BOSTON – The search for forensic evidence turned up pieces of black nylon that could have been from a bag or backpack at both blast sites, DesLauriers said. Law enforcement sifting through the damage also recovered pieces of BBs and nails, possibly from a pressure-cooker explosive device used to maximize injuries.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least three people and wounded more than 180 others.

“Someone knows who did this,” DesLauriers said. “The person who did this was someone’s friend, neighbor or co-worker.” (more…)

By Oleg Atbashian [Peoples Cube]  – It wasn’t just Margaret Thatcher’s steadfast economic and foreign policies that helped to defeat the Evil Empire and to bring down the Iron Curtain. She also changed hearts and minds — and this author, who grew up on the other side of the Iron Curtain, has a personal story to tell.

As many Soviet kids did in the 1970s and 1980s, I occasionally tuned my shortwave radio to Voice of America or the BBC Russian Service, hoping to hear their alternative take on world events and, if I was lucky, get the latest rock-music updates. One of the functions of the Iron Curtain was to keep us, the “builders of communism,” blissfully unaware of the outside world. All our news had to be processed by the state-run media filter and approved by the formidable censorship apparatus.
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In contrast, foreign Russian-language radio broadcasts, courtesy of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, gave us unfiltered news and commentary. These programs were to the Soviets then what Rush Limbaugh and Fox News are for many Americans today — a gasp of fresh air for some, enemy propaganda for others, and an object of demonization for the official state-run media. (more…)

[Hat Tip WeaselZippers]    WASHINGTON DC – Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is threatening to back an election challenge against Sen. Jeff Flake if the Arizona Republican votes against legislation to expand background checks.

At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Tuesday, Kelly said he would back an opponent to Flake if the “right candidate” was available and if the senator failed to support a background check bill, according to reports.

Flake, who is not up for reelection until 2018, has been close to Kelly and Giffords. But Kelly said the issue of control trumped their ties. (more…)

WASHINGTON – The Senate will vote Wednesday afternoon on what could be the biggest change in U.S. gun laws in nearly two years.

Senators will take up the bipartisan proposal from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks on firearm purchases and close the so-called gun show loophole at 4 p.m.

It will require 60 votes to pass, and the White House and Democrats still lack the final votes they need. (more…)

When we began this quest 8 months ago we really had no idea the depth of manipulative corruption we would discover. Indeed we only knew of six sworn statements given in what we were told was a “small internal investigation”.

Boy was that ever an understatement.

After extensive inquiry the first batch of statutorally required public records were released.   That is what we have been sharing over the past week.   Within that release we can grasp the scope of the investigation, and how far it extended beyond the internal confines of the General Investigative Unit of the M-DSPD.  In actuality the investigation reaches all the way to Sanford, FL.

Indeed the investigation itself was far greater than we initially were led to believe.  However, now we know the scope of investigation we have submitted more public records requests.   Here is an excerpt from the latest submitted FOIA submission: (more…)

Gylmar Ochoa was a Detective in the wrong place at the wrong time.   It’s as simple as that.   The guy was just walking through the property room when Yvette Wilson was bringing in the stolen jewelry recovered from Trayvon Martin’s backpack.

Yvette Wilson, Property Room Specialist, was retrieving the Jewelry so that Detective Hadley could photograph the evidence as a supplement to the previous file, “Criminal Mischief”, complaint.

Ochoa was walking through when Wilson and Hadley were lining up the jewelry and screwdriver on an open cubicle.   Hadley asked Ochoa if he had a camera, he did not.  However, Ochoa took photographs of the jewelry and screwdriver with his cell phone and then sent the pictures via email to Detective Hadley.

What follows is the affidavit from Gylmar Ochoa answering the allegations of his Police Chief Hurley’s complaint alleging a department leak of criminal reports and information about Trayvon Martin. (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 †

Yesterday I said it would be before the end of the day today that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) would start the mantra about the Boston Bombing being the work of right-wing domestic terrorists.

Piers Morgan just had Mark Potoc of the SPLC who made the case for “right-wing” anti government domestic terrorists because of “Liberty Day”…..  “Tax Day”….. and the closeness of the April 15th bombing to the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City.

The SPLC will use any and all opportunities to sell their cultural marxism, and progressive agenda, and will wildly label everyone else as racist, extremist, etc.

Ricin is the favored chemical agent of professional assassins.  It has been used repeatedly and successfully in numerous assassinations.   Ricin is the chemical agent used to place in pellets and darts.  It is extremely lethal in very small quantities…

VIA POLITICO – An envelope sent to an office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) included a substance that has tested positive for Ricin, two sources say.

It was not immediately clear when the envelope was received or whether it was sent to his Washington, D.C., office or a field office. (more…)