“Ultimately it comes down to public health and protecting employees,” Ferlic told the Tribune. He proposed similar ordinances twice before, but they didn’t pass.
“The results do not support a causal relationship between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco-related mortality. The association between tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.”
Toilets are deeply problematic for feminists because they reinforce the idea that there are differences between men and women, according to research that cost U.K. taxpayers $53,731.
According to All Africa, the cabinet voted to go on the record as a pro-hunting nation, opposing any and all hunting bans-and to campaign against any bans proposed in the future. Cabinet members were directed to promote the news through public forums and to “communicate at all possible opportunities its importance to national conservation and sustainable development programs.” So let’s help them spread the news!
“This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on,” Lynch answered. “I’m not aware of a civil referral at this time.”
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of Hillary Clinton’s UN press conference in which she first publicly addressed her use of a private email system as secretary of state, and the Republican political action committee America Rising is out with a video to commemorate the event.
The government watchdog group Judicial Watch has obtained documents showing the U.S. Army held a seminar in April 2015 for 400 soldiers of the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon on “white privilege.”
If the FBI wins in its case against Apple to help it unlock the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone 5C, it won’t be long before the government forces Apple to turn on users’ iPhone cameras and microphones to spy on them, according to the company’s head of services Eddy Cue.
The bill would compel companies to comply with court orders to bypass the security of devices or “backdoor” the encryption, or face civil fines, similar to contempt of court charges.
What does this rule change mean for you? In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages.
In an effort to make parents accountable for their kids’ bullying, one Wisconsin town is enacting fines on parents for their kids’ repeated bad behavior.
“If MCR-1 becomes global, which is a case of when not if, and the gene aligns itself with other antibiotic resistance genes, which is inevitable, then we will have very likely reached the start of the post-antibiotic era.
In what appears to be a first for a serious presidential contender, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going after five comedians who made fun of the former Secretary of State in standup skits at a popular Hollywood comedy club.
“We say Merry Christmas, God bless America, we salute our flag & give thanks to our troops, police officers and firefighters. If this offends you, you are welcome to leave. In God we trust.”
President Barack Obama’s Department of Veterans Affairs has banned employees at its facility in Salem, Virginia, from saying “Merry Christmas” to veterans.
Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said the offering was a “sign of solidarity with the people and police of France.” He shared a picture of the puppy on Twitter and wrote a letter to France saying, “I ask you to accept from Russia’s police dog handlers this shepherd puppy, who will be able to take his place in the ranks of Diesel, your dog who died doing his duty.”
“The truth of the matter is there is no effective means or magical litmus test to assess prospective terrorists hidden among the throngs of refugees applying for entry into the United States,” said Nathan Catura, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
In an effort to prevent the infiltration of terrorists, the Canadian government is set to limit its Syrian refugee acceptance program to only women, children and families, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported Sunday night.
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that U.S. military pilots fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because the Obama administration would not give clearance to launch a strike.
The worst part is that this is Obama’s version of an “escalation”. He could have taken out ISIS tanker trucks a long time ago, but then the drivers would have died. (Via J.E. Dyer)
President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton can’t bring themselves to publicly acknowledge that Islam and “Muslims” are inextricably linked to terrorism. Remarkably, however, one Muslim world leader has no problem in speaking openly about the war “within Islam.”
Three Syrians traveling with fake Greek passports are being held in the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten, authorities said, while officials in the Central American nation of Honduras reported detaining a Syrian and two Pakistanis traveling by bus Saturday.
The Obama administration let hundreds of illegal immigrants stay in the U.S. even though federal authorities knew in advance that an open borders group coached them to falsely claim “credible fear” to get asylum, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Obama administration did not tell Congress, until recently, that Syrian Refugees were arriving in Louisiana. According to a House Homeland Security Committee aide, Congress did not know about 13 Syrian refugees who arrived in New Orleans over the past two fiscal years until it was reported by a local news outlet 10 days ago.
The son of a New York mob boss has given Islamic State a stark warning, saying if they are planning any attacks in New York, they will have to contend with the Sicilian mafia. The notorious crime syndicate say they want to do their bit to protect locals.
The cellphone carrier announced Monday that all T-Mobile customers with a “Simple Choice” plan can now receive a free mini cell tower for their home. The 8.5-inch square gadget blasts out T-Mobile’s 4G-LTE network to a 3,000-square-foot radius.
Just a couple months ago, Bernie Sanders lambasted Uber as an “unregulated” company with “serious problems,” but financial disclosures by the Democratic presidential candidate reveal that whenever his campaign requires a taxi, they literally always turn to Uber.
push to overhaul the American justice system, President Obama has requested that former prisoners not be asked about their criminal histories when applying for a job. However, responsible gun owners are still expected to undergo a background check before purchasing a new firearm because Obama believes in fairness.
This week the White House announced a pending executive order instructing the Office of Personnel Management to, “delay inquiries into criminal history until later in the hiring process.”
CNBC’s Republican primary debate averaged 14 million viewers on Wednesday night, setting a new record for the business news channel but falling far short of the totals for two earlier debates this year.
Wednesday’s Republican debate turned into a steel cage match in Boulder, Colorado as Donald Trump tangled with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called on Marco Rubio – his political protege – to resign his U.S. Senate seat.
Jeb Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz got into a heated confrontation with a CNBC producer outside the debate as it was happening, according to two sources familiar with the incident.
Donald Trump has registered another victory after CNBC, the host of the next Republican presidential debate, caved to his demand for a shorter event which would include opening and closing statements.
GRAHAM: I’m tired of losing. Good God Look at who we’re running against. The number one candidate on the other side thought she was flat broke after she and her husband were in the White House for eight years. The number two candidate went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon, and I don’t think he ever came back. If we don’t beat these people, then who the hell are we going to beat? Let’s win the election. Let’s solve problems.
New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie excoriated CNBC for its debate questions on fantasy football gambling and climate change.
At CNBC’s “Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate” on Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina set the record straight on the so-called “war on women.” The rhetoric from the Democrats and, nearly uniformly, from the mainstream media, is that Republicans hate women and want them to die of rape, and Democrats love women and want them to have abortions for equal pay, or something along those lines.
During Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate on CNBC, Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.) excoriated the Florida newspaper The Sun-Sentinel and debate co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for raising questions about his young age and calls for him to resign from the Senate due to missed votes as examples of “a double standard” and “bias that exists in the American media today.”
Speaking to a national gathering of police chiefs on criminal justice reform Tuesday, President Barack Obama shifted the blame of Chicago’s gun related violence to the neighboring state of Indiana.
South Bend Common Council District 2 candidate Regina Williams-Preston owes about $77,000 in fees, penalties and back taxes relating to 10 properties she owns in the district she’s running to represent, the South Bend Tribune reported.
In a suit that brings together the Second Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), an Amish man filed a federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania last week because he wants to buy a gun without the required photo ID — and because getting that photo ID would violate his religious beliefs.
I don’t write many local articles on my site because so many visitors are from around the country, and world, but this can’t go unsaid, and Facebook wasn’t a worthy forum for what I need to write.
So now elected officials in South Bend, who didn’t read the time consuming 4 page RFRA (Indiana Religious Freedom & Restoration Act), are referring to supporters of the bill as ‘violent’. Irresponsible hyperbole like that leads to actual violence against peaceful people and their property.
Local Democrats should be thrilled there’s such broad bipartisan support for a Democrat authored anti-discrimination bill throughout the country. And the RFRA is an ANTI-DISCRIMINATION law. One that’s been on the books for 22 years, and has allowed exactly 0 cases of discrimination.
Ad hominem, and borderline seditious, rhetoric like this serves no useful purpose but to whip the ignorant up into a frenzy built on a bed of lies.
There are 31 states with similar legislation, 20 of which are direct versions of the Democrat law from 1993, Indiana is in this latter category. Several other states are considering this legislation as I write. The only legal challenge to the federal law came from a church who wanted to expand its building. Not from a discriminated against party. There is absolutely zero examples of the alleged evils of this law materializing in its entire 22 year history at either the federal or state level.
Politicians often use aggressive rhetoric to gin up support from their base, but when it crosses the line like this it must be confronted.
Over the past several years we’ve seen a new play added to the playbook of Democrats and special interest groups around the country. This new strategy is just a more aggressive application of existing strategy. Instead of just using the spin machine to apply pressure to the opposition, Democrats, race-hustlers, the gay mafia, and others (who often don’t represent the bulk of their demographics) incite violence by painting a false picture of not just discrimination, but life-threatening discrimination.
When you convince the simple-minded their lives are in danger, human nature of self-preservation kicks in.
We saw it in Sanford, FL, Ferguson, MO, New York City, NY, Michigan (during their RFRA battle), and to a lesser extent right here in South Bend recently (Breathe Easy). In all cases, violence, death, and/or property destruction resulted from community organizers and elected politicians spreading falsehoods/lies/myths to foment fear and hate in order to register voters, win elections, and bully good innocent people into submission. Their MSM allies obliged in spreading their message of hate. All based on a false premise of saving lives through civil rights.
Well, Sanford wasn’t about whites hunting blacks in the dead of night. Ferguson wasn’t about innocent blacks being hunted down by white cops. Michigan wasn’t going to let gays be discriminated against or die in the streets. New York wasn’t about racist white cops choking innocent black men. South Bend wasn’t about racist white cops supporting choking out black citizens. Indiana is NOT about legalizing any form of discrimination.
Yet politicians issue press releases calling for boycotts of their constituents who haven’t done anything but continue to do business as usual without a sticker on their business’s door? Businesses that have never discriminated against anyone since this law’s passage 22 years ago. Constituents who are still subject to the same anti-discrimination laws they were a week ago.
Calling for boycotts of constituents is bad enough, but labeling them as ‘violent’ is beyond any intellectually honest person. Not only has there been no discrimination, but none of the ‘violent’ constituents have committed any acts of violence.
And no, there is no plausible deniability that supporters of this bill weren’t referred to as violent. If you label the law violent, then you are labeling its supporters as violent by association.
The great irony with this post from a councilman, and mayoral candidate, is that he consistently defended the Ferguson rioters. Oh I know, he only defended the peaceful protesters, not the large number of violent ones. He just chose not to devote much energy to condemning their actions. Of course, the truth about what happened in Ferguson didn’t mean much. There was a narrative to push. He’s also the same politician who said ‘Breathe Easy’ shirts shouldn’t be sold, and could lead to violence. He supported ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirts … again, largely based on a lie.
Meanwhile, these same politicians call for policies that will attract more businesses to South Bend. Yeah, nothing says ‘come to South Bend’ like boycotting local businesses who haven’t done anything wrong, and labeling them as ‘violent.’ Sign me up!
While this type of dangerous strategy has been infrequent throughout our history, we have seen it used regularly by tyrants throughout the ages to control populations by pitting them against one another. You create an enemy where none exist, and you manufacture a threat to one’s safety and rights where none exist. This rhetoric has no place in a polite civilized society. It certainly has no place in Indiana, St. Joseph County, or South Bend.
Que the predictably vitriolic, hypocritical and ignorant comments below …
