Driving with bullets apparently is now a crime in America. That’s what one U.S. citizen discovered. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized Gerardo Serrano’s truck and kept it for two years because he had five rounds in his ...
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Trump Requests $4 Billion More For Missile Defense Against North Korea
The White House is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion to fund a missile defense against North Korea. The request was made in a Monday letter from President Trump to Congress, The Hill reported. The money would pay for ...
Read More »5 Uses For An Old, Warn-Out Garden Hose (You Gotta Try No. 2!)
The wise homesteader knows that everything – even used garden hoses – can be re-used and re-purposed. More than likely, you will discover that your old hose is more useful than you originally thought. Here are five uses: 1. Protect ...
Read More »Mom Makes Joke About Selling Son For $12, Gets Investigated By CPS
A proud mother found herself under investigation for human trafficking for joking about her three-year-old son on Twitter. “This time last week, I was the subject of a human-trafficking investigation,” Magnolia State Live writer Alex McDaniel wrote in October. “The ...
Read More »Walmart & Amazon Ask: Can We Enter Your Home When You’re Gone?
Amazon and Walmart want the key to your house, and one of them even wants access to your refrigerator. Both are testing services that will allow employees to bring packages and food into your home when you are away. “The ...
Read More »Alabama: 5 Years In Prison For Voting The Wrong Way
Voting the wrong way might lead to a five-year prison term in Alabama. Secretary of State John Merrill, a Republican, wants the 674 people who crossed parties to vote in a recent runoff election prosecuted. “If these people knowingly and ...
Read More »41 Days Later, Puerto Rico Is Still Without Electricity
Most Puerto Ricans will be without electricity for the foreseeable future after a controversial contract to rebuild the island’s power grid was cancelled. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) on Sunday cancelled a $300 million contract to rebuild the ...
Read More »No Surgery For The Obese & Smokers, British Nationalized Health Care Proposes
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is under fire for a proposal that would prohibit non-essential surgeries on people who are overweight or who smoke. Patients must quit smoking for eight weeks or lose weight to qualify for non-emergency surgery at ...
Read More »Business Owner Was Never Convicted. But Police Kept 130 Of His Computers Anyway
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Frank Ranelli is still waiting for the return of thousands of dollars’ worth of computers police took from his business in 2010, even though charges were dismissed years ago. “Here I was, a man, owned this business, ...
Read More »Insect Populations Plummet 75 Percent; ‘Cascading Effects’ On Food Chain
More than 75 percent of the flying insects in German nature reserves have been wiped out in the past 27 years according to a published in the scientific journal PLOS that also asserts the problem – if worldwide – could ...
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