Willamette Week – by Rachel Monahan

The biggest story in Oregon politics this month was something that didn’t happen. On July 16, business interests abandoned an effort to repeal the Legislature’s $1 billion corporate tax increase to fund schools.

For decades, Republicans referred taxes to voters whenever they felt Democrats overstepped the will of the electorate. When timber executive Rob Freres wrote a $1 million check in June to fund an initiative campaign that would put the tax before voters, a 2020 trip to the ballot seemed inevitable.

Continue reading “How Oregon Democrats Kept a Tax Increase Away From Voters”

The Hill

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can start using military funds to construct a wall on the southern border, handing the president a major legal victory.

The ruling allows the administration to use $2.5 billion in military funds to begin construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border while litigation plays out. A lower court had issued an injunction blocking officials from using those funds.  Continue reading “Supreme Court rules Trump can use military funds for border wall construction”

Daily Mail

This is the moment a homeowner pulled his gun on two teens who tried to rob him in his own front yard.

The suspects had allegedly been terrorizing the Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a spate of robberies on Wednesday, when they approached the victim.  Continue reading “Teens who terrorized homeowners are arrested”

Ammoland – by Dave Workman

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Two weeks after Presidio County became the first county in Texas to declare itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary,” the Earth is still turning, the sky hasn’t fallen and the Lone Star still shines bright as ever, maybe brighter.

As Ammoland reported back on April 19, there is a good formula for creating a “sanctuary” for gun owners’ rights. That formula has been working in Washington State, Illinois and other places where citizens are fed up with government trying to micro-manage their lives, while turning a constitutionally-enumerated right into a government-regulated privilege.  Continue reading “Presidio County Brings Texas into 2A Sanctuary Movement”

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Forbes

The last place graphic designer Charles Leazott expected to see his fake presidential seal was on a screen with President Donald Trump smiling in front of it. The seal, which features “45 is a puppet” and a bald eagle holding golf clubs, appeared behind Trump Tuesday when he took the stage at the Teen Student Action Summit hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA.  Continue reading “Donald Trump Stood In Front Of A Fake Presidential Seal. Here’s The Man Who Made It.”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Most Americans probably haven’t heard of the Posse Comitatus Act. But the federal law, passed in 1878, bars active duty troops from being used as police within the borders of the US. And some Democrats believe that the 5,000+ troops station along the southern border are in violation of the law, despite the Trump Administration’s claims that they’re only there to “support” the CBP personnel.  Continue reading “Are Trump’s Troop Deployments To The Border Breaking A 140-Year-Old Law?”

American Herald Tribune – by Hafsa Kara-Mustapha

Boris Johnson’s role as prime minister was always going to prove controversial. The man is known as a self-serving compulsive liar a cheat and inept. Hardly the required qualities to lead a country let alone an industrial nation facing its most challenging political transition in recent history.

But controversy, as it appears, will be the hallmark of a Boris premiership.  As names of potential cabinet members started circulating in the media, on the eve of his ‘induction’ by the Tory party, one in particular stuck out and for all the wrong reasons.  Continue reading “Priti Patel: When Treachery Becomes a ‘Rewardable’ Offence”

Breitbart – by John Binder

House Democrats and 39 Republicans passed a plan to provide asylum in the United States to potentially millions of Venezuelans fleeing their socialist dictator.

In a 272 to 158 House vote on Thursday, every Democrat and 39 Republicans voted to create a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Venezuela’s population — allowing nationals who are already in the U.S. to remain and incentivizing more to migrate.  Continue reading “House Dems, 39 Republicans Pass ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Venezuelans”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Lafayette, LA — District Judge Marilyn Castle is making national headlines this week after she ordered court room police to put duct tape over a man’s mouth while he was being sentenced. Then, going even further, she went after the public defender in the room who filmed the heinous act, for contempt.

On July 18, Michael C. Duhon was in court for sentencing after he was found guilty of money laundering and theft over $25,000. After Duhon attempted to make multiple objections, he was then silenced by the judge.  Continue reading “Judge Orders Man’s Mouth Duct Taped Shut in Court, Charges Public Defender for Filming It”

FEE – by Brittany Hunter

For three years, the pair scrimped and saved in order to fix up the four-unit property. On the weekends, Ramouldo would spend his days off making the 11-hour drive from New Jersey to Michigan to work on the house, making the much-needed repairs himself. In addition to the small complex, the family had purchased a small home next door. The plan was to renovate and rent out each unit and then use that money to help Ramouldo retire and move his family to the small home in Michigan, where the rest of their extended family resides.  Continue reading “Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes”

New York Post – by Yaron Steinbuch

John McAfee of antivirus software fame and his entourage were detained for several days in the Dominican Republic after authorities discovered firearms and ammo on his yacht, according to reports.

The eponymous founder of the PC software security giant docked his yacht, Great Mystery, in Puerto Plata, where the stash was seized, Reuters reported.  Continue reading “John McAfee jailed in Dominican Republic on gun charges”

American Trucker

When Ingrid Brown started driving a truck in 1979, it was rare for her to see another woman on the road. Back then, the owner-operator knew of six other female drivers who ran a regular route from North Carolina to California, and they would leave handwritten notes for each other at truck stops.

“We didn’t have cell phones, but we kept in touch with each other. There was a bond,” said Brown, who drives for Rabbit River, based in Holland, MI.  Continue reading “Women in trucking”