If you are unfamiliar with the Dept. of Justice “Operation Chokepoint” you are not alone.  Details are challenging to work out, but essentially it’s a stealth directive (operation) from the Eric Holder DOJ to identify “at risk profiles” within the banking industry and ‘choke off’ the selected individual(s), and businesses, from access to financial services (banking).

Essentially if you find yourself identified in the DOJ crosshairs – the banking industry is instructed to close down your accounts and access to services.    It’s like the IRS leverage, only applied to individuals and not organizations.   More info HERE.

(Via Daily Caller) First they lost their television show. Now the Benham brothers say they are losing their business.

SunTrust Banks is cutting ties with would-be reality stars David and Jason Benham after liberal activists attacked them for their conservative views on abortion and gay marriage, The Daily Caller has learned. (more…)

But they’re working on it!  😉

“I happen to be one who cheers and supports the Sagebrush Rebellion. Count me in as a rebel.” Ronald Reagan

Watching the drama recently on the Bundy ranch and surrounding public land in Nevada, we may be forgiven if we didn’t remember, or even know, that this is only the most recent skirmish in a years-long battle over local control of public lands.

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Hat Tip Moishe Pipik:  San Francisco – Two airport employees who used the confusion of the Asiana Airlines crash last summer as an opportunity to steal luggage from airline passengers are now headed to jail.

Sean Sharif Crudup, 44, and his fiancée Raychas Elizabeth Thomas, 32, were both working for United at the San Francisco International Airport when the Asiana Flight 214 crashed on the runway, leaving three dead and 180 injured. (more…)

We interrupt your regularly scheduled ‘Donald Sterling is a racist’ coverage to bring you a more substantive story replete with actual deadly racism that’s drawing no media attention.

In Middletown Ohio a white single mother became the victim of horrific threats and attacks while living in a predominantly black community.    The attacks ultimately culminated in teens setting fire to the house late at night trying to murder the family.

Unknown to the thug arsonists, who started the fire at 1:00am, the woman and her children had escaped through a rear window earlier in the evening at the request of her sister who begged her to just leave.

Reverse the races and this story would be playing 24/7 on CNN.

OHIO CBS – […]  A few hours before her house burned down, homeowner Jennifer Saylor told police she was having ongoing problems with juveniles (17 and 18-year-olds) in the neighborhood.

Earlier this year, she filed a police report about a break-in at her home. A teen was arrested and ever since, the youth’s friends have been threatening to hurt her and her child, the report states. (more…)

Turkey has been an intentionally ignored hotbed of protests against hardline islamofascism.   Then a horrible mining accident happened recently with almost 300 dead miners.   Emotions are raw and tensions are high.   Into this mix comes a heavy handed Erdogan.    

TURKEY – […]  Reports allege that the young man, wearing a blue t-shirt, chanted slogans critical of Erdoğan and then entered the store. Erdoğan then followed the protester inside, grabbed the man and then punched him two or three times, according to eyewitness reports.

The owner of the store corroborated the reports, saying that he saw surveillance camera footage showing that Erdoğan was punching a man, adding, “The bodyguards took away the footage and suggested that I not mention the issue.”

A video of the incident shared on the popular video-sharing platform YouTube shows Erdoğan telling the protester, “Come next to me and boo me,” before walking up to the one man into the store then. At one point during the video Erdoğan grabs the protestor and punches him. (more…)

Yes, I guess one could say that Eleanor Clift is “gaslighting“.  But what’s remarkable is the strength of her position that Ambassador Stevens wasn’t murdered. In a recent Daily Beast Column she advances the same position. Here’s where it first began:

Clift also writes for the Daily Beast, and to give you some perspective on how she can justify her position here’s how she follows up: (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

STORY HERE

Many are troubled by this, myself included. I’d like to know the entire backstory of this event and relationship. Is this standard operating procedure for this teacher?