Speeding cop caught

Sometimes it is important to have video recording equipment handy.  In this case, a truck driver pulled over an Illinois state police officer for speeding and using a cell phone on a wet roadway and he caught the entire traffic stop on camera.

The trucker used his horn to signal the officer as the officer sped by and they both pulled to the side of the road. The officer approached the vehicle and stepped up into the passenger doorway. He introduced himself and indicated that he had pulled the truck driver over because he wasn’t sure why he was blasting the horn.

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Charlie Cooper with the Quilliam Foundation writing a viewpoint article for BBC.com concludes that the declaration by the “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Syria) of a caliphate” should be more than a casual concern to civilization.  Cooper asserts this is a new era of international jihadism.

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As the United States Supreme Court reached and announced their decision that corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the Obamacare requirement that they cover contraceptives; Oklahoma elected officials are reacting with strong support. Statements from Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe, Rep. James Lankford and Governor Mary Fallin follow:

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Obamacare can’t make employers cover contraception!

The Associated Press Washington Bureau is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

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National Review notes President Obama’s team suffered their twelfth unanimous defeat at the Supreme Court in the legal challenge to the so-called recess appointments made when Congress was not actually in recess, a string of defeats that only represents “the tip of the iceberg,” according to Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah).
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