From the Spokesman Review:  Judge Curiel’s ethnicity is of no inherent significance whatsoever. But there are reasons to believe that he may harbor the kind of racially charged political animus common in many walks of life. He is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, which his defenders will accurately assert is […]

From the Associated Press: A Canadian mining company has reached an agreement with a Chinese firm that will bring $700 million in financing for a possible open-pit molybdenum mine near Boise, Idaho. Vancouver, British Columbia-based American CuMo Mining Corp. said it reached the deal with Hong Kong-based MCC8 Group Co. Limited. American CuMo said it

From US News & World Report:  Obesity is still rising among American adults, despite more than a decade of public-awareness campaigns and other efforts to get people to watch their weight, and women have now overtaken men in the obese category, new government research shows. For the past several years, experts thought the nation’s alarming,

Barack Obama’s spokesman described the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s classified email scandal as a ‘criminal investigation’ on Thursday, less than an hour after the president endorsed his embattled former secretary of state to succeed him. Josh Earnest told reporters during a White House press briefing that Obama was committed to keeping his hands off

From columnist Debra J. Saunders:  “My nose is broken. I have bruises and scratches all over. I got knocked in the head a lot,” San Jose’s Juan Hernandez, 38, told me. He suffered a mild concussion. That’s the price Hernandez paid for attending the infamous Donald Trump rally in San Jose last week at which protesters

From the Associated Press:  Billionaire Charles Koch, one of America’s most influential conservative donors, said he is fed up with the vitriol of the presidential race and will air national TV ads that call on citizens to work together to fix a “rigged” economy that leaves behind the poor. Koch, in a telephone interview with

You have to wonder why all these illegal aliens are showing up in time for the Fall 2016 US elections? From Reuters:  Mexico is struggling to stem the flow of Central American migrants traveling to the United States ahead of the U.S. presidential election, causing major concern in Washington, which is weighing sending more agents to help.

The Washington Times reports that the US House voted Friday to order the Library of Congress to keep using the term “illegal alien” to describe those who come to the U.S. without authorization, saying that as long as federal laws written by Congress use those terms, so should their official records-keeper. The library earlier had proposed

Brooklyn-City employs Garbage Cops to Search through trash and ticket people for not recycling.  You have to wonder not only at the taxpayers funding garbage cops, but the right of the state to search your garbage without a warrant — even if it is on the street! 

IRS finally lists the Tea Party Groups it targeted. There were a total of 426 organizations targeted: 60 had the word “tea” in their name 33 had “patriot” in their name 8 had “constitution”  in their name 26 had “liberty” in their name HT: No Agenda

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Hillary wore a $12,495 Armani jacket during a speech about inequality.  As Orwell said, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” HT: No Agenda

CNN’s Anderson Cooper presses Hillary Clinton on using the US State Department to extract donations for the Clinton Foundation from foreign entities.   HT: No Agenda

Here’s a Hillary-Trump mashup on illegal immigration. Probably from a Trump SuperPAC. The thing to note is that Hillary is on the record sounding just like Trump on illegal immigration. HT: No Agenda

Here’s an interview Hillary did with ABC News where she refuses to say that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right. HT: No Agenda

Trump talks about his potential Supreme Court picks: “These judges all are pro-life”. That’s one way to energize the base who dislike him. Simultaneously, Hillary addresses Planned Parenthood. We sure know where their bread is buttered.

An AP analysis of government data shows the problem of students habitually missing school varies widely from state to state, with about one-third of students in the nation’s capital absent 15 days or more in a single school year Via US News & World Report:  The problem of students habitually missing school varies widely from

From the Associated Press: Dealing a blow to gun supporters, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Americans do not have a constitutional right to carry concealed weapons in public. In a dispute that could ultimately wind up before the Supreme Court, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said local law enforcement officials