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An Outlaws Motorcycle Club member who was arrested during Biketoberfest when his motorcycle ran out of gas as deputies said he tried to flee from traffic stops is in more trouble. He was recently accused of grinding down identification numbers on the motorcycle’s engine and transmission, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. Robert Patrick Wilson, a 31-year-old Ocala resident and Outlaws member, was charged with two felony counts of possession of a vehicle with altered vehicle identification numbers, according to a press release Wednesday from the sheriff’s office. Wilson has been locked up at the Flagler County jail since...

The Martyrs Monument of Midway, Ky., honors four Confederates publicly executed by the Union one hundred fifty years ago today. A brutally contested frontier zone between North and South, Kentucky at this point was under martial law, governed by General Stephen Burbridge — but nearly anarchic on the ground in some areas. In an effort to quell the activities of Confederate guerrillas-slash-outlaws, Burbridge issued a still-notorious directive called Order 59: Citing the “rapid increase in this district of lawless bands of armed men,” the order threatened to expel Southern sympathizers and seize their property. Moreover, it warned: “Whenever an unarmed...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about the challenges of being a Christian and a conservative at Yale Law School. A few days ago, the law school decided to double down and prove my point. After the Yale Federalist Society invited an attorney from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a prominent Christian legal group, to speak about the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, conservative students faced backlash. Outlaws, the law school’s LGBTQ group, demanded that Yale Law School “clarify” its admissions policies for students who support ADF’s positions. Additionally, Outlaws insisted that students who work for religious or conservative public interest organizations such as...

Last weekend, President Donald Trump argued that those foreigners who enter the United States unlawfully should simply be taken to the border, escorted across it and let go. According to the president, this would save precious government resources, avoid the business of separating children from their parents and free up the Border Patrol and other federal assets to do their jobs. He is undoubtedly correct on the beneficial consequences to the government of forced deportation without due process. Yet deportation without a trial is profoundly unconstitutional. Here is the back story. The nation has been torn apart by the images...

Since the topic of "comprehensive immigration reform" has begun to bubble up again in the Senate, being mentioned by Chuck Schumer and John McCain within a few days of each other, I wanted to open a few questions for discussion. First: We have a complete legal framework to govern immigration. These are the People's laws, passed by our representatives in Congress assembled and signed by Presidents from Truman to Bush. This set of laws is presumptively legitimate, under our sovereign authority. Reformers refer to this system of valid laws originating from We the People as "broken". Question: What is broken...

She kept a Colt .38-caliber revolver close, while he preferred a .45-caliber pistol from the same maker. But neither weapon was enough to save American outlaws and lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow during a 1934 ambush by law enforcement officers. After the duo was dead, authorities recovered the revolver Bonnie had secured to an inner thigh with white medical tape. They also seized the handgun Clyde had tucked into his waistband. Nearly 80 years later, those guns and other items connected to the infamous gangsters will be going up for auction in New Hampshire on Sept. 30. An auction...

Herman Cain in New Interview: Abortion Should Not be Legal Washington, DC -- Herman Cain has given a new interview in which he explains his pro-life views on abortion and gives some insight as to why he made some "pro-choice" sounding comments in a CNN interview this week. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/21/herman-cain-in-new-interview-abortion-should-not-be-legal/

WASHINGTON -- In the mid-1980s, while covering most of the developing world, I began to realize something was happening that seemed, at least at the time, counter to the common wisdom. My American generation of post-World War II optimists had simply assumed that nations as we knew them would naturally hold together. They would brook their problems, but their coherence as organized, civilized societies and states would remain; progress was inevitable for all human beings. But suddenly I saw, to the contrary, that many countries we had expected would continue to "work" were instead beginning to disintegrate. Our blithe, too-casual...

Two Hells Angels bikers charged with starting a gunfight acted in self defense because rival Outlaws Motorcycle Club members targeted them, lawyers for the men say. Chad Wilson, 32, of Lynnwood, Wash., and John Midmore, 34, of Valparaiso, Ind., are accused of shooting at Outlaws bikers Aug. 8, 2006, at Legion Lake Resort in Custer State Park, where the Outlaws gathered for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 70 miles away. According to a federal court document, an Outlaws member who was not wounded said he returned fire at the man who shot at his group. Wilson is a member of the...

With great sadness, we must announce the passing of our friend, Hughie Thomasson. Hughie died unexpectedly late Sunday night of an apparent heart attack at his home in Brooksville, Florida.

May 23, 1934: Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde On this day in 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Salles, Louisiana. Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. Shortly after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker visited him every day, and smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape, but he was soon caught...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A judge on Thursday set bond at $5 million each for two bikers charged with shooting five rival Outlaws Motorcycle Club members in a gunfight. Chad John Wilson, 30, of Lynnwood, Wash., and John James Midmore, 32, of Valparaiso, Ind., each face five counts of attempted first-degree murder for a shooting Tuesday at Custer State Park.

A former waitress at a Brockton strip club described by an ex-boyfriend as paranoid is accused of sending explosive devices to local strip clubs, Bridgewater State College and the Outlaws motorcycle club in Taunton, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.Kimberly Lynn DaSilva, 35, of Hull is accused in federal court of sending explosives through the mail last year. She appeared in court Monday and was released on $10,000 surety. She is to appear in court Feb. 23.DaSilva, a former waitress at the Foxy Lady in Brockton and Stoughton strip club Alex's, now sells sex toys, according to...

Kenya outlaws opposition rallies Kenya's government has banned opposition rallies and dismissed calls for new elections, days after voters rejected a new constitution. Vice-President Moody Awori said demonstrations supporting calls for elections would be seen as a "threat to national security". His warning follows Saturday's rally in the capital Nairobi celebrating the victory of the referendum "No" vote. The opposition had said the draft gave too many powers to the president. Mr Awori said in a statement that opposition calls for nationwide protests were "inappropriate". He said the rejection of the constitutional reforms were not grounds for new elections. "The...

A citizen of the United States is a native-born, foreign-born, or naturalized person who owes allegiance to the United States and who is entitled to its protection.– U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services America has been invaded by an army of illegal aliens. Just last week in Arizona, an American was forced to surrender his land to illegal aliens who claimed he had assaulted them. The two criminals were caught trespassing on his property after crossing the border in violation of federal law. Unfortunately, this is part of a larger trend, one that grants more rights to illegal immigrants than American...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - The Navajo Nation has outlawed uranium mining and processing on its reservation, which sprawls across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and contains one of the world's largest deposits of uranium ore. Tribal President Joe Shirley Jr. must give the bill final approval. His spokesman said Thursday that Shirley "strongly" supports it. Mining companies began blasting holes on the reservation, which covers 27,000 square miles, in the 1940s and continued for nearly 40 years until decreased demand closed the operations. By then, the Navajos were left with radiation sickness, contaminated tailings and abandoned mines....

MONTREAL (CP) - In what one lawyer called a legal precedent in Canada, a jury convicted nine Hells Angels and associates on gangsterism charges Monday and found them guilty on 26 out of a total of 27 criminal charges. The accused, who were arrested in a major police crackdown on biker gangs in 2001, each faced three charges - gangsterism, drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder. Eight of the men were convicted on all three counts, while the ninth was acquitted of the murder charge. Crown prosecutor Madeleine Giauque praised the jurors, who heard about 125 days of testimony...

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 YEARNING FOR FREEDOM U.S. Castro backers squelch prisoners' plea American librarians in battle over colleagues jailed in crackdown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 14, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com American librarians sympathetic to Fidel Castro's communist regime are battling to prevent their national organization from responding to a plea from independent librarians imprisoned in Cuba for up to 26 years. Fidel Castro As WorldNetDaily reported, 14 members of Cuba's Independent Library project were swept up in a crackdown last March on charges that included making available the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and books such...

TAMPA -- The man considered the top Outlaw Motorcycle Club member in the world set out to claim Florida and other states as territory in a decades-long "campaign of terror," federal prosecutors told a jury Tuesday. Through killings, bombings and intimidation, Harry "Taco" Bowman commanded his legions of bikers and lived by the credo, "Snitches are a Dying Breed," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Kunz told jurors in opening statements at Bowman's racketeering trial. "What this case is not about is individuals who have chosen a different lifestyle, wear long hair, ride motorcycles and want to be left alone," Kunz said....

Iraqi troops used "ruses" to kill U.S. troops -U.S. AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, March 23 (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday that Iraqi troops were using "ruses" to kill U.S. troops invading their country, on one occasion dressing as civilians to ambush them. "There were several incidents reported today in which there were types of behaviour that I can only describe as ruses that were perpetrated by the enemy," Lt.Gen. John Abizaid told a news briefing at Central Command headquarters outside Qatar. He said that in one incident an apparent surrender was followed by artillery fire. "In another...