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  • Are More Migrants Being Arrested for Murder?

    03/18/2024 10:24:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 18, 2024 | Nick Mordowanec
    Rates of homicides committed by illegal migrants in the United States have increased overall during the Biden administration, though rates at this point in the fiscal year are about average compared with past years dating to 2021. The hot-button issue of illegal immigration is encompassing the nation and has galvanized Republicans who have consistently kept the topic front and center leading up to November elections. President Joe Biden has allowed an influx of illegal migrants on his watch, most recently drawing condemnation for the February killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley allegedly committed by illegal migrant Jose Ibarra.
  • Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge

    03/18/2024 10:18:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/18/2024 | Zachary Steiber
    An illegal immigrant was wrongly banned from possessing guns, according to a recent ruling.A federal law, Section 922 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, bars illegal immigrants from carrying guns or ammunition. Prosecutors charged Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, the illegal alien, in 2020 after he was found in Chicago carrying a semi-automatic pistol despite “knowing he was an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.”U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman rejected two motions to dismiss, but the third motion, based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, triggered the dismissal of the case on March 8.“The noncitizen possession statute, 18...
  • Sheriff: Cocaine and Meth Use Surges Along With Synthetic Fentanyl, Aided by Border Crisis

    03/18/2024 10:17:08 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    Fox2Detroit ^ | March 18, 2024 | Dave Kinchen and David Komer
    Police tracking drugs in our area are sounding the alarm with cocaine and meth making a comeback. Metro Detroit law enforcement is warning of an uptick in meth and cocaine use across the area. "The danger of this is significant to everybody," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. "Basically the cost of cocaine, the cost of meth, all of that has gone down to about a third of what it was two years ago." Bouchard says it is a supply and demand issue, combined with the already troubling amounts of fentanyl coming into the states. He says it is a...
  • People Aren't Signing Up for Those New IRS Jobs

    03/18/2024 10:15:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jazz Shaw
    Back when the Biden administration passed the hilariously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a significant debate broke out over a provision that would funnel massive amounts of money to the Internal Revenue Service. The funds would supposedly go to hire an army of new agents who would diligently work to ensure that everyone was "paying their fair share" of taxes and that government revenue was predicted to increase. Conservatives pushed back hard against the plan, but most of the IRS funding survived. Yet the anticipated benefits have still yet to show up. The reason for this, according to a new...
  • California Murder Suspect Stabs Attorney with Pen before Charging Prosecutor

    03/18/2024 10:08:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    MSN ^ | 3/18 | Greg Wehner
    An Oakland, California murder suspect faces additional charges after freeing himself from restraints in a courtroom on Monday morning and stabbing his attorney in the face and head with a pen before turning his angst toward the prosecutor. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that 28-year-old Ramello Randle was attending his homicide trial at the A.F. Bray Courthouse in Martinez, California at about 10:55 a.m. on Monday when he attacked his attorney with a pen. He then went to attack the district attorney, who the sheriff’s office said was able to push him off. The East Bay Times reported...
  • Yazan al-Kafarneh’s Death Is a Stain on Humanity {poor Muslim Arab photoshop skills..}

    03/18/2024 10:02:56 PM PDT · by Cronos · 8 replies
    Jacobin ^ | March 2024 | Sersj assi
    Ten-year-old Palestinian child Yazan al-Kafarneh, who died from severe hunger amid famine due to Israel’s ongoing crippling siege on Gaza. (Rabie Abu Noqaira / Anadolu via Getty Images) Y al-Kafarneh, a ten-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza, had been dying of hunger for weeks as a result of Israel’s crippling blockade and deliberate starvation of Gaza. Images and videos of Yazan, who had cerebral palsy, showed the motionless boy lying on a hospital bed with a skeletal body, sunken cheeks, bare bones, and hollowed eyes. For days his parents sat helpless by his bed and watched him fade away. His father...
  • NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, 56, refuses to address romance with lobbyist, 32: ‘My life will never be in conflict’

    03/18/2024 7:27:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 18, 2024 | Vaughn Golden
    State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has reportedly been canoodling with a lovely lobbyist, and it’s all the talk in Albany — but he is refusing to comment on her and scoffs at the notion of a conflict of interest. The 56-year-old powerful Dem has been in a romantic relationship with 32-year-old Rebecca Lamorte, a lobbyist and communications coordinator for the union Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation & Education Trust, or LECET, since at least November, according to the outlet NY Focus. Heastie got feisty with reporters when asked about the couple Monday morning, bristling at the suggestion he should discuss...
  • Report Criticizes ‘Catastrophic Errors’ of COVID Lockdowns, Warns of Repeat

    03/18/2024 6:51:37 PM PDT · by lightman · 13 replies
    epoch times ^ | 17 March A.D. 2024 | Kevin Stocklin
    It was four years ago, in March 2020, that health officials declared COVID-19 a pandemic and America began shutting down schools, closing small businesses, restricting gatherings and travel, and other lockdown measures to “slow the spread” of the virus. To mark that grim anniversary, a group of medical and policy experts released a report, called “COVID Lessons Learned,” which assesses the government’s response to the pandemic. According to the report, that response included a few notable successes, along with a litany of failures that have taken a severe toll on the population. During the pandemic, many governments across the globe...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Travis Air Force Base, California ~ 19 MAR 2024

    03/18/2024 6:00:08 PM PDT · by laurenmarlowe · 23 replies
    Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew
    ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Travis Air Force Base, CaliforniaTravis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force air base under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), located three miles east of the central business district of Fairfield, in Solano County, California, United States. Situated at the southwestern edge of the Sacramento Valley and known as the "Gateway to the Pacific," Travis Air Force Base handles more cargo and passenger traffic through its airport than any other military air terminal in the United States. The base has a long and proud history of supporting...
  • The battle for America’s soul

    03/18/2024 5:44:13 PM PDT · by Islander7
    Laurel Leader Call ^ | 3/18/2024 | Crhris McDaniel ( MS State Senator)
    Somewhere along the way, we forgot our reason for being, the Republic’s raison d’etre. And it’s the authoritarians from both parties who are leading the charge to disaster, those ego-obsessed busybodies who keep increasing the strength and size of government to empower themselves at the expense of the people. America’s purpose is not simply the grandeur of our flag, the beauty of our Capitols, breathtaking landscapes, the solemnity of our monuments, or even the might of our armed forces that define us, though these are all aspects of our national identity. There’s so much more at stake.
  • Trump: Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion

    03/18/2024 4:46:21 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 32 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 18/3/24
    Former US President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the Democratic Party and at Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats. In an interview with Sebastian Gorka on his radio show, Trump said, “The Democrat Party hates Israel…they also see a lot of votes. Don't forget, when you see those Palestinian marches, even I am amazed at how many people are in those marches. And guys like Schumer see that and to him it’s votes. I think it's votes more than anything else because he was always pro-Israel. He's very anti-Israel now.” Trump then said, “Any Jewish person that votes...
  • Elon Musk says Google ‘interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season’

    03/18/2024 4:45:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 18, 2024 | Ariel Zilber
    Billionaire X owner Elon Musk said Google “interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season” after The Post detailed a watchdog group’s claims that the search giant allegedly boosts Dems while censoring Republicans. As The Post reported, a right-leaning watchdog called the Media Research Center (MRC) published a analysis detailing what it described as 41 alleged instances of “election interference” at the online search giant since 2008. Musk quote-tweeted a screenshot of the article and asserted that it “understates the magnitude of the problem.” “Google interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!” Musk wrote on...
  • Florida Is on Its Way to Banning — and Criminalizing — Alternative Meat

    03/18/2024 4:22:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 22 replies
    Food & Wne ^ | March 15, 2024 | Stacey Leasca
    "We're not going to have fake meat. Like that doesn't work," Gov. Ron DeSantis said.Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to keep lab-grown meat out of Florida. Over the last several months, Florida legislators have been quietly working to ban — and criminalize — the production and sale of cell-cultivated meat across the state, via the introduction of two bills, HB 1071 and SB 1084. On February 6, the state's House of Representatives passed SB 1084, which now sits on DeSantis' desk awaiting a signature. And if his previous comments are any indication, he will be pulling out his pen soon. "I...
  • Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Is The Fake News Media’s Latest Hysterics Over ‘Guy’ And ‘Sir’

    03/18/2024 3:06:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    The Federalist ^ | MARCH 18, 2024 | EDDIE SCARRY
    The media have been pseudo-analyzing Trump to impart dark meaning to his every word. Sometimes a metaphor is just that.Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. But if it involves Donald Trump, the news media for various reasons insist it’s definitely a penis.We’re in the middle of another round of gravely serious media analysis about what Trump meant when he said something in public, this time that there would be a “bloodbath” if he didn’t win the election. Anyone who saw the remarks at a campaign rally Saturday in Ohio knew Trump was talking about the economic fallout of a...
  • Why rape survivors and exonerees went on a retreat together

    03/18/2024 2:45:10 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 17, 2024 | Lesley Stahl, Aliza Chasan, Shari Finkelstein, Collette Richards
    A rape survivor, attacked at knifepoint when she was 12, sat across from two men who'd been wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting children. The woman, Tomeshia Carrington-Artis, was devastated two decades later when she learned that the man she was sure had been her attacker, was innocent. After his exoneration, people accused Carrington-Artis, now in her late 40s, of intentionally sending the wrong man to prison and said she should be behind bars. Carrington-Artis and the men she sat with were attendees at a retreat organized by the nonprofit organization Healing Justice — the 17th retreat the nonprofit has held....
  • Thousands of children's clothes laid along California beach in support to ceasefire in Gaza

    03/18/2024 2:17:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 41 replies
    KSBW ^ | Mar 18, 2024 | Leslie Duarte
    A line of children's outfits laid along Santa Cruz County beaches. The line of clothes stretched along a three-mile-long line that started at Sea Cliff State Beach and ended at Seascape Park Beach. The group behind the display consists of various community activists and organizations that support a ceasefire in Gaza. Organizers said the 13,000 outfits represent the number of children that have been killed in the conflict. According to UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, more than 12,300 children have died in Gaza between October 2023 and February 2024. "We've had a lot of people...
  • Jake Sullivan Makes Antisemitic Claim Israel Interferes in American Politics

    03/18/2024 2:17:19 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made the antisemitic claim Monday in a White House press briefing that Israel interferes in U.S. politics. He provided no evidence of his claim, while admitting that it had nothing to do with the question he had been asked, about policy differences between the U.S. and Israel in the ongoing war against Hamas. Sullivan was asked to respond to Netanyahu’s claim that he had the support of the majority of the Israeli people in his plans to attack Hamas’s final stronghold in the city of Rafah, and whether Biden could speak directly to Israelis. Netanyahu’s...
  • Biden Summons Israel for Talks; Says Netanyahu’s Position on Hamas Is ‘Nonsense’

    03/18/2024 2:03:00 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 83 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Monday that President Joe Biden had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oppose Israeli plans to attack Hamas in the city of Rafah. Sullivan added that the president had asked Netanyahu an “interagency” team of military, defense, and humanitarian officials by “the beginning of next week” to meet with U.S. officials in Washington and negotiate over a Rafah operation. He said that the Biden Administration might approve limited, targeted strikes in Rafah, but would refuse a broader Israeli invasion of the town, saying that such an...
  • Biden tells Netanyahu Rafah operation would be ‘mistake’ — after praising Schumer’s speech calling for ‘new election’ in Israel

    03/18/2024 1:41:38 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/18/2024 | Diana Glebova
    President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that sending Israeli troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would be a “mistake” — just three days after Biden praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s incendiary speech calling for the Jewish state to hold a “new election” and oust Netanyahu following the war against Hamas. “A major ground operation would be a mistake,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that Biden, 81, stressed to Netanyahu, citing concerns about civilian safety in the city of more than 150,000 situated near the Egyptian border. Biden didn’t make “threats,” Sullivan added...
  • Survey: 8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Losing Influence in Public Life

    03/18/2024 1:39:49 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 33 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | KATHERINE HAMILTON
    A strong majority of U.S. adults believe religion is losing its influence in public life, a new Pew Research Center survey found. Overall, 80 percent of U.S. adults say religion’s role in American life is shrinking, “a percentage that’s as high as it’s ever been,” according to the poll report. Nearly half (49 percent) say the decline of religious influence in public life is a “bad thing.” Eight percent say religious influence is “growing and this is good.” Only 6 percent say religious influence is “growing and this is bad,” and 13 percent say religious influence is “shrinking and this...