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The Bouncing Ball of the Gun Debate
“As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.” ― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf The Senate on Monday approved a procedural voted in favor of the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014. The bill is a…
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An Eye for An Eye in Jerusalem
A Florida teen remains under house-arrest in Jerusalem. Fifteen-year-old Tariq Khdeir was attending a demonstration related to the death of his cousin, 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, when he was arrested and beaten. Hassan Shibly, executive director with the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida, claims the beating came at the hands of Israeli soldiers. “You…
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Nevada Sheriff: Hold Bundy, BLM Accountable for Standoff
“If you step over that line, there are consequences to those actions,” Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said. “And I believe they stepped over that line. No doubt about it. They need to be held accountable for it.” U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they agree with Gillespie’s position that rancher Cliven Bundy should…
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The Bald Hills’ Lyons
Born in Franklin County, Indiana, in 1831, Jonathan Lyons later moved with his family to Iowa. It was from there that, as an asthmatic 18-year-old, he joined a wagon train bound for Oregon and worked his way across the country. After spending some time farming in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, stories of gold strikes…
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Extremists Sought in Pennsylvania for Inciting Sedition
Philadelphia — A para-military extremist group has proclaimed its autonomy from the government, and plans to secede. The announcement comes more than a year after troops fired on protestors, leaving 72 people dead, including eight civilians. In April of last year, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage, ordered the National Guard to seize a large cache of…
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Obama Continues to Divide U.S. through Lawlessness
Dozens of protesters blocked the road Tuesday, so buses full of undocumented immigrants couldn’t make their way to a U.S. Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California. About 140 people were flown into San Diego from Texas and bused to Murrieta with more expected to arrive every three days or so. The U.S. Immigration and Customs…
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The Progressive Battle against American Business
Union membership has dropped from 18.5 percent in 1983 to 7.5 percent by 2013 in the private sector and 45.5 percent to 38.7 in the public sector. Because of this, there is an all-out assault on business, both big and small. In 2009, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn issued an executive order unionizing the caretakers of…
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Attack on Religious Freedom Far From Over
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Federal Government can’t make companies pay for emergency contraceptive coverage for employees that could lead to abortions, in violation of their religious beliefs. The case was brought by Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based retail chain owned by the Green family. The Greens said they are willing to cover 16…
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Banning American Indian Names in the U.S. Military
Recently the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the Washington Redskins trademarks on the claiming the name is “disparaging to Native Americans.” This effort was largely sparked by Nevada’s Senator Harry Reid. His support of banning ‘Native American’ names from our general lexicon is leading to a new dilemma, this one over the use of such names…
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SCOTUS Upholds Constitution in Three Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled police may not search the cell phones of people they arrest without first getting a search warrant. The Obama administration and the states of California and Massachusetts , defending the cell phone searches, said cell phones should have no greater protection from a search than anything else police find.…