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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Obama’s next backdoor assault on 2nd Amendment

Obama’s next backdoor assault on 2nd Amendment ‘The point is just to try to reduce legitimate gun ownership’ by Greg Corombos Secretary of State John Kerry once again signed the United Nations Arms Treaty on Wednesday, a move that supporters say will help stop weapons from getting into the hands of criminals and terrorists worldwide but critics contend is is a backdoor assault on law-abiding gun owners. The treaty would require nations to conduct a detailed registration of all guns. The issue is dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate, but one of the leading experts on guns says even… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Nielsen is now tracking ratings for nearly 1,000 streaming shows

Nielsen is now tracking ratings for nearly 1,000 streaming shows Studios are now getting data on who’s watching what on Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu By Kwame Opam Netflix is notorious for not providing audience numbers for its streaming programs, instead leaning on subscriber growth to give observers a sense of how well its efforts are doing. That’s starting to change. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nielsen is currently months into a program that allows it to track shows on Netflix and other services like Amazon Prime and Hulu, and it now has data on nearly 1,000 shows — including how many… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

America Is So in Play

America Is So in Play Donald Trump’s staying power in the polls reflects a change in the electorate only now coming into focus. By  Peggy Noonan So, more thoughts on Donald Trump’s candidacy, because I can’t stop being fascinated. You know the latest numbers. Quinnipiac University’s poll this week has Mr. Trump at a hefty 28% nationally, up from 20% in July. Public Policy Polling has Mr. Trump leading all Republicans in New Hampshire with 35%. A Monmouth University poll has him at 30% in South Carolina, followed 15 points later by Ben Carson. Here are some things I think… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling ‘Kids For Cash’ To Prisons

Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling ‘Kids For Cash’ To Prisons by Reagan Ali A Pennsylvania judge in Pennsylvania was just sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling “kids-for-cash.” The bribery scandal made headlines when Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was alleged to have taking $1 million in bribes from juvenile detention centers to fill their cells with children who came before him in court. The Associated Press says the following: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed about 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, saying he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles, including the right to… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Illegal Alien, Registered Sex Offender Assaults 16-Year-Old Downs Syndrome Victim

Illegal Alien, Registered Sex Offender Assaults 16-Year-Old Downs Syndrome Victim by Katie McHugh In the latest outrageous instance of immigrant sex crimes, an illegal alien and registered sex offender sexually assaulted a 16-year-old teenage girl with Down Syndrome on Monday, Brazoria County Sheriff Department’s officials say. Jesus Atrian was previously deported to Mexico after being convicted of indecency with a child by sexual contact—the same charge he’s once again facing—in August 2014 and registered as a sex offender. According to The Friendswood Journal, Atrian helpfully tattooed his name onto his face for easy identification. KHOU.com reports the victim knew Atrian. Chuck Ross… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Donald Trump: Virginia Shooting ‘a Mental Problem’ Not ‘a Gun Problem’

Donald Trump: Virginia Shooting ‘a Mental Problem’ Not ‘a Gun Problem’ by AWR Hawkins On August 27, GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump addressed the heinous shooting in Virginia by saying it illustrated “a mental problem” not “a gun problem.” Speaking to CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Trump described gunman Vester Lee Flanagan as “a very sick man” who should have been “institutionalized.” He said, “In the old days, they had mental institutions for people like [Flanagan] because he was really, definitely borderline and definitely would have been and should have been institutionalized.” But Trump made it clear that neither guns nor gun… View Article

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on August 27, 2015 in World News

Fort Bragg Troops Train for Domestic Emergency: “This Exercise Is About the Home Front”

Fort Bragg Troops Train for Domestic Emergency: “This Exercise Is About the Home Front” Ostensibly, and on the surface, they are trained to “help out” with things like natural disasters, floods and hurricanes by Mac Slavo They are “ready” too for chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear hazards. Slightly below the surface, these Fort Bragg Army engineers are also training — this time in Florida — to assist local authorities in the event of domestic disorder and potential chaos — prepared to quell civil unrest, riots, mass unrest or even the aftermath of terrorist attacks. Scenarios which could all be really… View Article

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on August 27, 2015 in World News

Obama Says Guns Worse Than Terrorism

Obama Says Guns Worse Than Terrorism Makes comments hours after shooting in Virginia by Brian Lilley President Barack Obama reacted to the live, on-air shooting deaths of a reporter and cameraman during an interview with a local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia. Speaking with reporter Monica Malpass, Obama said more Americans are killed by guns than terrorism. “It breaks my heart every time you read or hear about these kids of incidents,” Obama said before taking aim at guns in America. “What we know is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths… View Article

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on August 27, 2015 in World News

Wheelchair-bound man denied housing because not Muslim

Wheelchair-bound man denied housing because not Muslim ‘If it’s legal, it should not be legal – it’s insulting, that’s what it is’ Despite Canada’s reputation for casting a very broad social safety net and a Human Rights Code that aggressively punishes acts of discrimination, Austin Lewis, a 21-year-old paralyzed man confined to a wheelchair since a disease attacked his spinal cord when he was 8 years old, has just been told he has one less option for government-subsidized housing. His problem? He’s not a Muslim. Noting he wouldn’t be treated in this way in the far less-progressive southern U.S., Lewis… View Article

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on August 27, 2015 in World News

Court whacks lesbian mayor for trying to pull switcheroo

Court whacks lesbian mayor for trying to pull switcheroo ‘She has attempted every possible means of silencing the voters’ by Bob Unruh Houston’s lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, who unsuccessfully issued subpoenas for the sermons of pastors, creating a nationwide furor, has been slapped down again by the state Supreme Court in her effort to defend an ordinance giving special rights to transgender citizens in employment and use of public places, such as bathrooms. This time, the court has rejected her council’s wording – which critics says is deceptive – on the ballot voters will use to decide on the ordinance…. View Article

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