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from The American Conservative
12 Reasons America Doesn’t Win Its Wars
Too many parties now benefit from perpetual warmaking for the U.S. to ever conclude its military conflicts.
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12 Reasons America Doesn’t Win Its Wars
Too many parties now benefit from perpetual warmaking for the U.S. to ever conclude its military conflicts.
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from American News
BREAKING: Obama Launches Plan To Suspend 2016 Election
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from Breitbart
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRANSRACIAL HERO RACHEL DOLEZAL
Just last week the President of the United States congratulated Bruce Jenner on his courageous decision to pretend to be a woman, and the entire left bursting into spasms of ecstasy over a collectively insane decision to ratify the notion that men can magically become women. Today, the entire left is struggling to explain how a white woman who identifies herself as black is not, in fact, black.
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from Daily Kos
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Rubio voted for Florida's 'Scarlet Letter' adoption law to publicly shame unwed mothers
Florida House rejects Medicaid expansion again, but passes sweet insurance deal for themselves
Pope Francis sets historic meeting with LGBT activists in South America
Rubio voted for Florida's 'Scarlet Letter' adoption law to publicly shame unwed mothers
Florida House rejects Medicaid expansion again, but passes sweet insurance deal for themselves
Pope Francis sets historic meeting with LGBT activists in South America
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from Eagle Rising
Reverend Franklin Graham Calls for Sharia Law to be Banned in the USA!
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from The Guardian (UK)
Prisons that withhold menstrual pads humiliate women and violate basic rights
Stains on clothes seep into self-esteem and reinforce powerlessness. That’s why wardens keep sanitation just out of reach
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from KING 5 (NBC Seattle)
Decatur engineering students design inexpensive lockdown system
In the wake of last fall's deadly shootings at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, a group of engineering students at Decatur High School in Federal Way have created an inexpensive solution to locking down a school faster.
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from Laredo Morning Times
Two Black Hawk helicopters arrived in Laredo on Friday in response to the shooting of the CBP chopper on June 5. Officials hope the new helicopters, which will be used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Laredo, will provide better protection in the event of another shooting.
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from National Review
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Dirty Jobs Star Delivers Devastating Rebuke about America’s Work Ethic
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Congressman Mike Rogers Introduces Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN
Dirty Jobs Star Delivers Devastating Rebuke about America’s Work Ethic
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from The New American Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Congressman Mike Rogers Introduces Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN
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from The Right Scoop
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
Cosmic Confusion: Talk of Multiverses and Big Errors in Astrophysics
Physicists at the World Science Festival in New York discussed how a multiverse theory could help or hinder the pursuit of a scientific explanation for why our universe is fit to support life.
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from The Spokesman-Review
National office of NAACP stands behind Rachel Dolezal
The national office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is standing behind Rachel Dolezal, the embattled Spokane chapter leader under fire for representing herself as a black woman and using that status to gain prominence when her family claims she is white.
Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal’s claims about background disputed
Controversy is swirling around one of the Inland Northwest’s most prominent civil rights activists, with family members of Rachel Dolezal saying the local leader of the NAACP has been falsely portraying herself as black for years. Dolezal, 37, avoided answering questions directly about her race and ethnicity Thursday, saying, “I feel like I owe my executive committee a conversation” before engaging in a broader discussion with the community about what she described as a “multilayered” issue.
Spokane police: investigation into Rachel Dolezal hate mail now closed
Spokane police said Friday they’re no longer investigating racial harassment claims made by Rachel Dolezal, the head of a local NAACP chapter whose integrity was thrown into question when her mother said she’s a white woman pretending to be black.
Rachel Dolezal’s reports of harassment to Coeur d’Alene and Spokane police, obtained through public records requests.
The black man who embattled local NAACP president Rachel Dolezal called her father in social media postings said Friday he’s reluctant to comment on the controversy. Albert Wilkerson Jr. said in a brief phone call with The Spokesman-Review: “I have nothing negative to say about Rachel and I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus.” Asked about reports that Dolezal claimed he was her father, Wilkerson replied, “You know the answer to that and that’s all I’m going to say.” He then hung up.
Casino card dealer accused of workers’ comp fraud
Pasco police officer’s family question motives of Spokane prosecutors, police
The family of murder suspect and former Pasco police officer Richard Aguirre are questioning whether the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office is trying to sway public opinion against Aguirre.
Video leads to arrest for child rape
Spokane police have arrested a man for first-degree child rape, producing child pornography and possession of child pornography. Randall M. Peterson, 37, is believed to be the perpetrator in a video of a sexual assault that “a citizen” turned over to detectives on Monday. Further investigation is being carried out by the Spokane Police Department’s Special Victims Unit.
Crews still knocking down Greenwood brush fire
Firefighters are still working to contain the brush fire that sent a pillar of smoke into the sky Thursday afternoon in a heavily wooded area near Indian Canyon Golf Course and the Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery. The so-called Greenwood fire was 50-percent contained late this morning after it burned as many as 30 acres. Water drops from two helicopters helped firefighters build a hasty containment line Thursday amid strong winds that are expected to pick up again today.
3-year-old Spirit Lake boy found dead in car
A 3-year-old boy died Thursday of apparent heat exposure while trapped inside a car with two dogs in Spirit Lake. The boy was playing with his dogs while his mother and her boyfriend slept inside, a news release from the sheriff’s office said. The child then got into the vehicle, closing the door behind him. The boy was found by his mother, who attempted lifesaving efforts.
Jury convicts man who shot wolf without required tags
A North Idaho man who shot and killed a wolf will spend six months on unsupervised probation. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports 54-year-old Forrest Mize was convicted by a jury Thursday and can petition to remove the crime from his record if he completes his probation without violations.
NPR Story Corps features student, police officer involved in 2003 LCHS shooting
National Public Radio’s Story Corps project is featuring the student involved in a 2003 Lewis and Clark High School shooting and the officer who tried to negotiate with him. Both Sean Fitzpatrick, who now works to educate law enforcement on dealing with people struggling with mental illness, and John Gately, the officer who tried to negotiate with Fitzpatrick that day, share their recollections.
General: U.S. role in Iraq could grow
The Pentagon’s top general said Thursday the U.S. military’s reach could extend even further into Iraq if the anti-Islamic State campaign gains momentum, and he held out the possibility of eventually recommending to President Barack Obama that U.S. troops take on the riskier role of calling in airstrikes. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the White House’s announcement Wednesday that up to 450 more U.S. troops would be sent to Iraq to invigorate its flagging campaign against the Islamic State is a natural extension of U.S. assistance. He said the support hub the troops will set up will not produce instant results but may serve as a model to be replicated elsewhere in Iraq, possibly requiring even more U.S. troops.
Around every turn, the sentinel mountains of the North Cascades grow bigger and taunt me. Mount Despair. Damnation Peak. Mount Terror. Yeah. Sounds about right. I haven’t even gained 500 feet yet but the hills are winning the mind game. But by the end of the day, I’ll have climbed 1,500 feet. Tomorrow I’ll reach Washington Pass, at 5,477 feet.
Spokane Tribe casino decision expected shortly
After more than two years of waiting, the Spokane Tribe – and the city and county that share its name – may know soon whether it will get the federal go-ahead to build a casino, hotel and shopping mall on the West Plains. Several government sources said Thursday they have been told to expect a decision from the U.S. Department of the Interior in the near future, although no date has been set for the announcement. The Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Portland said the decision remains in the hands of officials in Washington, D.C.
After more than two years of waiting, the Spokane Tribe – and the city and county that share its name – may know soon whether it will get the federal go-ahead to build a casino, hotel and shopping mall on the West Plains. Several government sources said Thursday they have been told to expect a decision from the U.S. Department of the Interior in the near future, although no date has been set for the announcement. The Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Portland said the decision remains in the hands of officials in Washington, D.C.
Fearing he was going blind, the co-pilot who slammed a Germanwings jet into the Alps took sick days at work, upped his dosage of an antidepressant, and reached out to doctors, but they didn’t tell his employer they thought he was unfit to fly because of German privacy laws, a French prosecutor said Thursday.
Union says all fed worker data hacked
Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, asserting that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged.
Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, asserting that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged.
The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on trade promotion authority, commonly known as “fast-track trade.” If passed, the bill would change the process for Congress to authorize trade policy: After the president negotiated international agreements, Congress would only be able to vote yes or no, rather than having the ability to amend or filibuster a proposed deal.
Associated Press displays images of war in Hanoi
“They gave the whole world a full picture of what was going on in Vietnam,” President Truong Tan Sang told the Associated Press ahead of an exhibit of the AP’s wartime photographs in Hanoi. “I believe these photos made an enormous contribution to bringing the war in Vietnam to an end.” “Vietnam: The Real War,” a collection of 58 photographs taken by the AP, opens to the public today, marking a homecoming that officials say is historic and an emblem of changing times. Forty years after the war ended, it is the first time that the collection is being exhibited in Vietnam, where the conflict is called the “American War.”
Months before James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater, his ex-girlfriend said she urged him to talk to his therapist after he mentioned having thoughts about killing people, thoughts that to her “seemed very philosophical” and not a concrete threat.
Judge sees cause for officers’ trials
A Cleveland judge said Thursday enough evidence exists to charge two white policemen in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy who was holding a pellet gun, a largely symbolic ruling because he can’t compel prosecutors to charge them.
Dust storm blamed for deadly pileup
A dust storm that enveloped a highway and triggered an 11-vehicle pileup in southeastern Colorado has killed two people and injured four others.
Expert: Jail escape professionally done
A licensed engineer who has done work at the Clinton Correctional facility in Dannemora where two killers escaped last weekend said the work of cutting through a cell wall and a steam pipe was done with a high degree of professionalism.
Prosecutor wants ‘Angola 3’ retrial
Louisiana’s attorney general is insisting on a third trial for the last of the “Angola Three,” calling the prison activist who spent decades in solitary confinement after the killing of a guard in 1972 “the most dangerous person on the planet.”
Harper Lee letters going to auction
Six letters by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to one of her closest friends could fetch as much as $250,000 at auction. Four of the letters date from before “Mockingbird” while Lee was caring for her ailing father, Amasa Coleman Lee, the model for her protagonist Atticus Finch.
Six letters by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to one of her closest friends could fetch as much as $250,000 at auction. Four of the letters date from before “Mockingbird” while Lee was caring for her ailing father, Amasa Coleman Lee, the model for her protagonist Atticus Finch.
Inslee signs $5.1B transportation bill, touts Cheney rail project
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee visited an old cow pasture near Four Lakes on Thursday to sign the state’s $5.1 billion transportation budget for the next two years. The budget calls for spending $2.3 million to upgrade a section of aging rail between Cheney and Geiger Junction to serve a new $30 million grain loading facility under construction along Craig Road.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee visited an old cow pasture near Four Lakes on Thursday to sign the state’s $5.1 billion transportation budget for the next two years. The budget calls for spending $2.3 million to upgrade a section of aging rail between Cheney and Geiger Junction to serve a new $30 million grain loading facility under construction along Craig Road.
A brush fire Thursday afternoon near Indian Canyon Golf Course sent clouds of smoke into the sky during rush-hour traffic as flames towered just on the edge of Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery.
One man is in jail after an arson fire that ravaged a small building Thursday morning on North Monroe Street, leaving several tenants without a home. Spokane firefighters responded to the two-alarm fire just after 3 a.m. at 2419 N. Monroe St. near Jackson Avenue. The one-story building contains a small office space for an appliance business. Five people, including a 1-year-old, lived in apartments in the back. Fire investigators initially interviewed John Hauflin, 23, as a witness and determined his story didn’t add up. After further questioning, Hauflin confessed that he started the fire by lighting some used diapers he found in a trash can outside, court records say.
Shooting by deputy ruled justified
Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell has ruled that the shooting of Christopher Myers by Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Thurman in January was justified. Myers is accused of shooting at police before being shot himself.
A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a plan for a major shift in the way teachers and other public school employees are paid, with the state shouldering its constitutional responsibility for the cost. Now they need to find an extra $3.5 billion.
A woman suspected of shooting her stepfather in the leg Wednesday at his Colbert home also may have shot him in the head and fired multiple shots at a visiting neighbor, according to deputies’ reports. Before the early-morning attack, deputies suspect Jennifer Anderson, 38, lay in wait under the front porch, dressed in black with a hood over her head. This was not the first bout of violence between Anderson and her stepfather. Gail Platz told deputies that Anderson, her daughter, has a history of mental illness.
Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies found a dead person partially submerged in a slough near Hauser Lake on Thursday afternoon. Detectives characterized the death as suspicious.
Boyington statue will be dedicated
An 8-foot-tall bronze statue of famed World War II combat pilot Maj. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington will be dedicated Saturday in a special sunset ceremony at the Coeur d’Alene Airport.
A 17-year-old inmate is accused of orchestrating a prostitution ring from behind bars in an attempt to pay his $75,000 bond on unrelated charges. Thaishaun Hunter was charged as an adult on Monday with leading organized crime, second-degree promotion of prostitution and promoting commercial sex abuse of a minor, in addition to six first-degree assault charges. Police believe his 16-year-old girlfriend, 14-year-old brother and mother also were involved, according to court documents. Hunter already was being held for his alleged role in a January 26 drive-by shooting.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who helped turn the trendy messaging startup into a global town square, is stepping down amid criticism over the company’s disappointing financial performance and a recent stock slide.
Axovant shares soar on first trading day
Shares of Axovant Sciences nearly doubled in value after the dementia drug developer said its initial public offering raised $315 million, more than Axovant had expected.
Jobless applications inch up, but still low
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose slightly last week yet remained at a historically low level that points to a healthy job market.
30-year mortgage rate back above 4 percent
The average interest rate that lenders offered on 30-year home loans shot back above 4 percent this week for the first time since November, pushed by news of a strengthening economy.
Oculus is expanding its virtual-reality headset to simulate the sensation of touch and gesturing as part of its quest to blur the lines between the fake and genuine world.
In its first action involving the multibillion-dollar crowdfunding industry, the Federal Trade Commission charged that a man used money raised through Kickstarter for rent and other personal expenses instead of producing the board game he promised.
Rupert Murdoch will soon hand over the reins of the media dynasty that began with his father’s Australian newspaper nearly a century ago to his sons.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied petitions for a temporary stay of tough new net neutrality regulations made by AT&T Inc. and other opponents of the online traffic rules. The decision allows the regulations to take effect as scheduled today while the court considers lawsuits asking that the rules be tossed out. The judges also granted a request for an expedited review of the suits.
Whole Foods says it will name its new chain of smaller stores with lower prices after its “365 Everyday Value” brand. Co-CEO Walter Robb told the Associated Press the chain will be named “365 by Whole Foods Market,” a nod to the brand already sold by the grocery chain.
Amy Goodman: Solitary confinement is cruel, unusual punishment
Editorial: USA Freedom Act limits fall short on data privacy
Potter turns ash into beauty
For the last 35 years, Shirley Johnson, now 83, has been producing distinctive pottery glazed with a mixture that includes some Mount St. Helens ash.
Lee, prolific British actor, dies at 93
Christopher Lee, the prolific, aristocratic British actor who brought dramatic gravitas to screen villains from Count Dracula to James Bond enemy Scaramanga, has died at age 93.
Jazz legend Coleman, 85, dies
Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, the visionary saxophonist and composer who pioneered “free jazz” and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, has died. Publicist Ken Weinstein said Coleman died on Thursday at 1 a.m. in Manhattan. He was 85.
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from UPI
India floats first locally made aircraft carrier
India's first indigenous aircraft carrier has been floated out of its building drydock for equipment fitting prior to sea trials in 2017. The floating of the INS Vikrant took place on Wednesday at the Cochin Shipyard.
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from The Washington Examiner (DC)
Ben Carson: 'I will certainly be as ready as anybody on foreign policy'
Ben Carson is dismissing suggestions that he would enter the White House ill-prepared to handle foreign policy challenges. "I will be certainly as ready as anybody else when foreign policy questions come up," Carson told a scrum of reporters, while campaigning Saturday in Iowa.
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