By Military.com. The last man to shoot an American president now spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.
He takes long walks along tree-lined paths, plays guitar and paints, grabs fast food at Wendy’s. He drives around town in a silver Toyota Avalon, a car that wouldn’t attract a second glance. Often, as if to avoid detection, he puts on a hat or visor before going out.
These days, John Hinckley Jr. lives much of the year like any average Joe: shopping, eating out, watching movies at a local Regal Cinemas.
Hinckley was just 25 when he shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981, and when jurors found him not guilty by reason of insanity they said he needed treatment, not a lifetime in confinement. The verdict left open the possibility that he would one day live outside a mental hospital.
For the past year, under a judge’s order, Hinckley has spent 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Williamsburg, a small southeastern Virginia city known for its colonial roots. Freedom has come in stages and with strict requirements: meeting regularly while in town with both a psychiatrist and a therapist, getting a volunteer job. It has all been part of a lengthy process meant to reintegrate Hinckley, now nearing 60, back into society. (Read more from “Reagan Shooter Finds Rejection, Indifference in Future Home” HERE)
Hinckley not Charged with Murder for Brady’s Recent Death
By Travis Reilly. Medical examiners attributed the former Press Secretary’s August death to gunshot wounds incurred during the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, but prosecutors will not charge Hinckley with the homicide since the courts have previously deemed him insane.
“Hinckley would be entitled to a directed verdict that he was not guilty of the murder of Mr. Brady by reason of insanity,” wrote Ronald C. Machen, U.S. District Attorney for Washington D.C., in a statement. “Furthermore, a homicide prosecution would be precluded by the common law ‘year-and-a-day rule,’ in effect at the time. (Read more from this story HERE)
By Joe Saunders. Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday aimed a combined blast at President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by simply stating the ugly, unavoidable truth about the Obama-Clinton legacy on the world.
“Today, our allies trust us less,” the Florida Republican said on “Face the Nation.” “Our enemies fear us less. And America has less influence in the world than it did four to six years ago.”
While much of the interview focused on Rubio’s relationship with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his one-time mentor and now likely competitor fo the GOP nomination, his Obama-Clinton criticisms were key. Rubio is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. More than the other contenders for the Republican nomination – announced or potential – he has emphasized the foreign policy fault of the Obama administration.
On Sunday, he very much included the Democrat frontrunner in that criticism too. (Read more from “Rubio Blasts Obama-Clinton Era as ‘Disaster for America’: Benghazi, Russia and ‘Everything in Between'” HERE)
Pro-Amnesty Rubio Swings at Common Core: If I Was President I Could Cut Department of Education
By Carmine Sabia. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio made waves on his first official day on the 2016 campaign trail, tearing into the Common Core education standards and saying he would consider dumping the Department of Education if he is elected president.
Rubio told Manchester Community College students Friday that he is “very cautious about the federal government’s role in establishing curriculum standards.”
“If I was president of the United States, I would not have a Department of Education, perhaps at all,” Rubio told reporters at a party after the speech. “We don’t need a national school board.” (Read more from this story HERE)
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Tim Tebow is back in the NFL. And Chip Kelly’s offseason just got juicier.
The Philadelphia Eagles plan to bring in quarterback Tim Tebow and sign him Monday as they begin their offseason program, FOX Sports NFL insider Jay Glazer reports. Multiple outlets later confirmed the report.
The Eagles are looking for a fourth quarterback for their offseason program. After spending time with Tebow’s quarterbacks coach Tom House, the Eagles are convinced he’s improved a lot, Glazer reports.
Tebow, who hasn’t played in an NFL regular season game since 2012, was brought in for a workout for the Eagles last month.
“I’ve always been a fan of Tim,” Kelly told NFL Network last month. “We bring in a lot of players for private workouts, it’s just he’s the one that everyone keeps talking about. We brought in Terrelle Pryor for a workout and Thad Lewis in for a workout. When players are available for you to work them out, it’s the same thing of going to the veteran combine or going to the super regional combine. (Read more from “Report: Eagles Signing Tim Tebow” HERE)
Cameras placed along Texas’ 1,200-mile border with Mexico have captured the stream of illegal immigrants sneaking into the country on a daily basis.
The network of more than 1,000 motion detectors, similar to those used to film wildlife, have been placed strategically in areas that have not been secured – where Mexican citizens can cross and evade capture with ease.
They helped border guards apprehend nearly 30,000 suspects and led to 88,400 pounds of drugs being seized in 2014 as part of Operation Drawbridge.
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The system has also had a significant impact on Mexican cartels and their ability to smuggle narcotics, people and stolen vehicles between the two countries.
The startling images have been revealed as President Obama continues to fight to push through an executive order to shield illegal immigrants from deportation. (Read more from “Shocking Images From Cameras on Texas-Mexico Border Capture Steady Stream of Illegal Immigrants Sneaking Into the United States With Packages of Drugs and Guns” HERE)
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By Poststar.com. Nearly 600 Army and Air National Guard forces from New Jersey and New York are preparing for the worst.
They are participating in a homeland response force drill at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst on Friday. (Read more from “Nearly 600 Troops Participate in Homeland Response Drill” HERE)
Big Spring Invites Army to Conduct Special Ops Training in City
By Julia Deng. A large-scale military exercise set to run from July 15 to November 15 has sparked rampant conspiracy theories involving everything from Walmart to martial law.
The Special Operations mission, called Jade Helm 15, is just another training opportunity to “practice core special warfare tasks,” according to United States Army representatives.
“The size and scope of Jade Helm sets this one apart,” said Army Special Operations Command officials. “To stay ahead of environment challenges faced overseas, Jade Helm will take place across seven states… The diverse terrain in these states replicates areas Special Operations Soldiers regularly find themselves operating in overseas.”
Special Operations Forces will only train in five states: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.
According to Jade Helm operations planners, training will only be conducted on private and public land with the permission of landowners or regional authorities. (Read more from this story HERE)
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Wal-Mart suddenly closed five stores in four states on Monday for alleged plumbing problems.
The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.
Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday.
“Everybody just panicked and started crying,” Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money.
All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own. (Read more from “Wal-Mart Suddenly Closed 5 Stores and Laid off Thousands of Workers and No One Knows Why” HERE)
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Near California’s Success Lake, more than 1,000 water wells have failed. Farmers are spending $750,000 to drill 1,800 feet down to keep fields from going fallow. Makeshift showers have sprouted near the church parking lot.
“The conditions are like a third-world country,” said Andrew Lockman, a manager at the Office of Emergency Services in Tulare County, in the heart of the state’s agricultural Central Valley about 175 miles (282 kilometers) north of Los Angeles.
As California enters the fourth year of a record drought, its residents and $43 billion agriculture industry have drawn groundwater so low that it’s beyond the reach of existing wells. That’s left thousands with dry taps and pushed farmers to dig deeper as Governor Jerry Brown, a 77-year-old Democrat, orders the first mandatory water rationing in state history.
“The demand we’re placing on the aquifer and the deep bedrock drilling, which is going on at an alarmingly fast pace, is really scary,” said Tricia Blattler, executive director of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. “Folks are really concerned we’re not going to be able find water in the groundwater system much longer. We are tapping it way too quickly.”
Nowhere has lack of rain been felt more than in Tulare County, in a valley dotted with dairy farms and walnut orchards at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains. With 458,000 residents, it’s home to 1,013 dry wells, accounting for more than half of those that have failed in the state since January 2014. (Read more from “Dry Wells Plague California as Drought Has Water Tables Plunging” HERE)
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The nation’s poultry industry may have to live with a deadly bird flu strain for several years, which would be “devastating,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinary officer said Thursday.
Dr. John Clifford also said that while new cases should drop to close to zero once the weather warms up and kills off the virus, there’s “very likely” to be a resurgence this fall when the wild waterfowl that are natural carriers of avian influenza fly south for the winter.
Clifford spoke on a visit to Minnesota, the state hit hardest by outbreaks that have led to the death of over 2.5 million turkeys and chickens in the Midwest since early March. He said the fact that the highly pathogenic H5N2 virus has already appeared as far east as southern Ontario means there’s an uncomfortable risk of it spreading to the East Coast where much of the U.S. broiler chicken industry is based.
“If it sticks around and continues it’s going to be very devastating to our poultry industry and our international markets, trade markets, as well as the loss domestically,” Clifford said in an interview with The Associated Press. “That’s why we have to really use this time appropriately to do all that we can to determine how best we can address and prevent introductions in the future.”
Authorities have confirmed H5N2 outbreaks at nearly 40 commercial poultry farms in the Midwest, including 26 in Minnesota. All were turkey operations except for one chicken farm in Wisconsin. On Thursday, officials said four more Minnesota farms and two more in Wisconsin had been struck. (Read more from “USDA Veterinarian: Bird Flu Outbreak Could Be ‘Devastating'” HERE)
Here is a story of a failed Republican opposition party laid bare before the American people.
In a letter from the Social Security Administration responding to inquiries posed by Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ben Sasse (R-NE), it was revealed that 541,000 Social Security cards have been illegally issued to Obama’s DACA amnesty recipients as of Sept. 30, 2014. That number has likely grown over the past six months. Unfortunately, GOP insouciance to the rule of law is just as much to blame as Obama and his partners in crime.
For those of us disappointed with the lackluster GOP reaction to Obama’s mass executive amnesty in November of last year, remember that Republicans did absolutely nothing in response to the 2012 DACA amnesty. Mitt Romney refused to make it an issue in the presidential campaign and most Republicans didn’t even put out a press release opposing it. That amnesty for younger illegal aliens was just as unlawful as the “DAPA” amnesty of 2014, but Obama was given free reign.
Republicans, at least on a party level, declined to even pursue legal recourse in the court system. Instead, Kris Kobach, the famed immigration enforcement attorney, took the initiative and sued the administration on behalf of 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
On April 4, 2013, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Obama administration’s DACA program was a clear violation of Section 1225(b)(2)(A) of the INA, which requires ICE agents to place all illegal aliens into removal proceedings. However, he said that ICE agents lacked standing to sue the administration in Article III Courts and were directed to lodge their complaint to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), an administrative panel dedicated to mediating disputes between federal employees and the government.
After two years of being led down the garden path, they finally got a hearing before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Recently, the 5th Circuit tossed out the lawsuit, amazingly, noting that ICE agents lack standing to sue, even though they are being forced to execute actions antithetical to their job description and the statutes of the United States Congress. Obama has even threatened agents who fail to implement his unconstitutional policies.
Accordingly, we are now stuck with a program that is clearly unconstitutional, but we lack the ability to stop it.
What are the consequences?
With Obama approving DACA applications at over a 90% rate, almost no criminal elements are being weeded out. Indeed many DACA recipients have already been arrested for criminal activity. They all have Social Security cards. And remember, even if conservatives can put an end to DACA and terminate the work permits, the Social Security numbers are there to stay.
In addition, the fiscal cost of this Social Security charade is enormous. An illegal immigrant who receives a Social Security number will be entitled to refundable tax credits, Social Security retirement benefits, and Social Security disability benefits. An individual low-income illegal immigrant – who would have no net tax liability – could be eligible to receive up to $3 in Social Security benefits for every $1 contributed through payroll taxes, and could even get up to $35,000 in tax credits for their household in a single year. Remember, that most of these young illegal immigrants are predominantly low-income earners.
This is fundamentally unfair.
The GOP establishment has run away from this issue because of the oleaginous arguments put forth by the left about sympathy for those who came here “of no fault of their own.” But they also came here of no fault of our basic laws of sovereignty and no fault of the American taxpayer. Their predicament is not the fault of our laws; it’s the fault of their parents and countries of origin that have violated our sovereignty.
Even one who believes in granting them amnesty at some point has no justification in supporting federal benefits for a new population at a time when we can’t afford the welfare state for native Americans and legal immigrants. Moreover, it is fundamentally unfair to legal immigrants who are not eligible for federal assistance for at least five years after receiving a green card.
If Congress truly cared about fairness and the rule of law, they would pass Rep. Randy Weber’s (R-TX) bill, H.R. 1332, which would block both the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and child tax credit for DACA and DAPA applicants.
If Republican presidential candidates really cared about this issue, they would embrace fairness in Social Security and tax credits as a campaign issue, instead of just touting a talking point about “securing the border” when finally forced to discuss immigration. (See “541,000 Illegally Issued Social Security Cards? GOP Yawns” HERE)
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One of the world’s foremost experts on counter-threat intelligence within the cybersecurity industry, who blew the whistle on vulnerabilities in airplane technology systems in a series of recent Fox News reports, has become the target of an FBI investigation himself.
Chris Roberts of the Colorado-based One World Labs, a security intelligence firm that identifies risks before they’re exploited, said two FBI agents and two uniformed police officers pulled him off a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial flight Wednesday night just after it landed in Syracuse, and spent the next four hours questioning him about cyberhacking of planes.
The FBI interrogation came just hours after Fox News published a report on Roberts’ research, in which he said: “We can still take planes out of the sky thanks to the flaws in the in-flight entertainment systems. Quite simply put, we can theorize on how to turn the engines off at 35,000 feet and not have any of those damn flashing lights go off in the cockpit.”
His findings, along with those of another security expert quoted in the Fox News reports, were backed up a GAO report released Tuesday.
“If you don’t have people like me researching and blowing the whistle on system vulnerabilities, we will find out the hard way what those vulnerabilities are when an attack happens,” Roberts said. (Read more from “Security Expert Pulled off Flight by FBI After Exposing Airline Tech Vulnerabilities” HERE)
