On September 10, 2001, many who thirsted for liberty smelled hope in the air. The Clinton era was over and the new Bush era showed signs of being less eventful, even more peaceful. The Republican had won on a platform of a humbler foreign policy than Clinton-Gore's, and had by late 2001 pushed through his tax cut. More to the point, he already seemed an impotent president, having just barely won after one of the most contentious rounds of recounts and court challenges in electoral history. The S... (more)
On Sunday, KVUE.com reported without explanation that residents of Bastrop, Texas, must register with the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office before they will be allowed to re-enter their homes.
“Before Bastrop residents can re-enter, they must register and receive credentials to authorize their entrance to the residential area,” the ABC affili... (more)
According to law enforcement sources cited by ABC, however, the "suspicious behavior" in that case turned out to be two people "making out" in the bathroom. [...]
An FBI statement on the incident, however, mentions neither "making out" nor "intimate relations." It says simply, "Out of an abundance of caution, NORAD scrambled F-16 jets to shadow the flight until it landed safely at DTW at approximately 3:30 PM EDT. Law enforcement met the flight, which was brought to a remote area... (more)
In a feature on issues in the 2012 campaign for CBS News, Brian Montopoli asks, "Who's to blame for the wealth divide?" Citing the fact that, according to a Harvard/Duke study last year, "the top 20 percent controlled about 84 percent of the wealth," Montopoli contends that political "decisions tend to follow the desires of the affluent."
Montopoli couldn't be more right that Washington and p... (more)
Individual men and women don’t need enemies. Many want a challenge with an opponent, someone with whom to compete cooperatively, but not an enemy. Governments, however, do need enemies to get their citizenry to submit to coercion.
Some of us accept that as almost axiomatic, a self-evident fact that’s so blatant we can’t understand why the rest of society doesn’t recognize the obvious. So the question arises: Why are people so willing to put on blinders and... (more)
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward,” said George W. Bush on September 11, 2011. “And freedom will be defended.”
President Obama apparently agrees that the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 has been to defend freedom. This past Memorial Day he announced, “From Gettysburg to Kandahar, America’s sons and daughters have served with honor and distinction, securing our liberties and laying a foundation for la... (more)
John Collado's family never thought helping out a fellow neighbor would lead to his death.
On Tuesday evening, Collado witnessed a scuffle between his neighbor and an unknown individual.
Sensing trouble, Collado quickly dashed to the aid of his neighbor, mid-mugging. An ex-pro wrestler, Collado did what he does best and put the unidentified person in a choke hold; while the struggle persisted, the unknown person grabbed a gun and fired into Collado's abdomen.
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How does a cop with multiple incidents of alcohol fueled misconduct stay on the job for 20+ years? It’s a good question, and one that many people are asking in the wake of a recent late-night incidence of extreme violence, wherein veteran Washington D.C. Police Officer Kenneth Furr wound up standing on the hood of his Cadillac firing his service weapon into a car... (more)
After accepting a plea deal, former OU student, James Wagers, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for negligent homicide of another OU student, Eric Hansen. Wagers was found guilty after selling psylocibin mushrooms to Hansen an hour before Hansen leaped or fell from a fourth floor dormitory window.
There seems to be no solid evidence that Wagers was a professional drug dealer or that this sale was more than a one time thing. Wagers was convicted because he possibly contributed to Ha... (more)
At last night's GOP debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked by Brian Williams about the 234 executions of death row inmates over which Perry has presided -- "more than any Governor in modern times"-- and the mere mention by Williams of this morose record triggered an outburst of cheering and applause from the audience:
Infowars nightly news reporter, Darrin McBreen, talks to UT Students about building 7 on 9/11, and ask if they think it was brought down by a “control demolition.”
Although it was labeled and hyped as a "jobs plan," the new $447 billion initiative announced last night by President Obama is merely another government stimulus program in disguise. But semantics are of supreme importance in American politics...some could argue that word choice is the only thing that matters. As a result, despite the fact that this plan bears no substantive difference from previous stimulus bills, the President never once mentioned the word "stimulus" in his hour-long ... (more)
Eleven years into a gold bull market, Marc Faber publisher of the Gloom Boom and Doom report still doesn't think gold is in a bubble. Joining us via Skype from Chiang Mai, Thailand Thursday, Faber told the Daily Ticker's Aaron Task t... (more)
Marc Faber is out with the latest issue of his famous Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report which is always a must read for serious investors. Unlike most of the other talking heads, Faber has an excellent track record. He correctly predicted the top in the equity markets in Nov 2007 and caught the bottom in March 2009, making his subscribers a lot of money. Here is a summary of his September 2011 report:
1. Stocks---Faber says stocks face two potential outcomes: a brief rally to b... (more)
Stories like this don't come around often. A female police officer says she received credible information from "multiple sources" implicating two police officers in the murder of a TV news anchor in 1995. Rather than investigate her lead, the police fired her.
Cops find a man experiencing a diabetic seizure, rather than call for medical help they chose to strike him with a baton and handcuff him, only because he started to bleed from his head, the cops decided to call paramedics. When the paramedics arrived, they found the man's diabetes card and administered treatment, the man stopped breathing, presumably in a preamble to dying, but the paramedics were able to revive him. The report states he died two weeks later of "natural causes." The man's e... (more)
This article is blowing up right now on reddit, it made the front page, check it out.- Chris
VENICE - A Venice woman is suing the city and its police department for $100,000, claiming they violated her civil rights by illegally entering her apartment last year without a warrant and "roughing her up" before arresting her for obstructing an officer.
[...]According to the police probable cause affidavit
There was a recent ruling in a copyright dispute between Swatch (the watchmakers) and Bloomberg that could have troubling implications concerning wiretapping issues. Effectively, it presents a blueprint for how to use copyright law to block otherwise perfectly legal recordings. At issue was that Swatch held an analysts call, as most public companies do regularly. It's ... (more)
New Jersey has provided a blueprint on how not to solve a social problem. The blueprint will almost certainly create a barrage of new difficulties without relieving the old one.
The “Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act” took effect on September 1. The New York Times (August 30) reported, “Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch-line bullies ... can be reported to the police by t... (more)
"It is the mandatory nature of any travel document that converts it into a violation of rights."
"Your papers!" In old movies, the demand is barked at trembling travelers by a Nazi with a guttural accent. If the demand is made in the opening scene, then the audience knows immediately that they watching a totalitarian state in which travelers are in danger.
"Your papers!" now rings out at every American airport and border crossing. The accent is different but travele... (more)
