Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge.

In one major change, the committee voted 17-1 to make a third drunken-driving conviction a deportable offense for the newly legalized immigrants if at least one of those offenses occurs after they are approved for legal status.   Continue reading “Senate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits for newly legal immigrants”

To be delivered to: Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, Christine Quinn, Speaker, New York City Council, New York City Council, The New York State House, The New York State Senate and 3 other targets (click here to see more)

The Spectra Pipeline, a high-pressure gas pipeline under construction in Manhattan’s West Village, slated to go online in November 2013, poses a grave and immediate risk to New York residents.   Continue reading “Stop the Spectra pipeline.”

AlterNet – by  Iulia Filip

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CN) – A woman died on a courthouse floor because Alabama sheriff’s deputies refused to give her her medicine – after arresting her for an old traffic ticket, the woman’s daughter claims in court.

Ayunna Johnae London sued St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles, jail administrators Austin Nash and Terry Marcrum, Southern Healthcare Partners, and its employee Jennifer Eisel, in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Elderly Woman Dies in Court “Gasping for Breath” After Sheriff’s Deputies “Callously” Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims”

Think Progress – by Nicole Flatow

A major U.S. private prison operator known for inmate abuse, violations, and disregardfor the truth reported a 56-percent spike in profit in the first quarter of 2013, due in part to its new strategy for drastically reducing its taxes, the Associated Press reports. During a conference call touting its success, representatives at GEO Group boasted that the company continues to have “solid occupancy rates in mid to high 90s” and that they are optimistic “regarding the outlook for the industry,” in part due to a “growing offender population.” GEO Senior Vice President John Hurley assured investors during the call:   Continue reading “Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives Assure Investors Of ‘Growing Offender Population’”

gold runSilver Doctors

“Hang on to your gold [and silver], don’t even watch the corrupt gold price, because I can guarantee you in the next several months, or a year or more, there will be NO COMEX GOLD PRICE. Because they will have no inventory; they will offer no more futures contracts, because the line up for lawsuits and prosecution will be so long…”   Continue reading “Jim Willie: Bullion Bank Run in Progress, Climax Coming!”

07_10718683.JPGOregon Live – by Stuart Tomlinson

As preparedness drills go, the 3-day PACE (Portland Area Capabilities Exercise) Setter bioterrorism exercise that starts Tuesday is big. The exercise–which simulates a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon–will unfold across 50 different venues and some 65 jurisdictions from Gresham to Tigard.

Officials say it’s the largest such exercise undertaken since 2007, when a drill known as TOPOFF tested a simulated response to a dirty bomb explosion in Portland.   Continue reading “Three day metro-wide disaster drill will simulate bioterrorism attack”

The Daily Caller – by Charles C. Johnson

The “charity” run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website.

The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.     Continue reading “Tax-exempt Obama Foundation doesn’t exist at listed addresses”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

A democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, had this to say  about the tornado that touched down in Oklahoma yesterday, at least partially blaming those who question man-made global warming, people he calls “extremists”, for the tornado and pretty much everything else bad that has (will) happen across the country:   Continue reading “Oklahoma Tornado: A Little Perspective – It’s Not the Worst In History and It’s Not the Fault of “Extremist” Global Warming Deniers”

SWAT team rammed wrong man’s car, lawsuit alleges photoCaptain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

In a slight twist of the SWAT team raids the wrong home theme, Austin American-Statesman has this report.

Driving in the early morning hours to his job at a metal shop in Buda, Miguel Montanez at first thought the approaching lights were a school bus or a tow truck.   Continue reading “SWAT Team Rams Wrong Man’s Car”

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More than 85,000 US veterans received medical treatment for sex abuse trauma in 2012, while only 4,000 applied for disability benefits. The numbers portray the shocking long-term consequences of sex abuse, days after the Pentagon acknowledged the problem.   Continue reading “Ongoing military rape epidemic: 85k vets treated for sex abuse in 2012”

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The biggest thing to come out of Texas may turn out to be a blow to Internet freedoms: legislators there are considering a bill that would compromise privacy on the Web for all residents of the Lone Star State.

Lawmakers in the State Senate are expected to vote Monday on a bill that, if passed, would compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) anywhere in the world to fork over private Web records if that information could aid in a criminal investigation.   Continue reading “Texas votes on its own CISPA-like cyber bill”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A few days when reporting that the Russian Pacific fleet had crossed the Suez canal for the first time in decades in order to form a Mediterranean task force parked in Cyprus for obvious symbolic reasons (in close proximity to Syria and the Israel-parked Kearsarge), some observed that while the submarine support was adequate, the actual warship fleet designated to support any potential escalation in Syria would be largely insufficient.   Continue reading “Russia Adds Two More Warships To Mediterranean Task Force Near Syria”

record-police_phone (Copy)IntelliHub – by JG Vibes

It seems as if every day now there is a new story of someone catching extreme police brutality on camera.  The sad truth of the matter is that this happens a lot more than everyday, it probobly happens many times each hour all throughout the country.  Many times it takes months, possibly even years for the evidence to finally see the light of day.  In this case in Canada, it took about 2 years.   Continue reading “Cop on Video: “I Hurt People and Then I Make Their F#%*ing Cocaine Appear””

29-Jun-12Bel Marra Health – by Dr. Marchione

When you picture anger it is likely that you are picturing the emotion as a negative thing. And for the most part it is considered to have an association with an unstable state of mental health. Anger can be associated with feelings of stress, that are let to boil over and they can begin to affect many aspects of your life. Including your home life, social relationships, kids and grandkids, and your ability to be effective in the workplace.   Continue reading “Being Angry Can Make You Live Longer”

Mr. Conservative – by Warner Todd Huston

The left in America today has ginned up hatred for our Second Amendment so badly that even a gun salesman being dropped off at a major gun show is assumed to be a terrorist by authorities–and treated as such despite the facts.

Italian Daniele Perazzi, the grandson of the owner of the company that makes some of the most expensive shotguns in the world, was on his way to a major gun show in Denver, Colorado, when his taxi driver turned him in claiming he was a “terrorist.”   Continue reading “Shotgun Manufacturer Accused Of Terrorism For Transporting Firearms To Gun Show”

marijuana bud 263x164 Marijuana Helps 6 Year Old Beat Severe Seizures, Replaces PharmaceuticalsNatural Society – by Elizabeth Renter

As if the medical marijuana industry wasn’t controversial enough—with opponents arguing it encourages drug addiction and crime and supporters citing years of research to the contrary—there are now children benefiting from it. While there are several cases across the country of children being given various forms of cannabis to treat disease and illness, the case of 6-year old Jayden David is getting a particularly heavy dose of attention, where marijuana helped the boy beat severe epileptic seizures.   Continue reading “Marijuana Helps 6-Year Old Beat Severe Seizures, Replaces Pharmaceuticals”