The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

When CEO of Dick’s, Edward Stack, went on Good Morning America a few weeks after the Parkland Shooting in Feb. 2018 and said that the sporting-goods retailer, the largest in the country, with stores in 47 states, would no longer be selling assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines and would not be selling any weapons to those under 21 he knew it might be costly.

He was right. Dick’s estimates the policy change cost the company about $150 million in lost sales, an amount equivalent to 1.7 percent of annual revenue. Stacks maintains it was worth it.  Continue reading “Restricting Gun Sales Cost Dick’s $150 Million Last Year”

Mint Press News – by Alan Macleod

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s energy secretary, Rick Perry, has secretly approved the sale of nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, Reuters revealed this week. Saudi Arabia is reportedly attempting to construct at least two nuclear power plants as part of its effort to diversify its energy sector and its economy as a whole. As part of this plan it has accepted bids from Russia, South Korea and the U.S. for the lucrative contract. Perry’s approval is known as a Part 810 authorization, which allows energy companies to begin the process of planning and starting preliminary work in anticipation of the closing of a formal deal in the future.  Continue reading “Trump Admin Complementing Israeli Effort to Give Nuclear Weapons to Saudi Arabia”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams stands for the U.S. Constitution and is willing to go to jail to protect other Americans freedoms after a new gun law has been progressing through the Colorado legislature.

“It’s a matter of doing what’s right,” the Sheriff said.  Continue reading “Colorado sheriff stands with U.S. Constitution; willing to go to jail rather than enforce proposed gun law”

FamGuardian

Two words are used to describe citizenship: “citizen” and “national”.  There is a world of difference between these two terms and it is extremely important to understand the distinctions before we proceed further.  Below is a law dictionary definition of “citizen” that deliberately tries to confuse these two components of citizenship. We will use this definition as a starting point for our discussion of the differences between “citizens” and “nationals”:  Continue reading “STATUTORY “Citizens” v. STATUTORY “Nationals””

The Telegraph – by Steve Bird

Sajid Javid is to give police “hugely effective” stop and search powers to tackle the growing menace of knife crime.

The Home Secretary will today overturn two reforms made by Theresa May five years ago, allowing officers in seven regions to step up the use of the controversial tactic. Continue reading “Police to be given ‘hugely effective’ stop-and-search powers as Home Secretary overturns Theresa May’s reforms”

Washington Post – by Timothy Bella

AUSTIN — It was Christmas Eve 1994, and James P. Allison was testing his theory that T cells, a type of white blood cell that fights viral and bacterial infections, could help the immune system fight cancer. That week, he was covering for a postdoc aide on a European trip, who’d injected cancerous mice with an antibody to activate T cells to go after tumors. The results were stunning: All of those given the antibody became cancer-free, while the mice not provided with the antibody saw their tumors grow until they eventually died. Continue reading “A Texas scientist was called ‘foolish’ for arguing the immune system could fight cancer. Then he won the Nobel Prize.”

Dallas News  – by Tom Steele, Marc Ramirez

Hours after a motorist shot a state trooper who tried to stop him for a traffic violation Friday afternoon, a suspect was taken into custody early Saturday following a 15-hour standoff at his Frisco apartment complex.

Bryan M. Cahill, 42, of Frisco was arrested by SWAT officers about 5 a.m. Saturday, after authorities say he fired multiple gunshots at officers during negotiations.  Continue reading “After 15-hour Frisco standoff, gunman arrested in trooper shooting that was caught on video”

Patriot Rising

SB 978 has it’s first “amendment”. It’s 44 pages long and turns the bill into a nightmare anti gun bill.

We told you about SB 978 yesterday and assured you that this harmless looking bill was going to be gutted and stuffed with draconian anti-gun language, and it has been. Continue reading “Details On Oregon’s New Insane Gun-Grab Bill, with Sneak Amendment”

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”

“The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.” 🙂

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”

“Humility is truth.”  Continue reading “Quotes from philosopher Desiderius Erasmus, 1466 – 1536”

If Americans Knew – by Alison Weir

The U.S. State Department is offering to pay up to a million dollars each for two projects “that counter the rise of anti-Semitism” in Europe and Central Asia. The State Department uses a new definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticisms of Israel.

The projects will be funded through two State Department offices: the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism envoy position was created through 2004 legislation over the objection of the State Department. All four such envoys have been Israel partisans.  Continue reading “State Department to spend $2 million against “anti-Semitism” abroad”

ABC News

In a stunning about-face, State Department officials said that President Donald Trump is cutting off all direct assistance to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

“At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY [fiscal year] 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson told ABC News, referring to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We will be engaging Congress as part of this process.”  Continue reading “Trump cuts all direct assistance to Northern Triangle countries Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Avon Protection Systems Inc., Cadillac, Michigan, a $245,961,250 firm-fixed-price contract for production of M53A1 Chemical Biological Protective Mask systems, according to the DoD contract website.

The Army estimates M53A1 gas masks will start delivery in the second half of this financial year ending September. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, will oversee the purchase order.  Continue reading “DoD Orders $250 Million Of Gas Masks – What Do They Know?”

Overdrive

The U.S. Department of Transportation intends to propose a rule that would change federal hours of service regulations for truck drivers. Nearly seven months to the day after DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration began soliciting feedback for a potential overhaul to hours regs, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao took to a stage before a packed crowd at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville to make the announcement.  Continue reading “It’s official: DOT intends to propose hours of service reforms”

The Great Recession

For brick and mortar stores, the Retail Apocalypse is closing stores down like a slow-motion video of the asteroid event that took out dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While it may seem to drag on as we watch various species of retail collapse, I originally said this event would take, at least, three years (through the end of 2019) for the bulk of the impact to play out.

It was two years ago that I started writing about the damage that was to come and all the collateral damage that would ensue. I said that ultimately, it would take out malls all over the nation, nearby restaurants and eventually gas stations.  Continue reading “Retail Apocalypse Closing Stores Down Like Death of Dinosaurs”