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Citizens of the great state of Oregon are up in arms on social media over a new law being passed that would allow people to pump their own gas. The law was passed through the state legislature in May and signed in June, and it will allow people in counties with less than 40,000 residents to pump their own gas, and for some reason, people are really mad about it. The law started taking effect on January 1st of this new year and in rural parts of Oregon people are very upset about the change. Full service gas stations have been around in Oregon since 1951 and people are not ready for things to change. A local CBS affiliate in Medford, Ore., asked its viewers on Facebook about the new law – the responses have ranged from anger to confusion. “I don’t even know HOW to pump gas and I am 62, native Oregonian…..I say NO THANKS! I don’t want to smell like gasoline!” one woman wrote in a comment on a survey the new station posted Dec. 29. “It is safer for people, if a station attendant does the service. The only advantage of pumping the gas yourself, would be paying a few cents less a gallon. Getting older, and being disabled, I’d rather have the help!” another person wrote, noting there Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

If you thought 2017 was an interesting year in politics, get ready for 2018 because already this year we have had some intense stories and the year is young. What’s trending in the media now that has people talking and reporters asking Sarah Sanders questions, is the feud between Trump and his former staffer Steve Bannon, and the book that is attempting to get published despite a law suit from Trump that claims that people close to him believe he is mentally unfit for office. Sanders was asked by a reporter, “What is the president’s reaction of the suggestions in this book that he is mentally unfit?” Sanders laughed and called the claim and the book “disgraceful and laughable:” “If [Trump] was unfit, he probably would not be sitting there and would not have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the Republican Party has ever seen. This is an incredibly — strong and good leader, that is why we have had such a successful 2017 and why we are going to continue to do great things as we move forward in the administration.” Said Sanders in response to the question, there was no follow up. Sanders has been a good press secretary for Trump because she treats personal attacks on Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

Something Sarah Sanders will sometimes do in her press briefings to mix things up is she will bring in a speaker, typically a member of the administration, who is pushing an agenda item that week, to address the press. With all the chaos surrounding the White House in the past few days, the press room was anxious to see who Sanders brought in as a speaker. The TV’s behind Sanders then tued on and President Trump was on screen talking about the recent GOP tax bill victory. The president said in part:The historic tax cut I signed into law just two weeks ago before Christmas is already delivering major economic gains. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are seeing larger paychecks, bigger bonuses, higher pension contribution, and it is all because of the tax cuts and a tax reform, and I want to thank all of the companies that work so hard to do it. Workers at AT&T, Bank of America, Comcast, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, and many other companies are receiving bonuses of $1000 or more. Aflac, others are investing more in employees 401(k)s. CBS announced that it will hire 3000 new workers. Boeing and another great company is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in employ Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

A pro-choice student from the University of Knoxville, Tenn said in a video released on Thursday that it’s okay to kill young children because they can’t communicate like adults do. The unnamed student made the argument that children up to the age of  2 should be able to be killed at the discretion of the parents. “Without communication, we have no way of knowing if you’re sentient or not,” said the student, referring to killing young children. “It’s no different than this tree. It’s alive. But is it sentient?” “Can the two year old talk to me?” he added. “Generally speaking, the child still has the inability to communicate.” “The idea that someone could support infanticide is incredibly disturbing,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Yet, it reflects the kinds of attitudes our staff members and students can face on a daily basis on high school and college campuses.” “When countries such as Iceland normalize the deliberate killing of babies with Down syndrome or states like Califoia want to normalize abortion drugs on campuses, we should not be surprised when students display a wanton disregard for human life,” Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

Keith Ellison, the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee posted a picture on Twitter of himself posing with a book written by domestic terrorists. If you are unaware of who Antifa is, they are a group that started here in American with the election of Donald Trump, and they are convinced that America is becoming a fascist, totalitarian regime and the only way to stop it is with extreme protesting tactics. Antifa was responsible for a flop of a protests back in November, where they planned to link liberals from a multitude of cities to aggressively protests and raise awareness that we are living in a fascist society. They had thousands of people ‘signed up’ to show up in cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and others, but on the day of the protest, maybe 100 people showed up. On that date, Rand Paul, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, was also attacked in him home by a neighbor and it’s still unclear if it was motivated by Antifa or if he was connected to the movement at all. Ellison posting a picture with their book, not only promotes their cause and draws attention to it, but it legitimizes their cause, and normalizes this overly aggressive style of pro Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

A 25-year-old Califoia man was arrested in connection to an online quarrel between two online streaming video gamers who play “Call of Duty,” that has lead to one of the gamers being killed in a hoax involving police. Los Angeles police on Friday arrested Tyler Barriss, who law enforcement claimed is the “prankster” who called 911 and made up a story about a kidnapping in Wichita, ABC 7 reported. Barriss apparently gave officers what he believed to be the address of the other gamer. In the audio of the 911 call you hear the caller say that he shot his father in the head and he is holding his mother and brother hostage in the closet with a gun and he is definitely not going to stop unless they send somebody. He also said he pour gasoline all over the house and might set it on fire. Here is the 911 call that lead to the deadly swatting in Kansas. https://t.co/nXG1WUKKsa — Candi Bolden (@CandiBolds) December 30, 2017 The address was for the home of Andrew Finch, 28, whom police believed was not involved in any argument on “Call of Duty.” Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston, spoke to the media and said the hoax was a trend called “swatting” in which a person makes a Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

News is coming out that the New York Times helped Hillary Clinton by giving her information of stories that were about to leak so she could spin them and be on top of them. New cable shows New York Times "reporter" Scott Shane handed over Cablegate's secret country by country publication schedule to the US govement giving the State Department (then headed by Hillary Clinton) up to a week in advance to spin the revelations or create diversions. pic.twitter.com/DHpqxiXOWJ — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 31, 2017 There is an exchange of information here where Clinton gives the media members of her choice access to stories, when in retu, they inform her of the media schedules for the future so she is able to manipulate the stories beforehand. There is constant evidence of fake and fabricated news from the left. Deadline reported on the fake news presented by Brian Ross. On Saturday evening, Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets to congratulate ABC News for suspending anchor Brian Ross and to take more jabs at Hillary Clinton in the wake of former national security advisor Michael Flynn’s plea deal. In what may seem trivial, President Trump called out a WaPo reporter w Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

Mike Pence doesn’t get a lot of love for his stance on homosexuality, which is admittedly tough, so it’s not really a huge surprise when you hear that his neighbor’s in Aspen, Colorado hung gay pride flag outside his home. I guess they thought it was funny? Or maybe they thought it would make Pence reconsider his stance? Pence and his neighbors have a shared driveway, and the neighbors to Pence thought they would hang a little decoration at the end of the shared driveway. The decoration was a rainbow flag with the words “make America gay again.” If you don’t agree with Pence’s stance on homosexuality that’s fine, but you shouldn’t taunt and antagonize him for it. Pence did’t try to hang a “gay people sin” flag on his neighbor’s driveway, so they shouldn’t post pro homosexuality flags on Pence’s driveway. #Aspen neighbors to VP @mike_pence — Make America Gay Again. Couple hangs banner outside shared driveway. https://t.co/Ldef4h1G8U via @JasonAuslander #LBGT pic.twitter.com/x3EctSJsOB — Aspen Times (@TheAspenTimes) December 29, 2017 To the credit of the woman who put out the flag, apparently she is a very nice woman who consulted the secret service members protecting Pence’s Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

Maj. Gen. Ryan Gonsalves, a general in the United States army that was up for promotion, is now facing repercussions for calling a female staffer “sweetheart.” After an inspector general’s probe into the situation and a report of the findings being reported to the media on Friday, the report concluded that the “preponderance of the evidence” indicated that Gonsalves did in fact refer to the female staffer as “sweetheart.” As a result of that language, Gonsalves violated Army Command Policy, which says that everybody must be treated with “dignity and respect,” it was recommended that the judge in the ruling take “appropriate action” against the general. The Army has declined to state what will be happening to Gonsalves in the future. In July, Gonsalves was nominated for a third star, but his nomination was formally withdrawn Nov. 27, after the sweetheart incident. The report redacts the names of the female staffer, and the 10 others who were in the meeting. Apparently what happened in the meeting is that Gonsalves took issue with how young the woman was in the meeting, and he told her to take detailed notes on military spending “since she was a Democrat and did not believe in f Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب

A Jewish leader in Germany says that the anti-semitic sentiment in the country has been so strong as of late that police have been called on to protect those participating in public religious events. Charlotte Knobloch is the former president of the Central Council of Jew in Germany, and he believes it’s becoming more and more dangerous to openly be jewish in Germany, she is claiming that Jewish life can only be practiced openly “in public with police protection and under the most serious security precautions,” according to media reports. She added, “anti-Semitism [is] in the heart of German society.’’ A video showing a German man berating a Jewish restaurant owner in Berlin has circulated online. Knobloch said: “The hostility and threats that can be seen in the video are disgusting but not unusual.” She added, “ ‘Jew’ has once again become an insult in German schoolyards.” Anti semitism is on the rise in Germany and it’s very conceing. We are all aware of Germany’s sorted past with the Jewish community, and the fact that an anti jewish sentiment is retuing in that country specifically is scary. Without being an alarmist and getting way ahead of myself, this is the earlie Student News Agency...ادامه مطلب