NPR

In 1983, Utah was the first state to lower its blood alcohol limit from 0.10 to 0.08 for impaired driving. It would take nearly two decades for every state to follow suit, but as they did, the nation’s rate of alcohol-related traffic deaths dropped 10 percent. Now, Utah is pioneering the move to lower it once again.

Beginning Dec. 30 — yes, the day before New Year’s Eve — Utahns will have to be extra careful about drinking and driving. On Sunday, the state’s blood alcohol content limit will drop from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent, marking the strictest DUI law in the country.   Continue reading “Utah First In The Nation To Lower Its DUI Limit To .05 Percent”

KFOX 14

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — About 518 migrants are expected to be released by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, according to the Annunciation House.

That makes more than 1,000 migrants released in the past three days.   Continue reading “About 500 migrants released by ICE Wednesday, over 1,000 released past few days”

RT

As we bid farewell to another year, it looks like we’ll also be saying goodbye to some iconic pieces of cultural history along with it. Songs, fairy tales, hand gestures; for the PC-police, nothing has been off limits in 2018.

Here’s a look at some of the things we’ll miss as we trudge wearily on toward a heavily-sanitized world where nobody ever feels offended again.    Continue reading “PC gone wild: Traditions that will never be the same after 2018”

The Organic Prepper

Note from Daisy: It’s the Christmas season and that means it’s time for Washington, DC to try and sneak some draconian measures past us. James Wesley Rawles posted the following article on his website, Survival Blog, on Christmas Day, outlining how the new bill, the 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act, will infringe on our rights in at least 8 different ways. (And if you think this will ONLY affect those with a 3D printer, you’re quite mistaken.)   Continue reading “This New Gun Bill Is Unconstitutional In at Least 8 Different Ways”

Video Rebel’s Blog

On September 10, 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld went on CBS Evening News and admitted that the Pentagon (under the Clinton regime) had spent $2.3 trillion but had no idea where the money went. He promised the American taxpayers that the money was well spent but we just didn’t know where it was. And he promised to improve  both the bureaucratic and accounting procedures at the Pentagon  so they taxpayers would know their money was being well looked after.   Continue reading “Stealing Money From The Voters: Won’t Last Much Longer.”

The Great Recession

So, the bull market bounced back, right? Not so fast. When one appreciated reader suggested there would be a huge plunge the day after Christmas, given how badly the market plummeted the day before Christmas, I cautioned against that tempting thought. Herein are some warnings about bull traps in a bear market and how they work and how much they look exactly like what we just saw….   Continue reading “Beware the Bear’s Bull Traps!”

Institute for Historical Review

Is Revisionism a Threat to National Security?

American military service personnel are now being told that skepticism toward the official history of Europe’s Jews during World War II is not permissible. A recently published Department of Defense booklet tells armed forces members that revisionist criticism of the Six Million extermination story is nothing less than a threat to national security.  Continue reading “Defense Department Booklet Targets Holocaust Revisionism”

The Eagle – by Paul Waldman, The Washington Post

When the new year begins next week, President Donald Trump will have an acting chief of staff, an acting secretary of defense, an acting attorney general, an acting EPA administrator, no interior secretary, and no ambassador to the United Nations. The officials originally in all those positions have either been fired or have quit in various measures of disgust or scandal. His former campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, national security adviser and personal lawyer have all pleaded guilty to crimes.  Continue reading “This is what we were afraid of”

Sputnik

On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Privacy International and Civil Liberties and Transparency Clinic at the University of Buffalo filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against seven federal criminal and immigration enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

According to a press release by the ACLU, the lawsuit demands that the agencies reveal “which hacking tools and methods they [these agencies] use, how often they use them, the legal basis for employing these methods and any internal rules that govern them.” It also calls for internal audits or investigations of the agencies.   Continue reading “‘Shine a Light’: ACLU Sues 7 US Federal Agencies to Expose Government Hacking”

Congress.gov

Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] (Introduced 12/10/2018)

Committees: House – Natural Resources; Armed Services; Agriculture; Transportation and Infrastructure

Latest Action: House – 12/11/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.   Continue reading “H.R.7232 – Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2018”

AOL

Former television star Roseanne Barr says she will travel to Israel in January to learn more about Jewish history and address the country’s parliament.

Barr’s longtime friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, first announced her plans this week on social media. Boteach’s pro-Israel organization, the World Values Network, said it is sponsoring the trip.   Continue reading “Roseanne Barr plans to visit Israel, address its parliament”

Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian blogger critical of the authorities was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday, his lawyer said, in an extortion case critics say is politically-motivated.

Alexander Valov, whose blog had been critical of the authorities in the southern Russian city of Sochi, was charged earlier this year with extorting money from federal lawmaker Yuri Napso.   Continue reading “Russian blogger critical of authorities jailed for six years: lawyer”

Axios

The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Syria are continuing, and the coalition announced that attacks Dec. 16-22 “severely degraded” the group’s facilities and “removed several hundred ISIS fighters from the battlefield,” per CNN.

Why it matters: It’s a sign that the coalition’s military strategy hasn’t changed since President Trump announced last week that the U.S. would withdraw from Syria. There’s also an unspoken message: the coalition doesn’t consider the terrorist group to be defeated.   Continue reading “Syria airstrikes continue despite Trump withdrawal announcement”

Herald Net – by Zachariah Bryan

MARYSVILLE — The plan was simple: Steal tools and pawn them for money.

That’s what two men, 22 and 23, reportedly had in mind when they showed up to the Coastal Farm & Ranch store in Marysville on Saturday afternoon, according to a police report. They allegedly took four nail guns, each worth over $400, walked out of the store and got into a Honda Civic.   Continue reading “The plan was to steal tools. Then customers drew their guns”

Welfare families with children are not only at the short end life’s stick, but are stuck with the lowering of their benefits on a yearly basis. The main costs being their rent and child care. If you have a couple of kids and on welfare, you’re probably feeding them out of tins 3 or 4 times a week, inadequate to say the least. Fresh veggies and meat is a luxury, and that is what needs to change and fast. The world is not a safe place, families living under stress more than ever. Long ago kids never had the problems we have today. Why is it that our kids live under more stress than ever before? Watching their parents self worth evaporate, the pain being passed on to their kids.   Continue reading “The Money Trap – Welfare Verses Common Sense”

NCPR

Apr 12, 2018 — This week, we’re taking a close look at a part of the justice system we don’t hear much about. That’s your local village or town court and the justices who preside over them.

In the North Country, an overwhelming majority  — about 85 percent — of our local judges were not lawyers before they took the bench. They don’t have to be, according to state law.   Continue reading “How does NY go about turning a regular person into a judge?”

The Great Recession

Until you got to this tax and spending deal a year ago, it was one of the most hated bull markets. The markets steadily climbed one wall of worry after another, and the problem was that the economic data did not confirm it.

–Bloomberg

That’s right. The market was not rising for the past ten years due to a healthy underlying economy. On the contrary, the market was rising due to the Federal Reserve pumping out stratospheric amounts of thin-air money, all of which needed somewhere to land.   Continue reading “Fed Med is Dead: How We Went from Fake Recovery to Freefall”