Obama signs the NDAA 2017 into law. The new law allows for $611 billion in military spending in 2017. The NDAA 2017 also included the countering disinformation and propaganda act. Via ZeroHedge:  Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into […]

Some want to revise it, others want to destroy it. Via the AP:  Republicans are united on repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law, but ideologically and practically speaking, they’re in different camps over replacing it. Getting the factions together won’t be easy. Some Republicans would revise and rebrand “Obamacare,” junking unpopular provisions like its

Bodies that were donated to medical research were actually sold to the US military. The US military blew up the bodies while testing to see the effects of explosives on the bodies. Human bodies that had been donated by their families for medical research were used in bomb simulations by the US army. Biological Resource

After the New Year, all school fights in Missouri will end with the fighters being arrested and charged with a Class E Felony. Nothing like getting being listed as a felon for protecting yourself.  Via ThinkProgress:  In a move that will likely doom countless children to the school-to-prison pipeline, Missouri will soon charge students who get

Unsurprisingly, Lawrence McKinney is a black man. Read more over at  The Innocence Project.  In October 1977, a Memphis, Tennessee woman was raped in her home by two intruders.  The woman subsequently identified one of the perpetrators as her neighbor, 22 year old Lawrence McKinney.  One year later, McKinney was convicted on rape and burglary charges

In response to Trump wanting to expand America’s nuclear weapons capabilities, Putin says he is unsurprised by Trump’s statements and does not want a nuclear arms race. Via NYT:  MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Friday that a statement by Donald J. Trump, the American president-elect, that the United States should expand its nuclear abilities was

Patton had Chaplain Fr. James O’Neill compose a card to be distributed to each one of the 250,000 troops under his command in the Third Army, and had all of the men pray this simple prayer: “Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which

We can only hope so. Via WSJ:  Donald Trump had barely finished announcing his pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency before the left started listing its million reasons why Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was the worst nomination in the history of the planet: He’s an untrained anti-environmentalist. He’s a polluter. He’s a fossil-fuel

Now all of a sudden, after 8 years of Obama’s regime, the progressives get concerned about government spying? Via the WaPo:  A while back, we noted a report showing that the “sneak-and-peek” provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the

“Politicians are allowing migrants to rape our women, and they are doing nothing about it. There will be a war on the streets, and we are ready to fight.” I am in no way justifying these vigilante actions. But it’s as if the progressives’ suicidal policies bring out a nationalistic socialism in its citizens.  Via

Hillary Clinton has taken money from foreign countries that could have influenced her decisions as our President of the Untied States.  As far as I’m aware, Trump took no such bribes.   

Zero Correlation Between State Gun Laws and Firearms Homicides     The Washington Post compared 2012 homicide rates for each state to Brady Scores (the Brady campaign scores states on how strong they are on ‘gun control’). There was no connection between “stronger” gun laws and lower homicide rates. Everyone finds gun murders abhorrent and wants there to

Gun Sales Under President Obama The New York Times reports on the dramatic effect of the president’s gun initiatives on firearms sales. Each time the president has pushed hard for more gun control laws, there has been a spike in firearms sales.

U.S. Cities Have Gun Homicide Rates Similar to the Worst of the Worst Worldwide The gun murder rates of U.S. cities are disproportionately high and match up with some of the worst nations in the world. Image credit: Citylab.com New Orleans, for example, is comparable to the nation with the highest known gun murder rate: Honduras.

‘Murder Capitals’ of America The top U.S. cities for murder per capita in 2014: Detroit (45), New Orleans (41), Newark, NJ (40), St. Louis (38), Baltimore (37), Birmingham, AL (30), Cincinnati (24), and Oakland, CA (22). It should be noted that many cities in the United States that struggle with shooting violence possess some of the toughest gun control

U.S. Homicide Rates in Global Context A map from the UN puts the United States homicide rate in perspective. Male homicide rates, female homicide rates, differences in national homicide rates, and sub-national homicide rates are compared in this revolving chart.