Washington Examiner – by Daniel Jativa

Armed Mexican troops disarmed two United States soldiers while they were on the American side of the border, U.S. defense officials have said.

U.S. Northern Command said in a statement that “five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S. Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations” this month. The U.S. soldiers were in an unmarked Customs and Border Protection [CBP] vehicle near the southwest border near Clint, Texas.  Continue reading “Mexican troops disarmed American soldiers on US side of the border”

Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

Oregon Governor Kate Brown has submitted her 2-year budget proposal to the Oregon state legislature, and it includes several health initiatives aimed at children’s behavioral (mental) health under the oversight of the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations, a “uniquely Oregon approach to blending a wide array of health services under one umbrella.”  Continue reading “Oregon to Become First State to Mandate Universal Home Visits of All Families with Newborn Children”

Activist Post – by BN Frank

Parents with children who have ADHD have my sympathy.  Therapy takes a long time and doesn’t always work.  It’s also not cheap.  Dietary changes aren’t easy to implement.  Drugs don’t always work and they aren’t necessarily cheap either.  Drugs can also have horrible side effects.  So there’s a new treatment that the FDA recently approved for kids ages 7-12 with ADHD:  an electrical pulse patch to wear on their foreheads while they sleep.  Continue reading “FDA Approves Low-Level Electrical Pulse Forehead Patch to Be Worn by Children Ages 7-12 with ADHD While They Are Sleeping”

Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Saturday it had “deep concern” about armed groups that intimidate and extort migrants on the border, shortly after the ACLU and Democratic senators called for a probe into such citizen efforts to block migrants from crossing.

“These types of practices can drive human rights abuses of people who migrate or request asylum or refuge in the United States,” Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry said in a statement, referring to “militia groups” in New Mexico.  Continue reading “Mexico warns of ‘deep concern’ over armed groups on U.S. border”

Daily Mail

At least 207 people have died after suspected suicide bombers blew up churches and five-star hotels in an Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka.

The eight blasts today ripped through landmarks around Colombo and on Sri Lanka’s east coast, targeting Christians, hotel guests and foreign tourists and leaving at least 450 people wounded.  Continue reading “Hundreds hurt as blasts hit Sri Lanka churches, hotels”

Yahoo News

TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border into New Mexico.

The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered an investigation.  Continue reading “FBI arrests leader of armed group stopping migrants in New Mexico”

Daily Mail

Local California authorities were left bewildered on Thursday by a large illegal cannabis farm that took them an entire day to seize and contained some 40,000 pot plants, valued at a staggering $20million.

The illicit farm – located on the 2500 block of McCallister Street in Riverside – reportedly emitted a strong odor that prompted an anonymous source to contact authorities, Riverside Police Department Officer Ryan Railsback explained to KTLA.  Continue reading “California authorities discover a MASSIVE illegal pot farm”

Unz Review – by Mike Whitney

The liberal world order, which lasted from the end of World War 2 until today, is rapidly collapsing. The center of gravity is shifting from west to east where China and India are experiencing explosive growth and where a revitalized Russia has restored its former stature as a credible global superpower. These developments, coupled with America’s imperial overreach and chronic economic stagnation, have severely hampered US ability to shape events or to successfully pursue its own strategic objectives. Continue reading “Brzezinski’s Warning to America”

Press TV

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel is a “disgusting murderous criminal” who was promoted to CIA chief for her role in inflicting torture on terror suspects, an American scholar and political commentator says.

“She tortured people; she was a torture specialist; I guess that’s how you rise to the top of the CIA these days; is by specializing in inflicting horrific suffering on your fellow human beings, and in this case on innocent ones,” said Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host in Madison, Wisconsin.  Continue reading “CIA chief Gina Haspel is ‘disgusting murderous criminal’: Scholar”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As more states vote to legalize marijuana, either for recreation purposes, medicinal or both, 4/20, once a counter-culture holiday only observed by stoners and deadheads, has become big businesses. It has been embraced by brands, from Lyft, to Totino’s to Ben & Jerry’s, as the AP reports. And although they still step up their enforcement of driving while high around the holiday, police departments, too, have become much more willing to treat the subject with frivolity.  Continue reading “Police Departments Have Started Treating ‘420 Day’ Like A Joke”

Roll Call – by Ben Peters

The times are changing, and so is the marble. Arkansas is leaving behind statues of the old guard and sending a few new faces to the U.S. Capitol.

Civil rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates and musician Johnny Cash will join the Statuary Hall collection in D.C., replacing 19th-century attorney Uriah Milton Rose and statesman James Paul Clarke. The governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, made the plan official by signing a bill last week.  Continue reading “Johnny Cash is replacing one of the Capitol’s Civil War statues”

Unz Review – by Andrew Joyce

“Know that we have taken into our hand, custody, and protection Leo the Jew our goldsmith and all his affairs. And therefore we command that you keep ward and defend the said Leo and all his affairs, doing no hurt or injury to him.”
Proclamation of King John of England, 10 Nov. 1199

Continue reading “Thoughts on the Protected Race”

Daily Mail

An Ohio mother demanded action on Friday after her two young daughters were removed from their private Christian school because she ‘committed adultery.’

Summer Grant, 30, told WYKC that her daughters – fourth grader Summara and second grader Summaia – have attended the Chapel Hill Christian Schools for years.  Continue reading “Ohio mom learns daughters were banned from Christian private school because she ‘committed adultry’”

Texas Tribune

El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley are less than two weeks away from the scheduled opening of temporary detention centers that will each house up to 500 migrants who have crossed the border to seek asylum.

The facilities, commonly referred to as a “tent cities,” are the federal government’s response to the ongoing crush of migrants, mainly from Central America, who continue to cross into Texas after traveling through Mexico.  Continue reading “Temporary immigration detention facilities to open in El Paso, Rio Grande Valley”