AOL

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has squarely blamed on Iran.

The Pentagon said the deployment would involve a moderate number of troops – not numbering thousands – and would be primarily defensive in nature. It also detailed plans to expedite delivery of military equipment to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.  Continue reading “United States sending troops to bolster Saudi defenses after attack”

The Weather Channel

A bridge on Interstate 10 in Texas was shut down indefinitely Friday morning after at least two runaway barges hit it overnight.

The bridge crosses the San Jacinto River about 15 miles east of Houston.

Continue reading “Barges Hit Bridge on Interstate 10 in Texas; Portions of Roadway Remain Flooded”

CNS News – by Penny Starr, January 5, 2011

Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, said that if the Obama administration and Congress would allow the industry access to domestic oil and natural gas reserves, the United States would get the energy it needs, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and the government would add more than $1.7 trillion to its coffers.

“The state of American energy must be strong in order for the American economy to thrive,” said Gerard in a speech at the Newseum on Tuesday. “How then do we strengthen the state of American energy?”  Continue reading “U.S. Contains Enough Oil and Gas Reserves to Fuel Country for Decades, Petroleum Institute Says”

BBC

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court has cleared three former executives of the firm operating the plant of professional negligence.

It was the only criminal case to arise out of the disaster, which was the worst since Chernobyl in 1986.  Continue reading “Fukushima disaster: Nuclear executives found not guilty”

CNS News

The number of unaccompanied children (UACs) entering the United States during fiscal year 2019 has grown to levels never seen before, Jonathan Hayes, director of the HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), told Congress on Thursday.

According to his written testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, DHS referred more than 67,000 UACs to ORR as of Sept. 16, 2019, which is the highest number in the program’s history.  Continue reading “HHS: Number of Unaccompanied Alien Children Entering US Reaches Highest in History”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) bill to lift per-country caps on permanent residency, long sought by Indian and Chinese immigrants, failed to bypass a roll-call vote on Thursday.

Senator Lee’s legislation would have given China and India nationals the ability to obtain green cards faster. Lee tried to push the bill up before the August recess but failed. Lee has been a frequent critic of President Trump and his America First agenda.  Continue reading “Senator Lee’s Bill to Favor Chinese and Indian Workers Over US Workers is Blocked by Senate”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Henrico County, VA — A Virginia family is grieving this week after police officers were called to a home to conduct a welfare check on 57-year-old Gay Ellen Plack. Instead of helping the woman in need, however, police killed her. Since the shooting, police have been refusing to release any details, leading many to speculate that police are trying to get their stories straight over a likely unjustified shooting.  Continue reading “Cops Shoot and Kill Beloved Mother in Her Own Home While ‘Checking on Her Welfare’”

Green Med Info – by Sayer Ji

Water is life, as the saying goes. And it’s more than just a poetic phrase. Water is so intrinsically connected to life, if you counted all the molecules in the human body, 99% of them would be water!

On average, a human life can be sustained for up to three weeks without food, but a person won’t survive more than a few days without water. Under extreme conditions, an adult can lose around one liter of water per hour, all of which needs to be readily replaced to maintain a healthy fluid balance. So, what could be more important than consuming high quality, non-contaminated water?  Continue reading “Why There Is No Such Thing As ‘Safe’ Tap Water”

“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tench Cox, 1778  Continue reading “Trenchers answer to Colt’s new communist policy”

Reason – by Jacob Sullum

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly floating a proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers that is similar to an unsuccessful 2013 bill sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.) and Patrick Toomey (R–Pa.). The proposal would require background checks for “all advertised commercial sales, including gun sales at gun shows.”  Continue reading “Here Are the Problems With the Attorney General’s Plan To Expand Background Checks for Gun Buyers”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

Chinese media tends to be very astute at picking up and exacerbating hot-button American political issues, doing everything it can to highlight controversies even when China’s authoritarian brutality makes the criticism absurd.

A fresh example appeared in the state-run Global Times on Wednesday as the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 was invoked to justify gun control legislation as part of a sarcastic broadside against American criticism of Chinese human rights violations.  Continue reading “Chinese Media Cites Lincoln Assassination to Call for U.S. Gun Ban”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

Instagram is now blurring out images of women at gun ranges, saying the photos violate “violence or dangerous organization guidelines.”

Yes, really.

A picture was posted showing Kaitlin Bennett and Millie Weaver shooting firearms at a gun range.  Continue reading “Instagram is Now Banning Photos of People at Gun Ranges, Claiming They Promote ‘Violence’”

Daily Mail

Street brawls broke out last night as protesters burned the Stars and Stripes during President Donald Trump‘s $15million fundraising visit to Los Angeles.

There were furious skirmishes outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Tuesday when anti-Trump demonstrators were set upon while trying to set the US flag on fire.  Continue reading “Fights break out between Trump supporters and protesters”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Jalalabad, Afghanistan — Imagine for a moment that you had just finished a long day’s work with two hundred other farmers. You were settling down to relax for the night, when out of nowhere, hell fire missiles rain down from drones in the sky and blow up dozens of your coworkers, maiming and tearing limbs from dozens more. Imagine if this happened inside the United States. Imagine the reaction from politicians and the US war machine looking to right this wrong.  Continue reading “The Price of ‘Freedom’? US Drone Massacres Dozens of Afghan Farmers as They Slept”

CBS

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami resident and Holocaust survivor David Mermelstein gave emotional testimony to the Senate judiciary committee, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that would help others like him collect the insurance claims of their relatives murdered by the Nazis.

The president of the Holocaust Survivors of Miami-Dade County is lobbying for survivors to be able to sue European insurance companies for policies that Nazi Germany violated. Continue reading “Miami Holocaust survivors urge Congress to let them sue European insurance companies”

AP

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gunmaker Colt says it is suspending its production of rifles for the civilian market including the popular AR-15.

Colt’s chief executive officer, Dennis Veilleux, says it is not permanently ending production but believes there is already an adequate supply of sporting rifles on the market. He said in a statement Thursday the company will concentrate on fulfilling military and law enforcement contracts with its rifle manufacturing.  Continue reading “Colt suspends production of AR-15 for civilian market”