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Serge VorobyovVorobyov who tossed $1K at Black Friday shoppers was arrested and cited for causing a disturbance by police after Mall of America officials thought it was an act that could have ended with someone getting hurt.By H. Nelson GoodsonDecember 3, 2013Bloomington, Minnesota - On Friday, Serge Vorobyov was arrested and cited for disorderly conduct by Bloomington police for tossing his last one thousand dollars...

But for the first time in history, the OLG approached the winner instead of the other way around. Through a months-long investigation, the lottery corporation determined Hamilton resident Kathryn Jones was the rightful winner, after searching transaction history and security camera footage from a Shoppers Drug Mart in Cambridge. By: Kim Magi Staff Reporter, Published...

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Is US Military Readiness Being Compromised?Obama's Purge of the US MilitaryA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet******************* More and more Americans are beginning to worry that America's military is in decline.  Veterans of the military forces, especially, worry as they have seen the evidence of a lack of readiness by simply comparing the state of readiness of their branch of the military during their time...

Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba and Fernando Alejandro Cano MartinezU.S. federal authorities are seeking information on the whereabouts of both Ruvalcaba and Martinez who were indicted for conspiracy to defraud banks and money laundering. By H. Nelson GoodsonDecember 2, 2013Brownsville, Texas - On Monday,  U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of Texas unsealed an indictment charging both Tomas...

VIEW MORE...It is a great feeling to wear clothes made by you. You know every inch of the fabric, what went wrong and also how you found solutions to make it perfect and in the end you enjoy wearing it! As I mentioned in the post where I presented to you this piece for the first time, this outwear is our first "coat project" and for sure not the last one, I already have plans for the next one :)Here today I paired (once...

Rodolfo HinojosaHinojosa resigned late last month after allegations surfaced of sexually assaulting two minors.By H. Nelson GoodsonDecember 2, 2013Rio Grande City, Texas - On early Tuesday, former Rio Grande City (RGC) Police Sargeant Rodolfo Hinojosa, 28, surrendered to the Starr County Sheriff's Office after a judge issued a felony warrant for his arrest for molesting several minors. Hinojosa was booked and charged...

We are officially in the thick of it people. Thanksgiving is behind us (in the US), Chanukah is wrapping up and Christmas is coming. Cue the hysteria. I made an effort to not get online over the Thanksgiving holiday, not even my phone, and it was kind of like a digital master cleanse. It felt damn good I have to say and when we got home last night from a weekend of traveling and I was ready to gear up for Christmas....

The following chart shows the constant maturity rate of the 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, and 5-year treasuries.Click to enlarge.Bondmageddon Thoughts1. ZIRP.2. Yawn.See Also:Bondmageddon ThoughtsSource Data:St. Louis Fed: Custom Cha...

December 2, 2013Black Friday Weekend Spending Drop Pressures U.S. StoresThe first spending decline on a Black Friday weekend since 2009 reinforced projections for a lackluster holiday, increasing chances retailers will extend the deep discounts already hurting their profit margins.We seem to be coming in a bit shy of Accenture's prediction of an 11% increase so far. Who could have seen that coming? Unfortunately, that...

America's Socialist GovernmentA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet****************Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President, said the following in a 1944 speech: (69 years ago!)     "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist...

Alejandra Natalia Rodríguez EscobarFemale reporter from La Jornada was also assaulted by police for video taping Escobar's arrest in Mexico, D.F.By H. Nelson GoodsonDecember 1, 2013Mexico, D.F. - On Sunday, Somos el Medio dot org. reported that Mexican police arrested Alejandra Natalia Rodríguez Escobar, 21, a student reporter for Somos el Medio, a digital news source while attempting to cover the 1-year march...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyI guess the one good thing about being really really bad is any improvement is hailed as success. Forgive me if you will, but after the three years plus it apparently required to create a broken website (ACA of course), expecting us to believe that after only a month the myriad of problematical issues have been resolved and the ObamaCare website has now achieved...

Roberto Venegas Fernández and Michael Patrick McNaughtonFernández an undocumented inmate didn't want to be deported, so he killed a cellmate to remain in a U.S. prison.By H. Nelson GoodsonDecember 1, 2013Florence, Arizona - Roberto Venegas Fernández, 43, a Mexican national is facing a felony charged for first-degree intentional murder for the November 16, brutal homicide of his cellmate, Michael Patrick McNaughton,...

Click to enlarge.The herd sure loves the current 1.37% 5-year treasury compared to the 2.75% 10-year treasury. Good luck on that one.Perhaps the herd is right though. Perhaps interest rates will be north of 4% on the 10-year in 5 years as the economy continues to "recover". We can all hope and dream. Right? Okay, maybe not all. The Japanese would clearly be harder to convince. They've had more time to watch what ZIRP...

November 29, 2013Black Friday live: Dummy holds shopper's place, cops say man shot over TVPolice Lt. David Gordon says the victim was carrying the TV at an apartment complex near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas when someone fired warning shots, prompting him to drop the appliance. Gordon says the robber snatched the TV and took it to a vehicle, and the victim tried to wrestle it back. That's when the robber fired...