Showing posts with label Southern Poverty Law Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern Poverty Law Center. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Show Notes 10-18-2015

Sunday show 10-18-15

Refugees surprised by polar bear when attempting to jump into back of truck
A group of refugees attempting to reach the United Kingdom got a surprise when they attempted to board a truck and discovered a polar bear inside.
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NAACP says Roy resident's hanged man Halloween decoration is racially insensitive
A Utah man says he won't take down a hanged man decoration that's part of his annual Halloween display, despite a complaint from the NAACP that the decoration simulates the lynching of African-Americans.
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Big banks to American company's: “We don't want your money.”
State Street Corp., the Boston bank that manages assets for institutional investors, for the first time has begun charging some customers for large dollar deposits, people familiar with the matter said. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the nation’s largest bank by assets, has cut unwanted deposits by more than $150 billion this year, in part by charging fees.
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“The Harbinger Man” changes even Washington
“The Harbinger Man” Jonathan Cahn’s message has been delivered to Washington and in Washington multiple times. It’s been handed out in Congress and it’s been thundered from a podium in Statuary Hall.
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Benghazi investigator tells GOP lawmakers to 'shut up' on probe
The Republican chairman of the congressional panel probing the Benghazi tragedy is telling his GOP colleagues to “shut up” about the committee’s work because most of them know very little about what the panel is doing.
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Illinois Army vet 75 saves 16 kids from knife wielding teen
A former Army vet is recovering from stab wounds after putting himself between 16 terrified children and a knife-wielding teen determined to kill at an Illinois public library this week.
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DOJ Official Praises the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Work in Combating Domestic Terrorism
 John Carlin, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) assistant attorney general for National Security, announced on Wednesday that the DOJ is creating a new position of domestic terrorism counsel to combat the “real and present threat” of domestic extremism.
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Indiana top cop to Obama: I won't register guns
Sheriff Brad Rogers, the top-ranking law enforcement official for Elkhart County, Indiana, said during a panel appearance on WNIT’s “Politically Speaking” segment that he wouldn’t abide government orders to register weapons from private citizens within his jurisdiction, no matter what President Obama presses.
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Common Core-aligned writing lesson on gun debate fuels claims of political agenda
Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted perspective of the gun debate.
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MT students celebrate as school drops Michelle O’s lunch rules
Montana’s Bozeman High School is proving schools can serve students nutritious meals they’ll love without Michelle Obama’s guiding hand.
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Student criticism of Jefferson shouldn't be 'taken seriously'
Inspired by the successful removal of a Jefferson Davis statue at the University of Texas, a few students at the University of Missouri are demanding administrators take down a campus statue of Thomas Jefferson.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Show Notes 04/28/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 04/28/2013

Gosnell's Attorney: 'Ludicrous' 'To Say a Baby is Born Alive Because It Moves One Time'
The defense attorney for late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is on trial for murdering babies who survived abortions, told a Philadelphia a court Thursday that it is "ludicrous" to claim that "a baby is born alive because it moves one time without any other movement."

Major leftist group now linked to domestic terrror
A key leader of the Washington-based Family Research Council, the pro-family organization attacked by “gay” terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins, II, last year, says he is asking the government to stop utilizing the organization that likely influenced Corkins’ decision to attack innocent workers at FRC’s Washington office.

In Florida food stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices
A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies, croissants, vegetables and fresh fruit. She curled her hair and painted her nails fluorescent pink.

Shortage of pizza-makers as Italians are too proud
But with a slice of pizza an increasingly popular lunch time option in times of economic hardship, the pizza sector is booming - and an estimated 6,000 new "pizzaioili" are needed, according to FIPE, an Italian business federation.

TransCanada Lashes Out at EPA Over Keystone, Asserts Canadian 'Sovereignty'
The Canadian builder of the Keystone XL pipeline has lashed out at the Environmental Protection Agency for recommending that the United States and Canada work together to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the tar sands crude that the pipeline would carry to refineries on the U.S. gulf coast.

Republican Senators embrace State and local sales tax on internet purchases
You don’t see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.
Anti-tax guru Grover Norquist isn’t happy about it and the conservative Heritage Foundation is questioning the senators’ conservative credentials.

The Spanish American War
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898.

DHS denies ammunition purchases aimed at civilians
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security denied Thursday that its large-scale ammunition purchases were an effort keep bullets out of the hands of private citizens. At a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, top DHS training officer Humberto Medina said he could "say categorically that was not a factor at all" in the purchases.

Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle.