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from Breitbart
NANCY PELOSI PAINTS MARCO RUBIO AS A BAD CATHOLIC
it would seem the only Catholics Pelosi “respects” are those who agree with her.
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from Conservative Post
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VIDEO: US Military Pilots Have Had Enough of Obama and Are Expressing Their Frustration
VIDEO: US Military Pilots Have Had Enough of Obama and Are Expressing Their Frustration
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from Examiner.com
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
Ross Ulbricht: Fool? Martyr? Or Trailblazer?
If you’ve not heard of Ulbricht, he was the mastermind behind the infamous website Silk Road. On this website — a product of the “dark web” — people all over the world could buy and sell illegal drugs, fake IDs, and other contraband.
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from Freedom Outpost
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Poland Opens Borders for Persecuted Christians Fleeing Muslims
The Christian nation of Poland is opening its borders to persecuted Christians from Syria.
Poland Opens Borders for Persecuted Christians Fleeing Muslims
The Christian nation of Poland is opening its borders to persecuted Christians from Syria.
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from Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID)
Cinder, the black bear rescued from a Washington wildfire in 2014 and sent to Idaho Black Bear Rehab, is heading back into the wild in June. The female cub was found under a horse trailer in Methow Valley and initially taken to the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care in California before heading to Garden City's bear rehab center in November.
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from Independent Voter [IVN]
Opinion: You Shouldn’t Have To Join A Party to Vote in Primaries
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Senator Bernie Sanders said a 1972 article he wrote describing women’s fantasies of rape had been misinterpreted, and its resurfacing showed how campaigns had become “soap operas.’’
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from The Spokesman-Review
Two injured in crash with Bonner County deputy
A Bonner County sheriff’s sergeant was involved in a crash that sent two people to the hospital Friday morning on U.S. Highway 95 near Sagle Road. Sgt. Phyllis J. Jay, 62, was driving a 2006 Chevy Tahoe west on Sagle Road at 9:18 a.m., according to the Idaho State Police. She pulled out from the stop sign and hit a northbound motorcycle driven by Rodney F. Howard, 67, of Priest River. Howard lost control of the motorcycle and both he and his passenger, 66-year-old Catherine J. Howard, were thrown into the road.
Eloika Lake fire victim identified
The man who died in a house fire near Eloika Lake Saturday has been identified as Michael L. Randolph, 68. Multiple 911 calls were received shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday reporting explosions and fire at the home at 42327 N. Sundance Road. The home was fully involved when firefighters arrived and had collapsed.
9th Circuit upholds ruling that Idaho’s abortion ban was unconstitutional
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Friday upheld U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill’s earlier decision that Idaho’s “pain-capable abortion” ban was unconstitutional. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the appeals court held that banning abortions from 20 weeks on is “facially unconstitutional because it categorically bans some abortions before viability.” The court also found other portions of Idaho’s restrictive anti-abortion laws unconstitutional
Victims were shot to death before house fire
Spokane County detectives believe a fire department lieutenant, his wife and her adult son were shot to death, then whoever did it set fire to the family’s home to destroy evidence of the crime. The county Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the victims as Spokane Fire Lt. Terry Canfield, 59; Lisa M. Canfield, 52; and John Robert Constable, 23.
Ex-U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert indicted
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million in hush money to keep a person from the town where he was a longtime high school teacher silent about “prior misconduct” by the Illinois Republican who was once second in line to the U.S. presidency, according to a federal grand jury indictment handed down Thursday.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million in hush money to keep a person from the town where he was a longtime high school teacher silent about “prior misconduct” by the Illinois Republican who was once second in line to the U.S. presidency, according to a federal grand jury indictment handed down Thursday.
The city of Spokane got another big infusion of federal funding toward its effort to clean and redevelop industrial land in the Hillyard area, a former railyard that has sat polluted and nearly abandoned for 50 years.
Spokane motorcycle death was suicide, medical examiner says
The death of a motorcyclist killed in a collision with a Spokane Transit Authority bus last week has been ruled a suicide. Thomas Robert Dale Samples, 52, was wearing a helmet when he crashed into the bus at Crestline Street and Euclid Avenue just after 1:30 p.m on May 22. The Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office said the collision, which shattered the windshield of the STA bus, damaged Samples’ heart and aorta.
Spelling bee ends in a tie, again
They couldn’t be rattled. They wouldn’t be denied. Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar had worked too hard and come close too many times not to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. So they shared the title, making history in two different ways. The bee hadn’t ended in a tie for 52 years – until last year. Now it’s happened for an unprecedented two years running. Vanya, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, is the first sibling of a past champion to win. Her sister, Kavya, won in 2009.
Thief took sunglasses from car, left $1 million ticket
A $1 million Powerball ticket went unnoticed by a Seattle couple – and a thief – for three months in the couple’s car before they realized its worth.
The first named tropical storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season has formed far from Mexico’s coast. Tropical Storm Andres formed Thursday and strengthened through the day to maximum sustained winds near 60 mph.
In brief: Movie-theater shooter knew what he was doing, psychiatrist says
The man who killed 12 moviegoers and wounded scores of others in a suburban Denver theater was mentally ill but legally sane, a court-appointed psychiatrist testified Thursday. Prosecutors called Dr. William Reid to testify as they meticulously painted a portrait of James Holmes as a calculating if unstable killer – an image that defense attorneys will try to destroy with their own complex narrative.
Alabama, feds agree on prison overhaul
An Alabama women’s prison will be overhauled after the U.S. Justice Department said officers there coerced inmates into sex, watched them in showers and bathrooms and organized a New Year’s Eve strip show.
Immigrant youths can get driver’s license
Nebraska ended the nation’s last ban on driving privileges for young people brought into the United States illegally as children, after the Legislature voted Thursday to override a veto from the state’s new Republican governor.
Goo-struck beaches close to reopening
Crews scouring 7 miles of Southern California beaches had scooped up truckloads of mysterious oily goo Thursday and the area might be clean enough to reopen for the weekend, authorities said.
California set to legalize motorcycle lane-splitting
Motorcycle lane-splitting – the rush-hour time saver for bikers that enrages many drivers – may be poised for legalization. California would be the first state to sanction the traffic-evading tactic, already widespread on traffic-choked freeways of Los Angeles. The state Assembly approved the legislation Thursday, and supporters believe it will clear the Senate as well.
Mistake in anthrax shipments investigated
The U.S. Army’s top general said Thursday that human error probably was not a factor in the Army’s mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples from a chemical weapons testing site that was opened more than 70 years ago in a desolate stretch of desert in Utah. Samples from the anthrax lot ended up at 18 labs in nine states and an Army lab in South Korea, leading more than two dozen people to get treatment for possible exposure. Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, told reporters the problem may have been a failure in the technical process of killing, or inactivating, anthrax samples.
Ex-N.Y. Gov. Pataki enters GOP race for White House
George Pataki, the 9/11-era New York governor who achieved electoral success as a Republican in a heavily Democratic state, announced his candidacy for the presidential nomination Thursday, offering himself as a unifying figure in a divided nation.
George Pataki, the 9/11-era New York governor who achieved electoral success as a Republican in a heavily Democratic state, announced his candidacy for the presidential nomination Thursday, offering himself as a unifying figure in a divided nation.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell revealed plans Thursday to preserve habitat in 10 Western states for an imperiled ground-dwelling bird, the federal government’s biggest land-planning effort to date for conservation of a single species. The proposal would affect energy development. The regulations would require oil and gas wells to be clustered in groups of a half-dozen or more to avoid scattering them across habitat of the greater sage grouse. Drilling near breeding areas would be prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors that eat sage grouse.
In brief: Volcano erupts in Japan, spurring evacuation
A volcano erupted today on Kuchinoerabu island, a small island in southern Japan, spewing black clouds of ash and rock towering into the sky and prompting authorities to tell residents to evacuate the island. No injuries were reported after Mount Shindake erupted about 10 a.m. in spectacular fashion, sending dense pyroclastic flows of rock and hot gases seaward, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.
‘Alarming level’ of boat people
Thailand’s Foreign Minister said today that the upsurge of boat people in Southeast Asia has reached an “alarming level,” and called for governments in the region to address the root causes of the crisis – a reference to the swelling number of refugees who have fled persecution in Myanmar.
Jackson’s Neverland goes on the market
Neverland Ranch is up for sale. The California property that once served as Michael Jackson’s home and personal fantasyland is being listed at $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Lohan completes probation
For the first time in nearly eight years, Lindsay Lohan is not on probation. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Young on Thursday ended Lohan’s probation in a reckless driving case, closing the last of a series of L.A. criminal cases that have dogged the actress for years.
If NSA surveillance program ends, phone record trove will endure
The National Security Agency will mothball its mammoth archive of Americans’ telephone records, isolating the computer servers where they are stored and blocking investigators’ access, but will not destroy the database if its legal authority to collect the material expires on schedule this Sunday, officials said Thursday.
Kurdish fighters make gains on IS
In contrast to the Iraqi army’s failures, Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country’s northeast under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes.
U.S. rethinks Iraq strategy
Idaho officials were warned about Capitol makeover shortcomings
When Kelly Buckland and Bobbie Ball rolled their wheelchairs into a meeting with state public works officials several years ago, bringing a list of specific changes needed in Idaho’s state Capitol restoration project to accommodate people with disabilities, they thought they’d gotten the state’s attention. “We told them what they needed to do, and they ignored it,” said Buckland, who has since moved to Washington, D.C., to head the National Council on Independent Living. He filed a complaint under the Americans with Disabilities Act, triggering a federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Special session, round two, begins in Olympia today
The Legislature will go into double-overtime in an effort to reach a deal on how to spend some $38 billion on state programs, agencies and salaries over the next two years.
Charter schools groups say rule changes unexpected
As Travis Franklin prepares to open a new charter school in Northeast Spokane, he worries the state is changing the ground rules by rushing through new regulations on staffing and pay that make charters too much like standard public schools.
Colorful beach balls serve as sea lion deterrent
The Port of Astoria is trying a more playful approach to keep sea lions off its docks: beach balls. A resident suggested the colorful balls as a deterrent after discovering that sea lions, unlike seals, are afraid of them, the Daily Astorian reported.
A 42-year-old convicted sex offender is back behind bars after allegedly attacking a woman outside a Colville coffee stand Monday. Jason R. Foster was booked into Stevens County Jail earlier this week after the alleged attack, which took place around 6 a.m. at a drive-thru stand near downtown Colville.
New type of beaver fossil discovered in Oregon
A fossilized skull fragment and teeth from a newly described species of beaver that lived 28 million years ago have been unearthed in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Monument paleontologist Joshua Samuels said the fossils worked their way out of the soil within a mile of the visitor center. He said the find is significant because unlike the other species of ancient beavers found to date on the monument, this one appears related to the modern beaver, a symbol of Oregon found on the state flag. The others all went extinct.
The body of a Coeur d’Alene man who disappeared on a canoe trip near Riggins, Idaho, was found in the Salmon River on Wednesday night. The Idaho County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that the body of Jason Gritten, 35, was located by family and friends searching the river. A second Coeur d’Alene man on the same excursion, Patrick Lusk, 27, remains missing.
Report on fatal Pasco police shooting completed
A special investigative unit gave prosecutors its final report Thursday on the February killing of an unarmed Mexican man who was shot by police in Pasco. The contents were not released. Franklin County Prosecutor Shawn Sant said his office will interview more than 80 witnesses identified in the report and decide whether criminal charges are warranted against any police officers.
Google’s next version of its Android operating system will boast new ways to fetch information, pay merchants and protect privacy on mobile devices as the Internet company duels with Apple in the quest to make their technology indispensable.
Business briefs: Masons buy and will renovate Selkirk Building
The Masonic Temple Association of Spokane has purchased the historic Selkirk Building at 506 W. Second Ave., following the $1.1 million sale of the stately Masonic Center on West Riverside Avenue in 2013.
Union Pacific slowdown prompts furloughs
Union Pacific has furloughed about 900 railroad workers because shipping demand has been weaker than expected.
Chase branch cutback means 5,000 fewer jobs
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will cut about 5,000 jobs over the next year, as the bank closes branches and slims down its operations, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
Apple buys maker of futuristic software
Apple has bought Munich-based Metaio, a company that makes augmented-reality software, which adds information or images to real-world scenes when viewed through a special headset or even a smartphone camera.
Pending home sales strongest in nine years
Americans signed contracts to buy homes in April at the fastest pace in nearly nine years, evidence that steady job growth is strengthening the real estate market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index climbed 3.4 percent to 112.4 last month. It’s the fourth consecutive monthly gain. The index now stands at its highest level since May 2006.
Analysts: Economy still strong despite sluggish first quarter
Another first quarter of the year. Another reversal for the U.S. economy. Another expectation of a rebound to come. Today, the government will likely estimate that the economy shrank in the January-March quarter for a second straight year, depressed by brutal weather, a reeling energy sector and an export slump caused by a higher-valued dollar.
Costco has philosophy on price of chicken
Perhaps inspired by Costco Wholesale’s recent decision to buy olive oil from the land of Socrates, Barclays analyst Meredith Adler asked on Thursday what may have been the most profound question in the long history of earnings calls. “What is your philosophy about chickens?” Adler asked during a call that followed Wednesday’s release of Costco’s earnings. Turns out Costco does have a philosophy that would have been familiar to the ancient Greeks: Keep ’em cheap.
NTSB report faults Shell for Arctic oil rig mishap
As Royal Dutch Shell PLC seeks permits for exploratory oil drilling off Alaska’s northwest coast, a federal agency has concluded the company underestimated risk the last time it moved drill rigs to Arctic waters.
High water from deluges could take month to recede
Heavy rain eases Texas drought; search for missing continues
Early treatment cuts HIV illness
Starting drug regimen sooner is key, study finds
Shawn Vestal: On big projects and incentives like Grand Hotel, city needs to get it right
Amy Goodman: WikiLeaks founder effectively prisoner in U.K.
Outside View: Social media policy makes Washington Senate look out of it
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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)
Shocking Proof Of EXACTLY How Dems Want To Forever Change America In This Huge Way
Conservative politicians and pundits, analysts, and authors have long warned that Barack Obama and his liberal cohorts want to grant amnesty to millions of illegals in order to greatly swell the ranks of loyal Democrat voters. The real purpose behind the plan to grant certain rights of citizenship to non-citizens, it’s argued, has far more to do with expanding and consolidating political power than with showing compassion for hardworking families seeking a better life in America.
(Western Journalism)
Shocking Proof Of EXACTLY How Dems Want To Forever Change America In This Huge Way
Conservative politicians and pundits, analysts, and authors have long warned that Barack Obama and his liberal cohorts want to grant amnesty to millions of illegals in order to greatly swell the ranks of loyal Democrat voters. The real purpose behind the plan to grant certain rights of citizenship to non-citizens, it’s argued, has far more to do with expanding and consolidating political power than with showing compassion for hardworking families seeking a better life in America.
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