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Rotary International Reverses Its Anti-gun Policy Following Membership Complaints

Tuesday, 20 June 2017 05:53

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, June 19, 2017:

The Rotary Foundation

The Rotary Foundation

Rotary International, the international service organization with 35,000 chapters and 1.2 million members worldwide, reversed itself last week and lifted nearly all of the board’s anti-gun policies inserted surreptitiously into its Code of Policies in January.

One is hard-pressed to find the anti-gun language in the Code, which runs to 461 pages. But it is found on pages 227 and 228, under Section 36.010, Paragraphs 2 and 8:

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Will Johnson Amendment Repeal Put Politics in the Pulpit?

Tuesday, 09 May 2017 05:47

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 8, 2017:

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Zig Ziglar

According to the Wall Street Journal, repeal of the Johnson Amendment isn’t likely to have much impact on preaching from the pulpit, and it could instead cause problems. Writer Ian Lovett wrote that lifting the ban “could cause problems for houses of worship … creating fault lines in their congregations and could drive people away.”

Lovett quoted from one nondenominational “Cooperative Baptist Church” pastor who called repeal “dangerous.” Daniel Glaze, senior pastor at Richmond, Virginia’s River Road Church, told Lovett:

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Obama’s Rush to Leave a Legacy Leaves a Mess Instead

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 06:39

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, January 17, 2017:

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In Greek mythology Augeas is best known for his stables, which housed 3,000 head of cattle. The stables hadn’t been cleaned for 30 years, and Heracles’ job — to keep working until he had cleaned the stables entirely — was deemed impossible, as the cattle were immortal.

Happily President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge to undo egregious Obama administration actions isn’t as overwhelming as Heracles’. Consider Obama’s parting gift of

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CIA Director John Brennan Probably Isn’t a Communist

Monday, 26 September 2016 09:18

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, September 26, 2016:

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John Brennan

He’s not a duck, either, but he talks like one and hangs around with other ducks who speak the same language. Relevant is Brennan’s visit to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation last week, where he told the left-wing crowd that if he could get into the CIA with his record, so could they.

The Foundation has close ties to the Congressional Black Caucus, which has more than 40 members with backgrounds so criminal and extreme that each of them rates a special page at DiscoverTheNetworks.org. Among them are names that are no doubt familiar to students of the left, including

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Beware the 300-Pound White Penguin Watching You at the Mall

Wednesday, 07 September 2016 05:48

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, September 5, 2016:

In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother’s primary enabler was the telescreen. It could be turned down but never turned off, and it recorded all behaviors and conversations to be analyzed for traitorous intent.

Knightscope has no discoverable link to the telescreen with its big, fat white Penguin called K5, but its capabilities are astonishing. Those capabilities came to light following an incident at an upscale mall in Palo Alto last month when a K5 ran over a 16-month-old toddler by mistake. Company officials expressed “horror” at the incident, apologized, and then invited the family of the toddler to view its upgraded version of K5, which, it promised, would avoid such incidents in the future.

The rollout of K5 (version 2.0, if you will) was no doubt impressive, as K5 has an amazing array of technology designed as “an advanced anomaly detection device” – read: detect, record, analyze, and then inform its handler of suspicious activities taking place nearby. Stacy Dean Stephens, Knightscope’s vice president of marketing told Digital Trends:

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Canadian Oil Company Thinks the U.S. Constitution is Still Relevant

Saturday, 16 January 2016 06:40

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, January 15, 2016:

The blogger at InvestmentWatch concluded last June that the “Constitution Is Irrelevant. Rule Of Law Is Dead. Ruling Class Oligarchy Is The Power.” In less histrionic terms, the New York Times agreed, noting that the Constitution is “losing its appeal” with people around the world. Some want to replace it, including a Supreme Court justice. Some want to amend it. The present administration apparently doesn’t bother itself over the matter. On the day after the State of the Union speech, Obama’s chief of staff, ignoring any Constitutional limitations on the power of the president to issue executive orders, said to get ready for “audacious executive actions” by the president in the last year of his second term.

But a Canadian oil company still thinks there’s relevance in the language of the Constitution,

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Suzette Kelo, Vera Coking and Donald Trump

Friday, 28 August 2015 08:15

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, August 28, 2015:

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It’s likely that neither Suzette Kelo nor Vera Coking ever met Donald Trump, but they certainly know how he operates. Eminent domain, under the Fifth Amendment, says that “no person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Suzette lost her property, and Vera nearly did, by developers seizing on that malleable and flexible language and turning it into a tool of thuggery, using government agents instead of bandits, to forcibly remove owners from their privately owned homes and land.

A developer in New London, Connecticut, used a government-created entity to declare that Kelo’s property was condemned in favor of a

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Lee and Labrador Offer Weak-kneed Pushback to Same-sex Ruling

Thursday, 02 July 2015 04:32

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, July 1, 2015:

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In their rush to “do something” to fend off some of the negative impacts of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that are certain to fall on individuals and institutions reluctant to climb on board the same-sex bandwagon, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Utah) have offered a bill that would cement that ruling into place.

Called the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), the bill, if passed into law, would

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“Kafkaesque” Ruling from FCC Fines AT&T $100 Million

Saturday, 20 June 2015 05:28

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, June 19, 2015:

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Franz Kafka, author of the chilling novel, The Trial, in 1926

In The Trial, Franz Kafka told the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Left unfinished at his death, a ghostwriter completed the novel, which became one of Kafka’s best known and most frightening novels.

In it, Kafka described perfectly the ruling announced on Wednesday by the hidden anonymous commissars of the Federal Communications Commission:

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Congress, by Voice Vote, Foists International ID Cards on Everyone

Saturday, 13 June 2015 04:53

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, June 12, 2015:

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Politicians have a knack for naming their bills with titles that are backwards, intended to deceive. There’s the Patriot Act, instead of the Fourth Amendment Obliteration Act. There’s the Affordable Care Act, which makes healthcare more expensive and less available.

And then there’s the Girls Count Act, a deceptive title designed to lead one to believe that it has something to do with empowering girls worldwide, making certain that they have access to services and are able to exercise all their rights. Even the opening paragraph expands the deceit:

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Florida Court Rules Open Carry Illegal

Tuesday, 24 February 2015 06:25

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 23, 2015:

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Within hours of the ruling by the Fourth District Court in Florida that the state’s prohibition of open carry is constitutional, at least two groups have come out against the ruling, with one of them announcing its intention to file an appeal.

At issue was the arrest in February 2012 of one Dale Norman as he was walking down the streets of Fort Pierce sporting a holstered handgun outside his tank top shirt. The initial investigation revealed that Norman held a newly issued concealed carry permit, but

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Omnibus Bill Passes House, Funds Government Through September

Saturday, 13 December 2014 06:54

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, December 12, 2014:

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President Barack Obama holds a conference call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in the Oval Office

At the very last minute, with time and funding for government agencies running out, the House voted 216-206 to pass the so-called “omnibus” bill on Thursday, opening the way for the Senate to pass it on Friday. President Obama has promised to sign it before the day is out.

It was sausage-making at its finest. Even Arizona Republican John McCain said “I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it” with many expecting him to vote for it on Friday anyway.

Instead of attempting to create and muster support for a temporary bill which would have left the heavy lifting to the newly elected incoming congress in January, House Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) and President Obama decided that

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Judge: New Mexico 10 Commandments Monument Unconstitutional

Monday, 11 August 2014 16:02

This article was first published at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, August 11, 2014:

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James Parker, Senior District Court Judge for New Mexico, ruled last Thursday that the five-foot-tall, 3,000-pound monument inscribed with the 10 Commandments (shown) placed on the lawn in front of the Bloomfield, New Mexico, City Hall is unconstitutional. He ordered it to be removed by September 10.

Parker also expressed reservations about his decision, calling the case

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Santa Clara’s Field of Dreams

Wednesday, 23 July 2014 10:59

This article was first published at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, July 21, 2014:

Ray Kinsella, meet the Mayor of Santa Clara, California, home of the brand new Levi’s Stadium where the San Francisco 49ers are scheduled to play their home games starting this fall. And where, it is predicted, their fans will come to watch.

Whether enough of them will is an open question.

Already nearly a third of the 49ers’ season ticket holders have

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California Shooting: the Missing Element

Monday, 26 May 2014 09:58

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After a year of planning his revenge on sorority sisters who had ignored him, causing him “pain” and “suffering”, a student living in Isla Vista, California, began his killing spree at 9:30PM Friday night. It ended 10 minutes later when Elliot Rodger, confronted by armed force, took his own life. In the wake were twelve separate crime scenes with 7 people killed and thirteen more, including a bicyclist and a skate boarder, injured, some seriously. Calling it a “chaotic, rapidly unfolding convoluted incident,” Sheriff Bill Brown added:

It’s obviously the work of a madman …

There’s going to be a lot more information that will come out that will give a clearer picture of just how disturbed this individual was…

[It was] premeditated mass murder.

The spree began at Rodger’s apartment where

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Supreme Court to hear Critical Fourth Amendment Appeals Tomorrow

Monday, 28 April 2014 09:15

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David Leon Riley was driving through a residential area of San Diego in August of 2009 when he was stopped for having expired license tags on his car. A so-called routine search of his car turned up a couple of handguns whereupon he was arrested. The police took his smartphone and examined it down at the station house, discovering emails, text messages and videos implicating him in a gang-war drive-by shooting two weeks earlier. He was charged with and convicted of shooting at an occupied vehicle, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon along with other gang-related crimes and sentenced to 15 years in jail.

Riley’s attorneys tried to have the evidence from his smartphone suppressed claiming that the police didn’t secure a search warrant first, without success. But

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Supreme Court Expands Police Power at the Expense of the Fourth Amendment

Friday, 28 February 2014 07:14

On Tuesday the Supreme Court ruled in Fernandez v. California that when a resident who objects to the search of his residence is removed through a lawful arrest, the remaining resident may give police consent to search without first demanding a warrant.

The back story is much more complicated than that official summary, and

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The Venus Flytrap of Medicaid

Monday, 23 December 2013 13:54

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, December 23rd, 2013:

When Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (Joe the Plumber) asked presidential candidate Barack Obama about his tax plan on October 12^th, 2008, Obama created a sound byte that reverberated around the world, and reverberates still: “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” What no one could possibly have known at the time, however, was that Obama would be taking from the poor and

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District Court Judge Rules New York City’s “stop and frisk” policy is unconstitutional

Tuesday, 13 August 2013 08:55

In District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling in Floyd v. The City of New York on Monday, there was both good news and bad news. The good news is that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s policy, with the enthusiastic cooperation of his police commissioner Ray Kelly, violates both the Fourth and the Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The bad news is that,

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2nd Generation Quantum Computer System to “Improve” Machine Learning

Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:46

Two unheralded announcements in May about the collaboration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Google, and a private, non-profit group, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) marked an impressive, and potentially threatening, milestone in “machine learning” – teaching computers how to

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