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Machias, Wash - After receiving all of the case files, and photos from the Snohomish County Sheriff's office this afternoon, this column has now reviewed these case files and photos and has found glaring issues with the homeowners claim that the bullet came from the Seattle Rifle & Pistol Association. For starters, as stated in the last update to this story, there is the fact that the range facility was indeed, closed the day the home was hit. The homeowner, Kendall Klatt, stated that she found the hole in her house on the afternoon of August 8th, 2013. On that...

The Wisconsin school teachers protests and attempts to recall Gov. Walker resulted in not only losing the battle but instead helped to further new laws across the US that allow teachers to drop union membership. Now the National Education Association (NEA) and other teacher unions are seeing a decline of those willing fill the coffers of these organization.

Does Prentice Hall ring a bell? Depending on when you went to school you may have had a few Prentice Hall textbooks. I know I did. One of their current textbooks, simply titled World History, is causing quite the stir in Florida. Florida Today reports: Two Brevard School Board members are reviewing a world history textbook used in ninth grade Advance Placement classes amid concerns that it is biased in favor of Islam — at the expense of Christianity and Judaism. House Representative Ritch Workman and individuals from two citizens groups spoke against the textbook, Prentice Hall World History, at...

Facebook Submits to Islam and Tyranny by, Schuyler Montague Over the past few days, Facebook has unleashed a complete assault on the Constitution of the United States. Apparently, the first amendment is null and void at Facebook Corporate. It appears that “..freedom of speech” and “..freedom of the press” are merely antiquated notions that have passed their prime, as well as their expiration dates. We have received several statements from administrators of various educational pages that focused on the subject matter of Islam. Administrators, as well as guests were utterly shocked when they logged into their Facebook accounts and discovered...

May I be the first to wish Kanye West Happy Father’s Day?  His current squeeze, the lovely Kim Kardashian, just gave birth to a baby girl yesterday. So he’s technically got the “dad” box checked, and as soon as his lovely baby-mama, Kimmy, gets her youthful figure back, they’re going to throw themselves a big party and pretend they’re getting married “forever.” Again, in Kim’s case. Maybe wedding  #3 will be the magical one I know, I know – Kimmy’s mom said they’ll have a “private wedding” and you think that means “small,” and “private.” We’re talking “Kimye” here: everything...

Washington (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stood by its extraordinary efforts to stimulate the economy. And it signaled that it could increase or decrease the pace of bond purchases depending on how the job market and inflation perform. After concluding a two-day policy meeting, the Fed said in a statement that the job market has shown some improvement in recent months, on balance. But it also notes that unemployment remains high and government budget policies have begun to restrain economic growth. The Fed maintained its plan to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment...

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As most of you have heard by now, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain is now in the top tier of candidates running for the Republican nomination for President. It comes of no surprise to me, but it may shock many of you out there that in the most recent CBS poll just released, Herman has pulled into a tie for the lead with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and has leap-frogged over flash-in-the-pan and former frontrunner Texas Governor Rick Perry. The question most people have as well as the political pundits out there is now is Herman Cain an...

the Chevy Volt ...was $43,000. The dealership also gets a tax credits of $7,500 per Volt... Will GM earn a profit on Volt sales ? ... The Volt costs $81,000 to build per unit and has sold 493 units in April for a loss of $38,000 per unit, paid for by taxpayers ... I would love it if the private sector developed a workable, cost effective electric car (even though we plug the car into a grid with power generated by coal burning plants). But the Volt seems like something directly out of the old Soviet Union where Stalin would...

George Will has in the past demonstrated intellectual disdain for conservatives that he deems unrefined in advancing conservative principles. His assault on Sarah Palin today is over the top. Does George Will think Sarah Palin is untrustworthy of presiding over our nuclear arsenal? Why would he make this statement if only to imply that Palin is mentally unhinged and therefore unsuited for office? George Will has contributed mightily to the conservative movement in a scholarly role, like a professor to a student. But like most students admire the intellect of the teachers they ultimately shed the presumptions of the ivory...

There can be only one reason liberals instinctively call conservatives racists. Like Pavlov's dogs, they have been conditioned to do so by their masters in the Democrat-media complex. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1904 for his studies of the digestive system. While studying the impact of saliva on digestion, he noticed that his test subjects - dogs - salivated even when there was no food present. Eventually, he realized the dogs were responding to the lab coats worn by his assistants. He expanded his experiments to determine the reason. ... His findings...

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Dot Hayer, our correspondent for Northeast Pennsylvania, reports that our Federales, as one suspects they will soon be calling themselves, forced the release of a Mexican man who had been living illegally in this country for six years while apparently fraudulently collecting benefits. Oswaldo Tlamis-Perez, 30, was stopped by Beaver Meadows Police Chief Chief Michael Morresi for speeding and showed him a Mexican registration card as identification along with two public benefit Access cards bearing different names. He also had $3,000 in cash. The Access card is an electronic benefits transfer card now used in Pennsylvania in lieu of food...

One day a man was walking in the woods when he got lost. For two days he roamed around trying to find a way out. He had not eaten anything during this period and was famished. Over on a rock ledge he spotted a bald eagle. He killed it, and started to eat it. Surprisingly, a couple of park rangers happen to find him at that moment, and arrested him for killing an endangered species. In court, he pleads innocent to the charges against him, claiming that if he didn't eat the bald eagle he would have died from starvation....

Just when the Indiana Legislature gives Governor Mitch Daniels (R-IN) a gift allowing him to sign a bill defunding Planned Parenthood it looked like the truce was over. Well, not quite.

Barack Obama met with the Queen of England. He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?" "Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people." Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around are really intelligent?" The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?" Tony Blair walked into...

It has been reported that president Barry Hussein Soetoro has spent over two and a half years and over 2million dollars in public and private legal fees to prevent his long form birth certificate from being disclosed until last week. While the actual dollar amount may never be known the president revealed that he’s been watching the birth certificate debate for 2 ½ years with amusement. (source here and here) So let me understand, you are the president of the United States of America. You knew that questions about your birthplace were swirling around your candidacy and subsequently your presidency...

One day soon we'll look back on April 27, 2011 as an important day. Right now liberals think we'll remember it as the day that Obama put the lie to the birthers, but they're wrong. I think we'll remember it as the day Obama's presidency died. Right now, Obama and the left, along with their lapdogs in the MSM, think they've outsmarted the birthers, and that they've engaged in a brilliant game of political brinksmanship. They're thinking that the birthers have shown themselves to be the fruits and nuts of the right, and they made all this hubbub about what...

As we celebrate Lenin’s birthday today, oh, make that Earth Day, it’s always worthwhile to interject a little perspective to the fury. President Barack Obama. True believer? Or convenient opportunist? You may recall . . .

Oh if it were only true. Joel Fox pens this over at Fox & Hounds: Applying the same criteria in which Major League Baseball (MLB) stepped in to take over the operation of the Los Angeles Dodgers, . . .