Obama’s Ed. Secretary: We Need Gov’t Boarding Schools; ‘Certain Kids We Should Have 24/7′

Pres­i­dent Obama’s edu­ca­tion sec­re­tary is stir­ring con­tro­ver­sy by sug­gest­ing the U.S. gov­ern­ment should launch board­ing schools for kids – chil­dren the gov­ern­ment would have 24 hours a day. Edu­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Arne Dun­can made the com­ments Tues­day in Arling­ton, Va., at the Youth Vio­lence Pre­ven­tion Sum­mit. (Video is avail­able below.) “One idea that I threw out … is […]

India Plans to Build 100 “Smart” Cities for the Elites

Have you ever won­dered what would hap­pen if the rich kept get­ting rich­er? I’m not talk­ing about the 1%. They most­ly con­sist of upper-mid­­dle-class busi­ness own­ers and real estate agents. No, I’m talk­ing about the 1% of the 1%. The real pow­er behind the throne. The finan­cial and polit­i­cal elite. If their wealth and power […]

Prospectors, North Carolina land trust face off over access to gold

Once again, the arro­gant do-good­ers think they are the law  Recre­ation­al prospec­tors, long accus­tomed to spend­ing their week­ends search­ing for gold in North Carolina’s Uwhar­rie Riv­er, are under fire by a local land trust, which claims own­er­ship of the riv­er bed. The rise in the price of gold to its all-time high of $1,900 per ounce in […]

Stanley Family Gets Custody Back of 4 Youngest Children – 3 Older Children Still in State Custody

A review hear­ing in Gar­land Coun­ty Juve­nile Court in Arkansas yes­ter­day result­ed in the case being closed for the four younger Stan­ley chil­dren. The par­ents now have full cus­tody back of these four chil­dren. The three old­er Stan­ley chil­dren, how­ev­er, remain in State cus­tody. They are allowed to live at home with 20 hours a […]

Australian Prime Minister’s Top Advisor: Climate Change “About a New World Order Under the Control of the UN

This is the kind of quote that would have made big head­lines half a decade back or so… Now, the peo­ple at the top are open­ly admit­ting in everyone’s face that the glob­al warm­ing data has been fal­si­fied for years to bring about author­i­tar­i­an, glob­al con­trol and it bare­ly catch­es people’s atten­tion. This is what they […]

In Landslide Vote, House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act without Amendments

Is this the year Con­gress pass­es a bill to lim­it NSA spy­ing? The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives cer­tain­ly hopes so. But just how strong that reform will be remains to be seen. Min­utes ago, the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives passed the USA Free­dom Act over­whelm­ing­ly with 338 yes votes and 88 no votes. EFF is neu­tral on the […]

Background on S.1067

FA Note:  Even if you don’t live in Ida­ho, all the objec­tions Vicky has list­ed will apply to the cor­re­spond­ing bill in your state.  Inte­grat­ing The Hague Con­ven­tion on the Inter­na­tion­al Recov­ery of Child Sup­port and Oth­er Forms of Fam­i­ly Main­te­nance into State Law On 4 May 2015, Gov­er­nor Butch Otter announced he would call a spe­cial session […]

Chairman Conaway Supports Bill to Stop “Waters of the United States” Proposed Rule

Today, House Agri­cul­ture Com­mit­tee Chair­man K. Michael Conaway (R‑TX) spoke in sup­port of H.R. 1732, the Reg­u­la­to­ry Integri­ty Act of 2015. The bill, which would force the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engi­neers to stop mov­ing for­ward with the pro­posed “Waters of the Unit­ed States” rule, passed the House by a […]