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Big Oil Now Has Authority To Arrest You For Protesting A Pipeline On Your OWN Property
Post Date: 2017-05-02 08:11:33 by Deckard
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If you’re a resident of Huntingdon County unfortunate enough to have your property in the path of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline, you can forget protesting — unless arrest and jail time aren’t an issue for you. Common Pleas Court Judge George Zanic signed a rare and factious “writ of possession” order last week in favor of Sunoco, which had sought an “emergency measure” to thwart landowners protesting pipeline construction by occupying trees — on their own property. In short, protesting encroachment of this pipeline on one’s own property will earn an arrest. “We’re seriously looking at going to jail,” Elyse Gerhart told ...
Save Liberty, Shut Down the Government
Post Date: 2017-05-02 08:03:11 by Gatlin
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Congress ended the week by passing a continuing resolution keeping the government funded for one more week. This stopgap funding bill is designed to give Congress and the White House more time to negotiate a long-term spending bill. Passage of a long- term spending bill has been delayed over objections to Republican efforts to preserve Obamcare's key features but give states a limited ability to opt out of some Obamacare mandates. This type of brinkmanship has become standard operating procedure on Capitol Hill. The drama inevitably ends with a spending bill being crafted behind closed doors by small groups of members and staffers and then rushed to the floor and voted on before most ...
‘Student coup’ at St. Olaf College: Students block buildings, classes shut down over racial unrest
Post Date: 2017-05-02 07:52:26 by Gatlin
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Racial unrest has wracked St. Olaf College, a small campus in rural Minnesota, with students essentially taking over the campus with aggressive protests that forced administrators to cancel classes on Monday so demonstrators could air their grievances in a day-long sit in. The sit-in followed unrest on Saturday during which angry students blocked entrances to campus buildings and demanded redress for a string of alleged racial incidents on campus. “The students have taken over the campus like a coup,” Kathryn Hinderaker, vice president of the College Republicans, told The College Fix in a telephone interview Monday. In the recent past, conservative students there have voiced ...
Physicists manage to 'breed' Schrodinger's cat in breakthrough that could help explain the quantum world [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-05-02 07:39:35 by cranky
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The cat in famous thought experiment can be alive and dead at the same timePhysicists amplified pairs of classical states of light to generate 'enlarged' catThis could uncover the limit, if one exists, of the quantum world, they say Scientists have developed a way to 'breed' Schrodinger's hypothetical cat in a breakthrough experiment that could bridge the gap between the quantum and the visible - or classical - worlds. The cat in the famous thought experiment can be alive and dead at the same time, in a quantum phenomenon known as superposition. But, whether this effect translates to larger objects has long remained a mystery. Physicists have now created a way to ...
Democrats confident they can block Trump’s agenda after spending-bill win
Post Date: 2017-05-02 07:25:06 by HomerBohn
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Democrats think they have set the stage to block President Trump’s legislative priorities for years to come by winning major concessions in a spending bill to keep the government open. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) secured nearly $5 billion in new domestic spending by exploiting disagreements between Trump and GOP lawmakers over spending priorities. Democrats’ lopsided victory on the five-month deal, which is likely to be approved this week, means it will be very difficult — if not impossible — for the GOP to exert its will in future budget negotiations, including when it comes to Trump’s 20 ...
Taxpayer-Funded Soap Operas
Post Date: 2017-05-02 05:52:22 by Deckard
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Oh, let us all rejoice, the government won’t go into hiatus as they try and budget our money that they’re spending. This is hilarious. This is like the cult-following TV show that always threatens to cancel the next season. Everyone gets scared and writes in demanding the network keep the show on the air. Or the favorite character in a series of novels and the author alludes to possibly killing off the character in the next book. Everyone writes in, scared spitless, begging and pleading the character not be killed. As if it’s a real person. There could be a genocide where 5,000 human beings a day are being machine-gunned into trenches and people will act like it’s just a ...
Congress’ spending bill protects medical pot states
Post Date: 2017-05-02 05:21:53 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON — Congress extended protections to 44 states that have legalized medical marijuana in its proposed $1 trillion spending bill that funds the government through September. The language prevents the Justice Department from using any of its funding to “prevent” those states from “implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” This amendment, championed by former Reps. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., Sam Farr, D-Calif., and current Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., more than 10 years ago, finally became law in 2014 as part of the omnibus bill that funded fiscal year 2015. It was unclear if it ...
Katherine Timpf: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Post Date: 2017-05-02 01:46:37 by Gatlin
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Katherine Timpf will be co-hosting the show alongside Eric Bolling and Eboni K. Williams. So who exactly is Katherine Timpf, the new Fox News 5:00 host? Here’s what you need to know about her. 1. She is 28 Years Old & Is a Libertarian Katherine Timpf is 28 years old, and she was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1988. She graduated in 2010 from Hillsdale College. “I’m definitely a libertarian, so I’m not as conservative on some things as Hillsdale [College] is,” she told The Collegian in 2015. “But I love the idea that the government does not get to decide what this private institution gets to teach.” When asked to define libertarianism, Timpf said that ...
Trump: “Bannon’s More Of a Libertarian Than Anything Else”
Post Date: 2017-05-02 00:57:19 by Gatlin
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Despite recent reports that White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon had been sidelined within the administration, it appears he may be winning back the President’s favor. In an interview with Bloomberg, Trump defended Bannon, describing him as a “very decent guy who feels very strongly about the country” and had received a “bad rap” from the media. Trump also disputed the media’s portrayal of Bannon as an ‘alt-right’ figure, stating that he sees Bannon as “alt-left”, on the basis that “Bannon’s more of a libertarian than anything else.” In response to reports of tensions between Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared ...
Libertarianism Needs To Become More Realistic
Post Date: 2017-05-02 00:49:05 by Gatlin
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Libertarianism is important, and I want it to be more influential. For it to do this though it has to become more realistic. I believe a major impediment is that many - though not all- libertarians imagine a vision of society that the vast majority of Americans simply do not want. If they somehow managed to win electoral power for a short time and execute their vision, it would be tremendously short lived with a massive backlash. [Boldness Added] Not a realistic libertarian. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) For proof of this, I think people just need to look around to state and local government. Most of us have little choice about which Federal government we live under. If you're ...
Deputy killed by inmate will be missed, sheriff says
Post Date: 2017-05-02 00:14:28 by Gatlin
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. — An inmate stole a sheriff's deputy's firearm and shot two deputies, one fatally, before stealing two vehicles and committing other crimes in two states as he tried to flee Monday, authorities said. Killed was Deputy Mark Burbridge, 43, a 12-year veteran of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office. "We're going to miss him," Sheriff Jeff Danker said at an afternoon news conference in Council Bluffs. "I have been in law enforcement for almost 40 years, sheriff for almost 25 years. This is one of the things you hope never happens." The other deputy who was shot, Pat Morgan, 59, was in stable condition at an Omaha hospital Monday ...
Suspect identified in Detroit police shooting
Post Date: 2017-05-02 00:00:10 by Gatlin
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Authorities have identified the man who shot a Detroit police officer and was fatally shot himself during an encounter with two officers Sunday night on the city's west side as James Edward Ray. Meanwhile, the veteran officer who was seriously injured is fighting for his life. The shooting happened around 10:45 p.m. at the Oakman Apartments on the 10000 block of Joy Road. The officer was shot in the back of the head while responding with his partner to a domestic violence call at the address. A Detroit police spokeswoman, Officer Jennifer Moreno, identified Ray, 46, as the suspected shooter who died in an exchange of gunfire with the officers. Wayne County Circuit Court records show ...
Teacher sentenced for sexual assault of Palo Alto student, 15
Post Date: 2017-05-01 23:53:35 by Gatlin
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A former Palo Alto High School biology teacher has been sentenced to two years, eight months in prison for assaulting a 15-year-old student in his classroom in June 2016. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Vincent Chiarello also ordered Ronnie Farrell to do three years of parole upon release from state prison and to register as a sex offender for life. Farrell faced nine felony charges, including six counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor and three counts of sexual battery, resulting from two separate assaults on the victim. In January, Farrell, 47, pleaded no contest to four counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child age 14 or 15 and one count of sexual battery. He ...
Teacher put on leave after reports a student’s mouth was taped shut
Post Date: 2017-05-01 23:47:24 by Gatlin
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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- The Cherry Creek School District is investigating reports that a teacher at Campus Middle School either taped a student's mouth shut or allowed other students to do so. The incident allegedly occurred during class on Wednesday, April 26. District officials told FOX31 Denver hey only learned about the allegations on Monday, May 1. "As soon as we learned of the allegations, we notified the Greenwood Village Police Department," Tustin Amole, the Director of Communications for CCSD, said in a statement. Amole said the district also notified the student’s parents, who she said were unaware of the incident. "We are continuing to ...
Hidden horror of school sex assaults revealed by AP
Post Date: 2017-05-01 23:27:02 by cranky
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Chaz Wing was 12 when they came after him. The classmates who tormented him were children, too, entering the age of pimples and cracking voices. Eventually, he swore under oath, the boys raped him and left him bleeding, the culmination of a year of harassment. Though Chaz repeatedly told teachers and administrators about insults and physical attacks, he didn't report being sexually assaulted until a year later, launching a long legal fight over whether his school had done enough to protect him. Chaz's saga is more than a tale of escalating bullying. Across the U.S., thousands of students have been sexually assaulted, by other students, in high schools, junior highs and even ...
New Mexico police investigating how man got nailed to tree
Post Date: 2017-05-01 23:13:05 by cranky
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Police in Albuquerque say a man has been found alive with his hands nailed to a tree in a forest. They say officers received a call around 8:30 a.m. Monday about an injured man on the east bank of the Rio Grande. Police say they found a man standing in front of a tree with his hands next to his shoulders and each of his hands had one nail through it. The Albuquerque Journal reports the nails were about 3 inches long and the man wasn't bleeding when officers found him. Police removed the man from the tree and took him to a hospital. His name hasn't been released. Police don't know how long the man had been in the bosque or how he ended up nailed to a tree.
Paul Ryan Expands H-2B Blue-Collar Outsourcing Program for 2017
Post Date: 2017-05-01 21:20:46 by cranky
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House Speaker Paul Ryan’s new 2017 budget allows the Department of Homeland Security to import at least 20,000 extra foreign blue-collar workers for seasonal jobs in the United States, instead of requiring companies to recruit, train, and pay marginalized Americans. The bipartisan congressional language creates a headache for Trump and his deputies because it flips the politically difficult problem from Congress to the Department of Homeland Security of deciding whether to provide extra wage-cutting H-2B contract workers to companies or else to improve job opportunities for Trump’s blue-collar voters. The new rule is opposed by pro-American groups, including the Federation for ...
GOP on verge of losing health care vote
Post Date: 2017-05-01 21:10:08 by cranky
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The White House and congressional Republicans are in serious danger of not having enough votes to pass their health care bill. Several Republicans have come out Monday against the current measure to repeal and replace Obamacare, bringing CNN's whip count to 21 Republicans -- mostly moderates -- opposed to the bill with more than a dozen lawmakers still undecided. And President Donald Trump, whose White House was optimistic the House could pass a bill Wednesday, once again muddied the waters by suggesting the measure may still be changed. "I want it to be good for sick people. It's not in its final form right now," he said during an Oval Office interview Monday with ...
Hayward: Who Needs the ‘Resistance’ When You’ve Got the GOP Writing the Budget?
Post Date: 2017-05-01 20:40:33 by cranky
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Why does the left bother with “Resistance” theatrics when the Republican Congress funds their entire wish list anyway? That’s a bit of a trick question because the left still plans to seize more power and money by recapturing Congress and the White House. They’ll never stop attacking the legitimacy of the Trump administration. The only lingering mystery is why so many Republicans think they can counter this strategy by appeasing Democrats. At a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in other people’s money, Republicans purchase a couple of sound bites that allow them to claim they aren’t heartless monsters because they funded every left-wing priority, from ...
No shutdown: $1.1 trillion agreement shows Democrats' clout
Post Date: 2017-05-01 20:18:32 by cranky
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Erasing the threat of a disruptive government shutdown, the White House and top lawmakers endorsed a $1.1 trillion spending bill Monday to carry the nation through September, an agreement underscoring that Democrats retain considerable clout in Donald Trump's turbulent presidency. Negotiators released the 1,665-page bill after Republicans dropped numerous demands on the environment, Obama-era financial regulations and abortion in marathon sessions over the weekend. The bill is slated for a House vote on Wednesday, with a Senate vote ahead of a Friday midnight deadline. "We thought we had the upper hand because a government shutdown would be on their shoulders, and we made that ...
Female Science Teacher, 26, Arrested For ‘Showing Her Genitals’ to a 13 Year Old Boy
Post Date: 2017-05-01 18:20:00 by Gatlin
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A 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Arizona has been arrested for sexual exploitation of a 13-year-old male student after admitting to sending sexually explicit videos to the boy and performing sexual acts in person. Kara Loofboroug was, according to her now-deleted Facebook page, a seventh-grade science teacher at Fees College Preparatory Middle School. She was listed on the school’s staff directory, but was removed after resigning this spring, The Republic reported. Her LinkedIn account also claims she is currently a driver for ride-sharing taxi company Uber and has worked extensively in other schools in Arizona. The local police department said she was arrested on suspicion ...
West Valley teacher accused of making child porn scrapbooks, bringing them to school
Post Date: 2017-05-01 18:12:16 by Gatlin
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WEST VALLEY CITY — A middle school teacher at American Preparatory Academy in West Valley City was arrested Thursday after school administrators told police he possessed and accessed child pornography in his classroom. Michael Scott Hatfield faces seven felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and three misdemeanor counts of accessing pornographic material on school property. According to a probable cause statement from West Valley City police, American Preparatory Academy administrators contacted the police department on April 20. Police said they reviewed surveillance video from Hatfield’s classroom and observed three instances when Hatfield covered up the camera. ...
Teacher arrested at Rend Lake College on sex abuse charges
Post Date: 2017-05-01 18:06:04 by Gatlin
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An area musician, teacher and conductor faces multiple charges of criminal sexual abuse and separate counts of soliciting a child and child grooming after he was arrested Friday at Rend Lake College. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office arrested Joseph A. Ryker, 26, of Herrin around noon April 28 at the college. Deputy U.S. Marshals assisted in the arrest. The charges involve a 15-year-old high school student, according to a news release. Ryker, who has been an adjunct professor at the college, as well as the director of musical ensembles, also has served as assistant conductor of the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra. He now is charged with six counts of aggravated criminal ...
Delaware standoff over: Trooper's killer shot dead after barricading himself in home
Post Date: 2017-05-01 17:50:12 by Gatlin
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The man who shot and killed a Delaware trooper was killed Thursday morning in a gunbattle with law enforcement after a standoff at his home that stretched on for more than 12 hours, state police confirmed. After police closed in on Burgon Sealy, Jr.'s house in Middletown with an armored bulldozer, the 26-year-old burst out of the home around 9:17 a.m. and started firing, State Police Superintendent Nathaniel McQueen said. Police returned fire, and Sealy was pronounced dead some 12 minutes later. The killer had fired at officers trying to negotiate a surrender outside his home around 4 a.m., Fox 29 reported. It was not known what type of weapon he was using. There were no reported ...
3 Seattle cops shot as 7-Eleven robbery turns deadly
Post Date: 2017-05-01 17:39:21 by Gatlin
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Seattle police pursue suspects at the scene where two cops were shot during a robbery response downtown Thursday afternoon. Three Seattle police officers were shot while responding to a report of a robbery Thursday afternoon at a downtown Seattle convenience store. One suspect died in the incident, details of which were still unfolding by nightfall. Cops detained a second person at the scene and arrested a third later in the evening. One of the officers, a 30-year-old man, was seriously wounded in the shooting and was undergoing treatment at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He was shot in the face; the deflected bullet then entered his chest. He was in serious but stable ...
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