Author: Ring of Fire Staff

The man suspected of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama has been vindicated. Charges were dropped against Paul Kevin Curtis on Tuesday. He told CNN’s Piers Morgan, “It’s like a train has been lifted off my shoulders.” According to CNN, U.S. Attorney Felicia Adams said that “new information” had become available. Curtis’s attorney, Christi McCoy, believes her client was framed. The poisoned letters aimed at the president, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, and Sadie Holland, a judge in Mississippi, contained catch phrases Curtis often uses on social media sites like Facebook. “I do believe that someone who was familiar and is...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has once again succumbed to pressure from the GOP, putting his sequester payment plan on the back burner yesterday after an opposition by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Reid’s proposed bill would have paid down the sequester for the next five months by dipping into a portion of the United States’ war savings, a reported $81 billion  that was saved from Obama’s withdrawal of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reid’s bill comes as a reaction to the sequester cuts, which became effective March 1st, as public concern rises over the sequester causing airport delays due to...

Republican senators warned President Obama on Monday that he cannot require federal agencies to consider the impact their actions have on climate change. The thirty-two Republican senators, led by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), discouraged the administration from including greenhouse gas emissions in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review, which “requires federal agencies to incorporate environmental considerations in their planning and decision-making.” The senators sent a letter to the Chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality alerting her of their fear of regulating greenhouse gas emissions through NEPA, calling it “a backdoor method.” The senators masked their fear of...

Undocumented immigrants are facing new means of deportation, as an increasing number of hospitals across the nation are adopting “medical repatriation”, a process that allows U.S. hospitals to deport an unconscious patient without their consent should they come up as an undocumented immigrant. The process is controversial, and immigrant advocates argue that it could be violating U.S. and international laws by targeting an immigrant while he or she is rendered helpless. “They don’t have advocates, and they don’t have people who will speak on their behalf,” said immigrant advocate and attorney, John De Leon, of Miami, Fla. to The...

Paul Kevin Curtis, the man suspected of sending poison letters to President Obama, a U.S. senator, and a Mississippi judge, has been released from custody. Less than a week ago, Curtis was arrested for sending ricin-laced letters to target political officials from his house in Corinth, Mississippi. The news came just hours after officials canceled a detention and preliminary hearing on Tuesday. According to Jeff Woodfin, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Oxford, Miss., Curtis was released from jail; however, the conditions of the release are unknown. Curtis’s house was searched upon his arrest; however, there was...