After days of hearings in Minnesota House committee meetings, the state senate is now hearing testimony on more gun control legislation for the second day at the Capitol in St. Paul. The Senate Judiciary Committee is taking input this week from experts and the public regarding proposed gun control legislation in Minnesota. Hundreds of protestors [...]
As if the state with the highest voter turnout in the country, nearly 76% in 2012, needed improvement, Democrat legislators in Minnesota are considering proposals to make voting even easier. Flying under the media radar are two bills aimed at getting even more people to the polls at election time, allowing for early voting and [...]
Another unintended consequence of the new school lunch mandates from the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act is emerging. Schools are opting out of the federal school lunch program altogether. Fox News’ Rick Leventhal reported on a New York school that has decided to forego participating in the federal school lunch program which provides funding to [...]
Hydraulic fracturing in Minnesota is about to take another big hit as environmental activists bus in from around the state to descend on the Capitol in St. Paul. A joint hearing of energy committess in the Minnesota House and Senate is expected to discuss a 30 year moratorium on silica sand mining on Tuesday, February [...]
Thanks to the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, school lunches are about to get a price hike. The HHFKA was touted as a way to include more healthy foods in school lunches from Kindergarten through high school, but it’s proving to be a very expensive measure with unintended consequences. Wythe County schools in [...]
The newly confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry is now $23 Billion richer. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital has announced the purchase of H.J. Heinz Co. for $23 billion in cash. Kerry, who’s wife is the heir to the Heinz fortune, recently divested more than 100 holdings all over the world to avoid [...]
The testimony from Rob Doar at the Minnesota House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee Hearing was a lesson in firearms that every gun control advocate needs to see. Unfortunately, several Democrat legislators, including the author of the bill to ban such firearms and equipment, felt it was unnecessary to be a part of the [...]
Day 2 of the Public Safety Committee hearings in the Minnesota State House attracted hundreds of pro-Second Amendment advocates, detailed testimony and even a firearm demonstration. Today’s hearing focused on House File Number 241, which, if enacted, will ban certain firearms, limit ammunition capacities, require additional background checks and in-home gun storage inspections, firearm confiscation [...]
November’s elections gave Democrats in Minnesota control of the State House and Senate. And with a Democrat governor elected in 2010, there is little to stop the progressive agenda from sweeping the state. As if a huge tax and spend budget proposal and health insurance exchanges weren’t enough, Minnesotans are bracing for what could be [...]
The United States Department of Agriculture is imposing more restrictions on school lunch rooms. According to a news release, the USDA is accepting public comment on the new proposed standards on school lunches and snack offerings. Under the guise of creating a healthier youth, the USDA’s National School Lunch Program is on the attack again, [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will ban the sale of D-Con mouse and rat poisons in 30 days if Reckitt Benckiser Group, the maker of the products, fail to request a hearing before an EPA judge. D-Con traps and poisons help keep disease carrying rodents out of millions of homes and businesses throughout the [...]
Phelim McAleer is an investigative journalist who has worked in Ireland, the UK and the United States. He is an incredibly intelligent man with a fearless attitude. “Asking the powerful, difficult questions is a great job,” claims McAleer at the start of his new documentary, “and I love it.” McAleer has a passion for shining [...]
Would YOU put this sign in YOUR yard? A crew of undercover journalists asked just that of the many editors, commentators and journalists in the New York & DC metro following weeks of media attention given to a New York paper that published the names and addresses of law abiding gun owners. Their responses were [...]
In late December 2012, the Journal News published names and addresses of legal gun owners in 2 New York counties. The paper obtained the list via a Freedom of Information request (FOIA), compiled the data and published an article entitled, ‘The Gun Owner Next Door’ complete with interactive maps in the online version of the [...]
Unions, celebrities, advocacy groups, writers and newspapers all made the list. After the Journal News published the names and addresses of more than 33,000 legal handgun permit holders, making families, homes and neighborhoods vulnerable to theft and assault, the National Rifle Association decided to hit back. If the intent of the newspaper was to shame [...]
