NBC News – by Elizabeth Chuck

After becoming one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana last year, Colorado set another new standard on Tuesday when voters approved a pot sales tax.

Recreational cannabis sales will have a 25 percent tax slapped on them starting Jan. 1, when retailers begin selling pot legally, with 15 percent of that being an excise tax to be used for public school construction projects and 10 percent being a special sales tax to fund enforcement of regulations on the retail marijuana industry.   Continue reading “Colorado votes to tax legal marijuana”

FBI Director, James B. ComeyWhoWhatWhy – by James Henry

For more than six months, WhoWhatWhy has been asking questions about the Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath, pursuing our constitutionally protected duty. By and large, reaction from official sources has been mute.

Is the FBI conducting an honest investigation or working diligently on a cover-up? It’s impossible to know.   Continue reading “Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights For Public’s Right To Know… Nothing”

Chris ChristieBusiness Insider – by BRETT LOGIURATO

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will win re-election, multiple networks are projecting.

The final numbers are expected to be a landslide, as the race was never close between Christie and Democratic candidate Barbara Buono.    Continue reading “New Jersey Election Results: Christie Wins”

survival items One Good Thing by Jillee

I grew up in sunny California, and even though I have now lived in Utah for nearly 20 years, I still get this unsettled feeling whenever winter starts to settle in. When I think of how COLD it gets and the things that could potentially go wrong while on the road, or even at home should the power go out, I am reminded of how woefully prepared I am for such emergencies.   Continue reading “23 Items Under $5 That Can Save Your Life”

Jin hye JoThe Lonely Conservative

Americans in large numbers are embracing communism, whether it’s wittingly or unwittingly doesn’t really matter. By voting for progressive Democrats, they’re voting for communists. Well, this is how communists treat people once they gain complete control.

Jin [Hye Jo], 26, who has lived in the United States since 2008 and runs a charity for North Korean defectors, scoffed at the suggestion that the food shortages were due to natural causes, claiming that government officials drive BMWs and drink exotic whiskies while children die.   Continue reading “This Is How Communists Treat People”

Reuters

Several small bombs exploded in front of a Communist Party building in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another eight, state media said.

The official Xinhua news agency said what appeared to be small-scale bombs went off outside an office building of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi province.

“Judging from the scattering of small metal balls, it is suspected that improvised bombs exploded,” the news agency said.   Continue reading “Explosions kill 1, injure 8 in north China city: reports”

TSA VIPR teams securityBusiness Insider – by Paul Szoldra

The next time you have to take off your shoes and get searched by an employee of the Transportation Security Administration, it may not be at the airport.

Ron Nixon reports in The New York Times on the expansion of TSA’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads, or VIPR, which are leaving the airports behind to perform security checks at train stations, subway stops, and other transportation-related hubs.

Created in the wake of the 2004 Madrid train bombing, VIPR teams — comprised of explosives experts, behavioral detection officers, and canine handlers — work with local law enforcement to move through crowds and randomly stop passengers and ask questions.   Continue reading “The TSA Is Expanding Its Reach Far Beyond Airport Security”

DMSO.jpgThe Healing Journal

DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is derived from lignin, a binding substance of trees. The Crown Zellerbach Corporation, a mammoth lumber company, holds the patents on DMSO for use as an industrial solvent AND as a liniment for treating pain in horses. Crown Zellerbach licenses DMSO exclusively to Research Industries for marketing as a drug – called Rimso-50. Topically applied, DMSO has the unusual ability to act as a “chemical hypodermic needle”, which is to say that it is rapidly absorbed through the skin and can take with it other substances that ordinarily would not cross the skin’s barrier. DMSO is often used by alternative therapists to enhance the outcomes of other substances and therapies. (A health professional always needs to be consulted – no self-doctering here!)
Entering the body, either “painted” on the skin, taken orally, or via IV, DMSO rapidly penetrates into cells and cleans them of toxins, a desirable mechanism which may explain much of its versatility. Topically applied, DMSO produces a garlic-like taste in the mouth and a breath odor. Topical use can occasionally cause a rash, blistering, itching, hives, or skin thickening – especially when too much is used. Intravenous use can cause kidney damage and other adverse side effects and be certain that the product you are using is medical grade (at least 99.9% pure) and not of industrial grade.)   Continue reading “DMSO “a little dab will do ya””

Richard Shoop, 20, of Teaneck, NJ., showed no signs of trouble before he allegedly carried a rifle into the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, friends and neighbors say.New York Daily News – by Barry Paddock , Vera Chinese , Doyle Murphy AND Corky Siemaszko

The troubled pizza deliveryman who terrorized a New Jersey mall with a high-powered rifle was apparently hoping a police bullet would take him out of his misery.

But a day after Richard Shoop ended his rampage and his life by shooting himself in the basement of the Westfield Garden State Plaza, his stunned brother said “this was something that none of us saw coming.”   Continue reading “Garden State Plaza mall shooting suspect Richard Shoop possibly planned ‘suicide by cop’: prosecutor”

Common Dreams – by Caroline Arnold

Today is Guy Fawkes Day in England, celebrating the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and kill King James I in 1605.

Fawkes was one of a group of Roman Catholics who feared they were mortally threatened by a Protestant authoritarian king and government. The plotters planned to destroy Parliament and kill the king by exploding 1800 lbs of gunpowder in a cellar beneath the House of Lords.   Continue reading “Masks, Memes, the Torturers, and the Witches”

ted nugent running for presidentHuffington Post – by Madeline Boardman

Ted Nugent joined a Google Hangout with Detroit radio station WCSX this week, and the rock star didn’t hold back when given the chance to speak about politics.

“Politics in America are very embarrassing right now,” Nugent said. “They’re dire. I won’t go into the gory details because I think we all pay attention, I hope everyone is paying attention to what this administration is doing and what the attorney general does and how it doesn’t matter that four Americans died in Benghazi.”   Continue reading “Ted Nugent On Running For President: ‘Sure, Why Not?’”

Business Week – by Paul M. Barrett

Gun control lives. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a man barred from owning a firearm because of a 45-year-old misdemeanor assault conviction. As Bloomberg News’s high court guru, Greg Stohr, notes, the justices have repeatedly declined to take up gun-rights appeals over the last three years. The practical effect of this non-action is that the Supremes have let stand lower-court rulings preserving various restrictions on civilian gun ownership.   Continue reading “Supreme Court on Gun Control: Waiting and Watching, for Now”