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The oldest son of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro committed suicide at the age of 68, Cuban state media announced on Thursday.
Fidel “Fidelito” Castro Diaz-Balart is the oldest son of Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz Balart. Continue reading “Fidel Castro’s oldest son commits suicide, Cuban state media report”
Guns America – by S H Blannelberry
On Thursday of this week, more than 70,000 New York pistol permit holders woke up as felons. Law-breakers.
What was their crime? They didn’t register their handguns with the state. Now, why on God’s green earth would they have to do that?
Emperor Gov. Andrew Cuomo rammed through the NY Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in 2013. This insidious law requires pistol permit holders to register their handguns and recertify their licenses every five years. Failure to do so is a Class E felony. Continue reading “70,000 New York Permit Holders Are Now Felons for Failing to Register Handguns”
Today at 12:30pm, I was heading to work, about a quarter mile from my house when a police SUV when down the road going in the opposite direction I was driving in. He quickly turned around, put on his lights and pulled me over. I have lived in the same town for forty-five years, and in the thirty-one years I’ve been driving, I have never been pulled over by any police officer in my town.
He asked for the usual driver’s license, registration, and insurance. He briefly looked at all three, then says: “The reason I pulled you over is because your inspection sticker expired in December of 2017.” Continue reading “My encounter with a cop today.”
The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in shootings; victims are not victims, but “suspects” “fleeing”; human beings become premortem cadavers as bullets “enter the torso” rather than the chest of a person; guns and bullets act on their own as they “discharge” or “enter the right femur,” rather than being fired by autonomous individuals with agency and purpose. Headlines become 14-word, jargon-heavy tangles where a simple five-word description would suffice. Continue reading “6 Classic Ways Cops Spin the Media to Hide Their Abuses of Power”
MASPETH, Queens (WABC) — The New York City school system – with a budget of $24 billion a year, is sending letters to former students, telling them they are owed money from their school lunch account.
When the letter from the Department of Education came, Roseann did not know what to think.
“For 15 cents, it seems so frivolous,” she says. Continue reading “Students get checks for 15-cent refunds from NYC school system”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Decatur, IL — A kind and loving local chef woke up Tuesday morning to a dozen cops and health department officials raiding his home. Khemuel “Chef” Sanders had his business shut down, all of his equipment stolen by the state, and his life ruined because he made food in his home to give to the homeless.
Unfortunately, in the land of the free, it is against the law to help others or try to make a dollar without first paying the government for the privilege of doing so. While the state will claim this is for the safety of others who may consume the food, the reality is that it is a revenue generation scheme. Continue reading “Cops Raid Licensed Chef’s Home, Steal His Cooking Equipment—for Feeding the Homeless”
When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 the phrase, “well regulated militia,” underlined the importance of the words, “shall not be infringed.”
Yet today, due to the breakdown in education wrought by leftist academicians and media talking heads, many Americans presume a “well regulated militia” and “shall not be infringed” are polar opposites; that the former represents a collective right viewpoint while the latter presents the right as an individual one. Such presumptions create a false dichotomy that pits one phrase against another in an amendment where both phrases were meant to be of mutual benefit. Continue reading “A ‘Well Regulated Militia’ the Basis of Private Gun Ownership”
A copy of President Donald Trump’s draft immigration and amnesty bill includes many legal reforms which would fill the “catch and release” loopholes used by migrants to walk through the border.
Without those legal changes, migrants could use the U.S. courts to walk through Trump’s concrete-and-rebar border wall, no matter high or thick he may have it built.
“A physical wall without the legal reforms needed to make it work would just become ‘Trump’s Folly’ — a big, beautiful lonely thing in the desert that doesn’t work,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Continue reading “Trump’s Draft Border-Wall Plan Fills Legal Loopholes Vital to Democrats”
The pro-mass immigration billionaires Charles and David Koch, known informally as the “Koch brothers,” have committed to opposing President Trump’s popular plan to reduce legal immigration levels to raise the wages and quality of life for America’s working and middle class.
After a summit with donors and activists, the Koch brothers confirmed through their Hispanic lobbying organization “The LIBRE Initiative” that they would strongly oppose Trump’s plan to end the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can currently bring their foreign relatives to the U.S. as legal immigrants. Continue reading “Pro-Mass Immigration Billionaire Koch Brothers Commit to Opposing Trump’s Effort to End Chain Migration”
The prominent positions carved out for highway tolls and public-private partnerships – also known as “P3s” – within President Trump’s infrastructure plan announced during his State of the Union address this week are worrisome to many groups, especially truckers.
That’s because the “for-profit” nature of tolling plans and P3s might very well alter the fundamental nature of highway planning – and not in a good way. Continue reading “Battle shaping up over tolls, public-private partnerships”
California is seeking to treat homeschool families as presumptive child abusers. Lawmakers in that state have indicated plans to categorically require homeschool parents to prove — through home visits, interviews, and other government oversight — that indeed the parent is not abusive if they choose to exercise a legally protected and valid option for school choice. This measure would shift the burden to the parent to prove to the government’s satisfaction his or her parental fitness. Continue reading “California overreacts and presumes every homeschooling parent is a child abuser”
The Intercept – by Ali Winston
LATE LAST MONTH, a Manhattan judge ordered the New York City Police Department to release documentation about the department’s use of secretive and highly controversial “predictive policing” surveillance technology, scoring a win for advocates of transparency on police policy. The documents came to light as part of a lawsuit against the city filed by the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York-based policy institute.
Continue reading “Transparency Advocates Win Release of NYPD “Predictive Policing” Documents”
Island Packet – by Wayne Parry, AP
MANTOLOKING, N.J. – New Jersey lawmakers are reaching back to the Roman empire in their latest effort to guarantee public access to the shoreline and end some shore towns’ long history of trying to keep outsiders off their beaches.
State lawmakers have introduced a new beach access bill that writes the Public Trust Doctrine into law and directs the state Department of Environmental Protection to apply it to coastal land use and funding decisions.
Continue reading “New Jersey lawmakers recalling Roman empire in beach fight”
Emergency responders have been working tirelessly after one Indiana block observed dozens of overdoses in just a 24-hour timeframe, according to the Indy Channel.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services have responded to at least 27 reported overdoses in the area surrounding the 500 block of East Market Street since Wednesday morning. Continue reading “Single Indiana block sees 27 overdoses in 24 hours”
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A teenage girl was taken into custody after two students were shot at a Los Angeles middle school on Thursday, authorities said.
The gunfire wounded a 15-year-old boy, who was shot in the head and is in critical condition, and a 15-year-old girl, who was struck in the wrist and is in fair condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Continue reading “LA middle school shooting: Two students wounded, female student in custody”