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A Chicago T-Mobile clerk won a gunfight with two would be robbers on 13 January, 2016.  The gunfight happened on the far South side, after the robbers displayed handguns as they entered.  Neighbors said that the store had been robbed several times previously.  The armed clerk has not been named.  He hit both suspects multiple times.  The suspects are in the hospital.  The store is locally owned.  It has been reported that T-Mobile corporate has no legal influence on store policies about employees carrying firearms.  Neil Tadros is the district manager for T-Mobile. From chicagotribune.com: The employee shot both...

Donald Trump may be a maverick and even an embarrassment to Republican establishment types. But if he becomes the party's presidential nominee, they're all for him. Trump's rise had troubled insiders, the political pros who organize and fund campaigns, for a host of reasons. He didn't pay his dues by doing the unglamorous work most party regulars endure. He's winning without the GOP's intricate network of fundraisers and grassroots operatives. And his insults of Mexicans and view that Muslims not be allowed to enter this country create an image of intolerance the GOP has been trying to shed for years....

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As Texas officials spar with Obama administration lawyers over refugee resettlement, Amarillo is building Muslim “ghettos.” Under federal refugee programs, the North Texas town has become home to more than 1,000 Mideast migrants – giving Amarillo the highest refugee ratio in the country. “Our education system is overloaded with kids who can’t speak English. We have something like 22 languages spoken in our schools,” said William Sumerford, a local taxpayer activist. City Commissioner Randy Burkett is considering a plan to halt further refugee settlements. Burkett could not be reached, but Mayor Paul Harpole isn’t optimistic about the city’s authority to...

As a crucial Democratic debate nears -- crucial because the Democrats have decided to shelter Hillary Clinton by only holding six of them -- Sen. Bernie Sanders needs to make this Sunday night count. After raising a whopping $73 million in 2015, significantly narrowing the gap in Iowa, now sitting within a mere two points of Clinton, according to a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll, and surpassing her in New Hampshire, the so-called "Bernmentum" his supporters like to tout is looking less like hype and more like tangible reality. But for all the enthusiasm he's generated, if he won't take...

A fugitive who barricaded himself on his 47-acre ranch near Tool and Trinidad for 14 years no longer faces arrest. Anderson County dropped charges against John Joe Gray. He was arrested in 1999 during a traffic stop on charges of carrying a pistol without a concealed handgun license and assaulting a law enforcement officer during a scuffle that included Gray biting the officer. Gray bonded out of jail and refused to return to court to face charges, although he promised a judge he would, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report that suggested Gray might be a member of...

International sanctions on Iran will be lifted on Saturday when the United Nations nuclear agency declares Tehran has complied with an agreement to scale back its nuclear program, Iran‘s foreign minister said. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif arrived in Vienna, headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. body expected to issue a report triggering the lifting of sanctions imposed by the United Nations, United States and European Union. The sanctions have cut off a nation of nearly 80 million from the global financial system, drastically reduced the exports of a major oil producer and imposed severe economic hardship on...

Talk about a bad week. Poll numbers tanking, polling shows millennial ladies prefer Bernie, her attempts to connect with minority demographics flopping hard, 13 Hours hits theaters, resurrecting the Benghazi story, and now a second Congressional investigation. This latest investigation centers around the security of Hillary's home-brewed email server used during her tenure as Secretary of State. According to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman: Understanding these companies' roles in providing software and services to maintain former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server is critical to improving government cybersecurity standards. A high profile...

Two federal government vehicles from the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge pulled into the Safeway parking lot in Burns yesterday. The driver of one vehicle went into the store, the driver of the other was arrested by Oregon State Police. Kenneth Medenbach, 62, of Crescent, OR was arrested on suspicion of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. A story on Medenbach was published by the "Bend Bulletin" newspaper. The newspaper reports that Medenbach was released last year after he was arrested for camping on Bureau of Land Management land on condition that he not go onto any federal land. Authorities...

Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a fantastic film, no less excellent for its surprisingly subtle political commentary. Far better than any direct attack ad, this film blasts President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while telling a compelling story of terror and heroism. Cinekatz reviewer Vivek Subramanyam declared that "Michael Bay was born to make this movie." Despite its hyperbole, this statement captures the combination of the action director behind "Transformers" and the tragic but thrilling tale of the September 11, 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The film, based on the Mitchell...

Catholic Answers published its now-famous "Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics" back in 2004 (updated in 2006) that has now sold millions of copies with millions more having been distributed for free. In that document, for which Catholic Answers has taken a lot of flack by the way, we give guidance to Catholics in voting so that, quite frankly, Catholics will "vote like Catholics," yet, we do much more than just that. We give instruction, in complete harmony with the teaching authority of the Church, as to the most important moral issues of our day that are politically in play. We...

Stinkin’ Canadian. Dang feriner, conspirin’ to come over here and replace our delicious, crispy, all-American bacon with that floppy, communist, Canadian crap. And Budweiser? Like your Budweiser? Forget it. If he’s elected, it’s nothing but that skunky Molson swill for you, my friend. Football? Banned. It’s all sticks, pucks and missing teeth from here on out. A wall on the southern border? ISIS? TB-infected Mesicans and Central Americans? Ha! A mere diversion. Trump needs to build that wall up north to keep commie Canucks like Ted Cruz out of the White House. He’s gaining on The Donald, you see. And...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. today announced plans to close 269 stores in the U.S. and globally... As part of today's action, the company will close 154 locations in the U.S., including the company’s 102 smallest format stores, Walmart Express, which had been in pilot since 2011. Walmart instead will focus on strengthening Supercenters, optimizing Neighborhood Markets, growing the e-commerce business and expanding Pickup services for customers. Also covered in the closures are 23 Neighborhood Markets, 12 Supercenters, seven stores in Puerto Rico, six discount centers, and four Sam's Clubs. Walmart Express Date closed to public Wal-Mart Date closed to public #2173:...

August 15, 2015 - A study by the polling website YouGov shows almost 30 percent of millennials and almost half of all young British millennials consider themselves at least somewhat bisexual. "Younger Americans are noticeably less likely than their elders to put themselves in a firm category. The older someone is the less likely they are to say that they have fluid sexual attractions." - A Third Of Millennials Identify As Bisexual Says New Study C-Fam's Ausin Ruse proclaims in Crisis Magazine that "They Are Not Everywhere. They Are Not Like Us." He cites traditional figures of less than...

I have argued for two months that Clinton's legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice addresses these failures. The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless. State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence community's risking their lives to obtain information. [Snip] The obligation of those to whom state...

In what may go down as the apex of #SlatePitches, on Friday, writer Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart investigated a Democratic presidential contender in a story that declares that "Hillary Clinton Isn't a Lesbian - but She Dresses Like One." You know what, fine, let's take the bait. Because by my calculation we will be having these discussions until at least November. After Vitiello Urquhart establishes that this isn't about sexual identity per se, she commends Clinton by explaining, "If Clinton were a lesbian, I'd be proud to claim her fashion sense. Clinton embodies something many lesbians accomplish effortlessly: She dresses in...

North Korea briefly reclaimed the global press' attention again by claiming to have tested a hydrogen bomb. While coverage focused on whether that was an exaggeration, the press missed a much more important question: Was this test only for Kim Jong-Un or was it also for the Iranian regime? The North Korean and Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programs should be seen as a single entity, as should be their shared cyber warfare programs. The advance of one is an advance of the other. Differences in their activity should be seen as a common-sense division of labor. Gordon Chang, a...

Brussels (AFP) - The European Union launched an unprecedented probe on Wednesday into controversial legal changes introduced by Poland's new right-wing government to see if they violate EU democracy rules and merit punitive measures. The move comes amid growing concern over reforms to Poland's constitutional court and increased control over state media adopted by the conservative, eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS), which swept to power in October. "Today we have decided that the Commission will carry out a preliminary assessment on this matter under the rule of law framework," European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans said after a special debate...

Walmart abruptly announced Friday that it was abandoning a promise to build stores in Washington’s poorest neighborhoods, an agreement that had been key to the deal allowing the retailer to begin operating in the nation’s capital. [Snip] "I'm blood mad," D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said at a Friday news conference. "It's an outrage," said former mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), who in 2013 completed the handshake deal for the stores. "This is devastating and disrespectful to the residents of the East End of the District of Columbia." [Snip ... buried toward the bottom of a long article] [Council...

...In 2014, French president Francois Hollande, on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, pledged that all servicemen who fought alongside France to defeat the Nazis would receive the nation’s highest military honour. But due to the number that still need to be presented, medals are now being sent in the post. “It’s left the French government a bit red-faced to be honest,” Graham added. “They used to officially give them out at a special ceremony but now they post them through the door.” Other veterans in Sheffield are still waiting to receive the honour. Now talks are taking place to arrange...