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from ABC News (& affiliates)
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from Allen West
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Air Force Major General formally reprimanded and removed from his job over THIS remark
Air Force Major General James Post III, who was the vice commander of Air Combat Command, has been formally reprimanded and removed from his job for telling a group of officers that talking to Congress in a bid to block retirement of the A-10 Warthog amounted to “treason,” the Air Force said on Friday.
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Air Force Major General formally reprimanded and removed from his job over THIS remark
Air Force Major General James Post III, who was the vice commander of Air Combat Command, has been formally reprimanded and removed from his job for telling a group of officers that talking to Congress in a bid to block retirement of the A-10 Warthog amounted to “treason,” the Air Force said on Friday.
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from Breitbart
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
When military aviation buffs pack into the Marine Corps Beaufort Air Show in South Carolina this weekend, they'll be wowed by the Navy's Blue Angels. But a new kind of history will also take flight in the team: a woman in the cockpit.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Hannity Rips Media Double Standard Questioning Rand Paul's Temper But Not Hillary
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from Columbia Basin Herald (Moses Lake, WA)
Woman claims to be God, allegedly head-butts hospital security guard
About 6 p.m. on Wednesday Mildred Simmons, 45, of Ephrata, was dropped off in the hospital's emergency room, according to police records. Upon arrival in the emergency room, Simmons reportedly immediately began yelling at people about a bomb being in her stomach and claiming she was God.
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from Conservative Post
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Family of Walter Scott Tell Al Sharpton to Get Lost, Keep His ‘Ferguson Circus’ Away
The family of South Carolinian Walter Scott, the man shot five times by a North Charleston cop. has told Sharpton to get lost.
BREAKING: Congressman Finally Makes Serious Move to Impeach Obama… Can’t Wait
Family of Walter Scott Tell Al Sharpton to Get Lost, Keep His ‘Ferguson Circus’ Away
The family of South Carolinian Walter Scott, the man shot five times by a North Charleston cop. has told Sharpton to get lost.
BREAKING: Congressman Finally Makes Serious Move to Impeach Obama… Can’t Wait
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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com) [Information from this site may be unreliable.]Kardashian Attention Whores Bring Attention To Something Actually Important For A Change: Armenian Christian Genocide
The Kardashians pay their respects at the memorial to the AREMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915, the first genocide of the 20th Century by the Ottoman Empire, a genocide of 1.5 million Christians by Muslims that the Turks and Barack Hussein Obama still refuse to recognize.
The Muslim Nation Of Malaysia Makes New Law: We Can Imprison You For Years Without A Trial (Major Christian Persecution In Malaysia Is Coming)
The Antichrist Who Is Threatening Christian Armenia With Complete Annihilation
“Azerbaijan pursues and should pursue a more active fight against Armenia,” Azerbaijani Muslim President Ilham Aliyev said today on Apr. 10 in his opening speech at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.
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from The Heritage Foundation
Q&A With Washington Florist on Religious Freedom: ‘Who Are the Real Bigots Here?’
Big Labor’s 5 Misconceptions on Free Trade
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from The Hill
Huckabee at NRA: No remorse using gun in self-defense
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from Huffington Post
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A Lot Of Bottled Water Comes From Drought-Stricken California
California's in the middle of an epic drought -- but that hasn't stopped bottled water production in the state. Even as residents face mandatory cutbacks and fields lie fallow, companies continue pumping hundreds of millions of gallons of water every year into plastic bottles -- sometimes straight from a municipal water supply.
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A Lot Of Bottled Water Comes From Drought-Stricken California
California's in the middle of an epic drought -- but that hasn't stopped bottled water production in the state. Even as residents face mandatory cutbacks and fields lie fallow, companies continue pumping hundreds of millions of gallons of water every year into plastic bottles -- sometimes straight from a municipal water supply.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
10 Fascinating Documentaries About Native Americans You Can Watch Right Now
10 Fascinating Documentaries About Native Americans You Can Watch Right Now
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from KING 5 (NBC Seattle)
Pacific 'blob'' affecting Northwest weather has grown
It showed up over the winter of 2013/2014 - a massive blob of unusually warm water in the northeastern Pacific Ocean west of Washington and south of Alaska. The blob is about four to five degrees Fahrenheit warmer than what the Pacific is typically, and that's influencing our weather on land.
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It showed up over the winter of 2013/2014 - a massive blob of unusually warm water in the northeastern Pacific Ocean west of Washington and south of Alaska. The blob is about four to five degrees Fahrenheit warmer than what the Pacific is typically, and that's influencing our weather on land.
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from Money Talks News
9 Gadgets With Really Long Battery Life
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from National Geographic
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from NPR (& affiliates)
from PJ Media
Misreading Alinsky
by Andrew C. McCarthy - Since the year before his disciple, Barack Obama, was elected president, many of us have been raising alarms about how Saul Alinsky’s brass-knuckles tactics have been mainstreamed by Democrats. It was thus refreshing to find an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, by Pete Peterson of Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy, expressly calling out a top House Democrat for resorting to the seminal community organizer’s extortion playbook. But in the end, alas, Mr. Peterson gets Alinsky wrong.
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from The Political Insider
Sharpton Releases Statement Concerning Walter Scott – Twitter Reacts!
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Sharpton Releases Statement Concerning Walter Scott – Twitter Reacts!
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from POLITICO
Barack Obama greets Raul Castro at summit
The two also are expected to meet Saturday on the sidelines of the summit.
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from Power Line
from Real Clear Politics
from ScienceAlert
These are the top 10 myths about the human brain
Spoiler: You’re using more than 10 percent of your brain as you read this.
WATCH: We're totally humbled by this glorious solar time-lapse
from The Spokesman-Review
House passes marijuana revisions
Medical marijuana patients would have to register with the state and pay some taxes on the products they buy from state-licensed stores, under major rewrites of the state pot laws that passed the House Friday evening. Cities and counties, which are currently cut out of the tax revenue that legal marijuana generates, would get a cut of some of the taxes. But they couldn’t ban marijuana businesses without a public vote.
Child support bill killed by Idaho legislators fearful of Islamic law
An Idaho House panel voted 9-8 on Friday to kill legislation to bring the state into compliance with federal child-support collection rules after some lawmakers said they were concerned about foreign Sharia law influencing the state’s enforcement authority.
Investigators attempting to trace threatening email
Investigators are trying to determine who set up the email account used to send a bomb threat to University High School administrators on April 1.
Studded tire fee clears House; gains Senate favor
Legislation that cleared the House on Friday, and appears to already have Senate support, would impose a $5 fee on each studded tire sold in Washington state beginning next year. Backers describe it as a way to both discourage their use and raise extra money for road repairs.
Penalty phase of marathon bombing trial to start after race
The second phase of the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will begin on April 21, after the second anniversary of the attack and the day after this year’s race. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. granted a request Friday from Tsarnaev’s lawyers to give the defense additional time to resolve logistical issues with potential witnesses.
N. Idaho woman sentenced to 15 years for killing husband
Fifty-one-year-old Jackie Reed of Osburn, who shot and killed her husband and then left his body in their bedroom for more than a year, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Nonprofit group aims to tackle child hunger in North Idaho
A new nonprofit aims to tackle child hunger in Sandpoint and surrounding communities by putting more money into weekend food bags sent home with kids from low-income families. An estimated 2,000 hungry kids in the county could be getting more to eat, organizers say.
Sanctions still loom over Iran nuclear deal
The biggest enforcement provision in the preliminary nuclear agreement with Iran is turning into one of the mostly hotly contested elements. The disagreement on this issue is between the U.S. and its European allies on one side, and Russia and China on the other – all countries involved in the nuclear negotiations. And even though all six world powers and Iran agreed last week to the framework agreement that is supposed to be finalized by June 30, the “snapback” mechanism for U.N. sanctions remains poorly defined and may prove unworkable.
The traffic triangle at the intersection of Division Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard is one of the most visible yet easily ignored parts of Spokane.
Deputies find family’s stolen cabin 10 miles away; suspect sought
Deputies found the cabin on private property a few miles northeast of Springdale, about 10 miles from the original location.
Peanut allergy skin patch to get speedy FDA review
A medical skin patch tested by Seattle-area doctors and families to treat dangerous peanut allergies in children will receive accelerated regulatory review, officials said Thursday. The Viaskin Peanut patch made by the French biotech firm DBV Technologies was granted a breakthrough therapy designation by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
In brief: Census Bureau guard dies from gunshot
An armed man kidnapped a woman, shot and fatally wounded a Census Bureau guard and led police on a car chase through Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Thursday before authorities cornered him in an exchange of gunfire that left the suspect and a police officer wounded.
Texas executes man for officer’s slaying
Texas prison officials on Thursday executed a man convicted in the slaying of a Dallas-area police officer during a 2002 shootout that followed the killing of a customer outside a convenience store. Kent Sprouse, 42, became the fifth convicted killer put to death this year in Texas.
Oklahoma may allow nitrogen executions
With U.S. death penalty states scrambling for alternatives to lethal injection amid a shortage of deadly drugs, Oklahoma legislators believe they’ve found a foolproof and humane method: nitrogen gas hypoxia.
Tornado leaves one dead in Illinois
One person was killed and seven were injured in a tiny northern Illinois community after at least one large tornado touched down in the area. Rockford Fire Department division chief Matthew Knott said “every single” one of the approximately 50 structures in Fairdale has been damaged. He said “most” have been flattened.
Police release video of traffic stop, fatal shooting
Video released Thursday from the dashboard of white North Charleston police Officer Michael Thomas Slager’s cruiser captures the very first moments he and black motorist Walter Scott meet, a strikingly benign encounter at its earliest stages. It changes within minutes as Scott takes off running and the officer runs after him.
Yemen rebels capture capital city in oil-rich province
Shiite rebels and allied troops overran the capital of an oil-rich Yemeni province in a heavily Sunni area on Thursday, making significant territorial gains despite Saudi-led airstrikes, now entering their third week. Iran, which is trying to garner international support to stop the bombing, stepped up its condemnation, with the supreme leader calling the air campaign “genocide.”
Obama hints he’ll drop Cuba from terrorist list
Turning the page on a half-century of hostility, President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will soon remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, boosting hopes for improved ties as he prepared for a historic encounter with Cuban President Raul Castro.
In brief: Palestinians to work with Syria against IS
Palestinian groups agreed to join forces with the Syrian government to expel Islamic State militants from an embattled Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, opening the door to a potentially destructive military campaign in a district already devastated by many rounds of fighting. Islamic State extremists overran much of Yarmouk last week, establishing a foothold in the Syrian capital for the first time. The incursion is the latest trial for Yarmouk’s estimated 18,000 residents.
Hackers take over French broadcasts
Hackers claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group simultaneously blacked out 11 channels of the French global TV network and took over its website and social media accounts on Thursday, in what appeared to be the most ambitious media attack so far by the extremist group.
University removes colonialist’s statue
Hundreds of South African students cheered loudly Thursday as a crane lifted the decades-old statue of a British colonialist – celebrating the end of what they described as a symbol of white privilege. The University of Cape Town removed the statue of Cecil John Rhodes after weeks of student demonstrations that began when one student flung excrement at the bronze sculpture last month.
Taliban attack leaves 10 dead
Taliban militants stormed an Afghan government compound in a northern city on Thursday, killing 10 people, including four prosecutors, and wounding dozens, police said. The attack took place in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province.
House passes ban on therapies that try to change sexual orientation
The House moved to ban therapy that some believe can change homosexual orientation and others contend is dangerous and ineffective. It passed a revised version of a Senate bill that extends the ban from aversion therapy – physical treatments like ice baths and shock therapy – to conversion or “talk” therapy in which counselors try to change someone’s sexual orientation. Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, led an unsuccessful effort by GOP members to defeat those revisions, saying they were an unconstitutional infringement on free speech and interfere with the patient-counselor relationship.
Conversion therapy foes have uphill fight
There have been several setbacks this year for a state-by-state campaign to ban so-called conversion therapy for gay, lesbian and transgender youth. But the White House is now officially an ally, and activists are hopeful of long-term success as they make a case that such treatments can have devastating consequences.
Ex-boyfriend accused of hiding spy camera in woman’s bedroom
A Cheney man is accused of entering his ex-girlfriend’s Liberty Lake home last month, burning several items and secretly installing a wireless camera to spy on her in her bedroom. The ex-girlfriend called Liberty Lake police on March 27 to report coming home to find several items that Jeremy F. Alvis, 41, had given her while they were dating burned in the backyard fire pit. Other items he had purchased for her were piled on her bed with his photo placed above them, according to court records. Alvis is facing charges of residential burglary, malicious mischief and voyeurism in connection with the incident.
Firearms seizure sought in Spokane Valley case
Federal prosecutors are asking to confiscate ammunition and guns of a Spokane Valley man because they believe he uses marijuana. Authorities found hash oil, more than 1,300 rounds of ammunition and guns at the home of Burk Aaron Thomas when they were investigating a suspicious fire. Thomas is accused of plotting arson to collect insurance money on a failed marijuana business, according to court documents filed this week, but his case has not gone to trial.
$7.7 billion Washington transportation budget gets House OK
The House approved a transportation budget Thursday that includes money to repave nearly 2,100 miles of state highway, repair up to 50 structurally deficient bridges and continue work on the North Spokane Corridor. The North Spokane Corridor would get $36 million for a series of projects that include relocating a stretch of BNSF railroad.
In brief: Man sought in Deer Park attack
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office detectives are seeking public help to locate a man who assaulted two elderly sisters in their residence north of Deer Park. Deputies responded to the women’s residence in the 4200 block of West Davis Road just before 9:30 p.m. Monday.
Alcohol suspected in rollover crash
Five teenagers were injured early Thursday morning in a one-vehicle rollover collision that appears to have been caused by impaired driving, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said. The driver of the vehicle lost control on West Rutter Parkway between Waikiki Road and Dorsett Road around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
Court rules against apartment buildings
State appellate judges on Thursday unanimously ruled against Spokane County, overturning a decision that would have allowed construction of apartment buildings on vacant land near Whitworth University.
Lawyer arrested on child porn charges
A longtime Spokane attorney has been indicted on federal child pornography charges. Kenneth K. Watts, 66, faces two counts of receipt and possession of child pornography in an indictment handed down Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
New charges against intimidation suspect
A man arrested in February for allegedly intimidating a witness against his brother in a bank robbery case is back in jail after he showed up in the courtroom during his brother’s trial Wednesday while the same witness was testifying. The woman told police she received a threatening Facebook message from Tiejwon A. Alford, 31, on Dec. 30. She was listed as a witness against Alford’s brother, Tyree Wortham, who was one of four people suspected of robbing two Garland neighborhood banks in December 2013 and January 2014.
Idaho transportation discussion continues
Despite seven hours of wrangling in a House-Senate conference committee on Thursday, Idaho lawmakers couldn’t reach an agreement on transportation funding. The conference committee will convene again at 8 a.m. today.
Some VA centers miss wait-time targets
The majority of Veterans Affairs medical facilities in Washington are meeting timeliness goals for scheduling doctor visits, but centers in Walla Walla, Vancouver and Chehalis have yet to hit their targets.
Idaho House approves increase in grocery tax credit
The Idaho House has overwhelmingly approved a plan to increase Idaho’s grocery tax credit by $10 per person.
Apple ends ban on hiring felons
Tech giant Apple has lifted a requirement that people who had been convicted of felonies within the past seven years could not work on the massive Cupertino construction project. After the policy came to light this week, Apple came under fire from union leaders and advocates, who say construction jobs are a key source of work for felons trying to transition back into society.
Business in brief: Revett-Hecla sale challenged
Two shareholders of Revett Minerals are challenging the company’s proposed sale to Hecla Mining Co. In separate suits filed this week in Spokane County Superior Court, Chad Okerberg and Todd Lokash claim Revett’s board of directors failed in their fiduciary duty to shareholders by negotiating a “rock-bottom” price for the company. Both are seeking class-action status.
LinkedIn buying Lynda.com
LinkedIn is buying Lynda.com for about $1.5 billion in a cash-and-stock deal, adding the online learning and professional development company to its professional networking offerings.
WTC deck lease scrutinized
Prosecutors are investigating the procurement process behind a contract awarded to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ company to operate the World Trade Center’s observation deck.
Sabra issues hummus recall
About 30,000 cases of Sabra hummus sold nationwide is being recalled due to a possible Listeria contamination.
Federal agency wants lower big-rig speeds to address tire problem
The nation’s highway safety chief says his agency will push for quick action on a regulation requiring electronic speed limiters on big rigs. It may also contact states about speed limits that are higher than commercial truck tires are designed to handle.
Cost of caring for elderly still rising sharply
The steep cost of caring for the elderly continues to climb. The median bill for a year in a nursing home is now $91,250, according to a survey out Thursday.
Walgreens to close about 200 U.S. stores
Walgreens plans to close about 200 U.S. stores as the nation’s largest drugstore chain expands on a $1 billion cost-reduction plan it announced last August.
Amy Goodman: Time to ban capital punishment
Editorial: Practical approach needed to keep PCBs out of Spokane River
Ivan Doig, Montana-bred author of ‘This House of Sky,’ dies at 75
Ivan Doig, an award-winning author of 16 books, died Thursday in his Seattle home after a long illness.
Racetrack founder Orville Moe dead at 78
Orville Moe, the man who built Spokane Raceway Park and supported regional motorsports for more than three decades, died Thursday. He was 78.
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from The Washington Post (DC)
Eric Holder would like to kindly remind Justice Department employees not to solicit prostitutes
A Washington state representative wants to build a bridge out of retired aircraft carriers
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from The Weekly Standard
Helpful Reminder from the Attoney General: Federal Employees Shouldn't Solicit Prostitutes
That a memo just issued by the nation's top law enforcement officer was deemed necessary inadvertently reveals a great deal about the state of the Federal workforce.
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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)
Ben Carson Schools CNN’s Chris Cuomo About The Legal Protection Of Christians Vs. LGBT Community
(Western Journalism)
Ben Carson Schools CNN’s Chris Cuomo About The Legal Protection Of Christians Vs. LGBT Community
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from 100 Percent FED Up
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
BREAKING: WHY DID MASSACHUSETTS OFFICIALS WAIT SO LONG To Release This Video Showing Thug Shooting Police Officer In Face? [VIDEO]
FED GOV SUED TRUCKING CO. FOR FIRING MUSLIMS WHO Refused To Violate Religious Beliefs And Transport Alcohol…What About That Whole Christian Bakery Thing?
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BREAKING: WHY DID MASSACHUSETTS OFFICIALS WAIT SO LONG To Release This Video Showing Thug Shooting Police Officer In Face? [VIDEO]
FED GOV SUED TRUCKING CO. FOR FIRING MUSLIMS WHO Refused To Violate Religious Beliefs And Transport Alcohol…What About That Whole Christian Bakery Thing?
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