NWHERALD.COM 14 Hours Ago A guide to Illinois' concealed-carry bill by  Kevin P. Craver A hard-fought compromise bill allowing Illinois residents to legally carry concealed weapons is on Gov. Pat Quinn's desk. But Quinn, a staunch gun-control advocate, faces the Damoclean sword of a July 9 deadline set by a federal court that invalidated the state's ban on concealed carry. House Bill 183 passed both houses on the last day of the spring session May 31, with the three-fifths majorities needed to override a veto. The following is a guide to how this debate got started, and what the bill will do. Q: How did we get concealed carry? A:  The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Illinois' ban on concealed carry last December, concluding that the Second Amendment applies outside of an individual's home.  A downstate woman who was savagely attacked while working as a church treasurer sued in 2011 – she has handguns and firearms training but was unarmed because of th...

George Will: 'Willingness to Trust the Executive Branch is Today Minimal and Should Be' http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/06/09/george-will-willingness-trust-executive-branch-today-minimal-and-shou --- Sent from Zite , available for free in the App Store . John Hames

 CAFFEINATEDTHOUGHTS.COM 4 Hours Ago Air Force Prohibiting Airmen from Reading NSA Scandal Stories by  Shane Vander Hart Over the weekend I received an email from a mother whose son is stationed with the U.S. Air Force in the Middle East.  He and other Airmen received a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) from the 624th Operations Center prohibiting them from accessing stories about the  NSA surveillance activity  on  the Air Force's NIPRNET (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Network) systems.  The 624th Operations Center located at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas serves as the operational arm for the  24th Air Force's cyberspace operations capability. His team received an email about the NOTAM that read: I wanted to make sure that all of you read this because just doing a simple search could jeopardize your future.  In summary, anything to do with the recent news about the NSA and Verizon phone records are considered classified and searching news or...

 MRCONSERVATIVE.COM 3 Hours Ago New White House Petition Asking President Obama To Resign In a recent speech in San Jose, Obama accidentally or on purpose  hinted that he would be leaving the White House before his term expires . Certainly, the White House can't be a very cheerful place lately, with Obama under fire for  dereliction of duty in Benghazi , followed by  a serious cover-up ; presiding over  an IRS that engaged in a partisan witch hunt ; overseeing  the largest expansion of citizen surveillance in American history ; and  attacking the press's First Amendment rights . Obama's not the only one who thinks it would be a good thing if his second term ended prematurely. On the White House-hosted "We the People", an online petition site, some enterprising citizens posted a petition demanding that President Obama resign: We petition the Obama administration to: We Demand President Obama Resign President Richard Nixon resigned after wiretapping a ha...

 THEYOUNGCONS.COM 3 Hours Ago Muslim Mass Shooter in California Gets Covered Up By Media The media loves to try and help the liberal ideology that gun control needs to happen ASAP, so why didn't they report on this story? The answer lies in who the shooter was. Check out the story at  Frontpage Mag :  Muslim activists often complain that murders by Muslims are over-reported. In fact they are often under-reported. Ali Syed shot six people in Orange County, killing three of them, and yet the story has not gotten the media coverage of other mass shootings. The media has reported it,  but has failed to highlight it. And the word "Muslim" never appears in the report. A series of freeway shootings Tuesday in Orange County, Calif., has left four people dead, including the suspect, and three people injured, the Tustin Police Department said. Tustin Police Chief Scott Jordan identified the gunman as Ali Syed, a 20-year-old unemployed part-time student, who lived in the Ladera...

 WEASELZIPPERS.US 3 Hours Ago Obama Mega-Donor Bill Maher Admits The Real Reason For Amnesty: Immigration Reform Will "Just Create More Democrats" 11 million to be precise. Via  RCP : BILL MAHER, HBO'S "REAL TIME" HOST: I think they don't want the votes because you know what? They know if they're going to take 11 million people and make them citizens and allow them to vote, they're just creating more Democrats. Latinos who are mostly young — young trumps it all — they hate Republicans. They did a survey this week – ANA NAVARRO, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Now you are agreeing with Ann Coulter. MAHER: I'm agreeing with facts. NAVARRO: No – MAHER: Wait. They did a study this week, young people, this is the College Republicans, they wanted to find out. These were people who voted for Obama who they could win back. They wanted to know how they felt about the Republicans. These are the words: close-minded, racist, rigid, old fashioned. That's what youn...

 BREITBART.COM 3 Hours Ago Snooping Concerns Emerge Over Congressional Blackberries Serviced By Verizon by  Kerry Picket by  Kerry Picket 9 Jun 2013, 4:11 PM PDT post a comment A senior hill staffer on the House side told Breitbart News on Sunday, "I have grave concerns over the privacy of communications between staff and their member of Congress. All of our communications go through Verizon or ATT to reach our Blackberries." The staffer added, "Through a blanket seizing of these communications, the NSA is permanently intercepting and storing privileged material. This rasies further constitutional issues regarding separation of powers." A senior Senate staffer agreed telling Breitbart News, "Senators and staff all use Verizon phones. So the executive branch is monitoring the meta data of the Senate. This seems like a violation of the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution."  "The calling data that is gathered can be more invasive than knowing th...

 BREITBART.COM 3 Hours Ago NSA Leaker: I Had Authority 'To Wiretap Anyone' by  Tony Lee by  Tony Lee 9 Jun 2013, 4:23 PM PDT post a comment In an  interview  with Glenn Greenwald the UK Guardian posted on Sunday, Snowden said while the NSA surveillance programs were at first more narrowly tailored, the agency now "specifically targets the communications of everyone" and stores them because "it's the easiest and most efficient" way to achieve their ends. He said he had the authority to wiretap nearly everyone in the United States.  "I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even a president if I had a personal email," Snowden said.  He said such invasions of privacy will likely get worse. NSA Leaker: I Had Authority 'To Wiretap Anyone' http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/09/NSA-Leaker-I-Had-Authority-to-Wiretap-President-If-I-Had-Personal-Email ...

 RAW STORY 11 Hours Ago Santa Monica gunman was armed with 1,300 rounds of ammo: police By Agence France-PresseSunday, June 9, 2013 10:23 EDT Like Raw Story on Facebook A gunman who killed four people in a shooting and carjacking rampage in California before being shot by police, was carrying "a bag full" of ammunition as well as a handgun and a semiautomatic rifle, officials said at a press conference. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said the gunman, whose name she did not release, was armed with some 1,300 rounds of ammunition and an arsenal of weapons during Friday's bloody killing spree. The suspect carried "a bag full of loaded magazines," Seabrooks said, as he stormed through the streets of Santa Monica. In addition to those killed, the suspect left several people injured in a string of random shootings in the normally placid southern California town. He ended up on the campus of Santa Monica College, which police said he formerly attended a...

 HOTAIR.COM 2 Hours Ago Quotes of the day posted at 8:01 pm on June 9, 2013 by Allahpundit The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant , that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks. The focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message… A snapshot of the Boundless Informant data, contained in a top secret NSA "global heat map" seen by the Guardian, shows that in March 2013 the agency collected 97bn pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide. *** Several industry officials told The Post that the [PRISM] system  pushes requested data from company servers to classified computers at FBI facilities  at Quantico. The information is then shared with the NSA or other authorized intelligence agencies. According to...