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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Sheriffs across US refuse to enforce tougher gun laws

Sheriffs across US refuse to enforce tougher gun laws Sheriffs across the United States are refusing to implement new gun control laws passed by state legislatures, according to a report by the New York Times. The numbers are particularly high in Colorado, where the majority  of sheriffs have come out against the state’s new gun laws,  including provisions requiring background checks for private gun  sales and the banning of magazines over 15 rounds. Fifty-five of  the state’s 62 elected sheriffs joined a federal lawsuit filed in  May arguing the new laws are unconstitutional. Even for some of those that didn’t… View Article

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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent

      Global warming? Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent! It was only five years ago in December that Al Gore claimed that the polar ice caps would be completely melted by now. But he might be surprised to find out that Arctic ice coverage is up 50 percent this year from 2012 levels. “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” Gore said in 2008. The… View Article

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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Controversy Over 5th-Grader’s Religion Speech

    Controversy Over 5th-Grader’s Religion Speech TAMPA, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – A 5th grade student won first place after he gave a speech about the history of people using religion to justify murder, but was stripped of his title the same day by a school official. Zachary Golob-Drake gave the speech to his class at the Patel Partnership School in hopes that he would be chosen to represent the school at the regional 4-H Tropicana Public Speech Contest, WFLA-TV reports. He was to deliver the speech Thursday morning to the entire 4th and 5th grades classes and two winners, one… View Article

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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional

                    Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to violate the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the information had helped to head off terrorist attacks. Acting on a lawsuit brought by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman,… View Article

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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Obama IRS Tightening Noose on Tea Party Groups

                      Obama IRS Tightening Noose on Tea Party Groups Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel noted on Friday that Barack Obama and the IRS have a new plan to target Tea Party groups in advance of the 2014 elections. During Thanksgiving week, the Treasury Department announced a proposal to limit the political activity of 501(c)(4) groups. The Obama Administration claimed that the plan was necessary to clarify confusing tax laws. The House Ways and Means Committee investigators believe that the proposal was designed by examining Tea Party group applications, figuring… View Article

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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Will Not Enforce New Gun Control

                      Colorado Sheriff: We Have Not and Will Not Enforce New Gun Control Weld County, Colorado, Sheriff John Cooke says he and his deputies have not enforced the gun control laws passed in March and they will not enforce those laws. Before the laws were passed Cooke said he would not enforce them, and since their passage he has made good on his promise. According to The New York Times, Cooke explains his position by pointing to the myriad ambiguities and gray areas in the new laws. For  example, at… View Article

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on December 16, 2013 in World News

Pedophilia not a ‘sexual orientation’

Pedophilia not a ‘sexual orientation’ – Duma-proposed bill The Russian parliament is preparing a bill that would outlaw the classification of pedophilia as a sexual orientation and introduce punishment for propaganda of this ‘disorder’. The initiative was put forward this week by deputy head of the Duma committee for labor and social policies Elena Afanasyeva of the populist-nationalist party LDPR. MP Aleksandr Sidyakin of the majority United Russia party also threw his support behind the move. The two sponsors told fellow lawmakers that in late October this year the American Psychiatric Association (APA) introduced an updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual… View Article

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