Category Archives: National News
States Looking to Back Away from Bottle Deposit Laws
As curbside recycling has grown, environmentalists around the United States find themselves fighting to protect decades-old bottle recycling programs that critics say are becoming obsolete. Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Iowa are among the states where bills have been proposed… Keep Reading … Continue reading
Posted in Around New England, Environment, National News
Tagged Bottle Deposits, Recycling, Valley News
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Planned Parenthood exec who ‘wanted a Lamborghini’ caught haggling over baby body parts
The Center for Medical Progress released a never-before-seen video Wednesday showing a top Planned Parenthood executive haggling over the price of baby body parts from abortions. Mary Gatter, president of the medical directors’ council at the Planned Parenthood Federation of … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, National News
Tagged Baby Body Parts, Center for Medical Progress, Mary Gatter, Planned Parenthood
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Ex-spy admits anti-Trump dossier unverified, blames Buzzfeed
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Donald Trump dossier, acknowledges that a sensational charge his sources made about a tech company CEO and Democratic Party hacking is unverified. In a court filing, Mr. Steele also says … Continue reading
Posted in International News, National News
Tagged Buzzfeed, Christopher Steele, Trump Dossier
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Artist creates mural of Michelle Obama and nobody’s happy
A new mural of former first lady Michelle Obama, painted on a building in the Chicago neighborhood where she lived as a child and remains popular, would seem like an innocuous project. But the mural, by Chicago artist Chris Devins, … Continue reading
Ted Cruz: Make Drug Lords Pay For Border Wall
Texas Senator Ted Cruz has put forth a clever new plan for funding President Donald Trump’s expensive wall stretching across America’s southern border with Mexico. Aptly named “Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order,” Cruz’s bill would take seized … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs, Immigration/Illegal Immigration, International News, National News
Tagged Border Wall, Ted Cruz
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Fracking is not contaminating ground water in West Virginia
Scientists at Duke University have completed a 3-year study which found that fracking in an area of West Virginia has not contaminated groundwater there. The researchers took samples from 112 drinking wells in northwestern West Virginia. Twenty wells were sampled before … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, National News
Tagged Fracking, Hot Air, West Virginia
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At the VA, Trump creates office of “Your Butt is Fired”
In this week’s Executive Order news there is one item which will no doubt come as potentially welcome relief to those who have been aghast over the numerous scandals at the Veterans Administration over the past several years. It hasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in National News
Tagged Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection, Trump, VA
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Former Obama Official: Bureaucrats Manipulate Climate Stats To Influence Policy
A former member of the Obama administration claims Washington D.C. often uses “misleading” news releases about climate data to influence public opinion. Former Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin told The Wall Street JournalMonday that bureaucrats within former President Barack Obama’s … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Environment, National News
Tagged Climate, Obama, propaganda, Steven Koonin
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Trump to Order Review of Over 20 Years of Federal Land Grabs
On Wednesday, Trump will sign an executive order to demand that the Interior Department secretary examine all national monument designations in the past 21 years to discern whether their size and scope are within the law’s intent, a move that … Continue reading
Harvard University uses taxpayer money to create ‘mouse fight club’
Harvard University researchers pitted mice against each other in what one observer called a “mouse fight club,” altering one mouse’s genes and then sticking it next to an “intruder” mouse and seeing how long it took for them to go … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 