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Covington VA –-(Ammoland.com)- More anti-gun double-standards! This time it is ECPI University in Virginia Beach.

A student, Patrick Winslow, simply wants to form a Second Amendment Club, along the line of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, and was told “NO!”

Responding for the School, William C. Salice, the Campus Director of Academic Affairs, wrote in an email: “Patrick, the University wouldn’t sponsor a club like this as it does not correlate to program enhancement or community service.”  

Continue reading “ECPI University in Virginia Beach Bars Second Amendment Club”

CBS Houston – by Benjamin Fearnow

El Paso, Texas (CBS HOUSTON) – The Department of Homeland Security is looking to fulfill an order for thousands of pairs of men’s underwear – with hundreds of the requested men’s briefs in the 5X and 6X-large sizes.

A solicitation posted earlier this month by the Immigration & Customs Enforcement office seeks thousands of “White 100% Cotton Men’s Briefs” ranging from mediums to hundreds of 6X-large pairs of the underwear.   Continue reading “Homeland Security Seeks Thousands Of Pairs Of Underwear For Detained Immigrants”

KHOU 11 News – by Angela Kocherga

WESLACO, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited the Rio Grande Valley and called on Washington to do more to protect the border and help Texas cope with “a major pending disaster.”

Perry made the comments at the Texas DPS Regional Headquarters after touring an overcrowded detention center filled with Central American children.

In May alone 9000 children crossed the border according to the Department of Homeland Security.   Continue reading “Texas Gov. Rick Perry warns the Border Patrol has been “overrun””

Reuters – by Dan Whitcomb

The U.S. government’s no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Anna Brown, ruling on a lawsuit filed in federal court in Oregon by 13 Muslim Americans who were branded with the no-fly status, ordered the government to come up with new procedures that allow people on the no-fly list to challenge that designation.   Continue reading “Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution”

Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll trip over Hillary coming out of the WH and have a fall to the bottom of the WH steps and we won’t have to pay him.

Washington Free Beacon – by Bill McMorris

Vice President Joe Biden plans on relying solely on taxpayers to fund his retirement.

Biden declared on Monday that he had neither a savings account, nor any stocks to pay off his golden years.   Continue reading “Biden Plans to Live off Taxpayers Forever”

New York Times – by Benjamin Mueller

In a case weighing the government’s ability to require vaccination against the individual right to refuse it, a federal judge has upheld a New York City policy that bars unimmunized children from public school when another student has a vaccine-preventable disease.

Citing a 109-year-old Supreme Court ruling that gives states broad power in public health matters, Judge William F. Kuntz II of Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled against three families who claimed that their right to free exercise of religion was violated when their children were kept from school, sometimes for a month at a time, because of the city’s immunization policies.   Continue reading “Judge Upholds Policy Barring Unvaccinated Students During Illnesses”

Fox News

Sudanese authorities have re-arrested a young mother a day after she was freed from death row where she’d been sent for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, FoxNews.com confirmed.

Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, was arrested with her husband, Daniel Wani, at Khartoum airport as she tried to leave the country, according to Al-Sharif Ali, a member of her legal team.   Continue reading “Sudanese Christian mom spared death sentence rearrested trying to leave country”

Vladimir Suchan: Logo Politikos

As we know, President Putin has asked the Russian Federal Council, the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, to call off the March 1 resolution allowing the head of state to use the armed forces on the territory of Ukraine.

Poroshenko likes it and the West too can hardly want to “punish” Russia for this move or to introduce more sanctions. This sudden and, yes, unexpected move comes just a week or so after more Russian troops were moved back and now even unapologetically–to the borders with Ukraine.    Continue reading “Why do Western leaders want to commemorate the beginning of World War I one month ahead and in Ypres out of all the places? Should we be worried?”

RT News

As the insurgency in Iraq threatens the stability of the Shiite-led government there, only 18 percent of Americans think the Iraq War was worth the costs, according to a new poll.

The CBS/New York Times poll asked if the costs of the Iraq invasion, including monetary and loss of American lives, were worth it. A record 75 percent of those surveyed said that it wasn’t worth the costs, up from 67 percent in November 2011 (just before the final withdrawal of US troops) and 45 percent in August 2003, five months after the invasion began.   Continue reading “Was Iraq War worth the cost? 75% of Americans say no – poll”

RT News

Unidentified bombers have reportedly launched an air strike on ISIS positions in the northern Iraqi city of al-Qaim. Iraqi television has claimed they are US planes, but the Pentagon has denied responsibility.

US planes were identified by Iraqi television, but the Saudi Al-Arabiya network claims that the raid was carried out by Syria, citing local tribal chiefs.   Continue reading “Unknown planes bomb ISIS positions in N. Iraq, Pentagon denies it’s US”

Mail.com

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — For Queen Elizabeth II, one throne is enough.

The United Kingdom’s 88-year-old monarch toured the Belfast sets of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” and met many of its stars Tuesday beside the show’s sword-covered seat of power, the Iron Throne.   Continue reading “On set: Queen Elizabeth declines to sit on Iron Throne”

Mail.com

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A debris field at the bottom of Lake Michigan may be the remains of the long-lost Griffin, a vessel commanded by a 17th-century French explorer, said a shipwreck hunter who has sought the wreckage for decades.

Steve Libert told The Associated Press that his crew found the debris this month about 120 feet from the spot where they removed a wooden slab a year ago that was protruding from the lake bottom. Libert believes that timber was the bowsprit of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle’s ship, although scientists who joined the 2013 expedition say the slab more likely was an abandoned fishing net stake.   Continue reading “Explorer says Griffin shipwreck may be found”

Mail.com

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — This is what it’s like to live in Denmark, a nation with a narrower wealth gap than almost anywhere else: You’ve been jobless for more than a year. You have no university degree, no advanced skills. You have to pay a mortgage. And your husband is nearing retirement.

You aren’t worried. If you’re 51-year-old Lotte Geleff, who lost her job as an office clerk in January 2013, you know you’ll receive an unemployment benefit of 10,500 kroner ($1,902) a month after taxes for up to two years. You’re part of a national system of free health care and education for everyone, job training, subsidized child care, a generous pension system and fuel subsidies and rent allowances for the elderly.   Continue reading “What wealth gap? Danish welfare narrows disparity”

Mail.com

OKYO (AP) — The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people — almost.

Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University professor, says they will be useful for research on how people interact with robots and on what differentiates the person from the machine.   Continue reading “Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human”

Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill

My wife and I were in Austin last week to visit some friends and family, and took a trip with my wife’s cousin and their family to Canyon Lake. This is between Austin and New Braunfels, and we took a trip down the Guadalupe river. A lot of people go there for a leisurely float down the river in innertubes. It was a nice sunny Saturday and the place was packed. The river ride was (way) too slow for my tastes; when I heard ‘river raft’, I had a distinctly different and more adventurous idea than the snails-pace at which the tube floated. Nevertheless, off we went. There are a lot of websites on Guadalupe River tubing and some pictures here, here, and here.   Continue reading “Texas Sheriffs Form Warrantless Checkpoints in Guadalupe River, Searching Witless Inner Tube Riders”