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Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship
Post Date: 2019-08-29 07:05:03 by Deckard
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Kids participating in Utah's Children’s Entrepreneur Market are being ordered by government officials to pay sales tax on their small businesses. But one activist says children are exempt from such taxes. Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market—an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute—dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby. Lucie’s experience as a spectator at prior markets had given her time to think long and hard about what kind of ...
Dorian Slams Virgin Islands; Likely to Approach Florida as a Major Hurricane
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:36:08 by IbJensen
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Hurricane Dorian was pulling away from the Caribbean on Wednesday evening, embarking on a four- to five-day journey that will take it across near-ideal territory for strengthening. By this weekend, Dorian is likely to be a major hurricane threatening Florida’s Atlantic coast, and it may plow onward into the Gulf of Mexico next week. Dorian muscled its way to hurricane strength on Wednesday with a burst of thunderstorms (convection) wrapping around a newly formed eye. Originally expected to move somewhere between the eastern Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, Dorian ended up tracking well to the east, in part because its center reformed 60 miles to the north beneath intense convection ...
‘Last Blood’ Should be Last Straw for Gun Owners and Stallone Movies
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:23:25 by Deckard
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U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Sylvester Stallone gets back to his roots with explosive new trailer for ‘Rambo: Last Blood’,” Agence France-Presse reports on the fifth installment in the series, scheduled for a September release. “Still in top shape at 73, Stallone’s muscles are put to good use to save the life of his friend’s daughter, who’s been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel.” It won’t just be his muscles put to use, but plenty of weapons, including guns. How he’ll keep and bear them in Mexico without violating almost as many gun laws as ATF’s Phoenix Field Division is left unstated in what looks to be a ...
New Hampshire woman fights state for ‘PB4WEGO’ vanity plate
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:13:16 by Deckard
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New York Post – by Yaron Steinbuch A New Hampshire woman is pissed off with the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which told her to surrender her vanity license plate because of a common parental phrase – PB4WEGO. Wendy Auger received a letter from the DMV informing her to turn in the plate, which she has had for 15 years, because phrases involving bodily functions are forbidden, according to seacoastline.com. The bartender from the Gonic neighborhood of Rochester, NH, is fighting the bladder-related ban on the phrase – “Pee before we go” – because she believes it’s a free speech matter. “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who ...
The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:07:42 by Deckard
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"The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,’ make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.”— Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History This is how freedom dies. This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into believing they are free so that they will march in lockstep with the state and ...
A Nonemergency of His Own Making
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:01:08 by Deckard
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Late last week, President Donald Trump issued a tweet in which he purported to order American businesses to cease doing work with their employees and contract partners in China. He claimed he was exercising presidential powers pursuant to what he contended was the national emergency surrounding the trading relationship between the United States and China. Since he did not declare a national emergency, he did not notify Congress and give it the opportunity to ratify or reject his executive orders. In fact, he didn’t even sign any executive orders on this. He merely ordered American businesses in a tweet to cease all commercial activities with anyone in China. It appears that no American ...
The False Premises of the Ruling Against Johnson & Johnson
Post Date: 2019-08-29 05:40:52 by Deckard
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Blaming opioid makers for the "opioid crisis" may be emotionally satisfying, but the reality is more complicated. (K-State/Flickr) This week an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to "abate" a "public nuisance" the company created in that state by minimizing the hazards and overselling the benefits of prescription opioids. A few months ago, a North Dakota judge rejected a very similar claim against Purdue Pharma under a nearly identical "public nuisance" statute.The difference between those two decisions partly reflects the difference between broad and narrow understandings of "public nuisance." But the ...
PA Gov. Tom Wolf “horrified” that Rep (R) prayed to Jesus before Rep (D) was sworn in on Quran at Statehouse in Harrisburg
Post Date: 2019-08-28 22:20:41 by A K A Stone
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Pennsylvania state Dems slam Republican’s prayer as ‘offensive,’ bigoted By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News Pennsylvania state Democrats branded as “offensive” a Republican’s decision Monday to open a voting session with a prayer and a thank-you to President Trump for supporting Israel, with some Dems claiming to be “horrified” by the remarks and accusing the female lawmaker of Islamophobia. State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican and associate pastor’s wife who was elected to the state House in November, was accused of bigotry after she invoked the name of Jesus just before the Legislature swore in its first Muslim woman on the Quran at the ...
PA Gov. Tom Wolf converts to Islam
Post Date: 2019-08-28 22:17:23 by A K A Stone
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Governor Wolf’s official Islamic conversation has not yet been made public, other than these photographs circulating on social media. It has become evident through the photographs that Wolf has in fact already converted. According to Islam it is not permissible for a non-Muslim to pray either in the ranks or on his own. It is required that one converts to Islam before he prays, then to purify himself [by doing ghusl], and then fulfil the conditions of prayer. He is included in the obligation of prayer, and he is to be punished if he does not become Muslim and pray, but it will not be accepted from him unless he enters Islam.
Rick Santorum Slams Trump for Pitching His Own Miami Resort as Next G-7 Venue: 'Hell No… Put an End to It'
Post Date: 2019-08-28 11:07:25 by Deckard
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Former GOP Senator Rick Santorum and ex-White House Ethics lawyer Richard Painter appeared on CNN this week to condemn President Donald Trump for pitching his own Miami resort as the next G-7 summit venue.Trump confirmed for the first time on Monday that the Trump National Doral Miami resort has been floated to be the location for next year's G-7 summit during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of this year's G-7 in Biarritz."Doral happens to be... only five minutes from the airport, the airport's right next door," the president told reporters. "By the way, my people looked at 12 sites, all good, but some were two hours from ...
The Survival of Iggy Pop
Post Date: 2019-08-28 10:54:28 by Deckard
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n late July, in a brief window between professional appointments, Iggy Pop drove to the mouth of Biscayne Bay, so that he could bob in its tropical waters. In 1995, he had bought what he described as “a very seedy condo” in Miami, and he has had a home in the city ever since. The extremity of the place—it is both environmentally tenuous and aesthetically vulgar—seems to suit Pop, who, in the late nineteen-sixties, as a member of the Stooges, helped invent and refine punk rock, a genre of music so menacing and physically savage that it is sometimes shocking that Pop has made it to the age of seventy-two. After he moved to Miami, he started swimming every day. “I ...
‘It Could Happen to Anyone’: Family of Man Fatally Shot by Off-Duty LAPD Officer at Corona Costco Speaks Out
Post Date: 2019-08-28 06:06:53 by Deckard
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The family members of a man fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Corona Costco publicly spoke out Monday for the first time since the June 14 incident. Russell and Paola French, who were also shot, and their other son, Kevin French, pushed for the release of the store surveillance video that captured the shooting that killed 32-year-old Kenneth French, who had schizophrenia. Kenneth, Paola and Russell French appear in a photo released by Juris Productions on Aug. 26, 2019. Kenneth French struck Salvador Sanchez from behind as the officer fed his toddler son some samples, Sanchez's attorney previously said. French's parents said they informed Sanchez, who ...
Man, 75, tells Belton officer to close bathroom door then gets fined $257
Post Date: 2019-08-28 05:52:26 by Deckard
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A 75-year-old man who has an artificial leg and says he is hard of hearing was cited for disorderly conduct after he yelled at a police officer to close the bathroom door after the officer used the restroom at a Belton restaurant.Part of the Tuesday incident was captured on video by a bystander who was told by the officer to stop filming the incident.Bobby Ray Phillips, a regular at the Standpipe Family Restaurant, said he was enjoying his grilled chicken, cabbage and cornbread on Tuesday afternoon when Belton Police Cpl. Thaddeus Shockley went to the restroom, used it and left the door open.Shockley wrote in an incident report that Phillips “yelled in a boisterous ...
Surveillance Video Outside Epstein’s Cell Deemed ‘Unusable’
Post Date: 2019-08-28 05:39:35 by Deckard
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It appears that Jeffrey Epstein had really good timing when he, according to New York Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, decided to hang himself in his Manhattan jail cell the morning of August 10th – crushing bones in his neck which can fracture during hangings, but are typically broken during homicide by strangulation. Not only was his cellmate moved out the day before he died, overworked prison guards reportedly fell asleep – missing their assigned 30-minute checks on the highest profile inmate in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). Epstein had recently been taken off suicide watch stemming from ...
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
Post Date: 2019-08-27 17:37:08 by Tooconservative
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. . . As a result, Millennials have not benefited from the dramatic rebound in housing prices that has occurred since the financial collapse and the foreclosure crisis. Millennials have also been forced to shell out hundreds of billions of dollars in rent as housing costs have skyrocketed in many urban areas. This represents a large generational transfer of wealth from the young to the old. Boomers own the houses and bar municipalities from building more of them, thus benefiting from rising prices and soaking up endless rent checks forked over by younger and poorer families. Cost pressures have also made it difficult or impossible for Millennials to save or invest. The share of Americans ...
Carpentersville family sues after video shows police raiding home, grabbing teen by neck
Post Date: 2019-08-27 10:18:40 by Deckard
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CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A family in north suburban Carpentersville is suing police officers, claiming they raided their home without a search warrant while their teenage son was home alone.In video of the raid, the 16-year-old boy, who wishes to remain anonymous, was knocked off his feet by the officer, who charges through the doorway. The teen ends up on a couch."I did get scared because I never expected something like this to happen to me," he said.The encounter happened in June, the result of a search for a missing girl who is friends with the boy.As the officer's partner searches upstairs, there's more grabbing and pushing. Twice the officer grabs the boy's ...
Meet the Next Generation of Koch: ‘Libertarian’ Social Justice Warriors for Big Brother
Post Date: 2019-08-27 07:08:14 by Deckard
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With the passing of libertarian icon and capitalist titan David Koch this past week from prostate cancer, it has put the focus on who will lead Koch industries for the next generation. 83-year-old Charles Koch, the surviving Koch brother who is preparing for retirement, is handing off the reigns to his son, Chase. According to a profile by Politico Magazine, Chase is pushing for a “kinder, gentler libertarianism” that is more focused on pushing social justice initiatives than pushing back against leftism and statism on a political level. “My passion is to bring people together to solve some of the major challenges facing society today, including in education and in many ...
Who Are The Real Extremists? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-08-27 06:57:55 by Deckard
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The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have re-ignited efforts to pass “Red Flag” laws, which allow the government to take away a person’s guns without due process, and expanded background checks on those wishing to purchase a gun. Some supporters of these measures acknowledge they would not have prevented the Dayton and El Paso shootings, but they think the government must “do something,“ even if that something only makes it more difficult for average Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights.The fact that one of the shooters may have been motivated by anti-immigrant views has led to calls for government surveillance of “right-wing ...
Poll: 70% of Americans ‘Angry’ at Political System for Only Serving Insiders With Money and Power
Post Date: 2019-08-27 06:19:21 by Deckard
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“A deep and boiling anger” is the sentiment behind a recent poll conducted this month, showing just how utterly pissed off Americans are with their government. Despite Americans being pitted against each other with divisive partisan tactics rammed down their throats on a daily basis by the political establishment and the media, this recent poll shows they agree on one thing—the government serves the connected elite and no one else. This latest poll, conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal paints a picture of an angry America. But these Americans aren’t angry at one another, they are angry at the political and financial establishment that continues to ...
Johnson & Johnson liable for $572 million in Oklahoma opioid epidemic trial; shares rise
Post Date: 2019-08-27 05:58:42 by Deckard
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NORMAN, Okla./BOSTON (Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) to pay $572.1 million to the state for its part in fueling an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing addictive painkillers, a sum that was substantially less than investors had expected, driving up J&J’s shares. The state’s attorney general had filed the lawsuit, seeking $17 billion to address the impact of the drug crisis on Oklahoma. It had been considered a bellwether for other litigation nationwide over the opioid epidemic. “The expectation was this was going to be a $1.5 billion to $2 billion fine,” said Jared Holz, healthcare strategist for Jefferies & Co. ...
Chino police body camera footage shows moments leading to police shooting that killed unarmed Fontana man
Post Date: 2019-08-27 05:46:24 by Deckard
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Footage from a body camera released by the Chino Police Department on Friday shows the events leading up to a police shooting that left a man dead in early July. An officer shot Li Xi Wang, 49, of Fontana on July 3 while searching a house in the 6800 block of Rockrose Street. Wang was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries. The footage showed police officers instructing people in the building that they had a search warrant and were going to enter the house to conduct a search. After announcing themselves multiple times, officers entered the house and immediately encountered a 53-year-old woman, who they handcuffed.Chino police Sgt. Nancy Franklin said officers were at the ...
An innocent man spent months in jail after customs officials thought honey he brought back from Jamaica was liquid meth
Post Date: 2019-08-27 05:34:46 by Deckard
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Leon Haughton told The Washington Post that he was stopped at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on December 29. He said he was jailed after US Customs and Border Protection agents on December 29 alleged that the three jars of honey he had brought back from Jamaica were actually meth. He remained in jail for 82 days even though state and federal lab tests determined the honey was actually honey. Haughton, a Jamaican native and green card holder with no prior convictions, told The Post that this was the first time he had been stopped by customs in the 10 years he had been traveling back and forth to visit his mother. Visit Insider's homepage for more ...
The Revolving Door Between Government and Cable News
Post Date: 2019-08-27 05:18:39 by Deckard
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(Ron Sachs/CNP/AdMedia/SIPA/Newscom) When former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders joined Fox News as a contributor last week, her announcement was greeted with a predictable flurry of jokes about the minimal difference between her new role at the conservative network and her old job for the Trump administration. But she was hardly the first government official of either major political faction to find a new perch in the media—or to move the other way, for that matter. It's all part of the creeping merger between the political class and the journalists supposedly tasked with subjecting government to scrutiny.That kind of close relationship between the public and ...
Owner of 3 Pit Bulls That Mauled 9-Year-Old Girl to Death Charged with Murder [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-08-27 01:48:49 by Tooconservative
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Pierre Cleveland, 33, the owner of the three pit bulls that mauled a 9-year-old Detroit girl to death, has been charged with murder. According to the victim’s family, Emma Hernandez, 9, was riding her bike on Monday when dogs attacked her in an alley around 4 p.m. Family members said that she often rode her bike in the area around Central Avenue and Smart Street and was probably trying to use a nearby alley to turn around. Among the various neighbors who came out to help Hernandez was Deborah Gordon, a woman who lives down the block. She reportedly tried to perform CPR and was shocked by what happened. “You’re talking about a 9-year-old girl who was just out there ...
Huge hoard of muscle cars uncovered in Iowa and heading for auction
Post Date: 2019-08-26 11:25:38 by Deckard
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Red Oak is a small Iowa town, but not too small to hide a massive collection of muscle cars. (VanDerBrink Auctions)The hundred or so vehicles were collected over the past 50 years by a man named Coyote Johnson.The 65-year-old construction company owner has been buying them since he was 16 and building barns with his own hands to store them. (VanDerBrink Auctions)They’re filled with Plymouth Road Runners, Chevy Chevelles, Ford Mustangs and practically every kind of muscle car from the 1960s and 1970s you can think of. (VanDerBrink Auctions)There are also plenty of other cars and trucks, from a 1951 Ford Victoria Custom to a 1997 Pontiac Trans Am coupe and convertible. (VanDerBrink ...
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