air strikes on Iranian forces based in Syria.
Playing the strongman role on national security and winning another term as prime minister would stave off prosecution over pending corruption charges. Continue reading “Bibi’s Get-out-of-Jail Card… War With Iran”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Opa-locka, FL — In the land of the free, police frequently and unapologetically carry out military-style raids on completely innocent people by descending upon the wrong home. Whether it’s due to the wrong address on the warrant, faulty GPS, or just blatant carelessness, the results are the same. Innocent people are traumatized, terrorized, assaulted, beaten, or even killed. One video from Florida this week, gives the rest of the world a glimpse into the government-sponsored terrorism being carried out on innocent families by cops who continuously fail at doing their jobs. Continue reading “Cop Dressed Like a Terrorist Violates Innocent Family as They Play With Their Baby”
Independent – by Samuel Lovett
Donald Trump has been described as the “chosen one” by his secretary of energy, Rick Perry.
In the preview of an interview shown on Fox News on Sunday night, the adviser, who has drawn scrutiny for his role in the Ukraine scandal, also compared the US president to a number of biblical kings. Continue reading “Trump is ‘the chosen one, sent by God to do great things,’ says president’s adviser”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Hoover, AL — On Thanksgiving night, 2018, an armed assailant opened fire inside an Alabama shopping mall, shooting an 18-year-old male and a 12-year-old girl. Shortly after the shots rang out, a Hoover police officer engaged a man with a gun, opened fire, shot him in the back multiple times and killed him. Police then released a statement championing their officer and patting themselves on the back for stopping a potential mass shooting. But the man they shot was not the shooter—he was the hero trying to stop him. Continue reading “Taxpayers to Be Held Liable After Cop Shows Up to Mass Shooting, Kills Hero Who Stopped It”
Washington (CNN)The White House was briefly placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after an aircraft entered restricted airspace in the Washington area.
The event caused senior national security officials across the agencies to convene to coordinate and monitor the situation, according to a US defense official, and aircraft have been deployed to monitor the situation, US Northern Command tweeted. Continue reading “White House was briefly on lockdown after aircraft entered restricted airspace”
An Indiana hospital says that more than 1,000 patients were exposed to HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne infectious diseases after surgical tools were improperly sanitized. Continue reading “More than 1,000 surgery patients exposed to HIV, hepatitis, and more after botched instrument sterilization. Here comes the lawsuit.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Closing a case involving a non-fatal U.S. Marshals shooting and the question of fair compensation for post-traumatic stress, federal Judge Jon McCalla ordered an $81,456 payment to 24-year-old Jahmazeo Richardson of Memphis, in a ruling issued Wednesday.
The figure is more than three times the $25,000 amount that Assistant U.S. Attorney David Brackstone, the lawyer representing the U.S. Marshals Service, asked the judge to consider as the maximum fair compensation. Continue reading “Judge awards Memphis man $81,456 after US marshal shot at him during traffic stop”
Carlsbad Currant-Argus – by Adrian Hedden
The federal Bureau of Land Management is accepting public input for two weeks on a sale of public-land leases to the oil and gas industry for fossil fuel development in southeast New Mexico.
The public scoping period was schedule to begin on Nov. 25, until Dec. 9, seeking comments on the environmental impacts of the nominated parcels and potential alternatives. Continue reading “BLM: Oil and gas lease sale offers 112 land parcels in New Mexico, Texas”
The Fifth Amendment prevents compelled production of passwords, the top court in Pennsylvania has ruled. (h/t ACLU) It joins a handful of other state courts finding passwords to be testimonial, including Indiana, Illinois, and Florida. Unfortunately, there’s no SCOTUS opinion uniting the states, so Fifth Amendment coverage remains spotty. Continue reading “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says Compelled Password Production Violates The Fifth Amendment”
The drug lord who succeeded El Chapo has spent a decade infiltrating his drug operation in the US, a new investigation has found.
Officially Reuben ‘Nemesio’ Oseguera Cervantes, and better known as ‘El Mencho’, the ruthless leader of Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion has managed to bring his illegal narcotics into 35 states, according to the findings of the probe. Continue reading “Mexican drug lord El Mencho’s empire has set up cells in small towns in 35 states”
(AP) — After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority.
Now, newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up a million or more Uighurs into detention camps. Continue reading “Zhu Hailun: Meet the Man Behind China’s Detention of One-Million Muslims”
Music industry icons in Miami, Florida, announced the organization of an unprecedented charity concert against communism scheduled for April 11, 2020 – in the heat of a presidential election in which several Democrat candidates have openly embraced socialist ideas.
The “Concert Against Communism” is the brainchild of legendary Miami producer Frankie Marcos and will be co-sponsored by the Cuban Democratic Directorate, a non-profit organization that advocates for human rights on the island. Proceeds for the concert will go to non-profits working to help the victims of communism. Continue reading “Miami to Host America’s First ‘Concert Against Communism’”
Mahopac, New York –-(Ammoland.com)- Whiskey_warrior_556 is the Instagram name of Afghanistan combat vet, Alex Booth. On Saturday afternoon, a Carmel, NY police officer showed up at his doorstep to discuss what they say was a domestic incident that took place with his wife earlier in the day. He disputed this claim.
According to Alex Booth, a former friend informed law enforcement that Booth had a New York state illegal standard capacity 30-round magazine and that Booth suffered from PTSD from his combat tours in Afghanistan. He said police were at his house serving an extreme risk protection order (Red Flag Law). Continue reading “Standoff Ends Peacefully With Instagramer, whiskey_warrior_556”
