By refusing to hear an appeals, the Supreme Court on Monday tacitly acknowledged that assault weapons bans in New York and Connecticut do not violate the Second Amendment. The high court declined to hear an appeal of a case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After the shootings at Sandy […]
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A story that’s circulating on social media and anti-Muslim and conspiracy-oriented websites is falsely claiming that three young Syrian refugees raped a young girl at knifepoint at an apartment complex in Twin Falls that supposedly is the site where about 50 Syrian refugees had been resettled – when in fact, no Syrian refugees have been
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Caught between the presidential candidacies of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, a group of Christians is choosing a third way out: prayer. Get Out the Prayer 2016 is mobilizing believers to influence the political process not only with their votes, but through appeals to a higher authority. Dave Kubal, president of Intercessors of
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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump says he was talking about additional guards or employees when it came to having guns in the Orlando club where the deadly terrorist attack took place last week. “When I said that if, within the Orlando club, you had some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional
A veteran is threatening legal action against the U.S. Air Force if it does not apologize for forcibly removing him from a retirement ceremony at Travis Air Force Base in California, where he was invited to give a speech referencing “God.” Oscar Rodriguez, a 33-year Air Force veteran, was invited to speak at the April
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Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin is so fed up by Republicans “criminalizing” poverty that she has proposed drug-testing the “top 1%” earners before they can receive tax deductions. The Democrat introduced Thursday the Top 1% Accountability Act, in response to “several nationwide efforts by Republicans to drug test social welfare recipients,” according to a press
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I’m still expecting a full Executive pardon from Obama for Hillary if the investigation endangers her becoming president. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday that President Obama’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president does not create a conflict of interest in the FBI’s ongoing investigation of her State Department email. Ms. Lynch insisted that the
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Donald Trump said Sunday that too many “red flags” were missed that could have stopped the Orlando shooter, and he proposed the use of ethnic and religious profiling to prevent terrorism. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said members of Muslim communities need to alert law enforcement when their neighbors or family members act suspiciously. “People
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FBI investigators released on Monday a partial transcript of phone conversations that 911 call takers and crisis negotiators had with gunman who stormed Pulse nightclub while he remained holed up inside an the Orlando club. A dispatcher received the first call from the gunman about 30 minutes into the mass shooting. Later calls with crisis
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The 17 attorneys general pursuing climate change dissenters for accusations of “fraud” want House Republicans to mind their own business. That’s not going to happen. Seventeen Republicans on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee reasserted their right in a Friday letter to conduct oversight on state investigations that represent a threat to the First
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is parting ways with campaign manager Corey Lewandowski about a month before the GOP convention in Cleveland, the campaign announced Monday. “The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican Primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey
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With the terrorist-inspired Orlando shooting fresh in their minds, House lawmakers reversed course last week and voted to uphold the government’s ability to snoop through its data when it believes American citizens are involved in terrorism — suggesting the post-Snowden wariness of the NSA has dissipated. The Thursday vote marked a defeat for civil libertarians,
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Sen. Marco Rubio was so over the Senate that he missed more than half of the chamber’s votes in late 2015 and repeatedly mocked his colleagues for being useless. Now, the Florida Republican is giving serious thought to revoking his retirement and running to rejoin his fellow senators for another term. The erstwhile presidential candidate
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The words of Rahm Emanuel ring in my ears: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association smoothed over a hiccup in their alliance Sunday, agreeing that the
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From the Washington Post: This Wednesday, Yee received a five-year prison sentence for accepting bribes and trafficking in arms. After initially denying culpability, Yee pleaded guilty to the charges last summer. “I hope that in your sentencing of me, you will look at my entire life and not just these crimes I have committed,” the
Via Breitbart: A Black Lives Matter activist hijacked the Orlando vigil held on Monday, using the microphone opportunity to lambast the white attendees who were mourning the terrorist attack that took place last Sunday in Florida. “I was really nervous to get up here because there’s a lot of white people in the crowd” said
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Via the Alabama Media Group: Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) thinks there’s a problem using the No Fly List to prohibit gun purchases. According to ACLU National Security Project director Hina Shamsi, “The standards for inclusion on the No Fly List are unconstitutionally vague, and innocent people are blacklisted without a fair process
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Via Betsy Russell’s An Eye on Boise: Idaho’s state Capitol was illuminated in bright rainbow colors over the weekend for Boise Pridefest, thanks to private sponsors and fundraising that’s still ongoing, as shown in this photo by Hank Nystrom. This came after the state Department of Administration said it couldn’t do it. Here’s what state Rep. Melissa
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