Article History
Poll: Obama 'worst president' since World War II
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
President Obama has topped predecessor George W. Bush in another poll, but not one he would like. In a new Quinnipiac University Poll, 33% named Obama the worst president since World War II, and 28% put Bush at the bottom of post-war presidents. "Over the span of 69 years of American history...
THIS DAY IN HISTORY — JUNE 2, 1924: CONGRESS ENACTS THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. In a WPA interview from the 1930s, Henry Mitchell...
A brilliant idea helped make Chickasaw man a billionaire
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago
BOX ELDER— Six miles east of Rapid City at Exit 67, there is a Love’s Travel Shop and Country Store. There is a Hardee’s attached to the Love’s, and what was once an isolated field of roadside grass, is now the busiest spot on any given night in the town of Box Elder. Most of the people who stop...
Top Democrat's wife may have gained 'illegal private benefit' from his committee activities
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
“A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her...”
Cummings, 68, a Maryland Democrat, is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state's gubernatorial race last year. The couple married in 2008. Cummings was once...
Supreme Court: Should Eastern Oklahoma Be Considered An Indian Reservation?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 6 years ago
“The Supreme Court hears a capital case in which it will have to decide whether nearly half of Oklahoma, a massive area including much of Tulsa, is...”
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Today the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the entire eastern half of Oklahoma should be considered an Indian reservation. A case that began with a murder could end up having broad implications for everyone who lives in that part of the state, Native American...
Public Banned From Seeing School Shooting Case Involving Transgender Anti-Trump Culprit
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 21 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
“Entire case file sealed by judge.”
The case of two anti-Trump leftists, one of whom is transgender, who shot up a school in Denver last week has been placed under seal by a judge, banning the public from seeing it. Devon Erickson, 18, and Alec McKinney, 16, opened fire on two classrooms at the Science, Technology, Engineering...
Supreme Court sides with Native American hunter as Gorsuch joins liberals
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 54 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Wyoming hunter charged with off-season hunting, ruling 5-4 that a 150-year-old treaty between a Native American tribe and the United States was still active and protected the man's rights. Clayvin Herrera was charged in 2014 with off-season hunting,...
DNA tests reveal 30% of suspected fraudulent migrant families were unrelated
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 31 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
“"There’s been some concern about, 'Are they stepfathers or adopted fathers?'" the official said. "Those were not the case. In these cases, they are...”
Some of the migrant families arrested at the southern border weren't actually families. In a pilot program, approximately 30% of rapid DNA tests of immigrant adults who were suspected of arriving at the southern border with children who weren't theirs revealed the adults were not related to the...
DEMOCRATS UNANIMOUS AS HOUSE PASSES BILL FORCING SCHOOLS TO LET MALE ATHLETES COMPETE IN GIRLS’ SPORTS
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 259 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago • LOCKED
The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams. Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had...
Man in country illegally charged with 11 murders in Texas
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 37 Comments • 6 years ago
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least 11 more elderly women whose jewelry and other valuables he stole, authorities said Thursday. Kim Leach, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney’s office, said...