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on September 26, 2015 in World News

Kentucky Politician Files Lawsuit Claiming a First Amendment Right to Accept Bribes

Kentucky Politician Files Lawsuit Claiming a First Amendment Right to Accept Bribes Michael Krieger It’s a rare and precious moment when a politician does something which perfeclty demonstrates what he or she really thinks about democracy and power. This is one of those times. From the Intercept: The Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts in elections. Now politicians in Kentucky are claiming they have a Constitutional right to receive gifts from lobbyists. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Republican Kentucky state Sen. John Schickel, along with two Libertarian political candidates, are… View Article

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on September 26, 2015 in World News

Illegal Immigrant Car Crash Kills 6 in Central Texas

Illegal Immigrant Car Crash Kills 6 in Central Texas by Ildefonso Ortiz At least six illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala have been killed, multiple others injured, and two arrested following a high-speed chase that ended with a crash in the rural town of Edna just northwest of Victoria, Texas. At least 15 people were crammed into the SUV.   The fatal wreck took place shortly after 1:30 a.m. along Highway 59 when police in Edna tried to pull over a Ford Explorer over a traffic violation, Houston’s ABC13 reported. Edna is located in Jackson County. The driver of the… View Article

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on September 26, 2015 in World News

18 Los Zetas Cartel Members Operating in Texas Plead Guilty in U.S.

18 Los Zetas Cartel Members Operating in Texas Plead Guilty in U.S. by Ildefonso Ortiz A total of 18 members of Los Zetas drug smuggling cell that operated in Texas and moved drugs from Laredo to Dallas plead guilty to various charges in U.S. federal court and are awaiting sentencing. All of the guilty pleas took place in recent days and include the various members of the group that operated from June 2011 to June 2013, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed. The organization was led by Erasmo Abdon “El Cuate” Trejo-Nava who was described… View Article

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on September 26, 2015 in World News

Transgenders Call Lance Berkman Bigot for Saying ‘No Men in Women’s Bathrooms’

Transgenders Call Lance Berkman Bigot for Saying ‘No Men in Women’s Bathrooms’ by Daniel J. Flynn Lance Berkman, who played college ball at Rice before manning the outfield and first base for the Houston Astros, dodges high heat thrown by sports journalists outraged over his opposition to a spaced-out Space City law giving transsexual “women” access to the ladies’ room. The city’s voters decide on the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) this November. Berkman urges voters to cast “no” ballots in a commercial: No men in women’s bathrooms. No boys in girls’ showers or locker rooms. I played professional baseball… View Article

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on September 26, 2015 in World News

WA School Bans Playground Tag to ‘Ensure Emotional Safety of Students’

WA School Bans Playground Tag to ‘Ensure Emotional Safety of Students’ by Warner Todd Huston  Earlier this month, administrators at Mercer Island School District in Washington State felt compelled to do something for their children this year by banning the playground game of tag, because it just might make some kids feel bad, they said. In a letter home to parents, Mercer Island School District communications director Mary Grady insisted that, from now on, kids would be ordered to “keep their hands to themselves,” and tag would be banned “to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all students.” “School… View Article

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on September 25, 2015 in World News

Alan Yentob ‘branded BBC journalists traitors over Savile exposé’

Alan Yentob ‘branded BBC journalists traitors over Savile exposé’ The corporation’s creative director ‘categorically denies’ claims that he made the comments about Meirion Jones and Liz MacKean By Camilla Turner The BBC’s creative director accused the journalists who exposed the corporation’s cover-up of Jimmy Savile’s crimes of being “traitors”, the former Newsnight investigations head claims. According to Meirion Jones, Alan Yentob made the alleged comment about him and Liz MacKean to a colleague after they contributed to the Panorama exposé “Savile – What The BBC Knew”. Mr Jones and Ms MacKean led the 2011 Newsnight investigation into Savile’s sex abuse,… View Article

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on September 25, 2015 in World News

Europe facing ‘invasion’ of refugees who are ‘fit men’

Europe facing ‘invasion’ of refugees who are ‘fit men’ Hungarian leader asks if continent is ready for radical shift away from Christianity s the European Union is being pushed to the breaking point by the flow of hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern migrants seeking peace, safety and security, jobs or something else, experts are warning the worst is yet to come. Pamela Geller, a WND columnist and internationally renowned expert on radical Islam, says the continent is facing what is “clearly an invasion.” If so, it’s an invasion facilitated by the leadership of the European Union. Over the objections… View Article

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on September 25, 2015 in World News

SPLC fires broadside against pro-family event

SPLC fires broadside against pro-family event Terror-linked fringe group tries to scare speakers away from conference by Bob Unruh A “Values Voter Summit,” a time for the nation’s leading conservative voices to gather and discuss issues and events important to their constituencies, apparently is too much for the Southern Poverty Law Center to tolerate. The fringe progressive organization, which previously was linked in a Washington federal courtroom to a case of domestic terror and at one point slammed GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson with a “hate” label, has launched a broadside against the events scheduled Friday through Sunday. Posted… View Article

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on September 25, 2015 in World News

Poll: Most U.S. Muslims would trade Constitution for Shariah

Poll: Most U.S. Muslims would trade Constitution for Shariah ‘Quran should be highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion’ by Leo Hohmann Ben Carson’s comment that he would not support a Shariah-compliant Muslim for president because Islamic law is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution led to the former brain surgeon’s roasting among media talkers and politicians of all stripes. He has been excoriated as “anti-Muslim,” “bigoted,” even “anti-American” and unfit for office. “For any candidate to suggest that someone should not be elected president because of what he or she may believe is nothing short of religious… View Article

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