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After Being Hired as a National Security Fellow by The Huffington Post, This Former NFL Player’s Tweets About 9/11 Have New Relevance
The Huffington Post announced Wednesday evening that they hired Donte Stallworth as a politics fellow covering national security, giving new relevance to one of the former NFL player’s years-old tweets. “NO WAY 9/11 was carried out by ‘dying’ Bin Laden, 19 men who couldn’t fly a damn kite,” Stallworth tweeted in July 2009. “STILL have…
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Anti-Gun? Usually it’s White People
Most anti-gun whites live in bastions of delusional liberal-mostly white-utopias, where their only struggle is bantering back and forth among themselves in a civilized discussion of what restaurant will get their business Friday evening for dinner. Can you picture them?…namby-pamby wussy males idly standing by in rainbow colored polo shirts and coordinating stupid sweaters…
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Justice Department reportedly to investigate Ferguson Police Department
The Department of Justice is reportedly launching a civil rights investigation into the Ferguson Police Department after an unarmed black teen was fatally shot by one of the department’s officers. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the investigation by Attorney General Eric Holder may be announced as early as Thursday, and will be led by the…
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REPORT: ISIS militants have executed up to 770 Iraqi troops in Tikrit
Islamic State militants killed up to 770 captured Iraqi soldiers after they captured a former US military base in Tikrit back in June, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. Three new mass execution sites have been discovered at the Camp Speicher air base near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, the…
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Missionary infected with Ebola describes her deadly virus with virus
Smiling and appearing robustly healthy, a U.S. missionary infected with Ebola while working in Liberia on Wednesday shared publicly her battle with the deadly virus for the first time. Nancy Writebol, 59, of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been recovering in an undisclosed location since her release last month from an Atlanta hospital that also treated…
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Judge in Aurora theater massacre case allows ballistics evidence
A judge overseeing murder proceedings against accused Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes ruled on Wednesday that evidence linking bullet fragments and shell casings to weapons belonging to Holmes will be allowed at trial. Attorneys defending the onetime neuroscience doctoral candidate accused of killing 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 others two years ago had sought…
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U.N. says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola pandemic as death toll tops 1,900
The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a new part of the country. The pace of the infection has accelerated, and there were close to…
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US scientists working on mind-controlled drones for military use
University researchers in Texas say they are designing a new type of drone – one that could be controlled simply and only with a soldier’s mind. If successful, the project would allow soldiers to command future drones in ways beyond simple navigational commands. While troops would be able to order a drone to “move left”…
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Colorado recreational pot revenues fall short, not as high as expected (no pun intended)
High hopes in Colorado concerning the revenue generated by the state’s legalized marijuana rules might have been nothing more than a pipe dream. Officials now say pot taxes are bringing in only a portion of what was expected. Adults in Colorado have since January 1 been able to legally purchase weed for recreational purposes, and…
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What the hell?! Arizona forces statutory rape VICTIM to pay child support
A 24-year-old Arizona man is being asked to pay more than $15,000 in child support for a daughter he fathered at the age of 14 — and didn’t know existed until two years ago. The Arizona Republic reported this week that the man, Nick Olivas, is legally a victim of rape since he was younger than 15…
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Missouri Gov. Nixon cancels emergency order for Ferguson
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has lifted the state of emergency he declared Aug. 16 in response to looting and violent protesting in Ferguson. The unrest followed the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. A state grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department are still investigating the shooting. Nixon…
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News organizations sue for access to possible Michael Brown juvenile records
Lingering questions about Michael Brown could be answered Wednesday as two news organizations seek the release of any possible juvenile records for the unarmed 18-year-old who was killed by a Missouri police officer last month. Juvenile records are confidential in Missouri, so it’s not definitively known if Brown was arrested before he legally became an…
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Government Theft Now Called ‘Waste’ Criminals Still At Large, No Charges Filed
The lamestream media told you: [This is just too rich.] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/05/federal-spending-transparency-money-missing/13485581/ WASHINGTON – A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found. And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, which looked…
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57,000 Businesses Fight Back, Post ‘Guns Welcome’ Signs On Front Door
Despite Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s ongoing push to shame businesses into banning guns in their stores, 57,000 businesses have posted “guns welcome” or similar signs on their front doors. Moms Demand has persuaded just five businesses — Target, Chipotle, Jack in the Box, Chili’s, and Sonic — to ask customers to leave their…
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King Hussein is nuts! Stating the obvious understatement!
From DW Ulsterman I watched the words being said by Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters and then rewound the program to make certain he did in fact say them. The Colonel is among the first to admit publicly on record that there appears to be something very wrong with the current President of the United States……
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Ammo Registration Bill Defeated In California
I never would’ve believed that in my day, the idea of ammo registration would’ve been thought of but we’ve learned from history that California raises the bar when it comes to stupidity and liberalism. Sportsmen, gun owners and retailers in California scored a major victory on Saturday as the California Assembly was unable to muster…
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U.S. journalist Sotloff ignored dangers and warnings, determined to record Arab Spring’s human toll
Even for a freelance journalist covering the tumult in the Arab world, Steven Sotloff’s travels seemed nonstop. In October 2012, the American reporter was in Benghazi, Libya, covering the aftermath of the deadly raid on the U.S. diplomatic compound there. In December, he was in northern Syria, writing about the lives of destitute, displaced Syrians…
