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<p>There are some cases where, for reasons that the public can seldom understand, the wife of a man accused of something as simple as cheating or as monstrous as sexual assault will stand by her man. That's the whole premise of The Good Wife, sort of.</p> <p>That's not true of every wife, however.</p> <p>After all of the accusations against Harvey Weinstein that have come out into the open and been made public, Georgina Chapman is parting ways with the former big-name studio executive after ten years of marriage.</p> <a type="internal" /> <p>Considering that <a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein has been fired from his own company</a> -- the Weinstein Company -- it's not all that surprising that his wife is taking drastic steps, too.</p> <p>After these kinds of allegations, it would be hard to understand anyone who wouldn't put some distance between themselves and the accused.</p> <p>First came the <a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment accusations</a> in a New York Times expose.</p> <p>After decades of rumors, the biggest surprise wasn't the nature of the accusations so much as that the article was actually published. A lot of the times, powerful people pull strings and call in favors to make problems go away.</p> <p>Some of the allegations were creepy but not damning -- stories about him promising young actresses that he'd boost their careers if they did certain things for him. That's gross, but there are situations (clearly not involving Weinstein) where both parties might consent to that sort of arrangement in a way that would benefit everyone.</p> <p>The other accusations that came out in that same expose -- about coercing women to drink and watch him shower, about pulling out his penis without invitation and masturbating before an unwilling audience -- were beyond just creepy. Some of those things are crimes and none of them are okay.</p> <a type="internal" /> <p>Things looked bleak for Harvey Weinstein, and <a type="internal">he was condemned by major names</a> in Hollywood. But accusations sexual misconduct is something that a lot of powerful men can and do somehow get past</p> <p>Hell, some people who are accused of sexual assault and also famously recorded bragging about it go on to become President. Men with money can get away with a lot.</p> <p>Then, yesterday, the New Yorker released more -- allegations of <a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein committing sexual assault</a> again and again and again.</p> <p>A number of actresses came forward as accusers, and his is now accused of outright rape.</p> <p>Suddenly, his powerful former friends are returning his donations but not his calls.</p> <p>Weinstein's career is almost certainly history at this point. And so, it seems, is his marriage.</p> <a type="internal" /> Georgina Chapman is a British actress and designer. <p>Now 41, she married Harvey Weinstein in 2007.</p> <p>The couple has two children together: India Pearl, who is 7 years old, and Dashiell Max Robert, who is 4.</p> <p>In a statement to People, Georgina Chapman reveals that <a href="http://people.com/movies/harvey-weinstein-wife-georgina-chapman-separating/" type="external">she and Harvey Weinstein are separating</a>.</p> <p>"My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time."</p> <p>We've seen a number of <a type="internal">extremely bad takes on Harvey Weinstein</a> since this story began to break, but his wife's statement is exactly on point.</p> <p>First, she expresses sympathy for his victims.</p> <p>Second, she makes it clear that sexual assault is unforgivable -- which it is.</p> <p>Third, she announces that she's leaving Harvey Weinstein.</p> <p>And fourth, she emphasizes that she's putting her children first, which is what every parent should always, always do.</p> <a type="internal" /> <p><a type="internal">Rose McGowan is naming names</a>, exposing people whom she claims knew about Weinstein's pattern of predatory behavior and either did nothing or participated in the cover-up.</p> <p>(Honestly, bless Rose McGowan for having zero chill about anything, ever)</p> <p>Harvey Weinstein already seems like he's toast, but it could cost others -- possibly even Ben Affleck -- his career.</p> <p>Something tells us that there are more accusations against Harvey Weinstein out there that just haven't come to light yet.</p> <p>Things looked bleak for Harvey Weinstein, and <a type="internal">he was condemned by major names</a> in Hollywood. But accusations sexual misconduct is something that a lot of powerful men can and do somehow get past</p> <p>Hell, some people who are accused of sexual assault and also famously recorded bragging about it go on to become President. Men with money can get away with a lot.</p> <p>Then, yesterday, the New Yorker released more -- allegations of <a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein committing sexual assault</a> again and again and again.</p> <p>A number of actresses came forward as accusers, and his is now accused of outright rape.</p> <p>Suddenly, his powerful former friends are returning his donations but not his calls.</p> <p>Weinstein's career is almost certainly history at this point. And so, it seems, is his marriage.</p>	Georgina Chapman Leaves Harvey Weinstein in Wake of Scandal	false	https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-and-georgina-chapman-its-over/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHollywoodGossip+%28The+Hollywood+Gossip%29	2017-10-11
<p>Stephen C. Paddock has been identified as the lone shooter in the Las Vegas shooting that occurred at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, as reported by <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/02/who-stephen-paddock/722267001" type="external">USA Today</a>. The shooter is currently dead and suicide has been reported as the probable cause of death. Since news of the shooting broke, Paddock’s family has begun to speak out and his brother Eric, from Orlando, Florida, has been talking to the media. Get to know more about the shooter through his brother Eric, the incident itself, and how Eric Paddock views the tragedy.</p> 1. Eric Paddock Said His Brother Had No Religious Affiliations, Prior to ISIS Reports <q> <p>“Not an avid gun guy at all…where the hell did he get automatic weapons? He has no military background,” gunman’s brother says <a href="https://t.co/EMSKLQGYFM" type="external">pic.twitter.com/EMSKLQGYFM</a></p> <p>— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/914858082747998209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>In an interview with <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.html" type="external">Daily Mail</a>, Eric Paddock said that his brother had no political or religious affiliation of which he was aware. Paddock added that:</p> <q> <p>He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something.</p> </q> <p>Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo also told <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/02/stephen-paddock-suspected-las-vegas-gunman-stashed-weapons-in-room-police-say.html" type="external">FOX News</a> that a motive is not known, explaining:</p> <q> <p>We have no idea what his belief system was. Right now, we believe he was the sole aggressor and the scene is static.</p> </q> <p>Unfortunately, ISIS accounts online are claiming Stephen C. Paddock actually converted to Islam months ago and the shooting was on their behalf. It is unclear if this is coming from actual ISIS propaganda accounts or random supporters, though Good Morning America has begun discussing the possibilities of this as well.</p> <p>The Associated Press has posted the above tweet, announcing this news.</p> 2. Stephen C. Paddock’s Family Is “Dumbfounded” <p>Brother Eric Paddock tells <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.html" type="external">Daily Mail</a> that their family is confused and shocked. He explained:</p> <q> <p>We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded … We have absolutely no idea. Our condolences go to the victims and all their families.</p> </q> <p>The <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooter-brother-20171002-story.html" type="external">Orlando Sentinel</a> reports that, according to public records, much of Stephen C. Paddock’s family resides in Florida.</p> 3. Paddock’s Family Is Worried About Being Attacked Over the Incident <p>Eric Paddock says that his 90-year-old mother, who lives close to him, is struggling to cope with the news and is “in shock”. Paddock told <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.html" type="external">Daily Mail</a>:</p> <q> <p>Our family is OK, we’re sitting in here in our house hoping that everyone doesn’t attack us. My mother is 90 years old, lives down the street from me, we’re just completely dumbfounded.</p> </q> <p>Like his brother was reported to be, according to his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eric.paddock.714?lst=23304305%3A100006111670793%3A1506949654" type="external">Facebook page</a>, Eric Paddock is retired, like several of his family members in Florida. Stephen C. Paddock was living in Nevada at the time of the shooting.</p> 4. The Shooter and His Brother Were Not Very Close <p>Stephen C. Paddock and his brother’s relationship was not strained, but they were not very close. Eric Paddock said that he and his brother lived on different coasts and that they did not speak very often.</p> <p>Eric Paddock said his brother was a regular at Las Vegas casinos, according to Good Morning America, and Stephen used to work as an accountant. In an interview with Las Vegas Review Journal, Paddock also said:</p> <q> <p>We have no idea how this happened. It’s like an asteroid just fell on top of our family.</p> </q> <p>He then added:</p> <q> <p>There is no reason we can imagine why Stephen would do something like this. All we can do is send our condolences to the people who died. Just no reason, no warning … As far as we knew, he had enough money to live the rest of his life in comfort.</p> </q> <p>Paddock said that, as much as he knew, his brother had no known health or financial problems at the time of the shooting.</p> 5. This Was the Deadliest Shooting In US History <p>With over 50 people dead and over 400 injured in the shooting, this is reported to be the deadliest shooting in American history. Country star Jason Aldean was on stage performing at the time of the shooting and he ran off stage once aware of what was happening. Shooter Stephen C. Paddock opened fire from a 32nd floor hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel &amp; Casino.</p>	Eric Paddock, Shooter Stephen C. Paddock’s Brother: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know	false	http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/eric-paddock-stephen-c-paddock-brother-shooter-las-vegas-shooting-identified/	2017-10-02
<p><a type="internal">Stephen Paddock</a> has been identified as the sole suspect in the <a type="internal">Las Vegas concert shooting</a> that took place on Sunday night. Police say that Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort &amp; Casino, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more. Police found “ <a type="internal">more than 10 rifles</a>” in Paddock’s hotel room.</p> <p>The 64-year-old Mesquite, Nevada, resident is deceased, according to police. It has been reported that he committed suicide.</p> <p>Just about 12 hours following the attack, the Associated Press reported that ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, adding that Paddock converted to Islam “months ago.”</p> <q> <p>BREAKING: Without providing evidence, Islamic State claims Las Vegas attack, says shooter converted to Islam months ago.</p> <p>— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/914856906346377216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>“The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the mass shooting in Las Vegas, saying that the perpetrator was ‘a soldier’ who had converted to Islam months ago, without providing any evidence to support the claim… It did not name the suspected shooter…but said he had ‘executed the operation in response to calls to target countries of the coalition’ batting the extremist group in Iraq and Syria,” <a href="https://apnews.com/a3554c3250644262af3f5b94d57b1def?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP" type="external">reports the Associated Press</a>.</p> <p>ISIS has not released any kind of video to support their claims. Many people are skeptical about Paddock’s involvement with the group and officials have yet to confirm or deny any ties between ISIS and Paddock.</p> <p>Paddock’s brother, Eric, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.html" type="external">spoke to the Daily Mail</a> about the shooting. He told the outlet that his brother didn’t have any political or religious affiliation. Eric also clearly stated his opinion on the shooting, saying it was “not a terror arrack.”</p> <p>“He was just a guy. Something happened, he snapped or something. We know absolutely nothing, this is just, we are dumbfounded,” Eric Paddock explained. “He has no political affiliation, no religious affiliation, as far as we know. This wasn’t a terror attack…He’s my brother, we don’t have a very close relationship but we talk occasionally. There’s no rhyme or reason here, it makes no sense,” Eric added.</p> <p>The FBI is not currently investigating any ties between ISIS and Paddock.</p>	ISIS Claims Stephen Paddock ‘Converted to Islam’ Before Shooting	false	http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/stephen-paddock-converted-islam-isis-terrorism-las-vegas-shooting/	2017-10-02
<p>"Boobs Are Back" Article refers to a controversial article re-published by The New York Post newspaper about female celebrities embracing their chest cleavage as a fashion statement. The article became the subject of mockery on the internet.</p> <p>On July 31st, 2017, The Sun <a type="internal">[1]</a> newspaper published an article "Curve Your Enthusiasm," which posits a celebrity trend of female stars embracing their chest cleavage, pointing to several prominent celebrities, like <a type="internal">Rihanna</a>, as examples.</p> <p>The following day, The New York Post <a type="internal">[2]</a> newspaper republished the article under the headline "Boobs Are Back in a Big Way." When they shared the article on <a type="internal">Twitter</a> that day, the post (shown below) received more than 700 retweets and 3,700 likes.</p> <a type="internal" /> Boobs are back in a big way, Spread <p>That day, the article became the subject of controversy. Shortly after the article posted, many started reacting to the article with sarcasm, disgust and confusion (examples below). The central theme of the complaints centered around the question "were boobs ever out?"</p> <p>Several media outlets covered the article and the reaction, including Allure, <a type="internal">[3]</a> Someecards, <a type="internal">[4]</a> Cosmopolitan <a type="internal">[5]</a> and more. Twitter <a type="internal">[6]</a> published a Moments page to archive the article and the reaction.</p> Various Examples Search Interest External References	"Boobs Are Back" Article	false	http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boobs-are-back-article	2017-08-02
<p>It's a debate playing out across America. Should statues and memorials of Confederate soldiers and officers remain standing, or should they be removed. Those in favor of removing the statues say the statues represent racism. Those who want the statues to remain complain that removing the statues would be an attempt to get rid of history.</p> <p>What do you think? Should cities and states get rid of Confederate statues and memorials?</p>	Should Confederate Statues Stay Or Be Removed? [POLL]	false	http://kfyo.com/should-confederate-statues-stay-or-be-removed-poll/	2017-08-15
<p>A racial slur was found on a boys bathroom stall at a Kansas City, Kan., school, according to reports.</p> <p>“Kill all n------,” someone wrote on a stall at Piper High School, <a href="http://fox4kc.com/2017/12/14/student-protest-found-after-racist-message-found-on-boys-bathroom-stall-at-kck-high-school/" type="external">Fox4</a> reported.</p> <p>The message was discovered Wednesday, and a special assembly was held Thursday to address the issue, according to <a href="https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/threatening-racist-graffiti-found-in-piper-high-school-bathroom" type="external">KSHB</a>.</p> <p>In response to the incident, Fox4 reported some students planned to protest for the first 20 minutes of class on Friday.</p> Today's top news by email <p>The local news you need to start your day</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p>Piper High administrators could not immediately be reached Friday morning.</p> <p>“We should all just be getting along. It doesn’t matter what color our skin is,” Delaney Degroot, a freshman, told KSHB.</p> <p>Piper High Principal John Nguyen sent an email home to parents addressing the incident, Fox4 reported.</p> <p>“PHS maintains a zero-tolerance stance regarding racist, discriminatory, and threatening comments,” he wrote. “School administration is working diligently with our School Resource Officer in conducting an aggressive investigation to determine the origin of the comment. At this time, the investigation has revealed no credible safety threat whatsoever to PHS students or staff.”</p> <p>About a year ago, a similar incident upset students, according to Fox4.</p> <p>Then a student wrote, “Kill all Blacks.” The student was later disciplined.</p> <p>Max Londberg: <a href="" type="external">816-234-4378</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxLondberg" type="external">@MaxLondberg</a></p>	Racial slur reportedly found scrawled in KCK school bathroom	false	http://kansascity.com/news/local/article189928414.html	2017-12-15
<p>Michael Douglas has jumped ahead of allegations he masturbated in front of a former employee, insisting he’s not about to sit back and become the villain of a harassment story.</p> <p>The Basic Instinct star claims staff at both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety have reached out for feedback concerning accusations he pleasured himself in front of an employee three decades ago, and he’s keen to get ahead of the story, before he joins the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Jeremy Piven, and Brett Ratner, among others, who have been accused of sexual misconduct.</p> <p>Douglas has <a href="http://deadline.com/2018/01/michael-douglas-sexual-harassment-allegation-defends-himself-1202239676/" type="external">turned to movie news website Deadline</a> to set the story straight, stating, “I felt the need to get ahead of this.”</p> <p>Revealing that The Hollywood Reporter contacted him via his attorney regarding the woman’s claims that he used “colourful language” in front of her, “spoke raunchily, or dirtily with friends of mine in private conversations on the phone”. The woman’s third claim was that the actor masturbated in front of her, to which Douglas responds, “I remembered this woman: sophisticated intelligent, good sense of humour, a novelist, who has written books and published novels and was an active feminist, and proud of it. My head was reeling. I just couldn’t put this together.”</p> <p>Insisting she “could have excused herself” if she was offended by the language he used in private conversations, Douglas adds the allegations he blackballed the unnamed women are “completely untrue”. He adds that the claims he masturbated in front of her are “a complete lie, fabrication”.</p> <p>According to the actor, the journalist at The Hollywood Reporter agreed to sit on the story over the holidays, but in the New Year the publication got back in touch and said, “‘She’s (accuser) running around, possibly trying to give this story to other people, so we’re going to run with it’.</p> <p>“I said, ‘I don’t think that’s justification, just because you might get scooped, to run a story like this’… I was floored,” he continues. “I didn’t know what to say and I tried to digest it. The accusations are minimal, except of course for the idea of masturbating in front of her. She supposedly had three friends who would back her up, that she had mentioned this to…</p> <p>“How am I, in a 50 year career in this industry, dealing with an employee 33 years ago who perhaps is disgruntled that I let her go, even though I have never heard from her in 32 years. And a legitimate trade publication is going to try and print this story? There is no corroboration, just that they found out somebody else might run the story.”</p> <p>Douglas calls the whole saga “extremely painful”, adding, “I pride myself on my reputation in this business… I’m bewildered why, after 32 years, this is coming out, now.</p> <p>“The part that hurt the worst is having to share something like this to your wife and your children. My kids are really upset, have to go to school worrying this is going to be in some article about me, being a sexual harasser. They’re scared and very uncomfortable.”</p> <p>Douglas also states this isn’t “the New Year I had anticipated”, adding he’s worried the drama may affect upcoming work he has booked.</p> <p>“I’m fearful,” he says. “I have jobs going with studios who all seem to be supportive at this time. I’m hurt, really hurt and offended and I wonder if people realize when you do something like this, it hurts a lot more than just one person.”</p> <p>Play Video</p> <p>Play</p> <p>Loaded: 0%</p> <p>Progress: 0%</p> <p>Remaining Time -0:00</p> <p>This is a modal window.</p> <p>Foreground --- White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan --- Opaque Semi-Opaque</p> <p>Background --- White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan --- Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent</p> <p>Window --- White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan --- Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent</p> <p>Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400%</p> <p>Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow</p> <p>Font Family Default Monospace Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Sans-Serif Casual Script Small Caps</p> <p>Defaults Done</p> <p>ATLANTA — Desmond Marrow rejoiced when the officer he said choked him during an arrest was fired soon after a video of the encounter went viral. But now his lawyers say police and elected…</p>	Michael Douglas denies masturbating in front of ex-employee: 'I'm bewildered'	false	http://canoe.com/entertainment/celebrity/michael-douglas-denies-masturbating-in-front-of-ex-employee-im-bewildered	2018-01-10
<p>We saw this coming a mile away. Early Thursday, the controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff, David Clarke resigned without any notice. The move was a surprising one but we should have known that President Trump had something to do with it. The former Wisconsin sheriff gave his resignation on Thursday to join the Trump administration.</p> <p>While Clarke submitted his letter of resignation Thursday afternoon, the letter did not include the details of why he quit and what was next for the sheriff. However, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/17/david-clarke-milwaukee-sheriff-trump-administration-lead.cnn" type="external">CNN</a> reports that Clarke will join the Trump administration but what exactly he will be doing is still unknown. Trump has pegged him earlier this year for a role, but Clarke withdrew from consideration within a few days of the announcement.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/17/david-clarke-milwaukee-sheriff-trump-administration-lead.cnn" type="external">CNN</a>: “It’s unclear what job Clarke will take in the administration, but one of the sources said he’s expected to join the White House. Clarke likely won’t be offered a Senate-confirmed role because his nomination would face opposition from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.”</p> Oncologists Are Freaking Out After True Cause Of Cancer Is Released <p>Back in May, Clarke publicly announced he’d accepted a position as an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. But according to sources, no official offer had been made to him at the time of his announcement and was forced to withdraw from consideration.</p> <p>Clarke is known for defending Trump against racial claims. After the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, many critics spoke about against Trump’s response and his failure to condemn white supremacy. Clarke went on Sean Hannity’s show to defend the President by stating that he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. Perhaps, Clarke will be joining the Trump team just to do television appearance on Trump’s behalf to combat claims of racism and bigotry. Only time will tell. What do you think about Clarke’s move?</p>	Sheriff David Clarke To Join Trump Administration	true	http://dieharddemocrat.com/2017/08/31/sheriff-david-clarke-join-trump-administration-13490	2017-08-31
<p>The FBI just blew the Hillary Clinton case wide open she could literally be going to jail. FBI just dropped could put her in the category of bonafide traitor. FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial n-u-c-l-e-a-r deal with Moscow. <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355957-senate-judiciary-opens-probe-into-obama-era-russian-nuclear-bribery" type="external">Senate Judiciary opens probe into Obama-era Russian uranium bribery…</a> <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/10/17/team-obamas-stunning-coverup-of-russian-crimes/" type="external">PAPER: Stunning cover-up</a></p>	The FBI Just Blew The Hillary Clinton Case Wide Open She Could Literally Be Going to Jail	true	http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-fbi-just-blew-the-hillary-clinton-case-wide-open-she-could-literally-be-going-to-jail/	2017-10-18
<a type="internal" /> <p>Tucker Carlson said that Hillary Clinton spun a yarn of conspiracy theories about her election loss during a speech on Wednesday.</p> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <p>Mike Huckabee joined "Fox &amp; Friends" to discuss Hillary Clinton's return to the public eye with a speech over the weekend in the Poconos.</p> <p>A retired NYPD detective and private investigator running against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio posted a video to Facebook challenging the Democrat to a push-up contest.</p> <p>A professor at a southern California college went on a diatribe against President-elect Donald Trump, and the unnamed student who recorded her may be facing punishment.</p>	Election	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/tag/election
<p>As seen on <a type="internal">Fox &amp; Friends</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Former FBI Asst. Director: Original Clinton Probe 'Not a Real Investigation'</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Fmr CNN Executive Reacts to Donna Brazile-Hillary Debate Question Leak</a></p> <p>On "Fox &amp; Friends" this morning, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) reacted to the "unbelievable tragedy" of two Iowa police officers being <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/02/2-iowa-police-officers-killed-in-apparent-ambush-attacks.html" type="external">gunned down</a> in their squad cars.</p> <p>"The assault on our law enforcement professionals in this country is out of control," Flynn said.</p> <p>He said that the leadership in our country needs to come out and say, "This has got to end."</p> <p>Flynn, a Donald Trump supporter, said that the law enforcement community is reaching out to the Republican presidential nominee because he's willing to speak up on their behalf.</p> <p>"This is just another tragedy, another example of the lack of safety that we have in our streets and in our country for these police officers."</p> <p>What do you think? Let us know in the comments.</p> <p><a type="internal">What Did Clinton Campaign Chair Mean By 'Dump Emails' Before Subpoena?</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Krauthammer: Clinton 'Drowning in Cumulative Effect' of WikiLeaks, FBI Probe</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Gutfeld on Clinton 'Sexism': Hillary 'Looks Out for Only Herself'</a></p>	Flynn: Assault on Law Enforcement Is Out of Control	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/02/michael-flynn-shooting-2-iowa-police-officers-fox-friends	2016-11-02
<p>In many ways, money orders are safer than personal checks and cash. There’s no risk of a bounced check and associated fees when paying with a money order because the money order is prepaid in cash. Using a money order reduces the risk of theft because the buyer must specify the recipient. In order to cash a money order, the recipient must appear in person and show identification. And, while cash can be lost, money orders come with a tracking number, so <a type="internal">money orders can be replaced</a>.</p> <p>Since Rite Aid has many locations, and its stores are often open 24/7, you can save yourself a trip to the bank and just buy a money order next time you pick something up at Rite Aid. In this article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about buying a money order at Rite Aid. And, if Rite Aid isn’t the right store for you, stick around to the end of this article for a list of similar stores that also sell money orders.</p> In This Article What Are the Fees, Limits, and Accepted Payment Types? How Do I Purchase a Money Order at Rite Aid? Can I Cash a Money Order at Rite Aid? Other Rite Aid Services Similar Stores That Sell and Cash Money Orders Purchasing a Money Order at Rite Aid <p>Does Rite Aid have MoneyGram? Does Rite Aid have Western Union? <a href="https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/riteaid.html" type="external">Rite Aid sells money orders through Western Union</a>. Money orders are available during store hours so that means Rite Aid Western Union hours are the same as store hours. You can find the nearest store and their hours using the <a href="https://locations.riteaid.com/locations/search.html" type="external">Rite Aid store locator</a>. <a href="https://locations.westernunion.com/search//?ref=results&services=moneyOrder&t=rite+aid&q=usa%2C+USA&addedCountryToSearch=Y&searchType=name&filters=services-_-moneyOrder&country=US" type="external">4,242</a> of Rite Aid’s <a href="https://locations.riteaid.com/" type="external">4,586</a> locations sell money orders, so make sure your location sells money orders by using the <a href="https://locations.westernunion.com/" type="external">Western Union’s agent locator</a>. Select “search by agent”, and filter your search for Rite Aid and money orders.</p> What Are the Fees, Limits, and Accepted Payment Types? <p>According to Rite Aid customer service, you can purchase a single money order for up to $500 and multiple money orders up to $2,999. So, for example, if you need to pay $1,000, you can go to Rite Aid and purchase two $500 money orders to meet your needs. Rite Aid only accepts cash payment for money orders; you cannot pay with a debit card or credit card. There is a fee of $0.99 per money order.</p> How Do I Purchase a Money Order at Rite Aid? <p>While on the call with Rite Aid, we also confirmed that money orders are available for purchase during regular store hours. Simply ask to buy a money order at a register; all of the registers can generate money orders. Remember, you can only buy a money order with cash.</p> Can I Cash a Money Order at Rite Aid? <p>Rite Aid doesn’t cash money orders, even money orders sold at Rite Aid. Here’s our article about <a type="internal">where to cash a money order</a>.</p> Other Rite Aid Services <p>Rite Aid also has a number of other services you may want to take advantage of while you’re there buying a money order.</p> <a href="https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy" type="external">Rite Aid Pharmacy</a> Offers prescription refills and a prescription advisor to help you take your prescriptions according to guidelines Immunizations are available for: Chicken Pox, HIB, Hep A, Hep B, HPV, the flu, Meningitis, Measles/Mumps/Rubella, Pneumonia, Polio, Shingles, and Tetanus. Though not all vaccines are available in all states. Select locations have <a href="https://www.rediclinic.com/" type="external">RediClinics</a>, which treat common conditions like strep throat, ear infections, UTIs, pink eye, and others. Special discounts for seniors through the wellness65+ program A free quit-for-you program to help people stop smoking <a href="https://www.riteaid.com/shop/info/photo-deals" type="external">Photo Printing</a> Printable in-store coupons Can print photos onto special gift items including mugs, metal wall art, tote bags, and canvas Print from smartphone at the photo kiosk in store Similar Stores to Rite Aid That Sell and Cash Money Orders <p>If you don’t have a Rite Aid near where you live or work but you still need to purchase a money order, there are plenty of other options. For a list of all the places to buy money orders, including stores similar to Rite Aid, convenience stores and grocery stores see our article <a type="internal">Where Can I Get a Money Order?</a>.</p> <p>If you’re looking for a place to cash a money order, you have fewer options. Your best bet is to deposit the money order into your own bank account, wait for it to clear, and then withdraw the funds. If you want to cash a money order, again, your own bank is the best option. But, there are some other places to cash a money order. See the complete list in our article, <a type="internal">Where Can I Cash a Money Order?</a></p> In Summary <p>For people who want to pay bills, purchase goods, or simply want to send guaranteed funds without the risk associated with exchanging cash, money orders are a trusted method of payment. Rite Aid money orders are convenient because of the low fees, numerous locations, and long hours. No Rite Aid near you? There are many similar convenience and pharmacy stores that also sell money orders.</p>	Rite Aid Money Orders: Everything to Know (Provider, Hours, Cost…)	false	http://firstquarterfinance.com/rite-aid-money-orders/	2018-08-08
<p>As seen on <a type="internal">Justice With Judge Jeanine</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Issa: Comey Reopening FBI Clinton Email Probe 'Matter of His Integrity'</a></p> <p>In her Opening Statement last night, Judge Jeanine Pirro said FBI Director James Comey owes it to the American people to reveal what new information made him decide to reopen the Hillary Clinton email investigation.</p> <p>"He's got to tell us what was discovered what was so big that he violated Justice Department and FBI guidelines and alerted the nation. He cannot hide behind protocol," Judge Jeanine said.</p> <p>She also called for a "thorough, unbiased investigation," with search warrants, empaneling a grand jury and a deal with Huma Abedin to get the top Clinton aide to talk.</p> <p>"Jim, go back to your roots," Judge Jeanine said. "You were once a great prosecutor. Don’t let Washington ruin you, too. You need to send these Clintons back to where they came from."</p> <p>Read the full transcript below, and let us know what you think in the comments.</p> <p><a type="internal">Liberals Bash FBI Director Comey Over Clinton Probe After Praising Him in July</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Mother of Jailed Sailor: 'Hold Hillary to Same Standards' as My Son on Classified Info</a></p> <p>The FBI’s ability to get Huma Abedin- Hillary Clinton's closest advisor, confidante and State Department deputy chief of staff - to sing will make or break this election.</p> <p>Right now, reports are the FBI is negotiating with Huma's lawyers, stemming from her joint computer with pervert husband, disgraced ex -congressman Anthony Weiner.</p> <p>Here we go again: We are nine days from an election that will redefine this nation.</p> <p>And as I said last night, we're on the precipice of yet another constitutional crisis because of the Clintons. This time, involving an alleged pedophile, our nation's top secrets and a couple of grifters from Arkansas. You already know how I feel about all this from my open last night.</p> <p>The American people are entitled to know before we go to the voting booth what it was that caused FBI Director Comey to reopen the case.</p> <p>He's got to tell us what was discovered what was so big that he violated Justice Department and FBI guidelines and alerted the nation. He cannot hide behind protocol.</p> <p>The Justice guidelines 'don't let me talk' rule doesn't work anymore. The 'we don't comment on pending cases' doesn't work anymore.</p> <p>There are no ethical prohibitions. You have been invited by the target and her surrogates to release the information that caused you to reopen a closed case. If there is an indictment, Hillary is now foreclosed from objecting to such disclosure. My bet is, she knows you wont - but thinks that she’s calling your bluff.</p> <p>If she really wanted to know, all she has to do is sit down with Huma and ask her.</p> <p>The investigation is then not compromised, since documentary evidence - here emails - do not change.</p> <p>So it's time to do what you didn't do last year- a thorough unbiased investigation, using all the tools available search warrants and empaneling a grand jury. No more mother may I routine. You’re the one who got yourself in this mess. And now the American people are in a bigger mess.</p> <p>In 2013 Huma signed a document under penalty of perjury when she left the state department that she had turned over all classified materials and that she was not retaining copies. It seems that metadata on 650 thousand emails suggest otherwise. Huma swore under oath that she searched thru all her devices for anything state related. She had a chance to turn things over and she didn’t. Start your negotiation there, Mr. Director. You've got her in a corner. It's time to throw some punches.</p> <p>Make your deal with Huma now. If you don't and Hillary gets elected, no one will care. Hillary will do what she’s always done. She'll be appalled at Huma. She’ll say she didn't know. She didn't remember. She short-circuited. She had a brain clot. She had no idea.</p> <p>Look, the American people are already traumatized by the Clinton scandals and we just can’t take 4 more years of them. Word is that although Justice told your FBI guys to shut down the Clinton Foundation investigation, it’s still ongoing. The justice dept. is dirty and you know it. Our attorney general actually pleaded the fifth on the Iran ransom probe. Loretta Lynch meeting with the spouse of a target and then the target herself days later saying I will keep Loretta Lynch as my attorney general is bribery pure and simple.</p> <p>Jim, go back to your roots. You were once a great prosecutor. Don’t let Washington ruin you too. You need to send these Clintons back to where they came from.</p> <p>It’s time for you to buck up put on your big boy pants and make a deal with Huma for the sake of this nation. You've got till Tuesday.</p>	Fiery Judge Jeanine to Comey: 'Send These Clintons Back to Where They Came From'	true	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/31/judge-jeanine-pirro-opening-statement-james-comey-fbi-clintons	2016-10-31
<p><a type="internal">Former Dems Now Backing Trump: 'Our Country's Going in the Wrong Direction'</a></p> <p>If you've ever seen "Watters' World," you know that some American adults are pretty clueless.</p> <p>But what about the youth of the nation?</p> <p>Jesse Watters hit the streets of New York City to see what kids think about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the major issues facing the country.</p> <p>What have you heard about Hillary Clinton?</p> "She hasn't been that great either. [She's] been sneaking herself around." <p>What do you think about Donald Trump?</p> "He's very confident when he speaks. He's blunt, and I think that's very different than anything we've ever had." <p>"Equal rights, feminism, that's very important nowadays."</p> "Are you just saying that to get girls?" <p>Watch the "Watters' World" clip above, and let us know what you think in the comments.</p> <p><a type="internal">Clinton Aide in New WikiLeaks Email: 'We Need to Clean This Up. He Has Emails from Her'</a></p>	Funny Watters Finds Out What Kids Think About Trump, Clinton & the 2016 Race	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/27/watters-world-what-do-kids-think-about-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-2016-race	2016-10-27
<p><a type="internal">Former Dems Now Backing Trump: 'Our Country's Going in the Wrong Direction'</a></p> <p>Donald Trump joined Bill O'Reilly on "The Factor" tonight to discuss a wide range of topics, including his claims that the election is rigged against him.</p> <p>"The system is rigged," Trump said, arguing that the media has been "horrible" in their coverage of him, while giving Hillary Clinton a pass for her various scandals.</p> <p>He added that Clinton was also given a pass by the Justice Department and the FBI for her private email server and mishandling of state secrets.</p> <p>"She is so guilty in so many different ways that she shouldn't even be allowed to run for president," Trump stated. "So right there, the system is really rigged."</p> <p>The Republican nominee added that he also isn't ruling out the possibility of widespread election fraud, with votes being miscounted at locations around the country.</p> <p>O'Reilly pointed out that there aren't any "hard facts" to back up such allegations.</p> <p>"On a mass level ... 120 million American votes ... the thing's going to be dishonest? Do you believe that?" O'Reilly asked.</p> <p>Trump asserted that there are 1.8 million deceased people registered to vote and 2.8 million people registered to vote in two states.</p> <p>"There are things that are going on, Bill."</p> <p>Watch the "O'Reilly Factor" interview above, and let us know what you think in the comments.</p> <p><a type="internal">Clinton Aide in New WikiLeaks Email: 'We Need to Clean This Up. He Has Emails from Her'</a></p>	Election HQ 'Do You Believe That?': O'Reilly Questions Trump's 'Rigged Election' Claims	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/27/donald-trump-rigged-election-polls-media-claims-oreilly-factor	2016-10-27
<q> <p>Vegas gun shop posts 'pre-Hillary sale' advertisement <a href="https://t.co/eV2TSNm1lP" type="external">pic.twitter.com/eV2TSNm1lP</a></p> <p>— FOX &amp; Friends (@foxandfriends) <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/787974450603921408" type="external">October 17, 2016</a></p> </q> <p><a type="internal">Pence: Media 'Piling On' Trump with 'Unsubstantiated Claims'</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Giuliani: Trump Claims Seem 'Coincidental', 'WikiLeaks Info More Relevant'</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Fr. Morris: Hillary Aides 'Want to Line Up Catholic Church with Dem Platform'</a></p> <p>A Las Vegas gun store is offering a "pre-Hillary sale," saying that gun prices will rise under a Hillary Clinton administration.</p> <p>In an advertisement over the weekend in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Westside Armory said it was holding the sale on tactical rifles.</p> <p>“Don’t wait!” the advertisement reads. “Prices will skyrocket after Crooked Hillary gets in.”</p> <p>The advertisement shows a picture of a Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P Sport II, a semiautomatic tactical rifle, which the store is selling for $699.99.</p> <p>Let us know what you think in the comments.</p> <p>FAIR AND BALANCED... Don't miss the final <a type="internal">presidential debate</a>, moderated by Fox News' Chris Wallace, on Wednesday, October 19th at 9:00pm ET on Fox News Channel!</p> <p><a type="internal">LOOK: Car Split Completely in Half After NY DUI Collision</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Pirro: If Hillary Picks Justices, 'No One Will Give a Damn About Trump Claims'</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Democrat Caught on Tape: 'Might Be Executive Orders' from Clinton on Gun Control</a></p>	Gun Store Offers 'Pre-Hillary Sale,' Warns of Skyrocketing Prices	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/17/nevada-gun-store-westside-armory-offers-pre-hillary-sale	2016-10-17
<p>Jemele Hill in September 2016.</p> <p>Jemele Hill, the outspoken host of ESPN’s 6:00 p.m. SportsCenter, called President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter. ESPN later posted a statement, saying her comments “do not represent the position of ESPN” and she knows her comment was “inappropriate.” The White House <a type="internal">called Hill’s comments</a> a “fireable offense.”</p> <p>The 41-year-old Hill has been hosting the 6:00 edition of SportsCenter, dubbed SC6 with Michael Smith since February. Hill and Smith previously co-hosted Numbers Never Lie and His &amp; Hers before they were promoted to the flagship show.</p> <p>You can follow Hill on <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill" type="external">Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Here’s what you need to know about Hill’s politics and her latest brush with controversy.</p> 1. Hill Called Trump a ‘White Supremacist’ After Posting About Kid Rock <p>Hill’s tweet about Trump was posted late on September 11 after she retweeted a <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/350056-kid-rock-slams-media-extreme-left-and-al-sharpton" type="external">The Hill article</a> about musician Kid Rock, who has been teasing a run for Michigan Senator after launching <a href="https://www.kidrockforsenate.com/" type="external">KidRockforSenate.com</a> in July. The article is about Rock’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kidrock/posts/10155502465850049" type="external">long Facebook post</a> about the “extreme left.” ““Pretty funny how scared I have them all and their only agenda is to try and label people / me racist who do not agree or cower to them,” Rock wrote.</p> <p>“He loves black people so much that he pandered to racists by using a flag that unquestionably stands for dehumanizing black people,” Hill wrote, referring to the singer’s use of the Confederate Battle flag.</p> <p>After a back-and-forth with other Twitter users, <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/907391978194849793" type="external">Hill wrote</a>, “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.”</p> <p>Hill <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/12/jemele-hill-gets-slap-wrist-espn-trump-comments/" type="external">also tweeted</a> other messages about Trump. “He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected. He has surrounded himself with white supremacists — no they are not “alt right” — and you want me to believe he isn’t a white supremacist?”</p> <p>She went on, “Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period. The height of white privilege is being able to ignore his white supremacy, because it’s of no threat to you. Well, it’s a threat to me.”</p> <p>“Donald Trump is a bigot. Glad you could live with voting for him. I couldn’t, because I cared about more than just myself,” she wrote.</p> <p>After the tweet <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/09/11/espns-jemele-hill-calls-president-trump-a-white-supremacist/" type="external">gained attention in the conservative media</a>, ESPN <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/907683111693164545?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Enews%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" type="external">issued a statement</a>.</p> <p>“The comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the President do not represent the position of ESPN,” the statement reads. “We have addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate.”</p> <p>Hill has continued to Tweet, but on other subjects.</p> 2. Hill Has Tweeted About Politics Before, Despite ESPN’s 2016 Memo Asking Talent Not to Tweet About Politics <p>Hill has made her politics clear on her <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill" type="external">Twitter page</a>. She has a tweet with photos of her 2015 and 2016 visits to the White House to meet President Barack Obama pinned to her page. Twitter users frequently complain to her, and she typically responds.</p> <p>In <a href="https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2016/01/2016-presidential-election-coverage-policy/" type="external">January 2016, ESPN issued a memo</a> to employees to avoid making political comments. Since then, <a type="internal">Sage Steele</a> lost a hosting position after writing that she was sad to see the “joy” in the faces of anti-Trump protesters. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-is-fired-by-espn.html" type="external">Curt Schilling was famously fired</a> in April 2016 for an offensive post about transgender people.</p> <p>After the <a type="internal">Pulse nightclub shootings</a> in Orlando in June 2016, when a man killed 49 people inside a gay nightclub, Hill wrote, “So in a country where we have done everything possible to undermine the LGBTQ community, we are suddenly lecturing Islam on homophobia. Oh.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexreimer/2016/06/13/why-hasnt-espn-disciplined-jemele-hill-for-political-tweet-about-the-orlando-shootings/#689810bc244a" type="external">Forbes asked ESPN PR</a> why Hill wasn’t fired after that message. A spokesperson told the magazine that Hill’s statement wasn’t a violation of the 2016 memo.</p> 3. Hill Defended Politics Appearing on ESPN, Saying ‘Athletes Are Dragging Us Here’ <p>ESPN has been dealing with subscriber losses for some time, and its apparent liberal slant on politics has taken the blame in the media. Conservatives point to Schilling’s firing and Caitlyn Jenner receiving the Arthur Ashe courage award in 2015 as examples. Not firing Hill for her comments will certainly not help. SportCenter‘s Linda Cohn <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/27/sportscenter-anchor-agrees-politics-are-hurting-espn/" type="external">also admitted</a> that politics are hurting ESPN.</p> <p>During a conference in June, Hill defended the coverage of political topics, noting that the athletes they cover have made it difficult to avoid politics.</p> <p>“I just hadn’t noticed the correlation between us being called more liberal as you see more women in a position on our network… as you see more ethnic diversity, then all of a sudden ESPN is too liberal. So I wonder, when people say that, what they’re really saying,” Hill said, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sportscenter-anchor-jemele-hill-espns-politics-athletes-dragging-us-193537563.html" type="external">reports Yahoo News</a>. “The other part of it is that we’re journalists, and people have to understand, these uncomfortable political conversations… the athletes are dragging us here.”</p> <p>Hill continued, noting that they never asked Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem and they didn’t expect Gregg Popovich to go off on Donald Trump during press conferences.</p> <p>“You have athletes saying they’re going to the White House, not going to the White House, that’s all sports news,” Hill continued. “It didn’t just start with this generation of athletes, it’s always been that way. Sometimes when I hear a viewer say they don’t want their politics mixed with sports, I say, ‘What did you think about Muhammad Ali?’ And then all of a sudden it’s glowing praise.”</p> <p>Hill made <a href="http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/espn-s-sportscenter-continues-evolving-with-new-jemele-hill-michael-smith-show-at-6-p-m-1.13012896" type="external">similar comments in an interview with Newsday</a>.</p> <p>“Whether we want to discuss it or not, athletes are dragging us into these conversations,” Hill said in January. “It’s not that Mike and I wake up one day and say, ‘Hey, today we’re going to be MSNBC.’ It’s usually based off a news story that is relevant to sports.”</p> 4. Hill Joined ESPN in 2006 As a Columnist &amp; Mentioned Race in Her Columns <p>Hill has been at ESPN since 2006, when she joined EPSN.com as a columnist. Over time, she began appearing on ESPN TV shows, including First Take, Outside the Lines and others. A short time after she was hired, she <a href="http://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/jemele_hill_on_being_black_fem.php" type="external">spoke with the Columbia Journalism Review</a> about being a young, black female journalist and the reaction you get when you write about race.</p> <p>“Any time you write about race, people get incensed,” Hill said in 2006. “I recently wrote a column saying that there is just as much evidence against Lance Armstrong as there is [against] Barry Bonds, and part of the reason there is this extraordinary benefit of the doubt extended to Lance is because he’s white. That’s not the overwhelming reason, mind you. Just a factor in the whole equation. I got a ton of mail about that one, even though I posed the racial element in the next-to-last graf of the column.”</p> <p>In 2011, she started the His &amp; Hers podcast with Michael Smith, which soon replaced Smith’s Numbers Never Lie in 2013. They continued hosting the show until they moved to SportsCenter. Their part of the show is known as SC6 With Michael And Jemele.</p> <p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-espn-layoffs-20170306-story.html" type="external">The Los Angeles Times reported</a> in March that Smith and Hill signed new contracts, even as ESPN had its massive lay-off earlier this year. Hill <a href="http://awfulannouncing.com/espn/jemele-hill-and-michael-smith-talk-the-six-drake-race-debate-more-with-dan-patrick.html" type="external">told Dan Patrick</a> that their contracts weren’t up for another year when they were approached to host SC6.</p> <p>“The fact that they asked us to do this, that’s a key part of it. This was not our plan. We were about a year out from our contract being up,” Hill said in January. “We knew that they liked us and wanted us to keep doing our thing. We were of the mentality that we were just going to be His and Hers. And what were things that were needed to improve that? And the way it just kind of happened caught us by surprise.”</p> 5. Hill Was Suspended in 2008 for Writing That Rooting for the Celtics Would Be Like ‘Saying Hitler Was a Victim’ <p>In 2008, Hill had her first brush with controversy at ESPN. The Detroit native compared rooting for the Boston Celtics instead of the Pistons to “saying Hitler was a victim.”</p> <p>“Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan. Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics,” Hill wrote.</p> <p>Hill was suspended for a week and the statement was taken out of her column. She also <a href="http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/080623" type="external">wrote an apology</a>.</p> <p>However, this was actually just the start of another controversy, as ESPN’s Lou Holtz made a similar remark later that year. He apologized too, but wasn’t suspended. In an <a href="http://deadspin.com/5066753/jemele-hill-just-taking-this-whole-lou-holtz-hitler-backlash-in-stride" type="external">interview with Deadspin</a>, Hill shrugged it off.</p> <p>“Many have said that ESPN treated me unfairly. The 64,000 question: How do I really feel? My initial answer is a story, or rather, a moment,” she told Deadspin in 2008. “A couple years ago, I was visiting the Poynter Institute, one of the foremost journalism think tanks in the country, and I sat in on a session taught by one of my favorite columnist and people, the Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins. A student asked her if she ever got upset when other writers rewarded — particularly if she knew they weren’t as good. And Sally said — and I’m paraphrasing here — that she always prided herself on keeping her eyes on her own career. That’s my answer. That’s how I feel.”</p>	Jemele Hill’s Politics: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know	true	http://heavy.com/sports/2017/09/jemele-hill-politics-espn-trump-twitter-age-sc6/	2017-09-13
<p>In Chicano history, the women who formed a vital part of social justice movements have often been swept aside; forgotten or ignored as their male counterparts receive the bulk of the praise for their collective work. Their visibility is imperative as Chicanas continue to work in social justice, fighting the good fights within various movements.</p> “Chicana Tributes: Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement” aims to share those untold stories of the women who formed an important part of the movement. CREDIT: Chicana Tributes/San Diego State University Chicano Archive <p>The book documents the experiences of 61 Chicanas from the ’60s to the present who have paved the way in the fight for human rights as educators, attorneys, activists, artists and more. Some of the women featured have passed, while others remain active. Each of their stories were written by an author of their or their loved ones’ choosing, creating beautiful pieces that bring together women for the purpose of honoring women.</p> <p>The project came about by the Chicano Archive Committee at San Diego State University, which works to document the people and historical events that have occurred around the Chicano movement. Committee members and co-editors Sonia Lopez and Rita Sanchez selected the women featured in “Chicana Tributes” to document what they believe is missing from the history books.</p> “These stories need to be told so people can know that some of the things they take for granted, a lot of people fought for,” says Lopez. “Most of the time, the men are the ones who are recognized. Any advancement in the Chicano community, the credit is mostly given to the men.” <p>Lopez, a longtime activist and educator, was the first person to teach a Chicana history class at San Diego State back in 1972. Back then, she found a need to address Chicana issues, and still sees the need today.</p> <p>“There’s still not enough information on Chicanas that have contributed to history, society and the community,” she says. “They need to be recognized.”</p> <p>Among the women featured are ACLU leader Norma Chavez, Laura Rodriguez, matriarch of the National Historic Landmark Chicano Park, Charlotte Hernandez Terry, the first woman to paint a mural at Chicano Park, and Delia Moreno, who along with her daughters form Trio Moreno, which played protest trio music during important events in the Chicano movement.</p> In telling the stories of these trailblazers, Lopez says young women will have one more book they can see themselves in, which is necessary as there are few books that offer that. Especially as the women featured have overcome many struggles in their life and come out on top. <p>“It’s amazing that these women still had the courage and resilience in spite of all their hardships,” Lopez says. “We’re trying to teach people this is life. Life is a struggle. Part of becoming who you are is a struggle. And for us, especially, as Mexicanas on this side of the border. We chose the word ‘chicana’ to define our own identity, tell our history, tell our story and tell our roots. By reading this story people will learn, people will appreciate and feel inspired.”</p> <p>“I think young women today are looking for role models,” she adds. “I don’t feel that we have enough role models out there of people that are doing things or have done things to inspire, to motivate. With this book, young women can see that it’s possible to do. The groundwork has been laid by the women featured in this book.”</p> <p><a type="internal">READ: This Chicana Is Taking Over The Instagram Page Of A Major Art Museum To Show Off Chicano Art</a></p> Wanna share this story with friends? Make sure to hit that share button!	Book on Chicana Activists Honors The Women History Has Ignored	true	https://fierce.wearemitu.com/fierce-boss-ladies/book-on-chicana-activists-honors-the-women-history-has-ignored/	2017-08-17
<p>Hollywood will not easily recover from Harvey Weinstein -- not for a long time. The hypocrisy level has hit Defcon 1, 9.9 on the Richter scale.</p> <p>Hollywood’s politics have always been a self-serving charade, a liberal masquerade for a rapacious and lubricious lifestyle. But now, thanks to the Weinstein scandal, we see it more clearly than ever. And it couldn't be more repellent. (I had always thought Bill Clinton would have made the greatest studio executive of all time. Now I'm convinced of it.)</p> <p>If conservative investors had any courage, this would be the time to make a hostile takeover of the movie business. Unfortunately, they don’t. I know this from bitter personal experience. Wealthy conservatives are delighted to support the Philharmonic, but when it comes to popular culture they turn away, as if afraid to get their hands dirty.</p> <p>That this is a huge mistake should be obvious. They have abandoned the culture -- and our children -- to the creepiest people imaginable. What is going on in Hollywood is far from being just about Harvey. It’s approaching a pandemic. So many previously silent assaulted or raped women are coming out of the woodwork, it seems like a long-belated remake of “Cheaper by the Dozen.” No one knows who will be next or if it will stop at Harvey.</p> <p>The rot is everywhere, even, perhaps especially, in the precincts of “high art.” Gwyneth Paltrow says now is the time to put an end to these attacks on women. But where was she years ago when Harvey got “handsy” with her? Looking the other way while earning millions and garnering Oscars. Meryl Streep claimed she was clueless about Weinstein’s repulsive antics. Time to award her her greatest Oscar yet -- for playing someone deaf, dumb, and blind while living as a troglodyte in the Gobi desert. Either the woman’s a liar or an utter nincompoop. I’ll go with the former.</p> <p>As for the great feminist George Clooney -- the first male star out of the box to condemn Weinstein’s behavior -- let’s give him the Nobel Prize in virtue signaling. By coming forward, he was able to ace out his competition -- Howard Zinn-loving Matt Damon, who disgraced himself forever by covering up for Harvey a decade ago. (For those who may have missed it in the onslaught of sleazy details, Damon assured then New York Times reporter Sharon Waxman that Miramax’s high-paid Italian representative was a genuine “creative film executive” and not Harvey’s European procurer, as was, evidently correctly, rumored. Damon is the same “progressive” movie star who makes films opposing school choice for the masses while living in a thirty million dollar house and sending his kids to private school. I take it back -- maybe we should give him the Nobel in virtue signaling.)</p>	Harvey Weinstein Has Destroyed Hollywood -- Now What?	true	https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2017/10/10/harvey-weinstein-destroyed-hollywood-now/	2017-10-10
<p>Politicians are <a type="internal">trying to deceive you</a>.</p> <p>Modern (American) politics is essentially a game in which politicians say and do whatever they possibly can to persuade people that they are an ideal leader deserving of a vote.</p> <p>But you already know that. Hopefully.</p> <p>Most of us are pretty cynical about politics and straight-up expect politicians to lie to us. We understand that posturing, over-promising, tricky rhetoric, and psychological manipulation are par for the course in the political arena.</p> <p>Interestingly, though, I’ve been hearing some claims regarding the current presidential race that contradict the typical cynicism with which most people view political candidates.</p> <p>Specifically, I’ve heard many people expressing the belief that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are refreshingly different from typical political candidates.</p> <p>Why?</p> <p>Because they say what they really feel and think, supposedly. They aren’t just talking heads. They’re real people who will let their real views and ideas be known, for better or worse.</p> <p>That might be true, to some extent. Trump and Sanders might be more authentic than most politicians (which wouldn’t take much). It’s almost impossible to say.</p> The Truth <p>But even if they are, make no mistake: They are still playing the game like everyone else.</p> <p>I’m not saying anything about their merits as candidates or people, and I’m not making any kind of moral judgment. I’m just saying that they too are posturing, over-promising, and employing tricky rhetoric and psychological tactics to win over their audiences. Don’t think for a second that they’re not. No one would have a prayer of winning a presidential race without doing those things.</p> <p>But people are viewing them as utterly genuine. People are taking them at face value.</p> <p>Sanders has this effect on people because he’s so fiercely passionate about the issues. I actually believe he sincerely cares about the things he wants to change, and so he exudes an earnestness while speaking that captivates many people, especially people in my generation.</p> <p>Nonetheless, I assure you that Sanders is self-aware of his grandiose, fiery style and his calls for revolution.</p> <p>He knows he’s over-promising, and he’s consciously trying to create a tsunami of unrealistically high hope for a better world and ride that wave into the White House, like Obama did. It’s a good strategy, though if he gets elected, many people will probably be upset when the revolution doesn’t arrive, when the billionaire class continues to exist, and when big money continues to influence politics.¹</p> <p>Trump, on the other hand, is perceived as honest because he says and does so many ludicrous things, compared to traditional candidates. Trump’s behavior is so ridiculous that people can’t fathom that most of it could be an act, a strategy, a role he’s learned to play. But it is. And whereas Bernie is trying to ride a wave of hope into the White House, Trump is trying to ride a wave of fear and anger.</p> <p>Trump’s appeal is downright frightening because we are at a rather precarious moment in the history of the United States and the history of the world. The planet is filled with nuclear warheads; environmental crises are occurring/looming; the largest refugee crisis since World War II is taking place. The 21st century is a time in which the countries of the world need more than ever to cooperate with one another, consider a <a type="internal">global perspective</a>, and devise strategies that will make the human enterprise sustainable through the 21st century and hopefully <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/global-resilience-guru" type="external">far beyond</a>.</p> <p>But Trump isn’t much of a cooperator. He’s explicitly stated that he wants to build a wall around much of the United States, and he’s made comments that reveal a frighteningly uncritical and violent approach to international relations (on ISIS: “I would bomb the shit out of ’em,” and “ <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10828770/trump-terrorist-family-appeal" type="external">… you have to take out their families.</a>”). From my vantage point, a leader like Trump is more likely to help bring about World War III than a more sustainable, equitable, and unified human enterprise.²</p> <p>Many people don’t see it this way, though. Many believe that Trump’s aggressive and America-centric approach to politics will be our saving grace.</p> <p>This may have something to do with the hypothesized psychological divide between people who lean Left versus people who lean Right. Some fascinating studies have suggested that there are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientation#cite_note-RK-5" type="external">neurobiological differences between liberals and conservatives</a>. One study found, for instance, that conservatives tend to respond to threatening situations with more aggression than liberals.</p> <p>If one wanted to appeal to conservative-minded people, it follows then that one could paint a picture of the world as One Giant Threat to America and propose an extremely aggressive plan to ameliorate the situation. As we’ll see, Donald Trump is a master of this persuasive tactic.</p> <p>He’s a master of a number of other tactics as well, and the cumulative effect of these tactics is that he’s gone from being considered a joke candidate to having a decent chance of becoming the next leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world.</p> 12 Psychological Tactics That Make Donald Trump a Master Manipulator <p>Let’s take a closer look at the various tactics Trump has used to climb into his present position. The following points were gathered primarily from two <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LR6EA91zLo" type="external">YouTube</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVfj0ov8k8" type="external">videos</a>³ created by Charlie Houpert, which provide an excellent analysis of Trump’s various psychological strategies. You’ll find the videos embedded at the bottom of this article, if you’d like to watch them, but that isn’t necessary, as I’ll thoroughly summarize the 12 strategies they discuss.</p> 1. Sowing Seeds of Fear Wiki Commons <p>Trump has said, “You’re going to have more World Trade Centers. It’s going to get worse and worse, folks,” and “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing drugs; they’re bringing crime; they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”</p> <p>These are blatant instances of fear-mongering. Trump deliberately hones in on frightening statistical rarities — terrorist attacks against the US and immigrants who are dangerous rapists — and acts like they’ve become the norm. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122010/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143122010&linkCode=as2&tag=bates0b-20&linkId=CI2NZMTYLMTWSNBB" type="external">Violence has actually declined</a> over recent decades and centuries, but Trump makes it seem like the opposite has happened.</p> <p>Why does he do this? Charlie Houpert, the creator of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LR6EA91zLo" type="external">the</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVfj0ov8k8" type="external">videos</a> I mentioned, explains it well:</p> <q> <p>“Fear is an incredibly powerful emotion. It captures our attention like no other emotion can. We focus intensely on the thing that is giving us that fear. Secondly, it shuts down higher thinking. When we’re terrified by a bump in the night, we don’t focus on the probability that it’s just the wind. Our critical thinking skills dip as we focus solely on protecting ourselves. Thirdly, it feels crappy, so the fastest way to get out of fear and move toward a powerful emotion is to move into anger.”</p> <a href="https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=C2M4-Bk-FW5WeOMuxgwa9g6aoBOLkpYNToLext-0HZBABILylzCFgyQagAbj1jOcDyAEG4AIAqAMByAMCqgSWAk_QU-2Mxc35UcQpM1fpe3sX81R7RQIIlSSM8TxeLiqMawBVfRPsOgfOqY6hpaCsoU7p3RijMU-GCSIgV1K-gcXmVbvuPRUwd8zhaiT58-mWt2FGGvHlCpmBwjNT0_676J6_4vMq-6tVJSiAotUQTV2--bQEFIdmBWq7jSPHlBjK73hI99pqyYEvwB4ICXFw6uPAkCu9ELyJMiTc3H6dEss9mrvrwNJUPkgap5FApTTrynTyDg3UAKo0b7C10_Z4gZxwVcns_eLtQd74KbqJmP3bgYk0_yJXyFlknw9pEn8SLf77DL0ieLKMGxTzwjaLXw-3EUsf84Gqneu5o7BjXwxq9TJwnt_ADDwbwxmrqTNGV0AXlplU4AQBoAY3gAewivMYqAeOzhuoB9XJG6gH2csbqAfPzBuoB6a-G6gHmM4b2AcB0ggHCIBhEAEYAfIIG2FkeC1zdWJzeW4tODg2MDM4NDU4ODI5ODk4ObEJ0Ut-C2nTUhGACgPYEwM&num=1&sig=AOD64_1d4-M2u9SCDiT8TccThWvC6EXmSQ&client=ca-pub-3153065230153281&adurl=https://www.provenwinners.com/winners-circle" type="external">Proven Winners</a> <a href="https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=C2M4-Bk-FW5WeOMuxgwa9g6aoBOLkpYNToLext-0HZBABILylzCFgyQagAbj1jOcDyAEG4AIAqAMByAMCqgSWAk_QU-2Mxc35UcQpM1fpe3sX81R7RQIIlSSM8TxeLiqMawBVfRPsOgfOqY6hpaCsoU7p3RijMU-GCSIgV1K-gcXmVbvuPRUwd8zhaiT58-mWt2FGGvHlCpmBwjNT0_676J6_4vMq-6tVJSiAotUQTV2--bQEFIdmBWq7jSPHlBjK73hI99pqyYEvwB4ICXFw6uPAkCu9ELyJMiTc3H6dEss9mrvrwNJUPkgap5FApTTrynTyDg3UAKo0b7C10_Z4gZxwVcns_eLtQd74KbqJmP3bgYk0_yJXyFlknw9pEn8SLf77DL0ieLKMGxTzwjaLXw-3EUsf84Gqneu5o7BjXwxq9TJwnt_ADDwbwxmrqTNGV0AXlplU4AQBoAY3gAewivMYqAeOzhuoB9XJG6gH2csbqAfPzBuoB6a-G6gHmM4b2AcB0ggHCIBhEAEYAfIIG2FkeC1zdWJzeW4tODg2MDM4NDU4ODI5ODk4ObEJ0Ut-C2nTUhGACgPYEwM&num=1&sig=AOD64_1d4-M2u9SCDiT8TccThWvC6EXmSQ&client=ca-pub-3153065230153281&adurl=https://www.provenwinners.com/winners-circle" type="external">Visit Site</a> </q> <p>Major news outlets portray the world as a terrifying place because doing so captures people’s attention. Trump is doing the same thing. Fear ensnares our attention like nothing else can, while simultaneously short-circuiting our higher cognitive functioning. This is unsettling because our natural response to fear is to escape or destroy whatever is threatening us as quickly as possible.</p> <p>It is quite natural for humans to cope with fear by becoming angry and aggressive. Trump fuels this fire of fear-driven rage and hostility as much as he possibly can and directs it toward non-American outgroups.</p> <p>He says things like “China is taking our jobs; they’re taking our money,” and “Syrians are now being caught at the Southern border; we don’t know who they are; could be ISIS.”</p> <p>He sets up false dichotomies between the interests of Americans and the interests of other humans of the world, such that if you disagree with him, you appear to be anti-American. This leaves many credulous viewers with one obvious response: to be an angry, aggressive, Trump-supporting American who views the rest of the world with suspicion and aggression!</p> <p>This potent combination of fear-, anger-, and aggression-mongering then sets Trump up for one of his most effective lies: that he is the only big, strong man tough enough to do what needs to be done to kick everyone else’s ass and “make America great again.”</p> <p>Trump makes unrealistic claims such as “No one else will keep you safe,” and “No one is going to mess with us.” He presents himself as the most dominant and strongest-willed candidate — the only candidate capable of returning the US to its rightful position as Imminent, Dominant Global Superpower.</p> <p>But again, do we need America to dominate other countries/entities at this point in history? It’s likely that some amount of military action is advisable, as certain groups (e.g. ISIS) are committing brutal crimes against innocent people.</p> <p>However, if one looks at the bigger picture, it becomes clear that <a type="internal">cooperation rather than conflict</a> must become the rule in the human enterprise, if the human species is to persist into the deep future. On a planet now laced with nuclear warheads, unbounded aggression is no longer an option. And in a biosphere facing various environmental crises, our species must recognize the collective goal of devising sustainable systems to avert catastrophe.</p> <p>But, as I mentioned earlier, research has suggested that conservative-minded people respond more aggressively to threatening situations than liberal-minded people. Instinctively aggressive people respond favorably to Trump’s call for a return to an Ultra-Dominant America.</p> <p>That some people are more instinctively aggressive than others is not a “bad” thing. Clearly, this arrangement was beneficial in our primal past, or we would not have evolved this way. However, we don’t live in the world of our distant ancestors anymore. We live in a world in which excessive aggression/conflict is a potential threat to the entire biosphere and all sentient life. Thus, we need leaders who are capable of taking calculated aggressive measures after a thorough analysis of all available courses of action, not leaders whose default response to problematic circumstances is to use hyper-aggressive military force, as Trump wishes to do.</p> <p>The world is a damn complex and ambiguous place, but admitting this reality is not a good political strategy. It’s much more effective to <a type="internal">paint the world as a simple place</a> where things are either X or not-X. To do so is to commit the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma" type="external">‘false dilemma’ fallacy</a>. A quintessential example is a much-cited statement made by George W. Bush in 2001:</p> <q> <p>“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”</p> </q> <p>It comforts people to tell them that things must be either this or that because it makes them feel that they understand the insanely complex bramble of global affairs that no individual human actually understands en toto.</p> <p>Trump is brilliant at reducing the complexity of the world to black-and-white narratives. One of his favorites is the narrative of Winners vs Losers. In Trump’s story, America has been unambiguously losing in recent memory; America is becoming a perma-loser before our eyes, and we’re just getting used to it.</p> Wiki Commons <p>Of course, with Trump as president, America is going to start winning again in all regards. “We’re going to start winning so much that you’re going to get used to winning instead of getting used to losing,” he has said.</p> <p>Does it even make sense to conceive of individual countries as “winners” or “losers” in a world where the future of our entire species and all life on Earth is potentially at stake? Probably not.</p> <p>Yet Trump’s black-and-white narrative appeals to our desire for simple, digestible stories and our <a type="internal">American hyper-competitiveness</a>. And again, when people are afraid and angry, they are primed to accept whatever convenient narrative promises to allow them to escape their fear, and thus the absurdly vague and reductive America is Going to Start Winning So Much Again That We’ll Have Nothing to Worry About story begins to seem quite alluring indeed.</p> <p>One downside of portraying yourself as the Big Strong Man is that there will still always be situations in which someone gets the best of you, making you appear foolish or weak.</p> <p>Donald Trump has found himself in this situation on a number of occasions. One of the most notable was a situation in which Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly confronted Trump about past comments in which Trump had called women he disliked “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.”</p> <p>This question was a potential landmine for Trump, but he interrupted Megyn Kelly halfway through her question by saying, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” This comment caused an uproar of laughter in the audience and all but derailed the inquiry into Trump’s juvenile and dehumanizing remarks. Trump has perfected this strategy of deflecting potential threats through the use of humor. As Charlie Houpert put it:</p> <q> <p>“So that is the power of laughter. It is a pattern interrupt[ion]. You can’t stay booing and upset and angry when somebody makes you uncontrollably laugh. It also makes you more receptive to whatever comes next that somebody has to say because they’ve already started to lead you emotionally. So what Donald Trump is doing is using laughter to take control of situations where he’s starting to lose control. And what that does for him is it effectively helps him dodge any points that you make against him because he can almost erase them with a laughing crowd.“</p> </q> <p>Humor isn’t Trump’s only strategy for avoiding discussion of some of the more contentious issues in his record. Another favorite strategy of his is to simply act superior to all opponents and criticisms.</p> <p>In one of the GOP debates, Jeb Bush attempted to point out that Donald Trump had completely changed his stance on ISIS in a matter of two months. As Jeb was saying this, Trump didn’t even pay him the courtesy of looking in his direction. Instead, he looked only at the audience with an expression of disbelief and disgust that said, “Who is this guy?”</p> <p>This maneuver indicates to the audience that Bush’s attack is ridiculous, laughable, not even worthy of attention, allowing Trump to bypass any sort of rational discussion. By contrast, when Trump attacked Bush, Bush looked directly at Trump with an expression of distress and disconcertedness, playing perfectly into Trump’s game. Jeb appeared to be something of a confused and insecure novice looking to Big Daddy Trump for answers.</p> <p>This point is related to the previous two, but it deserves emphasis. Trump’s power plays — whether making jokes in the face of criticism or acting superior to other candidates — are all aimed at making him appear as the leader of a game in which everyone else is merely a player.</p> <p>In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dynamics" type="external">social dynamics</a>, this is referred to as “frame control.” Trump frames every interaction as if he is unquestionably superior to those around him, as if everyone else is in his world. When it comes to politics, whichever politician has the strongest and most unflinching frame will make that frame a perceived reality. And Trump is very good at unflinchingly selling his frame. As a billionaire, thick-skinned businessman, he’s been practicing this tactic for decades.</p> <p>Combine this with his fear-mongering, anger-mongering, and presenting himself as the One Great Strong Solution to Loser America, and you’ve got a potent combination of factors coming together to make Donald Trump appear to be an untouchable, iron-willed leader in comparison to his opponents.</p> <p>Another of Trump’s favorite tactics (and another form of frame control) is to trap other candidates in double-bind situations. Essentially, this means that he puts them in positions where it doesn’t matter what they say or how they react to him — however they respond, he will come out looking better and they will come out looking worse.</p> <p>Charlie Houpert <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LR6EA91zLo" type="external">cites</a> the example of Trump taunting Jeb Bush about having low energy during one of the GOP debates. Trump says, “I know you’re trying to build up your energy, Jeb, but it’s not working.” In the face of such a statement, Jeb Bush has two options: to try to ratchet his energy up or keep it where it is/take it down a notch. If he chooses the former, he appears to be reacting to Trump, making Trump look like he’s in control. If he chooses the latter, he remains low-energy and Trump can just steamroll him throughout the debate. It’s a lose-lose situation for Jeb Bush, and this is the power of a double-bind.</p> <p>Donald Trump repeats emotionally provocative words like “strong” and “win” over and over and over. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LR6EA91zLo" type="external">second</a> of Charlie Houpert’s videos shows one absurd clip in which Trump manages to say the word “win” 12 times in about 15 seconds.</p> <p>This tactic <a href="http://changingminds.org/principles/repetition.htm" type="external">subtly conditions</a> people to associate strength and victory with the Trump campaign. You might think that this tactic is silly or would only be effective on unintelligent people, but you’d be wrong. There’s a reason large companies pour millions of dollars into ad campaigns with catchy taglines and jingles: through sheer repetition, certain associations become embedded in the mind, if only on an unconscious level. Watch the documentary <a type="internal">Century of the Self</a> sometime if you don’t believe me.</p> <p>Trump loves to hammer social proof. He repeats over and over and over that he’s ahead in the polls or that people agree he won a particular debate. As social creatures, we have a distinct and sometimes malignant tendency to do and believe whatever we think everyone else is doing and believing. Trump understands the importance of this fact, and so at every turn, he acts as if he has an army of people behind him.</p> <p>Trump is also very careful to avoid negative social proof. For instance, at one point Trump appeared on the O’Reilly Factor, and Bill O’Reilly suggested that people had seen Trump as a “buffoon” when he first announced his campaign. Trump outright rejected this statement, acted as if it was outrageous, and assured the audience that people did not feel that way. He was very deliberate and forceful about this because he knows that what people think other people think is one of the most potent forces driving human belief and behavior. His decades in business almost certainly ingrained that lesson into his mind.</p> <p>Trump loves to assert that authority figures approve of him and disapprove of other candidates. The second video of Charlie Houpert’s cites Trump saying, “Larry Kudlow likes my tax plan,” and “Experts wonder if Cruz can run the US because he was born in Canada.”</p> <p>Trump understands that especially in our uncertain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism" type="external">postmodern world</a> with its endless sources of competing information, people look to experts to form their opinions. There is also a cognitive bias known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority#Psychological_basis" type="external">Asch effect</a> that is relevant here. From Wikipedia:</p> <q> <p>“In repeated and modified instances of the Asch conformity experiments, it was found that high-status individuals create a stronger likelihood of a subject agreeing with an obviously false conclusion, despite the subject normally being able to clearly see that the answer was incorrect.</p> </q> <p>So not only do we tend to <a type="internal">feel pressure to conform with the herd</a>, but we also feel pressure to agree with high-status individuals.</p> <p>Here’s an off-the-cuff armchair-evolutionary-psych explanation for this phenomenon: When our ancestors lived as bands of hunter-gatherers, it was beneficial to have an extraordinary level of cohesion of belief and action in a given tribe; it was often a matter of life or death. Thus, tribes in which people unquestioningly accepted the worldview passed on by wise elders and readily conformed to the herd mentality would be more likely to survive.</p> <p>Anyway, for whatever reason, we’re much more likely to believe something if an authority figure or expert tells us it’s true. Trump understands this and takes advantage of it at every turn.</p> <p>This might come as a surprise, but humans actually suck at making rational decisions and are much more likely to make emotion-driven decisions. This is a great thing a lot of the time because in many areas of life, our emotions and feelings are excellent indicators of an appropriate course of action.</p> <p>But when it comes to choosing the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world, it might be a bad idea to vote for a guy because his smile gives you the warm fuzzies. Unfortunately, it’s damn difficult for humans to use rationality, especially if they haven’t been trained to think critically or haven’t researched the various <a type="internal">cognitive biases</a> that result in inaccurate thinking.</p> <p>Donald Trump knows that most people make their decisions on the basis of emotion rather than reason. He also knows that there are certain methods of manipulating people’s emotions to get them to do what you want. Most all of the items on this list — from fear-/anger-mongering and deflection via humor to repetition, social proof, and appeal to authority — are effective methods of making people feel very confident about a position, despite the fact that they haven’t considered any statistical evidence or rational arguments.</p> <p>Donald Trump understands this, and that’s why you’ll never see him engaging in a rational discussion of the issues or of the criticisms levied against him. When challenged to do so, Trump will deflect via humor, appeal to vague authorities or social proof, or utilize some sort of half-relevant anecdote to appeal to emotion and distract from his shortcomings.</p> <p>As I said before, Donald Trump isn’t the only one playing the manipulation game. Other candidates also understand that people are emotional creatures, and any candidate who wants to have a chance of winning must use some or all of these tactics. Such is the nature of American democracy in 2016.</p> <p>What’s frightening about Trump is that he’s so damn good at playing this game. He’s spent decades learning the subtle art of being a dominant social presence and persuading people to do what he wants them to do. His actual values and ideas could be egregiously ill-conceived. Hell, they could be a recipe for World War III. But because he’s such a talented hypnotist politician, his actual values and ideas don’t matter that much. If he wins the race, it will be because he effectively encouraged and harnessed the fear, anger, and emotion-driven decision-making of a large portion of the American public.</p> <p>Personally, I would prefer not to find out what happens to America after electing one of the most effective fear- and anger-mongers <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-comparing-donald-trump-to-hitler-makes-perfect-sense/" type="external">since, uh, Adolf Hitler</a>. I would prefer not to find out if a man who has spent the last 30 years plastering his name on everything he could put his name on gives two shits about the interests of most Americans. I would prefer not to find out if a businessman with no political experience is prepared to approach the challenges of the presidency with wisdom and acumen. I would prefer not to find out if Trump’s hard-ass, violence-friendly approach to political problems is as dangerous for planet Earth as I think it is.</p> <p>If you found this article educational or important in any way, please pass it on to your friends.</p> <p>1. Don’t get me wrong: I like Bernie and would likely vote for him if he were to get the nomination. All I’m saying is that he’s playing the game too, and that in reality, he had no choice but to play the game if he wanted to have any chance of winning.</p> <p>2. One could also argue that an extremely passive or pacifistic US President could inadvertently cause a World-War-III situation by failing to take action to neutralize dangerous groups or leaders who are gaining power. Some argue that this is essentially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement" type="external">what happened pre-World War II</a>. My view is that we need leaders who are capable of taking aggressive measures after a thorough analysis of all available courses of action, not leaders whose default response to problematic circumstances is to use hyper-aggressive military force.</p> <p>3. The two outstanding videos that inspired this post and provided many of the insights:</p> 97.1% of users agree: 30 Challenges to Enlightenment is a life-changing set of tools. <p><a href="javascript:void(0)" type="external">Start your journey now</a></p>	12 Psychological Tactics Donald Trump Uses to Manipulate the Masses	true	http://highexistence.com/12-psychological-tactics-donald-trump-uses-to-manipulate-the-masses/	2016-03-16
<p>In an article focusing on free speech on the campus, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/us/free-speech-week-berkeley.html?_r=0" type="external">The New York Times</a> tells its readers that the UC Berkeley faculty is divided over whether or not the university should allow right-wing speakers to appear on campus. Their most recent concern was motivated by a <a href="http://freespeechweek.com/" type="external">"Free Speech Week" event</a> that was being put together by provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who was invited by a small campus group called Berkeley Patriot. He was going to appear on the campus in February, but his scheduled speech was canceled after protesters prevented it from taking place. The upcoming event was scheduled to take place from September 24-27, but as <a type="internal">Rick Moran</a> reports in these pages, it was announced today that Berkeley Patriot canceled the event. Participants initially mentioned were Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter, but now it has become apparent that neither planned to attend. Listed speaker Charles Murray <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/Speaking-at-Berkeley-With-Milo/241226" type="external">announced</a> he would not participate in any event Milo had arranged “because he is a despicable asshole.” Murray’s name, moreover, was listed without his knowledge or consent. All of these announced speakers regularly enrage leftist students and send them into conniptions.</p> <p>To confound issues even more, Milo Yiannopoulos announced he would appear and speak anyway at the famous Sproul Plaza, the site of the 1964 Free Speech Movement protest. Promising surprises, he now is asserting his right to free speech as a private citizen to speak on campus without any formal group sponsorship or invitation. Saying he would appear this Sunday at noon, there is certain to be a large police presence as well as a vast group of leftist protestors, most likely including Antifa groups.</p> <p>The highlight at the now suspended conference was to be the "Mario Savio Award,” given to the individual who in their eyes has most represented the idea of free speech. The name of the award is also meant to anger liberals. Mario Savio led the famous Berkeley protests in the 1960s. When the university moved in October of 1964 to prevent a protestor from speaking, students spontaneously surrounded the police car he had been put in. Savio gave an eloquent speech that made him famous from on top of the police car. Soon 3000 or more students arrived. Then they took over Sproul Plaza, the administration building. Eventually, scores of police arrived and arrested those students who had taken over the building. Now Yiannopoulos is co-opting the once liberal and leftist cause of free speech as his own, and in effect positing that he and his associates are the ones acting in Savio’s spirit. An organizer of the original '60s protests, playwright and author Barbara Garson, called Free Speech Week a “grotesque parody” of the movement she helped lead.</p> <p>As of today — the 23rd — the event will not take place. Yet Milo's appearance — should he show up — has forced the university authorities to spend one million dollars arranging for security, since they fear the kind of violence that erupted in Charlottesville when Antifa appeared to contest the neo-Nazis and racists who planned a rally there. It’s getting very expensive for conservatives to speak. Recently, Ben Shapiro spoke without incident and reported he had a fruitful exchange of opinion with liberal and leftist students, although security for his talk cost UC Berkeley $600,000.</p>	The Spirit of Free Speech at UC Berkeley: Why the Left Opposes It	true	https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2017/09/23/spirit-free-speech-uc-berkeley-left-opposes/	2017-09-23
<p>Alt-Left refers to a loosely defined term to describe left-wing principles, organizations, politicians and activists, encompassing almost everything outside the norm of mainstream democratic liberal politics. Used as both a pejorative and an affirmative, alike, alt-left has been used as a catchall term for far-left political ideologies such as socialism, anarchism, communism as well as <a type="internal">Antifa</a> groups. However, because this term remains so undefined and widely denounced amongst the groups associated with it, many of the ideologies within the so-call "alt-left" contradict from group to group. Most groups refuse to give the term creedance, and after <a type="internal">U.S. President Donald Trump</a> used the term in a 2017 press conference, many have stated that it is a meaningless phrase.</p> History <p>On May 29th, 2010, the Swiss political party the Alternative Left (or "Alternative Linke") was founded. <a type="internal">[1]</a> The party's goals were to unite the far-left political parties of Switzerland under a democratic socialist platform. <a type="internal">[2]</a> The party's website reads (translated to English):</p> <q> "A call to all these women and men of our country, who are locally involved in the social movement, trade unionism, the associative fabric, environmental struggles, growth objection, food sovereignty, culture: let's create this together A new left-wing political force, an ecosocialist, which is so much lacking in Switzerland." </q> <p>On August 4th, 2015, <a type="internal">Redditor</a> launched zxz242 the subreddit /r/AlternativeLeft. <a type="internal">[3]</a> According to the Reddit's purpose, the subreddit is open to all far-left leaning ideas. It reads:</p> <q> "To improve communication between individuals who are dissatisfied with the behaviour and morality common to the mainstream Left and the far-Left. This is oriented to be a place for Left-wing Nationalism, Left Communism, Anarchism of all branches, and any other form of political revisionism. Yes, syncretic politics are welcome among regulars and contributors, so long as they're based on empirical evidence, and not on mysticism, romanticism, and traditionalism." </q> <p>On October 12th, 2015, the website AltLeft.com was registered. <a type="internal">[4]</a> One month later, Rabbit, the site's owner, posted published his first post, entitled "A Clockwork Greenshirt – Introducing the Alt Left." According to the site, the AltLeft politically runs "to the left of <a type="internal">Alt-right</a>."</p> <p>On April 9th, 2016, the <a type="internal">Facebook</a> group "Alternative Left" launched. <a type="internal">[6]</a> The group's about section reads, "Leftist but against political correctness. Against <a type="internal">SJWs</a> but still socially liberal. Civil and cultural libertarian. Economic leftism." As of August 2017, the group has more than 2,000 likes and 2,000 follows.</p> <p>On December 1st, The Washington Post <a type="internal">[15]</a> published "Introducing the ‘alt-left’: The GOP’s response to its alt-right problem." In the article, the Post reports that conservative advocacy group One Nation released a statement under the subject line "“Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Lead Alt-Left in Hijacking of Bipartisan Medical Research Bill."</p> <p>On April 30th, 2017, <a type="internal">YouTuber</a> Tim Pool posted a video entitled "THE RISE OF THE ALT-LEFT." In the video (shown below), Pool draws a distinction between liberals and the "alt-left," asserting that "alt-left" groups are fringe groups "do not do research." He says, "When you're talking to someone who is adamant a Trump hat is triggering and could cause, you know, anxiety to certain marginalized voices that is 'alt-left.' That is this belief almost as extreme as white nationalism." As of August 2017, the video has been viewed more than 67,000 views.</p> <p>On August 15th, the New York Times <a type="internal">[13]</a> spoke to researchers who said "there is no such thing as the 'alt-left.'"</p> <q> “It did not arise organically, and it refers to no actual group or movement or network,” Mark Pitcavage, an analyst at the Anti-Defamation League, told the Times. 'It’s just a made-up epithet, similar to certain people calling any news they don’t like ‘fake news.'" </q> Highlights <p>In March 2017, Vanity Fair <a type="internal">[7]</a> magazine published an article entitled "Why the Alt-Left Is A Problem Too," which pointed to far-left activist groups that supported Bernie Sanders, derided Hillary Clinton and reject "identity politics" as a problem for American left-wing politics. On March 6th, New Republic magazine responded to that article in a piece called "Liberalism Needs the 'Alt-Left,'" refuting Vanity Fair's assertions.</p> <p>Over the next few months, many centrist and liberal commentators used the term. On August 16th, 2016 MSNBC host Joy Reid tweeted in response to another's post, "'Alt left' -- well done. Perfect descriptor." The tweet (shown below) received more than 120 retweets and 90 likes as of August 2017.</p> <a type="internal" /> "Alt left" -- well done. Perfect descriptor. <p>Liberal use of the term "alt left" has largely been refuted by those within far-left groups. On August 12th, 2017, Twitter @Lukewsavage wrote, "'Alt left' is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare." Within four days, the tweet (shown below) has received more than 33,000 retweets and 86,000 likes.</p> <a type="internal" /> "Alt left" is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal he Trump "Unite The Right Rally" Comments <p>Following the violent <a type="internal">Unite The Right Rally</a> that left one person dead and dozens injured, President Donald Trump made a series of statements on the event. Initially, in a press conference he said, "We condemn in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides." <a type="internal">[8]</a> The following day, Trump delivered another statement. He said, <a type="internal">[9]</a> "Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., <a type="internal">neo-Nazis</a>, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."</p> <p>On August 15th, during another press conference at Trump Tower, Trump made more comments on his previous statements, backing up his original words (shown below). He said, "What about the alt-left that came charging at the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands?"</p> <p>The reaction to Trump's comments brought the term "alt left" into a wider conversation. Many online disagreed with Trump's statements, asserting that he created a false equivalancy between white supremacists and neo-Nazis and those who stand against them. The prevailing take is that "alt left" is anyone who opposes Nazism and as America opposed Nazism in World War II, being American makes one "Alt-Left."</p> <p>That day, comedian and actor Patton Osawalt <a type="internal">[11]</a> posted a picture of fictional character Indiana Jones punching a Nazi. He captioned the tweet (shown below, left) "Liberal arts college professor brutalizes Nazi, who has a permit. More alt-left indoctrination." The post received more than 53,000 retweets and 127,000 likes. <a type="internal">Twitter</a> user @Scott_Gilmore <a type="internal">[12]</a> posted a picture of the U.S. military storming the beaches of Normandy, France to fight the Nazis during World War II. He captioned the post "Alt-left, violently coming at the alt-right, circa 1944." The post (shown below, right) received more than 42,000 retweets and 88,000 likes.</p> <a type="internal" /> Liberal arts college professor brutalizes Nazi, who has a permit. More alt-left indoctrination. <a type="internal" /> Alt-left, violently coming at the alt-right, circa 1944. <p>That day, former head of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, <a type="internal">[10]</a> tweeted his support of the president's statements. He said, "Thank you President Trump for your honesty &amp; courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville &amp; condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa." The tweet (shown below) received more than 2,900 retweets and 2,000 likes.</p> <a type="internal" /> Thank you President Trump for your honesty &amp; courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville &amp; condemn the leftist terrorist <p>Trump's use of the term alt-left set off more criticism of the more moderate democrats use of the term. On August 16th, New Republic Magazine <a type="internal">[14]</a> published an article entitled "Liberals Helped Create Trump’s New Bogeyman, the 'Alt-Left.'" Twitter also pointed out their issues with the term, stating that it creates a fale equivlancy between the left and Nazis.</p> Search Interest External References	Alt-left	false	http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/alt-left	2017-08-16
<p>As the New Year 5778 begins, 88% of Israeli Jews say that they are happy and satisfied with their lives. This makes sense. Israel’s relative security, its prosperity, freedom, and spiritual blossoming make Israeli Jews the most successful Jewish community in 3,500 years of Jewish history.</p> <p>The same cannot be said for the Jews of the Diaspora. In Western Europe, Jewish communities that just a generation ago were considered safe and prosperous are now besieged. Synagogues and Jewish schools look like army barracks. And the severe security cordons Jews need to pass through to pray and study are entirely justified. For where they are absent, as they were at the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket in Paris in 2015, assailants strike.</p> <p>Western European Jewry’s crisis is exogenous to the Jewish communities. It isn’t the Jews who caused the crisis, which may in time cause the wholesale exodus of the Jews from Europe. The crisis is a function of growing levels of popular antisemitism spurred by mass immigration from the Islamic world and the resurgence of indigenous European Jew-hatred, particularly on the far Left.</p> <p>This is not the situation among American Jewry, which at the dawn of 5778 also finds itself steeped in an ever-deepening crisis. And while antisemitism is a growing problem in America, particularly on university campuses, unlike their European counterparts, American Jews could mount and win a battle against the growing anti-Jewish forces. But in large part, they have chosen not to. And they have chosen not to fight the anti-Semites because they are in the midst of a self-induced identity crisis.</p> <p>First, there is the problem of demographic collapse.</p> <p>According to the Pew Research Center’s 2013 study of American Jewry, nearly 60% of American Jews intermarry. Based on the Pew data, the Jewish People Policy Institute published a report in June that noted that not only are 60% of American Jews who get married marrying non-Jews, only half of American Jews are getting married at all. And among those who are getting married, less than a third are raising their children as Jewish in some way.</p> <a type="internal" /> <p>Earlier this month, a study of American Jews was published by the Public Religion Research Institute. It found that not only hasn’t the situation improved since the Pew survey was published, the trend toward assimilation and loss of Jewish identity among American Jews has accelerated.</p> <p>In 2013, 32% of American Jews under 30 said that they were not Jews by religion. Today the proportion of Jews under 30 who say they have no relation to the Jewish faith has ballooned to 47%.</p> <p>Not surprisingly, the wholesale abandonment of Jewish faith by nearly half of young American Jews has taken a toll on the two liberal streams of American Judaism. According to the study, the percentage of American Jews who identify as Reform or Conservative Jews is in free fall.</p> <p>Whereas in 2013, 35% of American Jews identified as Reform, today, a mere four years later, only 28% identify as Reform. The situation among Conservatives is even worse. In 2013, 18% of American Jews identified as Conservatives. Today, only 14% do. Among Jews, under 30 the situation is even starker. Only 20% of American Jews under 30 identify as Reform. Only 8% identify as Conservative.</p> <p>To be sure, the trend toward secularism and assimilation among US Jewry is not new. And over the years, Reform and Conservative leaders have adopted varying strategies to deal with it.</p> <p>In 1999 the Reform movement tried to deal with the problem by strengthening the movement’s religious practices. Although the effort failed, the impulse that drove the strategy was rational. American Jews who seek spiritual and religious meaning likely want more than a sermon about Tikkun Olam.</p> <p>The problem is that they also want more than a rabbi donning a kippa and a synagogue choosing to keep kosher.</p> <p>This is why, as the number of Reform and Conservative Jews is contracting, the number of American Jews who associate with the Orthodox movement is growing. Between 2013 and 2017, the proportion of young American Jews who identify as Orthodox grew from 10% to 15%.</p> <p>Moreover, more and more American Jews are finding their spiritual home with Chabad. Today there are more Chabad houses in the US than Reform synagogues.</p> <p>Unable to compete for Jews seeking religious fulfillment, the Reform and Conservative movements have struck out for new means of rallying their bases and attracting members. Over the past year, two new strategies are dominating the public actions of both movements.</p> <p>First, there is a selective fight against antisemitism. While antisemitism is experiencing a growth spurt in the US progressive movement, and antisemitism is becoming increasingly overt in US Muslim communities, neither the Reform nor Conservative movements have taken significant institutional steps to fight them.</p> <p>Instead, both movements, and a large swath of the Jewish institutional world, led in large part by Reform and Conservative Jews, have either turned a blind eye to this antisemitism or supported it.</p> <p>Take for instance the case of Davis, California, imam Amman Shahin.</p> $107 Billion Treasure Found From WW2! You Won't Believe Where It Was Stashed <p>On July 21 Shahin gave a sermon calling for the Jewish people to be annihilated. His Jewish neighbors in the progressive Jewish communities of Davis and Sacramento didn’t call the police and demand that he be investigated for terrorist ties. They didn’t demand that his mosque fire him.</p> <p>Instead, led by the Oakland Jewish Federation, local rabbi Seth Castleman, and the JCRC, they embraced Shahin. They appeared with him at a public “apology” ceremony, where he failed to apologize for calling for his Jewish colleagues, and every other Jew, to be murdered.</p> <p>All Shahin did express regret that his call for genocide caused offense.</p> <p>On the other hand, the same leaders stand as one against allegations of antisemitic violence stemming from the political Right. In the face of an utter lack of evidence, when Jewish institutions were subjected to a rash of bomb threats last winter, Reform and Conservative leaders led the charge insisting that far-right antisemites were behind them and insinuated that the perpetrators supported President Donald Trump. When it worked out that all of the threats were carried out by a mentally ill Israeli Jew, they never issued an apology.</p> <p>So, too, the Reform and Conservative movements, like the rest of the American Jewish community, treated the Charlottesville riot last month like a new Reichstag fire. They entirely ignored the violence of the far-left, antisemitic Antifa protesters and behaved as though tomorrow neo-Nazis would take control of the federal government. They jumped on the bandwagon insisting that Trump’s initial condemnation of both groups was proof that he has a soft spot for neo-Nazis.</p> <p>The problem with the strategy of selective outrage over antisemitism is that it isn’t at all clear who the target audience is. Survey data shows that the more active Jews are in the synagogue, the less politically radical they are and the more devoted to Jewish causes they are. So it is hard to see how turning a blind eye to leftist and Muslim antisemitism will rally their current membership more than they already have been rallied. Moreover, the more radicalized Jews become politically, the more outlets they have for their political activism both as Jews and as leftists. No matter how anti-Trump Conservative and Reform leaders become, they can never rival the progressive forces in the Democratic Party.</p> <p>Prospects for success of the second strategy are arguably even lower. The second strategy involves cultivating animosity toward Israel over the issue of egalitarian prayer at the Kotel.</p> <p>Last June, the government overturned an earlier decision to build a passageway connecting the Western Wall Plaza with Robinson’s Arch, along with the Southern Wall, where egalitarian prayer services are held. The government also rescinded a previous decision to have representatives of the Conservative and Reform movements receive membership in the committee that manages the Western Wall Plaza.</p> <p>The government’s first decision was non-political. The Antiquities Authority nixed the construction of the passage due to the adverse impact construction would have on the antiquities below the surface.</p> <p>As to the second decision, it is far from a matter of life and death. The committee has no power to influence egalitarian prayers for better or for worse.</p> <p>And yet, rather than acknowledge that the decision was a setback but it didn’t harm the status of egalitarian prayer at the Wall, the Reform and Conservative movements declared war against the government and dragged much of the organized Jewish establishment behind them.</p> <p>The Reform leadership canceled a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Jewish Agency Board followed suit.</p> <p>Six hundred Conservative rabbis signed a letter to Netanyahu accusing him of betraying Diaspora Jewry and announcing they would be forced to reconsider their support for Israel.</p> <p>Ambassador David Friedman, who had just taken residence in Israel a month before the explosion, used his first public remarks as ambassador to call his fellow American Jews to order.</p> <p>Friedman said, “Yesterday, I heard something that I thought I’d never heard before. And I understand the source of the frustration and the source of the anger. But I heard a major Jewish organization say that they needed to rethink their support for the State of Israel.</p> <p>“That’s something unthinkable in my lifetime, up until yesterday. We have to do better. We must do better,” he said.</p> <p>But in the intervening months, the Conservative and Reform movements have not relented in their attacks. They have ratcheted them up.</p> <p>The thinking appears to be that if they can make this problem look like a life or death struggle between Israel and progressive Jewry, they can both keep their dwindling bases engaged and attract members of the increasingly anti-Israel Jewish far Left.</p> <p>The problem with this is that just as they cannot outdo the Democratic Party in their hostility toward Trump, so the Conservative and Reform movements cannot be more anti-Israel than Jewish Voices for Peace and other anti-Israel Jewish groups.</p> <p>The question for Israelis is what this failure of the mainstream American Jewish leadership means for the future of Israel’s relationship with American Jewry. Jewish survival and continuity through the ages have been predicated and dependent on our ability as Jews to uphold the commandment of the sages that all Jews are responsible for one another. As the most successful Jewish community in history, Israel has a special responsibility for our brethren in the Diaspora.</p> <p>The first step toward fulfilling our duty is to recognize the basic fact that while it is true that the American Jewish community is in crisis, the leaders of that community are in an even deeper crisis. And the key to strengthening and supporting the community is to bypass its failed leadership and speak and interact directly with American Jews.</p> <p>Reprinted with author’s permission from <a href="http://carolineglick.com/israel-and-the-american-jewish-crisis/" type="external">Caroline Glick</a></p>	Israel and the American Jewish Crisis	true	https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/95268/israel-and-the-american-jewish-crisis-opinion/	2017-09-24
<p>From Israel’s prime minister down to the lowliest clerk, from the Commander in Chief down to the lowest ranking officer, from the Mossad down to the police by way of the Shabak – since 1994, everyone has been chanting the same mantra about peace with Jordan. The prevalent reasoning is that peace with Jordan is Israel’s most important strategic resource for the following reasons:</p> <p>1.Security: The 500-kilometer border between Israel and Jordan is Israel’s longest border with another country, reaching from Hamat Gader and the Yarmouk River in the north down to Eilat in the south. Jordan makes sure the border is quiet along its entire length and prevents hostile forces from approaching it and continuing west into Israel. If not for the peace declared between the two states, Israel would have to keep large forces along the border to guard it against infiltration.</p> <p>Israel sees the very existence of Jordan to its east as a security asset in itself because Jordan acts as a buffer zone between the Jewish state and the violent chaos in Iraq, Syria, and Iran.</p> <p>There is full cooperation between the Jordanian and Israeli armies, including visits by officers, the handing over of information, and coordinated activity along the border, under the assumption that radical groups are a shared enemy. In exchange for this, it is said, Israel played a part in guarding Jordan’s northern and eastern borders during the years 2014-16, the period when ISIS posed a threat to Jordan.</p> <p>2. Jordan is the second Arab nation to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, proving that Israel can find itself accepted in the Middle East as a sustainable country with whom former enemies can make peace by rethinking their previous positions. This could occur despite the August 1967 Khartoum Arab summit where it was declared that the Arab nations would not recognize Israel, would not negotiate with Israel and would not make peace with it. King Hussein of Jordan was a party to these decisions but carried on negotiations with Israel, recognized it and signed a peace treaty, as did Egypt before him. The obvious conclusion is that any Arab nation can do the same, making peace with Jordan a significant accomplishment,</p> <a type="internal" /> <p>3. There is a wide array of cooperative ties between Israel and Jordan, mostly in the economic sphere. Three issues are involved: a. Israel has a multi-billion dollar contract with Jordan according to which it sells gas extracted from Israel’s Mediterranean gas fields to Jordan’s electricity company; b. Israel recognized “Qualified Industrial Zones” in which Israeli funds are invested, Jordanians are employed and Americans are the buyers, providing employment for thousands of Jordanian families; c. cooperative ventures such as the Water Canal, tourism, flights, trade, and academia – thousands of Israeli Arab students attend Jordanian Universities and their degrees are recognized in Israel.</p> <p>In exchange for recognition, Israel granted the Hashemite Kingdom, and especially its king, special status in the Jerusalem sites considered holy by Islam, mainly the al Aqsa Mosque, giving Hussein and his son Abdullah today, a significant stamp of approval in the Islamic world. This stamp of approval is especially important in granting much-needed legitimacy to the Hashemite Kingdom. The Palestinian majority and even some Bedouin groups question that legitimacy, since the Hashemites are not originally Jordanian, having come from the western section of the Arabian Peninsula, Hijaz, where the two Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located.</p> <p>The British gave the Transjordan Emirate to Abdullah I, great grandfather of today’s Abdullah. He is considered a foreign transplant, giving rise to questions of legitimate rule, and the special status at al Aqsa is intended to give him a shot of legitimacy, stabilizing his regime. The king pays the salaries of hundreds of Jerusalem Waqf officials.</p> <p>Another payment Israel took upon itself is the handing over of 50 million cubic meters of drinkable water to Jordan every year. The plan was to bring this water from the Sea of Galilee, but the drought of the last few years has lowered the level of the water in the lake, so Israel has substituted expensive desalinated water instead. Jordanian agriculture in the Jordan Valley is made possible in part because of this Israeli water.</p> <p>All the points raised here give Israel the feeling that the peace agreement with Jordan is successful, certainly more successful than the one with Egypt, with whom there is much less cooperation on non-security related issues. Israel’s payment for this by handing over water and securing Jordan’s status in Jerusalem is one Israel can handle in exchange for the premise that peace with Jordan serves Israeli interests. All the parties to Israel’s government are united in supporting the maintenance of peace with Jordan at all costs.</p> <p>Where did we go wrong?</p> <p>The first and main point is that Israel ignores the fact that the peace agreement is totally dependent on the continuation of the illegitimate Hashemite dynasty. In 1994 that meant Hussein, today it is Abdullah II, but the future is unclear because there are quite a few people in Jordan and outside it who see Abdullah as the last Hashemite monarch. What comes next? There are several possible answers to that query, ranging from a military junta made up of local Bedouin ruling the various populations, on to a civil war that leads to the country splitting in two, with a Palestinian state rising in the northwestern part of the country where there is a Palestinian Arab majority.</p> <p>It is no secret that the Palestinian majority in Jordan is opposed to the peace treaty with Israel. One reason is the recognition a treaty grants Israel and another is the fact that it does not include the so-called “right of return” of the 1948 refugees to within Israeli borders, including compensation for the possessions they left behind them and the years of suffering they underwent in refugee camps.</p> <p>The Palestinian majority in Jordan feels no commitment to the peace agreement; it was signed by King Hussein, not by them. For this reason, most of the professional associations in Jordan – lawyers, journalists, doctors and others – do not allow their members to partner with Israelis. Most of their members are Palestinian Arabs who see the peace agreement as the result of the king’s betrayal of their cause.</p> <a href="http://offers.israel365.com/stand-against-iran-1/?utm_source=bin&utm_medium=ubm_banners&utm_campaign=iran_petition" type="external" /> <p>The peace agreement upon which Israel and Jordan are signed and everything Israel has paid, is paying and is willing to pay to preserve and guard that peace will be utterly worthless the day a rebellion breaks out against the king, or some assassin or suicide bomber, G-d forbid, succeeds in killing him. The house of cards Israel built around him will collapse instantaneously, the peace agreement and any others signed in its wake will become fond memories. Whoever takes the king’s place will restart the process and expect Israel to pay even more than it had originally paid – that is, if the country remains united. If that new leader is a Palestinian Arab, the price will entail the return of a significant number of 1948 refugees to the state of Israel, not to the Palestinian State that may exist by then.</p> <p>The king knows full well that the possibility that he could be assassinated by a Palestinian Arab, as his great grandfather was in 1951 in Jerusalem, is not far-fetched. That is the reason his armed bodyguards are not Arabs, but members of the Circassian ethnic minority who stem from the Caucasian Mountain region and do not have their eyes on the throne, meaning that they are not suspected of planning to murder the king or poison his food. The king’s mistrust of the Palestinian Arabs, who make up the majority of his subjects, has led him to keep them out of the armed forces, police, foreign ministry and especially from internal security organizations and intelligence.</p> <p>There are several Palestinian Arabs in the government and parliament who serve as token representatives, but the majority of them know exactly what the Hashemites think of the majority of Jordan’s citizenry, those who define themselves as Palestinians – never calling themselves Jordanians because that is used for Bedouin, viewed as lower class by the Palestinians, who are farmers and city dwellers.</p> <p>The Palestinian Arabs in Jordan are the economic engine of the country. They make up most of the merchants, manufacturers, businessmen, lawyers, accountants, academics, journalists, arts and media personalities, and they generally avoid contact with Israel and Israelis. They conduct a consistent and strict boycott of Israel. The king respects their position for two reasons: One, he has no way to force the peace agreement upon them, and two, he is quite content to show Israel that the peace agreement is not secure because of Palestinian opposition, allowing him to demand more and more from Israel in order to guard its interests and keep the king in power.</p> <p>The cost of the peace agreement with Israel is prohibitive. First, Israel respects the status it granted the kingdom in Jerusalem, even though there is no precedent in the entire world for a sovereign state granting another country special rights in its capital city on that state’s most holy site. In 1994, when this was decided during the peace talks, Israel wasn’t worried about Hussein who hated Arafat and agreed with Israel that there must never be a Palestinian state. The status Israel granted him on the Temple Mount was in order to prevent Arafat and the Islamic Movement from taking over the site.</p> <p>King Abdullah II has turned Jordanian policy around and is an ardent supporter of the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria., one that will be able to look over at Israel and threaten it with missiles and short range mortars that hit from Dimona and Beer Sheva in the south, up along the coastal plain from Ashkelon, the Ashdod port, greater Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion airport, to Haifa and its port and all the way to Afula and Beit She’an. Long range weapons will threaten all the rest of Israel. Abdullah is actively creating a strategic threat to the state of Israel that will most probably be ruled by Hamas, which won most of the seats in the Palestinian legislature in 2006 and led a violent takeover of Gaza in 2007. Abdullah would like to see these scenarios repeat themselves, a most realistic possibility.</p> <p>King Abdullah displayed his hostility towards Israel poverty in two recent events. This past March he freed the Jordanian soldier who, in cold blood, murdered seven school girls from Beit Shemesh in 1997 as they took part in a class trip to the “Peace Island” (!!!) in Naharayim. His father, King Hussein, came to pay a condolence visit to the families in Beit Shemesh, while his son lets the murderer go free. What price did he pay for this slap in the face to Israel? Zilch. Nothing.</p> <p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233821" type="external">Jordan acts against Israe</a>l as a matter of course in international circles, especially UNESCO and the UN Human Rights Council, two places that constantly attempt to delegitimize Israel. Jordan encourages and pushes for the decisions that deny Jewish tradition in Jerusalem, undermining the historical and religious foundations for the existence of the Jewish State. This is meant to spread the feeling to the world that Israel’s establishment is a result of British colonialism, one that must be canceled so that “Falestin” is restored to its “historical owners” – the Palestinians. Abdullah, like the Palestinian Arabs, thinks that if he succeeds in removing Jerusalem from the State of Israel, the resulting demoralization will send the Jews packing.</p> <p>Establishing a Palestinian Arab state that will threaten Israel’s security and destroy the Jewish state, is the strategic objective of King Abdullah because it will prevent a Palestinian State from arising in Jordan. If a Palestinian state is created in the hills of Judea and Samaria, the king intends to get rid of all the Palestinian refugees who entered Jordan in the 1948 war, about one and a half million people, plus several hundred thousand who entered Jordan over the last seventy years. A demographic pressure in the Palestinian state will become terrorist pressure that turns life in Israel into Hell – exactly what Abdullah wants.</p> <p>He coordinates his activities with Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, seeing eye to eye with them on the main goal – destroying Israel in order to save the Hashemite Kingdom from becoming a nation of Palestinians.</p> <p>We would do well to remember what most of us have long forgotten: The clueless group of irresponsible Israeli politicians who gave Jordan its unconditional and unlimited special status in Jerusalem is the same group whose idiotic policies brought terrorist Arafat back from the garbage bin of politicians in Tunisia and granted him the closest thing to a state, The stars of this stellar group included Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin, and Alon Liel, who dragged Yitzchak Rabin into the most dangerous political trap, endangering the continued existence of the State of Israel.</p> <p>Jordan today, it must be concluded, is working non-stop on the cover of its peace treaty with Israel to destroy the Jewish State and create a Palestinian one instead. What is worse is that Israel refuses to admit to the situation and continues most carefully to keep the agreement, hoping calm will prevail along the border until the next elections. Every politician knows that if during his term, relations with Jordan deteriorate, the media – our shallow, slanted and agenda-ridden media – will accuse him of being the cause of the agreement’s nullification, making him pay the price for the next round of elections. That is why politicians bolster up the temporary tactical quiet, ignoring the strategic threat to the very existence of the state posed by the peace agreement.</p> <p>If Israel’s leaders felt endangered by the actions of Abdullah, they would do something to prevent his destructive activities, cleverly disguised as military and economic cooperation. The problem is that in their view, short term tactical advantages are preferable to attending to strategic problems that affect the long term. We are all going to pay a high price for this way of running things on the part of Israel’s decision makers – as can be seen by the security equipment crisis last month in Jerusalem.</p> <p>King Hussein was all for Israel’s continued existence and did not question Jerusalem ‘s status. That’s why peace with him was positive in general. His son Abdullah changed his father’s strategy and works tirelessly to create a Palestinian state on the ruins of the destroyed Jewish one. Now that King Abdullah’s nefarious scheme has been revealed, Israel must rethink its Jordanian route and work to create a Palestinian Arab state in all or part of Jordan, since the majority of the people there are Palestinian Arabs.</p> <p>The alternative is establishing a Palestinian state on Israeli territory with its capital in Eastern Jerusalem, a strategic danger to Israel.</p> <p>There is no reason that the Jewish people, who returned to its land after 2000 years of exile, should pay with its very existence for the survival of the Hashemites brought by the British from Hijaz to rule the most artificial country in the world – Jordan.</p> <p>Reprinted with author’s permission from <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20873" type="external">Israel National News</a></p>	Israel-Jordan Peace Agreement: The Emperor Has No Clothes	true	https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/93206/israel-jordan-peace-agreement-emperor-no-clothes-opinion/	2017-08-15
<p>BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones has written a letter to President Trump, asking him to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Ohio, specifically to his county.</p> <p>In the letter, Sheriff Jones also calls for ICE to shut down businesses that hire illegal immigrants. He asks President Trump to come to Butler County, sit down with him and work on a plan to start "Work Place Enforcement".</p> <p>Sheriff Jones says he's also tired of illegal immigrants committing crimes here, bringing in drugs and risking the health and safety of citizens "every day that this country allows them to be here".</p> <p>Sheriff Jones spoke at a Trump rally in Sharonville last July.</p>	Butler County Sheriff requests ICE shut down local businesses that hire illegals	false	http://local12.com/news/local/butler-county-sheriff-requests-ice-to-shut-down-businesses-that-hire-illigals	2018-08-24
<p>The Dallas Cowboys made headlines before their Week 3 “Monday Night Football” game against the Arizona Cardinals when they <a type="internal">briefly knelt on the field</a> — alongside owner Jerry Jones — and then stood with arms linked during the national anthem.</p> <p>While some saw the move as a good compromise between protesting during the anthem and respecting the flag, others were surprised and disappointed the Cowboys took a knee at all.</p> <q> <p>Why is there politics in the middle of football? Protest on your own time! Political agenda being shoved down my throat everywhere No escape</p> <p>— TexasGirl (@HannahIvers) <a href="https://twitter.com/HannahIvers/status/912600678031339522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">September 26, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Well, Dez Bryant has good news for those who weren’t happy with the demonstration:</p> <p>It won’t be repeated.</p> <p>TRENDING: <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/wc/mlb-player-goes-7-straight-games-hr-sets-franchise-record/" type="external">MLB Player Goes 7 Straight Games With HR, Sets Franchise Record</a></p> <p>The Cowboys’ star receiver told the <a href="https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2017/09/29/wr-dez-bryant-cowboys-will-handle-national-anthem-week-going-stand" type="external">Dallas Morning News</a> that the team will go back to doing what it did before Monday night’s game: “We’re going to stand and put our hand over our heart.”</p> <p>Bryant said the Week 3 protest “was just a response to [President Donald] Trump. That’s all that was.”</p> <p>Trump had suggested last week that <a type="internal">he’d like to see NFL owners fire players</a> who protest during the national anthem.</p> <p>Jones said Friday morning on <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/09/29/cowboys-owner-jones-says-respecting-the-flag-is-most-important-aspect-of-nfl-protests/" type="external">KRLD-FM</a>that Bryant appeared to be “torn” before the protest took place in Arizona.</p> <p>“I’m so appreciative of how the team responded,” said Jones. “It was a trying time. Players were truly under pressure, external pressure from their relationships. They were really under pressure to basically in many cases kneel at the flag.”</p> <p>As for this week, Bryant said, “I’m going to leave all of that in the past. It is what it is. I’m focused on this week. I don’t even want to think about it. I’m done.”</p> <p>Trump also tweeted that he had spoken with Jones and confirmed that the players will stand for Week 4.</p> <q> <p>Spoke to Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday. Jerry is a winner who knows how to get things done. Players will stand for Country!</p> <p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/912997506900021248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">September 27, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>It appears the Cowboys will be back to business as usual come Sunday.</p> <p>Dallas will look to build upon its Week 3 victory over the Cardinals as it hosts the surprising Los Angeles Rams at AT&amp;T Stadium.</p> <p>We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/about/ethics-editorial-standards/" type="external">editorial standards</a>.</p>	Dez Bryant announces Cowboys’ plans for national anthem	false	https://www.thewildcard.com/dez-bryant-announces-cowboys-plans-for-national-anthem/	2017-09-29
<p>Published March 12, 2015</p> <p>BREAKING: Two police officers reportedly were shot early Thursday outside the police department in Ferguson, Mo. amid protests that followed the resignation of the town’s police chief.</p> <p>The shooting was first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ferguson Police Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff told the paper that he did not believe the officers were from his department and had no information on the extend of their injuries. The Post-Dispatch reported, citing a police source, that one of the officers was from St. Louis County, while the other was from Webster Groves, another St. Louis suburb located south of Ferguson.</p> <p>KTVI reported that as many as 200 protesters had gathered outside the police station to demand more changes in the city’s government after the resignation of Police Chief Tom Jackson Wednesday afternoon. The station reported that at least one person had been arrested and that protesters were blocking traffic on nearby Florissant Road.</p> <p>The Associated Press reported that the crowd had appeared to be dwindling when the shots were heard. The Missouri Highway Patrol told the AP that troopers were heading to the scene.</p> <p>Jackson was the sixth Ferguson employee to resign or be fired after a Justice Department report cleared white former officer Darren Wilson of civil rights charges in the shooting of black 18-year-old Michael Brown this past August, but found a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias in the city police department.</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>	Raw Video: 2 officers shot outside of Ferguson police department	false	http://leoaffairs.com/video	2015-03-12
<a type="internal" /> <p>Members of the Dallas Cowboys organization have been reluctant to protest the national anthem, with head coach <a type="internal">Jason Garrett calling the anthem “sacred”</a> and Dez Bryant saying he wouldn’t protest. Their attitudes mirror what’s coming from the top.</p> <p>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has made it clear that he opposes national anthem protests. In an interview with FOX Business, Jones said he did “not think the place” to express opinions is by protesting the flag.</p> <q> <p>"I do not think the place to express yourself in society is as we recognize the American flag." – Jerry Jones on National Anthem protests <a href="https://t.co/3JkrdMhwWy" type="external">pic.twitter.com/3JkrdMhwWy</a></p> <p>— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxBusiness/status/912020069596635137" type="external">September 24, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Jones’ thoughts echo that of many Americans, though as the demonstrations attest, there are many who disagree.</p> <p>Based on his public comments, it would be a surprise to see a display from any Cowboys on Monday night.</p>	Jerry Jones explains why he opposes national anthem protests	false	http://larrybrownsports.com/football/jerry-jones-explains-why-he-opposes-national-anthem-protests/397583	2017-09-24
<p>When you’re caught in a lie, it can be difficult to know what to do. As much as it may be morally correct to admit your wrongdoing, that’s too embarrassing and shameful for some individuals to handle.</p> <p>Unfortunately, that’s why many people find themselves only getting deeper and deeper into their lies. In order to cover up for themselves, they just keep making up more and more details until their story spirals out of control.</p> <p>One group of people that tend to know how to deal with liars easily are legal professionals. So when this cop tried to make up a law right to an attorney, you can imagine that things quickly got out of hand!</p> <p>Like many people looking to make a few extra dollars these days, Wilmington, North Carolina resident Jesse Bright had been using some of his spare time to serve as a driver for the ride-sharing app Uber. However, he also had a day job—one that would come in handy later.</p> One day, Jesse was unexpectedly pulled over by a police officer, who detained his passenger, confiscating his items. <p>Soon enough, Jesse was surrounded by officers. He thought that the whole situation seemed suspicious, to the point that he was afraid that one of the cops may have slipped something onto his passenger seat.</p> Continue reading on the next page…	Uber Driver Catches Cop In A Lie About The Law And Totally Schools Him	false	http://boredomtherapy.com/uber-driver-catches-cop/?as=6d23842652751410796&bdk=b6d23842652751410796
<p>President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the "fake" news media in a series of tweets early Saturday morning, lashing out at CNN after the network corrected a story on the Trump campaign and Russia.</p> <p>Trump accused CNN of making a “vicious and intentional mistake” and called on the network to fire those responsible, and also called for ABC reporter Brian Ross, who has been suspended, to be fired for a separate erroneous report.</p> <p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introduced during the CNN presidential debate at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getty Images</p> <p>"Fake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday. They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his “mistake”)," Trump wrote. "Watch to see if @CNN fires those responsible, or was it just gross incompetence?"</p> <p>Trump continued to taunt CNN in a second tweet.</p> <p>"CNN’S slogan is CNN, THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS. Everyone knows this is not true, that this could, in fact, be a fraud on the American Public. There are many outlets that are far more trusted than Fake News CNN. Their slogan should be CNN, THE LEAST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS!" the president tweeted.</p> <p>The news media has been one of Trump’s most frequent targets since he took office in January. He derides organizations that publish reports critical of him as "fake news." In July, he was accused of inciting violence against journalists after he tweeted a gif showing himself body slamming a CNN avatar.</p> <p>In the corrected CNN report Trump referred to, it was claimed that Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had received a “heads up” email on September 4, ahead of the release by WikiLeaks of a cache of emails stolen from DNC servers, allegedly by Russian government linked hackers.</p> <p>CNN later corrected its report to state that Trump Jr. had in fact received the email on September 14, subsequent to their public release by WikiLeaks.</p> <p>The network has said it will not discipline the reporters responsible for the story, because they followed company procedure and used multiple sources to verify the claims, and does not believe they acted with malicious intent.</p> <p>ABC’s chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross had mistakenly reported on-air that Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russian officials before the 2016 presidential election. The network later corrected the report to state that Trump had made the request as president elect, prior to taking office in January.</p> <p>Fox News, whose coverage Trump has praised and contrasted with CNN's, also issued a correction for a story Friday in which it was claimed that one of the women who has accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault forged his signature in a high school yearbook.</p> <p>At a rally in support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore Friday night, Trump had attacked news networks.</p> <p>“CNN apologized just a little while ago,” Trump said, referring to the error correction. “They apologized. Oh, thank you, CNN. Thank you so much. You should’ve been apologizing for the last two years.”</p> <p>More from Newsweek</p>	Gloating Trump Renews Attacks on 'Fake News' After CNN Corrects Russia Probe Story	false	http://ca.yahoo.com/news/gloating-trump-renews-attacks-apos-153323378.html	2017-12-09
<p>- Police in Voi have arrested three men suspected to belong to terror group al-Shabaab</p> <p>- According to sources, two other suspects escaped the manhunt</p> <p>- Meanwhile in Eastleigh 80 terror suspects were arrested in a major swoop on Sunday, June 18</p> <p>Police in Voi on Monday, June 19, dramatically arrested three men suspected to belong to militant group al-Shabaab.</p> <p>According to sources, police had suspected the men of planning a terror attack in Kenya.</p> <p>The three terror suspects were identified as Yayha Bakari a teacher working in Kikambala, Julius Mwandenzi and Abdallah Ramadhan.</p> The three terror suspects were identified as Yayha Bakari a teacher working in Kikambala, Julius Mwandenzi and Abdallah Ramadhan. <p>TUKO.co.ke has learnt that two other suspects escaped arrest with police launching a manhunt for them.</p> <p>The three suspects are currently being interrogated by the anti-terrorism police and will be arraigned in court this week.</p> <p>Meanwhile in Eastleigh, 80 suspected terror suspects have been arrested after a major police operation on Sunday, June 18.</p> <p>The suspects were said to belong to al-Shabaab terror cells in Nairobi.</p> Police in Voi on Monday, June 19, dramatically arrested three men suspected to belong to militant group al-Shabaab. <p><a type="internal">Install TUKO App To Read News For FREE</a></p> <p>In the last one month Kenya has experienced more than a dozen attacks on civilians and government officers.</p> <p>The attacks by the terror group has mostly been in northern Kenya, with the militants using Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).</p> <p>The terror attacks have currently claimed lives of 40 Kenyans mostly police officers.</p> <p>Have something to add to this article? Send to news@tuko.co.ke</p> <p>Watch PLO Lumumba speak about the Raila conspiracy below:</p> <p>Source: <a type="internal">Tuko.co.ke</a></p>	Police arrest suspected deadly al-Shabaab fighters in Kenya	false	https://www.tuko.co.ke/244040-police-arrest-suspected-deadly-al-shabaab-fighters-kenya.html
<p>Earlier this year, two hunters suffered gun-related injuries while camped out at the <a href="http://www.circledugranch.com/index_f.html" type="external">Circle Dug Ranch</a>, a Texas ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border. <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/real-story-behind-presidio-county-shooting/" type="external">According to Texas Monthly</a>, a 26-year-old hunting guide named Walker Daugherty was shot in the abdomen. One of his clients, 59-year-old Edwin Roberts, was shot in the arm. When Daugherty reported the incident to law enforcement officials, <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/real-story-behind-presidio-county-shooting/" type="external">he and his fiancée claimed</a> that the gunfire came from illegal Mexican immigrants who were attempting to steal the Daugherty’s RV and kidnap their clients.</p> <p>After the incident, a GoFundMe page was launched to help Daugherty pay for his medical expenses. <a href="http://www.cbs7.com/content/news/Presidio-County-Sheriff-Currently-no-sufficient-evidence-of-border-violence-410175185.html" type="external">According to KOSA CBS 7</a>, the now-inactive campaign page stated that Daugherty was shot by illegal immigrants who were trying to steal his RV. More than $25,000 was raised to cover Daugherty’s medical expenses.</p> <a type="internal" /> CREDIT: Credit: GoFundMe <p>Upon hearing the story, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Fake-news-That-didn-t-stop-Sid-Miller-from-10859067.php" type="external">posted a message to Facebook</a> calling Daugherty a hero and pledging his support for a border wall. “This is why we need the wall and to secure our borders,” wrote Miller. <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/02/17/hunters-indicted-west-texas-shooting-claimed-unauthorized-immigrants-started" type="external">According to the Dallas News</a>, the post was shared 6,500 times before Miller deleted it.</p> <a type="internal" /> <p>Weeks later, law enforcement officials determined Daugherty’s story was false.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cbs7.com/content/news/Presidio-County-Sheriff-Currently-no-sufficient-evidence-of-border-violence-410175185.html" type="external">According to KOSA CBS 7</a> in Texas, an investigation by the Presidio County Sheriff’s Department found that the gunfire did not come from immigrants crossing the border — it came from the hunters themselves. That’s right: friendly fire. Investigators determined that Daugherty shot Roberts and that another hunting guide, Michael Bryant, shot Daugherty.</p> <p>The Daugherty family reportedly released a statement about the Presidio County Sheriff’s investigation that was <a href="http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/2017/01/daugherty-family-issues-statement.html" type="external">published on the blog The Westerner</a>.</p> <p>“We do not deny that our hunter client was hit by a bullet that resulted from a horribly fearful and confusing situation. However, the bullet that shot our son was not. That shot came later and from an entirely different direction. We are unable to reveal all the details of the event at this time but we do not agree with the Sherriff’s stated conclusion to the incident.”</p> <p>Read their full statement <a href="http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/2017/01/daugherty-family-issues-statement.html" type="external">here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/02/17/hunters-indicted-west-texas-shooting-claimed-unauthorized-immigrants-started" type="external">Daugherty and Bryant have since been indicted</a> on charges of deadly conduct by discharging firearms in the direction of others, <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional/texas-digest-hunters-who-blamed-immigrants-are-charged-shooting/EZWG8GS1m4ou28xGEnmf8H/" type="external">reports the Austin American-Statesman</a>.</p>	Hunter Who Says He Was Shot At By Immigrants At U.S.-Mexico Border Was Victim Of Friendly Fire, Investigators Conclude	false	https://www.wearemitu.com/things-that-matter/texas-hunter-claimed-illegals-shot-at-him-investigators-determine-story-was-false/	2017-02-20
<p>Via <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/09/epas-pruitt-pledges-to-repeal-obamas-global-warming-rule/" type="external">Daily Caller:</a></p> <q> <p>Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced he would sign a proposed rule to repeal the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming.</p> <p>Pruitt announced his intention to withdraw the Clean Power Plan (CPP) to applause from a crowd gathered at a mining event on Monday. EPA has been working to repeal the CPP for months.</p> <p>The Obama administration finalized the CPP in 2015, which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Obama used the CPP as part of his plant to meet the goals of the Paris climate accord.</p> </q>	EPA Chief Scott Pruit To Repeal Obama’s Global Warming Rule	false	https://www.weaselzippers.us/359957-epa-chief-scott-pruit-to-repeal-obamas-global-warming-rule/	2017-10-09
<p>Tropical Storm Harvey is building up strength in the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane may be on our hands, and it’s headed to Texas and Louisiana, where it is predicted to do a lot of flooding with massive amounts of rain and 80 mph winds.</p> <p>Update (8/25/17; 8:29 P.M.): Hurricane Harvey has seriously picked up. The storm has upped the ante to a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds as high as 130 mph. Gusts of winds have been reported to be as high as 155 mph.</p> <p>Update (8/27/17; 10:45 P.M.): Massive flooding has reached Houston and many areas of southeast Texas, with 20 inches of rain hitting some areas. However, the hurricane has since dwindled from a Category 2, with sustained winds of 110 mph. More flooding and rainfall is expected into Wednesday, with meteorologists predicting 50 inches of rainfall. Three deaths have already been reported along with 12 injuries.</p> <p>Update (8/29/17; 7:52 P.M.): Harvey is officially a tropical storm. However, that doesn’t downplay the danger. An incredible amount of flooding has been reported in the Houston area. There are now 14 official causalities of the storm, including a family of six and a Houston police officer.</p> <p>Update (9/5/17; 1:34 P.M.): The death toll of Hurricane Harvey has increased to at least 60 causalities as a direct result of the storm.</p> <p>Officials are expecting up to 20 inches of rain in eastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana, starting Friday (August 25) up until the beginning of next week. As a result of the impending storm, Portland, Texas, is already being evacuated.</p> <q> <p>Corpus Christi Mayor, Joe McComb, just announced that a voluntary evacuation is highly encouraged especially if you are in a low-lying area.</p> <p>— H-E-B Prepared (@HEBPrepared) <a href="https://twitter.com/HEBPrepared/status/900784594890481667" type="external">August 24, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell have also evacuated their employees.</p> <p>Flights in-and-out of the area have been cancelled and delayed. Gas stations are currently running out of gas as people are attempting to escape the path of the hurricane.</p> Hurricane Harvey Path <p>On Thursday, Hurricane Harvey can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s been predicted that the storm will be into Texas by Friday, and will advance even more as it enters Louisiana. Flooding is expected in both states. The current speed of the hurricane is 80 mph.</p> <q> <p>San Patricio County issues mandatory evacuation <a href="https://t.co/VEEaYZrMpS" type="external">https://t.co/VEEaYZrMpS</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/callerdotcom" type="external">@callerdotcom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash" type="external">#HurricaneHarvey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RGV?src=hash" type="external">#RGV</a></p> <p>— Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/reportbywilson/status/900769516183060482" type="external">August 24, 2017</a></p> </q> School Closures <p>Schools in Houston have been closed in anticipation of Hurricane Harvey. Districts are announcing closures for public schools, community colleges, and universities.</p> <q> <p>Hurricane Harvey school closures in Houston: Districts already announcing closures <a href="https://t.co/Dwd7vFuhFZ" type="external">https://t.co/Dwd7vFuhFZ</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonChron" type="external">@houstonchron</a></p> <p>— Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) <a href="https://twitter.com/anblanx/status/900772223572508672" type="external">August 24, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Here’s a short list of some of the schools that will be closing down as a result of the storm.</p>	Hurricane Harvey 2017: Forecast, Map, Path & Live Updates	false	http://coed.com/2017/08/24/hurricane-harvey-forecast-map-path-updates-storm-flooding-news-info-details/	2017-08-24
<p>A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts:</p> <p>NOT REAL: Charlottesville Killer Was Hillary Supporter, Funded By Soros</p> <p>THE FACTS: James Fields, who's charged with murder after police say he drove his car into a Charlottesville, Virginia, crowd last weekend, supported President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, his former teacher told the AP. GoFundMe confirmed that it removed "multiple campaigns" to raise money for Fields; none were started by billionaire George Soros, who has been a frequent target of hoax sites. The stories shared by YourNewsWire and other sites claim Fields' arrest is part of a "false flag" aimed at sparking a civil war.</p> <p>___</p> <p>NOT REAL: President Trump Fires All 14 Muslim Federal Judges</p> <p>THE FACTS: There aren't any Muslims on the federal bench and the president has no authority to fire federal judges. Abid Qureshi, a Washington, D.C., attorney, was nominated last year by former President Barack Obama to be the first Muslim federal judge, but he wasn't confirmed by the Senate. The hoax story by a site named As American As Apple Pie and shared by others also claimed Trump used the "evacuation clause" to remove the judges. There is no such clause that is part of federal law.</p> <p>___</p> <p>NOT REAL: MYSTERIOUS NAZI SUBMARINE FROM WWII DISCOVERED IN GREAT LAKES</p> <p>THE FACTS: Divers didn't find a German U-boat at the bottom of the Lake Ontario despite a story posted last year by admitted hoax outlet World Daily News Report, shared recently by other sites. The story suggests the ship may have sunk during the non-existent Battle of Niagara Falls. The photos included with the article show in reality a rusted Soviet submarine and two divers from a 2010 expedition to the North Pole by a French team.</p> <p>___</p> <p>NOT REAL: British PM Theresa May: Pedophiles Should be Allowed to Adopt Children Too</p> <p>THE FACTS: The story by Neon Nettle is based on a 2010 article by a British law professor that called for May, who was the U.K.'s home secretary at the time, to relax rules banning sex offenders from caring from children. May had previously ordered a review of vetting procedures for adults coming into regular contact with children other than their own, but May's spokesman said at the time that her office wouldn't consider allowing pedophiles to adopt.</p> <p>___</p> <p>NOT REAL: What Adam Sandler is Saying About Mormons</p> <p>THE FACTS: The comedian didn't come to the defense of Mormons on a recent podcast, despite a slew of identical articles on websites designed to look like local news outlets. The story claims Sandler stepped into say Mormons were "decent people" when an unnamed interviewer began to disparage them. All of the sites include a disclaimer saying the stories on them aren't real.</p> <p>___</p> <p>This weekly fixture is part of The Associated Press' ongoing efforts to fact-check claims in suspected false news stories.</p> <p>___</p>	NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week	false	https://www.wthr.com/article/not-real-news-a-look-at-what-didnt-happen-this-week-18	2017-08-18
<p>Former President <a href="http://people.com/tag/barack-obama" type="external">Barack Obama</a> has reportedly been called to serve jury duty next month, according to <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-obama-gets-jury-duty-20171027-story,amp.html" type="external">The Chicago Tribune</a>.</p> <p>On Friday, Chief Judge Tim Evans reportedly told county commissioners during a budget hearing that Obama had not only been called for jury duty in Cook County, but that he was also planning on serving it, according to the Tribune.</p> <p>“He made it crystal-clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident of this community,” Evans later told the newspaper.</p> <p>“Obviously, we will make certain that he has all the accoutrements that accompany a former president,” Evans continued. “His safety will be uppermost in our minds.”</p> <p>Last week, Obama <a href="http://people.com/politics/five-living-former-presidents-hurricane-relief-concert/" type="external">joined forces</a> with the four other living former United States presidents to host a relief concert to aid victims of <a href="http://people.com/tag/hurricane-irma/" type="external">Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria</a>.</p> <p>The event, “Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal,” was held at Texas A&amp;M and featured performances by Sam Moore, Yolanda Evans, Lyle Lovett and a special guest appearance from <a href="http://people.com/tag/lady-gaga" type="external">Lady Gaga</a> — and it apparently also featured a little comedy from <a href="http://people.com/tag/george-w-bush/" type="external">George W. Bush</a>.</p> Jimmy Carter (left), George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton <p>After all five former presidents took the stage at the event, <a href="http://people.com/tag/bill-clinton" type="external">Bill Clinton</a> stepped to the mic to deliver remarks. Meanwhile, behind him, the younger Bush made an unknown comment to Obama out of the corner of his mouth, prompting his predecessor to break into laughter.</p> <p>Obama quickly stifled his laughter as Bush smiled and shot him a couple of sideways looks.</p> <p>While Bush’s remark was sadly inaudible to the rest of us, <a href="http://people.com/politics/colbert-funny-theories-how-bush-made-obama-laugh-clinton-speech/" type="external">Stephen Colbert stepped up to offer some guesses</a> at what he said during Monday’s episode of The Late Show.</p> <p>Cueing up a clip from the concert and doing his best Dubya impression, Colbert quipped, “Hey, were you born in Kenya?”</p> <p>Another option: “Twenty bucks if you pants Clinton right now.”</p> <p>Or perhaps Bush said, “Yo, real quick — where’s Puerto Rico?”</p>	Former President Barack Obama Reportedly Got Called to Serve Jury Duty in Chicago	false	https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-president-barack-obama-reportedly-173621550.html	2017-10-28
<a href="https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/023/525/whathappen.jpg" type="external" /> About <p>Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" Book is an upcoming memoir written by <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton</a> discussing the contentious <a type="internal">2016 United States presidential election</a>. The book title was widely mocked on <a type="internal">Twitter</a> following its announcement in late July 2017.</p> <p>On July 27th, 2017, Hillary Clinton unveiled the title of her upcoming book What Happened, a memoir discussing experiences during her 2016 presidential run against <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a> (shown below). <a type="internal">[1]</a></p> <a type="internal" /> Book Cover Spread <p>That day, Twitter user @Kno tweeted a photoshopped version of the book cover edited to read "What in the Entire Fuck Happened?" (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Twitter user @ColeLedford11 posted a photoshopped picture of the inside of a book with a passage about Clinton getting "3 million more votes than Trump even with his collusion with the Russian government" (shown below, right).</p> <a type="internal" /> What in the Entire Fuck Happened? <a type="internal" /> "I got 3 million more votes than Trump even with his collusion with the Russian government" <p>Also on July 27th, several Twitter users posted joke names for the book along with the hashtag "#BetterNamesForHillarysBook" <a type="internal">[2]</a> (shown below). Meanwhile, <a type="internal">The Daily Dot</a> <a type="internal">[3]</a> published an article about the online reaction to the book titled "Hillary Clinton’s new book title is getting laughed off of Twitter."</p> Search Interest External References	Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" Book	false	http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hillary-clintons-what-happened-book	2017-07-27
<p>A clearer picture is coming into focus on the Democrat IT scandal that may help explain why Democrats have been so reluctant to condemn the Awans or help the police with the investigation. It also might explain why former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/07/28/debbie-wasserman-schultz-reportedly-jumpy-avoiding-reporters-after-it-staffers-arrest/" type="external">so jumpy</a> lately.</p> <p>New information about a massive cybersecurity breach, gleaned from a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation, implicates the former chair of the House Democratic Caucus, then-Rep. Xavier Becerra, who is now the attorney general of California and a rising star in Democratic politics.</p> <q> <p>Xavier Becerra was told by cops his server had major cybersecurity issues re: Imran. A fake server was given to cops He's remained silent.</p>— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) <a href="https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/908010112886951936" type="external">September 13, 2017</a> </q> <p>This scandal isn't about bank fraud, folks.</p> <p>Kudos to Luke Rosiak of The Daily Caller for chasing down this story, even as the Democratic media complex either poo-pooed or ignored the growing scandal. As <a href="http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=371562" type="external">Ace of Spades</a> noted, at some point the legacy media is going to have the explain to their audiences why they didn't report on this major story all year long.</p> <q> A secret server is behind law enforcement’s decision to ban a former IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House network. <p>Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a secret server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of the server early this year, but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations. The falsified image is what ultimately triggered their ban from the House network Feb. 2, according to a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation.</p> <p>The secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, an organization chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. Police informed Becerra that the server was the subject of an investigation and requested a copy of it. Authorities considered the false image they received to be interference in a criminal investigation, the senior official said.</p> <p>Data was also backed up to Dropbox in huge quantities, the official said. Congressional offices are prohibited from using Dropbox, so an unofficial account was used, meaning Awan could have still had access to the data even though he was banned from the congressional network.</p> <p>Awan had access to all emails and office computer files of 45 members of Congress who are listed below. Fear among members that Awan could release embarrassing information if they cooperated with prosecutors could explain why the Democrats have refused to acknowledge the cybersecurity breach publicly or criticize the suspects.</p> </q> <p>According to the DCNF's source, the Awans’ use of Dropbox went well beyond casual use. They were "funneling of huge quantities of data offsite where it could not be taken back by House authorities."</p>	Imran Awan Had a Secret Server that Was Connected to the House Democratic Caucus	true	https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/14/imran-awan-secret-server-connected-house-democratic-caucus/	2017-09-14
<p>There’s a lot to dissect here, but first things first: why would the White House need to deploy a <a type="internal">Melania Trump</a> stunt double? Nobody really knows the answer to that question, but it doesn’t have anyone less convinced that President <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a> had a Melania decoy by his side during a press conference on the White House lawn on October 13. The masterful conspiracy theory was posited by intrepid internet explorer Andrea Wagner Barber, who posted a video of the presser on Facebook. Andrea pointed out that Melania didn’t look exactly like herself, and thousands on Twitter agreed. Watch the video below, and <a type="internal">scroll through this gallery of Melania Pics</a> to see if you can spot the difference!</p> <p>To the casual viewer half-paying attention to another <a type="internal">POTUS and FLOTUS appearance</a>, there’s really nothing amiss about Melania. It’s when you look closer that you see some subtle differences. “Melania” — if that’s her real name — is wearing massive sunglasses that cover half her face. Chic, or suspicious? Her lips appear to be much bigger and differently shaped. As some have pointed out, her hair is a little frizzy and dry, far from the pristine condition she usually keeps it in. Could it be a wig?</p> <p>Pay attention to the president, too. He says, “My wife, Melania, who happens to be right here…” Why would he need to point that out? Is he letting the world know that this isn’t Melania, and the real one’s chilling in Air Force One? Thinking about it, this isn’t the first time that he’s seemingly been confused about Melania’s whereabouts while they happen to be in the same room. During their trip to Texas to visit the victims of Hurricane Harvey, he said, “Melania wanted to be here today” during a press conference. Melania was standing directly beside him in her FLOTUS hat. Did Melania stay home and <a type="internal">send out a decoy in her disaster heels</a>?</p> <p>Of course, the most logical answer here is that Melania was simply having a bad hair day, wore a little too much lipliner, and on impulse bought a pair of sunglasses that her friends haven’t told her don’t work yet. Or…the conspiracy theorists have a valid point. Political decoys have been used throughout modern history to protect high-powered individuals from harm, or to attend to duties they cannot fulfill themselves. However, the technique’s been used very sparingly, and most likely wouldn’t work for someone like Melania. Let these voters tell you why they’re absolutely convinced we’ve got a bodysnatcher in the White House:</p> <p>HollywoodLifers, do you think the White House is using a Melania Trump stunt double? Let us know!</p>	Is The White House Using a Melania Trump Stunt Double? Voters Convinced On Twitter	true	http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/10/18/melania-trump-stunt-double-fake-first-lady-decoy/	2017-10-18
<p>As seen on <a type="internal">The Five</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Police Group Boycotts Ben &amp; Jerry's After Black Lives Matter Endorsement</a></p> <p>As more women come forward with <a type="internal">allegations of sexual misconduct</a> against Donald Trump, the Republican nominee is lashing out at the mainstream media, which he claims is running with this "total fiction" to distract from Hillary Clinton's scandals.</p> <p>At a rally in Greensboro, N.C., Trump said these accusations are <a type="internal">part of a conspiracy</a> involving the Clinton campaign and what he called “the corrupt media.”</p> <p>Greg Gutfeld agreed with much of Trump's assessment on "The Five" today, saying, "The media wants Hillary to win. There's no doubt about that."</p> <p><a type="internal">Judge Jeanine on Trump Accusers: 'All on One Day? It's a Little Too Convenient'</a></p> <p>Gutfeld explained that Trump has actually been "set up," as he was given countless hours of coverage and "billions of dollars of free media," only to have the rug pulled out from under him.</p> <p>"The media ... [and] Hillary and Obama, they knew elevating Donald Trump - giving him an air of respectability in the press, as well - turned him into the Republican nominee. Then, out came the knives."</p> <p>Watch the co-hosts of "The Five" discuss above, and let us know what you think in the comments.</p> <p><a type="internal">New WikiLeaks Bombshell: Clinton Aides Discussed 'Emails to and from POTUS'</a></p>	Gutfeld: 'The Media Wants Hillary to Win; There's No Doubt About That'	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/14/greg-gutfeld-media-wants-hillary-clinton-win-donald-trump-lose	2016-10-14
<p>Prior to Sunday's presidential debate, four women who have accused the Clintons of wrongdoing, including allegations of sexual deviancy, spoke at a press availability with Republican Donald Trump.</p> <p>Observers said Trump meant to contrast his vulgar leaked 2005 audiotape with the allegations from the women about their mistreatment at the hands of the Clintons.</p> <p>"It's so important...when people are talking about... the words that Donald Trump uttered--he's very embarrassed...he's apologetic for those words," Juanita Broaddrick, 73, told Sean Hannity.</p> <p>Broaddrick has accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her in 1978, and has said that Hillary Clinton attacked her character after she came forward with the original accusations.</p> <p>"I've never heard one apology for what Hillary Clinton did to me after she threatened me after her husband raped me. I did have an apology from Bill Clinton, although he'll never admit it--I'd like to see him do it in-person," she said.</p> <p>Broaddrick added that she "feared" a Clinton presidency because she suspected that Hillary Clinton would seek retribution against her for speaking out once more.</p> <p>Watch the full clip above and let us know what you think in the comments.</p> <p><a type="internal">Krauthammer: Trump Threat to Prosecute Hillary Sounds Like a 'Banana Republic'</a></p>	Juanita Broaddrick: Trump Apologized; Where's Bill and Hillary's Apologies?	true	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/10/juanita-broaddrick-clinton-accusers-trump-apologized-hillary-bill-never-did	2016-10-10
<p>Rose McGowan, one of 28 actresses and film industry figures <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-accusers-sexual-harassment-assault-rose-mcgowan-ashley-judd-gwyneth-paltrow" type="external">who has accused</a> Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, blasted colleagues <a type="internal">Ben Affleck and Matt Damon</a> for allegedly remaining silent about the charges for years.</p> <p>Then the Twitter police stepped in. We'll get there.</p> <p>Affleck and Damon were <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/10/ben-affleck-finally-addresses-harvey-weinstein-scandal-but-not-matt-damon-so-far/" type="external">accused of helping kill</a> a 2004 New York Times story about Weinstein's inappropriate sexual behavior.</p> <p>McGowan called Damon a “spineless profiteer”:</p> <q> <p>Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/MattDamon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@mattdamon</a> what’s it like to be a spineless profiteer who stays silent? <a href="https://t.co/rp0OrRrpqJ" type="external">pic.twitter.com/rp0OrRrpqJ</a></p> </q> <p>She was a tad bit more concise with this blast at Affleck:</p> <q> <p>Ben Affleck fuck off</p> </q> <p>This tweet from Affleck really set her off:</p> <p>To which she responded:</p> <q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/BenAffleck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@benaffleck</a> “GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT” you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie.</p> </q> <p>OK, now that you understand the flavor of the whole thing, enter, the Twitter police.</p> <p>McGowan announced on Wednesday via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BaImG1Mle7b/?hl=en" type="external">Instagram</a> that the Twitter powers that be had suspended her account for 12 hours — with the countdown to begin after she deleted the “tweets that violate our rules”:</p> <p>No word what those “rules” are, given Twitter is littered with F-bombs and worse on a daily basis, not to mention brutal ad hominem attacks against anyone and everyone.</p> <p>In 1997, then-23-year-old McGowan reportedly reached a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rose-mcgowan-harvey-weinstein-settlement-2017-10" type="external">$100,000 settlement</a> with Weinstein over what The New York Times described as “an episode in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival,” Business Insider reported.</p> <p>Oddly, ten years later, McGowan and Weinstein were all smiles as they arrived, arm-in-arm, at the Los Angeles premiere of the film “Grindhouse'” in March 2007:</p> <p>TMZ <a type="internal">originally reported</a> that the producer would be getting help in Wickenburg, Arizona. But Thursday morning, it reported that Weinstein is now in the Scottsdale, Arizona, area at a <a href="http://www.12news.com/news/local/arizona/tmz-harvey-weinstein-in-arizona-for-sex-addiction-treatment/482652393" type="external">rehabilitation center</a> for treatment of “behavioral issues,” including sexual addiction.</p> <p>As is often the case, (see: “Anthony Weiner,” et al.) Weinstein's apologies and subsequent claims of desiring help come only after decades of alleged inappropriate sexual behavior, including alleged rape, after finally being outed.</p>	Rose McGowan Slams Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Over Weinstein Sex Charges — Then the Twitter Police Step In	false	http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/10/996218-rose-mcgowan-slams-ben-affleck-matt-damon-weinstein-sex-charges-twitter-police-step/	2017-10-12
<p>What happened Sunday night in Las Vegas was a horrible, senseless tragedy. Hundreds are hurt, at least 58 dead as of this writing, and a nation trying to figure out just what is going on.</p> <p>Here’s a video of the concert as the attack begins:</p> <q> <p>— Luke Broadlick (@LukeBroadlick) <a href="https://twitter.com/LukeBroadlick/status/914757815926792192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Note the sound. Sure sounds like a fully-automatic weapon which is one of the most tightly controlled weapon categories in the country. A background check, permission from law enforcement, and national registration are just some of the hurdles one would have to go through to buy a weapon like this legally.</p> <p>That doesn’t even touch on the massive expense of buying a legal full-auto firearm following the 1986 machine gun ban. Weapons like that run tens of thousands of dollars, which means that alone keeps them out of most folks’ hands.</p> <p>But that won’t stop the anti-gun left.</p> <p>Nope. Blame for the tragedy rest squarely on the shoulders of the National Rifle Association.</p> <q> <p>The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.</p> <p>Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.</p> <p>— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/914853465926639618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Oh, sweet and fluffy Lord.</p> <p>It’s a suppressor, not a silencer. For the kinds of weapons we’re looking at being used, a suppressor is less than useless. Further, if the shooter got a legal full-auto weapon, which is doubtful, it wouldn’t have been a problem for him to get a suppressor.</p> <p>If he got the weapons illegally, then there was nothing stopping him from getting a suppressor illegally.</p> <q> <p>Nothing was done after Sandy Hook, Orlando and now Las Vegas. Stop kidding yourselves <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@NRA</a> civilians owning machine guns is a VERY BAD IDEA.</p> <p>— Ollie Cookson (@OCookson) <a href="https://twitter.com/OCookson/status/914833655981371392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>Donald, and and your NRA gun nuts share responsibility for the Las Vegas massacre. Why do civilians need military assault weapons?</p> <p>— yaakovdoe (@YaakovDoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/YaakovDoe/status/914833567414448129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@NRA</a> I hold you partly responsible for what happened in Las Vegas. It's time to enact real gun control laws.</p> <p>— Aaron Nissalke (@nissalke6) <a href="https://twitter.com/nissalke6/status/914833536120537090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>Life comes at you fast. NRA spokespuppet goes from chiding the mayor of Edmonton after a terror attack to waiting for the facts in Las Vegas <a href="https://t.co/ZWUrZpdrcX" type="external">pic.twitter.com/ZWUrZpdrcX</a></p> <p>— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) <a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/914832730818478080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>Survivors like me don't want your prayer. We want you OFF the <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@NRA</a> payroll, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@POTUS</a>. We want Wayne LaPierre OUT of the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@WhiteHouse</a>! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#LasVegas</a> <a href="https://t.co/y1YfKg9S8A" type="external">pic.twitter.com/y1YfKg9S8A</a></p> <p>— Rachael Joseph (@titusthemutt) <a href="https://twitter.com/titusthemutt/status/914831696075329538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NRA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#NRA</a> is at least indirectly responsible for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#LasVegas</a>. How else can an average Joe collect 8 guns and over 50 bullets?</p> <p>— Carlos Solís (@csolisr) <a href="https://twitter.com/csolisr/status/914831245917458433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Of course, most of us call “50 bullets” a box or two of ammo, but whatever.</p> <q> <p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@NRA</a> was one of the largest donors to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@realDonaldTrump</a>'s campaign. They expect to get what they paid for. This admin will not do anything to prevent further violence. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#LasVegas</a></p> <p>— Sophie Ellman-Golan (@EgSophie) <a href="https://twitter.com/EgSophie/status/914830486635208704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Really, it keeps going on and on like that.</p> <p>In fact, that’s only a very brief snapshot of the anti-NRA hatred being spewed. This from the same people who routinely call for calm reflection following a terrorist attack motivated by radical Islam. “Don’t blame all of Islam,” they say…but think nothing of blaming the NRA for something there’s no indication they had anything to do with.</p> <p>Let me make this very clear to the leftists out there: This maniac used one of the most tightly controlled and regulated firearms in the country, one that requires every hoop imaginable to get your hands on legally, and killed dozens and wounded hundreds. Do you really think there’s anything that would have stopped this from happening? Anything at all?</p> <p>Especially since there are so many questions we don’t have answers to. His brother <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940800/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-says-family-dumbfounded.html" type="external">claims he had no political affiliations</a>, but that seems unlikely in this day and age. However, we still don’t know for sure. Maybe he was an odd duck these days and didn’t care. Who knows.</p> <p>To be sure, there’s plenty of speculation going on. I’m not immune to it, though I won’t divulge my speculation publicly just now. However, speculation is just something people do to pass the time until we have actual facts, which are severely lacking at the moment.</p> <p>What matters right now is to do whatever we can to help those who have been hurt by this tragedy, either by losing someone they care about, physically wounded in the assault, or legitimately traumatized by what they’ve been through. There are victims here, and they need our love and support far more than our wild theories about what has taken place in Las Vegas.</p> <p>My heart and prayers go out to all the victims and their families, as do my wife’s and children’s. I know I’m not alone in this, and while this is something that should unify us in solidarity if only for a few moments, it’s a shame that it won’t.</p>	Leftists Blame NRA For Las Vegas Tragedy	true	https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2017/10/02/leftists-blame-nra-las-vegas-tragedy/	2017-10-02
<p>Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel stepped right into it on Thursday evening.</p> <p>While Kimmel has <a type="internal">spent a lot</a> of the week calling out President Donald Trump and the NRA, this time he decided to take his attacks to a whole new level. Instead of going after the president or an organization, he attacked millions of Americans who don't support gun control.</p> <p>Kimmel tweeted:</p> <q> <p>Dear crazies: it is fascinating that 500 innocent people get shot and your anger is directed at me. Think about that <a href="https://t.co/TTMxEcjdbZ" type="external">https://t.co/TTMxEcjdbZ</a></p> </q> <p>Kimmel calling gun owners crazies backfired on the celebrity big time:</p> <q> <p>It's fascinating that Stephen Paddock shot over 500 people and you are blaming guns and politicians. One and only one person to blame.</p> </q> <q> <p>I use to watch u every nite. Stopped that when u became not funny, &amp; think your celeb status can use it for Your political agenda.</p> </q> <q> <p>I'm a longtime fan jimmy, sometimes it seems like you are talking down to us and or lecturing. Please stick to making us laugh.</p> </q> <q> <p>Oh sweetie, it might be a good idea to do some research prior to assigning blame to the wrong people. Facts matter!</p> </q> <q> <p>A DISNEY SHAREHOLDER WHO IS ABOUT TO START COMPLAINING ABOUT YOU. LOUDLY. Stop the rants. Stick to comedy. Politics is NOT your forte</p> </q> <q> <p>So only you have compassion. Only you feel sorrow. Only you care about innocent life. But 100 million who support their rights are crazies.</p> </q> <q> <p>It's crazy to hop on your platform to cudgel &amp; shame innocent people for an act by a madman, then call them crazy when they get mad at you.</p> </q> <p>Kimmel hasn't issued an apology for his statement. But it appears that fans would appreciate it he stayed out politics and stuck to comedy. Their fiery response to his remark really says it all.</p>	Jimmy Kimmel Uses One Word to Insult Gun Owners After Vegas Shooting, It Backfires Instantly	true	http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/10/992176-jimmy-kimmel-uses-one-word-insult-gun-owners-vegas-shooting-backfires-instantly/	2017-10-06
<p>Despite being around for more than a century, suppressors aren’t really used in crimes. In fact, it seems like the only time you see a crime committed with a suppressor, it’s where having the suppressor itself is illegal for whatever reason. They’re just not used that way very often.</p> <p>However, if the Hearing Protection Act passes as part of the SHARE Act, suppressors will likely become far more common.</p> <p>That has the hysterical tribe at The Trace worried about criminals getting <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/if-silencers-become-easier-to-buy-will-more-be-stolen/" type="external">their grubby little paws on them via theft</a>.</p> <q> <p>Congress could <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/gun-silencer-vote-house-share-act/" type="external">vote as soon as this week</a> to repeal part of an 80-year-old law that has forced owners of silencers to register the devices with the federal government. Supporters of removing restrictions on silencers have dismissed the concerns of opponents by pointing out that suppressors, as they’re also known, are today rarely used in crimes.</p> <p>The more pertinent public safety question, however, is what could happen if many more silencers enter circulation.</p> <p>Even with the hurdles that silencer buyers must deal with, demand for the items is already increasing, fueled by a new generation of suppressors and some slick marketing. There are now more that 1.3 million of them registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, up from about 360,000 just five years ago. There’s also evidence to suggest that as silencers have gained a foothold with gun owners, some are winding up in the black market.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2016/12/americas-obsession-powerful-handguns-rising-gunshot-lethality/" type="external">We’ve written before</a> that as goes the legal gun industry, so goes the criminal arsenal. Firearms and related tools like <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2017/03/high-capacity-magazine-ban-baltimore-police/" type="external">extended magazines</a> that are initially sold legally end up in criminals’ hands in several ways: unregulated private transactions, straw purchases and, of course, theft.</p> </q> <p>To be sure, theft is a legitimate concern. It’s impossible to keep things out of criminals’ hands because they’re often acquired via theft, either directly or indirectly on the black market. I’d like to applaud The Trace for at least acknowledging that criminals are unlikely to walk into a gun store and buy suppressors. Good for them.</p> <p>Make no mistake, criminals will get their hands on suppressors via theft. It’s going to happen, unfortunately.</p> <p>Of course, criminals can make suppressors in their garage right now. All the information is on the internet for anyone and their brother to look at if they so choose. It’s been that way for years.</p> <p>Yet they’re still rarely used in crime. Why is that?</p> <p>Take a look at this photo of a suppressed pistol, since handguns are the preferred weapon of the average criminal.</p> <p>Note that the suppressor extends well beyond the weapon. In fact, it doubles the overall length of the weapon. Guess what this does? It makes it very, very difficult to hide a suppressed firearm.</p> <p>Seriously, try tucking one of those in the front of your pants sometime and see how quickly you draw.</p> <p>This makes suppressors very difficult to sneak into a convenience store. It’s also difficult to mill about waiting for someone to pull the gun on and rob.</p> <p>While criminals will, no doubt, get their hands on suppressors in the course of their “career,” it won’t really help them much. They’re terrible options for their line of work, and with the internet’s instructions laying the mysteries of the suppressor bare years ago, there’s no reason to fear them getting into any crooks hands.</p> <p>They’re likely already there, and they figure out quickly they’re useless for their purposes.</p>	Why Criminals Stealing Suppressors Isn’t The Problem Some Anti-Gunners Think	true	https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2017/09/25/criminals-stealing-suppressors-isnt-problem-anti-gunners-think/	2017-09-25
<p>When it comes to illegal smuggling, criminals will try to push anything for a profit. Money is the goal, and it doesn’t matter who or what is being transported; if there is money to be made, you’d better believe that they will go to whatever lengths they can to cash in.</p> <p>Unfortunately, much of the time, living things are the cargo. In certain areas of the world, particular species sell for extraordinary prices on the black market, as immoral as it may seem to traffic them.</p> <p>This was on the minds of officials who recently stopped a large truck carrying freight at the Chinese border. After becoming suspicious about what was on board, they decided to take a look inside. What they found was deeply disturbing, to say the least…</p> <p>Crossing from one country to another, even without a great deal of cargo, can be an extremely difficult process. After all, border crossing almost always warrants a thorough investigation. Few know this more than illegal smugglers.</p> TheMuuj / Flickr <p>Each and every day, literally tons of products are shipped from place to place in huge cargo trucks. Most of the time, they’re perfectly legal items traveling from warehouse to warehouse.</p> <p>Sometimes, however, these trucks contain illegal freight, such as narcotics. These drugs can be molded into various shapes resembling actual legitimate items to throw off the police. There’s seemingly no end to what criminals are willing to do…</p> jm3 / Flickr <p>Border officials are well aware of the potential criminal activity that they could encounter. That’s why they’re well-trained to handle any situation of the sort that may arise. Still, the strange things they uncover might surprise you.</p> Times Asi / Flickr <p>In one instance, a large cargo truck was stopped by officials at the Chinese border. The paperwork that the driver gave to border patrol was slightly inaccurate, which instantly raised suspicions.</p> Pixabay <p>When officials peered into the back of the truck, it initially seemed like everything checked out. Nonetheless, the authorities wanted to take a closer look to be sure that nothing fishy was going on…</p> HM Revenue &amp; Customs / Flickr <p>Police ordered the cargo to be unloaded and inspected to ensure it wasn’t anything illegal. There was a lot to go through, but they needed to be certain there wasn’t anything unlawful slipping into the country.</p> CGTN / Youtube <p>It took a large team of workers to help figure out exactly what was going on. Every individual on duty was required to examine each one of the boxes extremely closely. They weren’t sure if they’d find anything, but they had a hunch…</p> <p>When the police finally uncovered what was being transported, they were horrified. Needless to say, the driver was immediately arrested. He wasn’t the only one involved, however, and police wanted to get to the bottom of this operation…</p> Victor / Flickr <p>Most people probably wouldn’t believe what terrifying items that the border patrol officials finally uncovered in the back of the truck. It’s a good thing that they put a stop to this before it was too late! Find out what they discovered in the video below…</p> <p>(Warning: may be disturbing to some viewers.)</p> <p>The illegal transporting of animals needs to stop. Hopefully, authorities will continue to crack down on this practice so we can put an end to it once and for all.</p> <p>Share this alarming story with your friends below.</p>	Police Get A Truly Horrible Surprise When Searching Boxes On A Suspicious Cargo Truck	false	http://honesttopaws.com/scary-illegally-smuggling/
<p>Before taking her life, <a type="internal">August Ames</a> left a suicide note behind in her car. Within the note that was addressed to her family and friends, August allegedly apologized for killing herself in a public park, <a href="https://theblast.com/pornstar-august-ames-apologized-suicide-note-cyberbullying/" type="external">The Blast</a> reports. However, according to the Medical Examiner, August failed to mention the bullying and online harassment she suffered in the days leading up to her suicide at any point in her message, which was discovered by authorities. We <a type="internal">reported earlier</a> how the Ventura County Medical Examiner spokesperson said that the official cause of death was asphyxiation from hanging herself, an act which she committed in a park 20 minutes away from her home. Immediately after her death, many of her friends initially believed that she had taken her life as a result of cyberbullying after August tweeted about refusing to do a scene with a male adult performer who had done gay porn.</p> <p>While the suicide note did not indicate that bullying was an impetus for August taking her own life, we <a type="internal">reported earlier</a> how Dr. Jenn Mann informed us that bully victims are 229 times more likely to commit suicide than non-victims, according to a study by Yale University. It’s now also come to light that August reportedly had mental health issues that stemmed from when she was <a type="internal">allegedly sexually assaulted</a> as a kid.</p> <p>One of August’s friends and fellow porn star Alison Tyler said that the <a type="internal">porn industry</a> could have been a lot more supportive of August, and that August had never been “homophobic” despite claims that a controversial tweet she posted was potentially gay-bashing. <a type="internal">Click here to see the saddest celebrity deaths of 2017</a>.</p> <p>HollywoodLifers, do you think more light will be shed on August’s death? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.</p>	August Ames Heartbreaking Suicide Note Reportedly Found In Car After Tragic Death At 23	false	http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/12/08/august-ames-suicide-note-found-in-car-dead-porn-star/	2017-12-09
<p><a type="internal">Rose McGowan</a> accused <a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein</a> of <a type="internal">raping her</a> on Twitter, and now, her public revelation has other men in Hollywood running scared. “There are a lot of people convinced that she’s going to start naming other huge producers, directors and extremely famous actors who have allegedly sexually harassed women,” an insider tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. “Even other victims are scared that she’ll start sharing their names. People are panicked.” Our source adds that “a lot of people” have come to Rose with their allegations over the years.</p> <p>“The fear is that Rose is so angry at Harvey and all these predators, that she could take things into her own hands to blow the lid off all of this,” our source adds. “That being said, Rose isn’t the type to betray people’s confidence, so it’s not likely that she’ll do that.” Even since these shocking allegations about Harvey started coming out earlier this week, Rose has been incredibly vocal about her disgust for the Hollywood bigwig. At one point, her Twitter <a type="internal">account was even suspended</a>, which sparked major outrage (the social media site later explained that the shut down was because she shared a private phone number on her page).</p> <p>Other women who have come forward with allegations of harassment against Harvey include <a type="internal">Cara Delevingne</a>, <a type="internal">Kate Beckinsale</a> and <a type="internal">Angelina Jolie</a>. Harvey’s wife, Georgina Chapman, announced that she is leaving him amidst the scandal, and he checked into an Arizona rehab center on Oct. 13.</p> <p>HollywoodLifers, do you think Rose will come forward with other accusations? Should Hollywood be worried?</p>	Hollywood Terrified Rose McGowan Will Name More Alleged Sexual Harassers, Says Source	false	http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/10/14/rose-mcgowan-sexual-harassment-rape-harvey-weinstein/	2017-10-14
<p>Singer Seal is calling out critics for suggesting he attacked Oprah Winfrey over her relationship with Harvey Weinstein, insisting he was speaking out against hypocrisy in Hollywood.</p> <p>The Kiss From a Rose star came under fire earlier this week after <a type="internal">he took to Instagram to question Oprah’s friendship with the disgraced producer</a>, writing.</p> <p>“Oh I forgot, that’s right… you’d heard the rumours but you had no idea he was actually serially assaulting young stary-eyed (sic) actresses who in turn had no idea what they were getting into. My bad,” he snapped, adding a meme featuring Oprah and Harvey at events together.</p> <p>But now the singer insists he wasn’t trying to discredit Winfrey.</p> <p>“Now let’s get straight to it,” he says in a new video posted on Facebook. “Let me start by saying that I have an enormous amount of respect for everything that Oprah has achieved and contributed in her life.”</p> <p>“What I re-posted was not an attack on Oprah at all,” he adds. “She just happened to be the person photographed with the pig (Weinstein) in the picture. No, what I re-posted was commentary on the hypocritical and double standard nature and behaviour of Hollywood…”</p> <p>In his message, Seal also slams actress Stacey Dash for tweeting a link to an article about Seal’s original post and writing, “Ouch, he does make a good point though.”</p> <p>“And Stacey Dash, keep my name out of your mouth,” he continues. “Do not re-tweet, re-quote anything I have said in order to reinforce your self-hating agenda… Again, this was not an attack against Oprah. This was an observation of the toxic nature of Hollywood and I believe that a conscious people are a progressive people…”</p> <p>Oprah addressed the Weinstein sex scandal on her Facebook account late last year, writing: “I’ve been processing the accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s hideous behavior and haven’t been able to find the words to articulate the magnitude of the situation.”</p> <p>More than 80 women, including Mira Sorvino, Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, and Gwyneth Paltrow, have now accused the disgraced studio boss of inappropriate behaviour, assault, rape, and misconduct.</p> <p>Weinstein maintains that while he may have behaved badly in the past he has never forced a woman to have sex with him.</p>	Seal: I wasn't attacking Oprah in social media post	false	http://canoe.com/entertainment/celebrity/seal-i-wasnt-attacking-oprah-with-social-media-post	2018-01-12
<p>During a press conference, Las Vegas Metro Police under Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters that the department is still unclear on shooter Stephen Paddock's motivation for the attack he perpetrated earlier this week.</p> <p>Lombardo also asked anyone with more information about the attack to come forward. He said that he believed that someone must have seen something that was out of place, whether it was suspicious activity, or someone who seemed to be acting strangely.</p> <p>The girlfriend of the man behind a recent mass shooting in Las Vegas told investigators he displayed “mental health symptoms” before the attack, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/vegas-shooter-s-girlfriend-says-he-would-lie-bed-moaning-n808156" type="external">NBC News</a>.</p> <p>NBC News on Friday reported that one former FBI official briefed on the matter confirmed that Marilou Danley recently made the remark about Stephen Paddock.</p> <p>“[Danley] said he would lie in bed, just moaning and screaming, ‘Oh, my God,’” another former FBI official aware of the situation said.</p> <p>NBC News’s sources said Paddock may have been in mental or physical anguish before committing the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history last Sunday.</p> <p>Accusations of fake news are everywhere lately. How well can you tell apart the actual fake headlines from the real ones in this quiz?</p> <p>Test your skills!</p> <p>The sources added, however, that the FBI has not yet identified what motivated Paddock to open fire upon an outdoor concert.</p> <p>The FBI also does not believe Paddock’s mental health had eroded to a point that would have triggered him to begin his rampage, according to NBC’s sources.</p> <p>Federal and state law enforcement officials additionally confirmed to NBC News that Paddock had been prescribed an anti-anxiety medication called Valium.</p> <p>Some Twitter users on Friday speculated about Danley and her reported remarks to investigators about her boyfriend.</p> <p>One of the former FBI officials said that investigators are additionally scrutinizing about six media devices Paddock left behind.</p> <p>The search includes an inquiry into Paddock’s web browsing history before he began shooting at a country music event last weekend.</p> <p>Responding police found Paddock dead inside his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.</p> <p>The shooting killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 527 others, sparking renewed national debate over gun control.</p>	Las Vegas Police still unsure of concert shooter's motive	false	https://www.circa.com/story/2017/10/06/nation/stephen-paddock-showed-mental-health-symptoms-marilou-danley-says	2017-10-06
<p>Surprisingly a lot of people are standing with Colin Kaepernick in his decision not to stand during the national anthem, "calling the Star Spangled Banner "weak" and saying that he doesn't truly love the song. Here is what he had to say on twitter:</p> <q> <p>For those defending the current anthem, do you really truly love that song? I don't and I'm very good at singing it. Like, one of the best</p> </q> <p>He continued to add:</p> <q> <p>My vote is for America the Beautiful. Star spangled banner is a weak song anyway. And then you read this... <a href="https://t.co/iAE62FAbxj" type="external">https://t.co/iAE62FAbxj</a></p> — John Legend (@johnlegend) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/770469594146435072" type="external">August 30, 2016</a> </q> <p>John Legend linked to an article titled, "Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is A Celebration Of Slavery"</p> <p>The article makes the arguement that an unsung verse of the Francis Scott Key poem is a moral "atrocity." The author claims the end of the rarely sung third verse "literally celebrated the murder of African-Americans." The verse reads:</p> <p>No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.</p> <q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend" type="external">@johnlegend</a> not sure why it's turned into a battle over the lyrics of our anthem. The lyrics were never Colin's argument in the first place</p> — Lindsey (@Lindsey50783746) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lindsey50783746/status/770481522143092737" type="external">August 30, 2016</a> </q> <p>All of John Legend's tweets were made in support of the 49ers quarterback who refused to stand while the national anthem was being played during a preseason game. Kaepernick said that his sitd own was for "people that are being oppressed" and he'll end the protest when "I feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent."</p>	John Legend Calls The National Anthem 'WEAK'	false	http://channel955.iheart.com/onair/stick-36541/john-legend-calls-the-national-anthem-15065132/	2016-08-30
<p><a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein</a>, 65, could be in deep trouble regarding the <a type="internal">sexual assault</a> claims from the many women who have come forward. “”In order to go to prison, Harvey would have to be convicted of a felony, like rape,” Darren Kavinoky, California Criminal Defense Attorney of <a href="https://www.nocuffs.com/" type="external">1.800.No.Cuffs</a> shared EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife.com. “In order for him to go to prison, he would have to get sentenced for more than a year. What is dangerous about Harvey’s behavior, and crimes of a sexual nature, is that he could be subject to consecutive sentencing. When you are talking about sex offenses, you get mandatory consecutive sentencing where the punishments stack one on top of another. So you get these really insanely long sentences in sex based cases that you don’t see in other areas of law.” <a type="internal">SEE THE LIST OF HARVEY”S ACCUSERS HERE</a>.</p> <p>“If multiple women come forward and he is accused then convicted of many sex crimes, molestation, harassment and ultimately rape, he could easily be behind state prison bars for 10, 20, 30 years or even longer depending on how many women come forward and what he is ultimately convicted of,” Darren continued. “Furthermore, all of his alleged victims could, after criminal convictions, victims could then sue Harvey civilly for damages. With a net worth of an estimated $800 Million Dollars, depending on the number of victims, Harvey could easily lose his fortune in court, to his victims. He could be wiped out, and spend the rest of his life behind bars, broke, penniless and disgraced.”</p> <p>In addition to the general sexual assault accusations, Harvey made headlines this week after it was <a type="internal">reported that his company, The Weinstein Company, allowed him to sexually harass women</a> as long as he paid all the money owed if he got sued. The controversial reports surrounding the film producer have caused a lot of backlash on social media with stars speaking out against him and there have been reports that he has recently checked into rehab for his issues.</p> <p>HollywoodLifers, do you think Harvey should lose his fortune? Tell us here!</p>	Harvey Weinstein May Lose $800 Million & Spend Life In Jail After Assault Claims — Attorney Explains	false	http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/10/13/harvey-weinstein-lose-fortune-jail-sexual-assault-claims/	2017-10-14
<p>Arizona Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer.</p> <p>McCain was in the hospital to remove a blood clot from above his left eye when a tumor was located.</p> <p>Doctors revealed that McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer. The statement says the 80-year-old senator and his family are reviewing further treatment, including a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.</p> <p>The doctors say McCain is recovering from his surgery amazingly well and his underlying health is excellent, according to the statement.</p> <p>McCain responded to the "outpouring of support" in seemingly good spirits Thursday, promising over <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/888057312992260097" type="external">Twitter</a> that "unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I'll be back soon, so stand by!"</p> <q> <p>I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support - unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I'll be back soon, so stand-by!</p>— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/888057312992260097?ref_src=twsrc^tfw" type="external">July 20, 2017</a> </q> <p>The office of McCain sent a statement that read, "On Friday, July 14, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot. Scanning done since the procedure (a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision) shows that the tissue of concern was completely resected by imaging criteria. The senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team. Treatment options include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. The Senator’s doctors say he is recovering from his surgery ‘amazingly well’ and his underlying health is excellent."</p> <p>The statement continued, "Senator McCain appreciates the outpouring of support he has received over the last few days. He is in good spirits as he continues to recover at home with his family in Arizona. He is grateful to the doctors and staff at Mayo Clinic for their outstanding care, and is confident that any future treatment will be effective. Further consultations with Senator McCain’s Mayo Clinic care team will indicate when he will return to the United States Senate."</p> <p>His daughter, Meghan McCain, tweeted out a message, "The news of my father's illness has affected every one of us in the McCain family. My grandmother, mother, brothers, sister and I have all endured the shock of the news, and now we live with the anxiety about what comes next."</p> <p>John McCain's wife Cindy posted a message on Instagram reading: "Thank all of you for the wonderful thoughts. @senjohnmccain is doing well. We as a family will face the next hurdle together. One thing I do know is he is the toughest person I know. He is my hero and I love him with all my heart."</p> <p>McCain was the GOP's presidential nominee in 2008. A Navy pilot, he was shot down over Vietnam and held as a prisoner for 5 ½ years.</p> <p>The Associated Press has contributed to this report.</p>	Sen. John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer	false	http://www.wpbf.com/article/sen-john-mccain-diagnosed-with-brain-cancer/10332502	2017-07-20
<p>Trump Jr. allowed Tuesday night in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel that "he has probably met with other people from Russia" but insisted that he did not attempt to coordinate to impact the election or try to damage Hillary Clinton.</p> <p>He repeatedly suggested that the charges of collusion were "ridiculous" and "overplayed" and insisted that his father knew nothing about the June 2016 meeting.</p> <p>"It was such a nothing there was nothing to tell" his father, said Trump Jr.</p> <p>Donald Trump Jr. eagerly accepted help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his father's campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to the emails.</p> <p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413" type="external">email exchange</a> posted to Twitter by President Donald Trump's eldest son shows him conversing with a music publicist who wanted him to meet with a lawyer from Moscow. The publicist describes the lawyer as a "Russian government attorney" who has dirt on Clinton as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." In one response, Trump Jr. says he would "love" to hear more.</p> <p>President Donald Trump says his eldest son is "a high-quality person," and he applauds "his transparency."</p> <p>In a tweet Tuesday night, the president promoted his son's appearance on Fox News and called him a "great person who loves our country."</p> <q> <p>My son, Donald, will be interviewed by <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity" type="external">@seanhannity</a> tonight at 10:00 P.M. He is a great person who loves our country!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884931352201756672" type="external">July 12, 2017</a> </q> <p>White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a brief statement from the president Tuesday in response to revelations that Trump Jr. agreed to hear damaging information on Hillary Clinton as part of the Russian government's effort to help his father.</p> <p>Trump Jr., who was deeply involved in his father's presidential campaign, released the emails along with a statement describing the disclosure as an effort "to be totally transparent." The emails with publicist Rob Goldstone show that Trump Jr. was told that the Russian government had information that could "incriminate" Clinton and her dealings with Russia.</p> <q> <p>Here's my statement and the full email chain <a href="https://t.co/x050r5n5LQ" type="external">pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ</a></p>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413" type="external">July 11, 2017</a> </q> <p>The messages were the latest disclosure to roil the ongoing investigation into potential coordination between Trump's campaign and Russia, which U.S. intelligence agencies have said sought to influence the outcome of the election in Trump's favor. As congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, investigate, the emails will almost certainly be reviewed for any signs of potential campaign collusion with the Kremlin, which the White House has repeatedly denied.</p> <p>Mueller spokesman Peter Carr declined to comment on the emails, citing the ongoing investigation.</p> <q> <p>Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). <a href="https://t.co/z1Xi4nr2gq" type="external">pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq</a></p>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789839522140166" type="external">July 11, 2017</a> </q> <p>In the emails, Goldstone wrote to Trump Jr. that the information "would be very useful to your father." Goldstone was working to connect Trump Jr. to Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who later met with Trump Jr. in New York at Trump Tower.</p> <p>Veselnitskaya has denied that she ever worked for the Russian government and said on Tuesday that she doesn't represent the Russian government, only herself. She also said she "couldn't have had" information on Hillary Clinton.</p> <p>"If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer," Trump Jr. replied to Goldstone in one of a series of email exchanges the younger Trump posted to Twitter.</p> <p>The emails, dated early June, show Goldstone telling Trump that singer Emin Agalarov and his father, Moscow-based developer Aras Agalarov, had "helped along" the Russian government's support for Trump. The elder Agalarov was involved with Trump in hosting the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. The two men also had preliminary discussions about building a Trump Tower in Moscow that fell through. Trump also appeared in a music video with the younger Agalarov.</p> <p>Goldstone at one point said he could send the information to Trump's father first directly "via Rhona," an apparent reference to the elder Trump's longtime assistant Rhona Graff.</p> <p>The email release followed days of evolving accounts from Trump Jr. about the nature of the meeting and its purpose. The president's son posted the emails only after they were obtained by The New York Times.</p> <p>On Saturday, Trump Jr. described the encounter as being a "short introductory meeting" focused on the disbanded program that had allowed American adoptions of Russian children. Moscow ended the adoptions in response to Magnitsky Act sanctions created in response to alleged human rights violations in Russia.</p> <p>A day later, Trump Jr. changed his account, acknowledging that he was told beforehand that Veselnitskaya might have information "helpful" to the Trump campaign, and was told by her during the meeting that she had something about Clinton.</p> <p>In his third description of what occurred, on Tuesday, Trump Jr. said he had believed the information he would hear about Clinton would be political opposition research. He said that he first wanted to speak by phone, but that when that didn't work out, he was told that the attorney would be in New York "and I decided to take the meeting."</p> <p>"The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official," Trump Jr. said in the Tuesday statement. "And, as we have said, she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act."</p> <p>The Trump Organization has confirmed the authenticity of Trump Jr. posts on Twitter releasing the email chain.</p> <p>Associated Press writers Nekesa Mumbi Moody in New York and Julie Bykowicz in Washington contributed to this report.</p> Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.	Trump Jr. calls charge of collusion 'ridiculous'	true	http://www.wcnc.com/news/nation-world/donald-trump-jr-releases-e-mails-tied-to-russia-meeting/455752477	2017-07-12
<p>One word defined the immigration debate under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama: amnesty. Under President Trump, it might be two: <a type="internal">chain migration</a>.</p> <p>“Our current immigration system fails Americans,” Trump said at the White House on Thursday “Chain migration is a total disaster, which threatens our security and our economy and provides a gateway for terrorism.”</p> <p>Trump said it again when spelling out what would have to be in a bill to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, ending in March, in order for him to sign it. DACA protects undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minors from deportation. Because Obama created it through executive action, there are questions about its legal and constitutional basis. Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a type="internal">announced</a> in September that the program would be phased out for <a type="internal">these reasons</a>.</p> <p>“Any legislation on DACA must secure the border with a wall,” Trump remarked after meeting with Republican senators on the issue. “It must give our immigration officers the resources they need to stop illegal immigration and also to stop visa overstays. And, crucially, the legislation must end chain migration. It must end the visa lottery.”</p> <p>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders described the president as reiterating in the meeting with GOP senators the administration’s “view that any action on DACA must come with action on the president's immigration reform principles, which were released last year.”</p> <p>“These include a physical border wall on the southern border; interior enforcement, which includes more ICE and Border Patrol agents; as well as a crackdown on sanctuary cities; and reforms to our legal immigration system, like ending chain migration and the visa lottery program in favor of a merit-based immigration system,” Sanders said at Thursday’s press briefing.</p> <p>“Next week, the president is inviting a bipartisan group of senators to the White House to discuss next steps on responsible immigration reform and to continue that discussion,” she added.</p> <p>“Chain migration” is a phrase used to describe a feature of immigration law that allows immigrants to sponsor their relatives to come to the U.S. Family reunification is responsible for more than two-thirds of legal immigration annually, while less than 10 percent come for primarily employment-based reasons.</p> <p>Immigration restrictionist <a type="internal">argue</a> this produces a mismatch between immigrant skill levels and the U.S. labor force, at the expense of American workers and recent immigrants.</p> <p>A bill introduced by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., <a type="internal">endorsed</a> by Trump in August, would cut immigration in half in part by limiting family-based immigrant sponsorship to spouses and minor children. They would like to see something like this provision be part of any DACA deal.</p> <p>“Look, if you give amnesty to one or two million illegal immigrants who were brought here through no fault of their own, as kids, you’re going to have at least a couple negative effects,” Cotton said on Fox News. “And one of those negative effects is you’re going to have a whole new chain of chain migration. The way to control for that negative effect is to stop chain migration.”</p> <p>The immigration hawks at Numbers USA have launched a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3osFdB6_c1w" type="external">six-figure ad campaign</a> to inform the public and to help the phrase "chain migration" take its place in the political lexicon alongside "amnesty." The group’s president, Roy Beck, uses the words together.</p> <p>“While Congress debates yet another amnesty, we want to help Americans visualize how the presence of chain migration categories means that amnesties are never limited to the people receiving them but instead open up lifetime work permits to millions more of their extended family and in-laws,” Beck said in a statement.</p> <p>Many of the Republicans negotiating with Senate Democrats on a DACA fix favor more expansive immigration policies than Trump. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for example, was part of the Gang of Eight and is a co-sponsor of the Democrats’ preferred bill for resolving the status of DACA.</p> <p>Social conservatives helped beat back a 1990s attempt to reduce immigration in part by limiting chain migration on the grounds that family reunification was a pro-family policy. Many immigrant communities and their advocates also oppose the change, arguing that it is already too difficult to immigrate to the U.S. and, this is, itself, a driver of illegal immigration.</p> <p>But Graham suggested Thursday that Trump could succeed where Obama and Bush failed if lawmakers were willing to compromise. “There's a bill to be had,” he said at the White House. “If you want it bad enough, we'll get it and it will be good for the country. Everybody has got to give a little bit. But I've never been more optimistic about an immigration reform proposal making it to the president's desk right now.”</p> <p>Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has been a persistent critic of Trump on immigration, among other issues, and asked for a place at the table on DACA negotiations when the administration was lobbying him on tax reform. Still, Flake tweeted in December that he could make some concessions the White House wanted, specifically mentioning chain migration.</p> <p>“We can fix DACA in a way that beefs up border security, stops chain migration for the DREAMers, and addresses the unfairness of the diversity lottery,” he wrote. “If POTUS wants to protect these kids, we want to help him keep that promise.”</p> <p>Trump has held to these positions even after his split Steve Bannon, who pushed for immigration restrictions when he was working at the White House and has published numerous articles on the subject on his media site Breitbart.</p> <p>Pressure is building to craft a legislative solution for DACA, as beneficiaries’ work permits are starting to expire and there are concerns about how long it would take to ramp up the program again if Congress authorized its revival.</p> <p>“We must BUILD THE WALL, stop illegal immigration, end chain migration [and] cancel the visa lottery,” Trump tweeted Thursday evening. “The current system is unsafe [and] unfair to the great people of our country — time for change!”</p>	Under Trump, opposing 'chain migration' is even bigger than 'amnesty'	true	http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/under-trump-opposing-chain-migration-is-even-bigger-than-amnesty/article/2645060	2018-01-05
<p>On November 7, starting around midnight Eastern Time, Twitter.com went down. The outage only lasted around 30-45 minutes, but users believe it had to do with WikiLeaks, the U.S. election, and a DDoS attack.</p> <p>Before the outage, WikiLeaks tweeted about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNCLeak2?src=hash" type="external">#DNCLeak2</a>, a release of 8263 <a href="https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=%40releasedate+%222016-11-07%22&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult" type="external">new emails</a> from the DNC.</p> <p>It seems to be true that <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNCLeak2?src=hash" type="external">#DNCLeak2</a>was trending on Twitter before the blackout, but has since been removed from the trends list. A bit after the outage, the hashtag was added to the trends list once again.</p> A screencap of Twitter’s U.S. trends taken at 11:54 PM PST on November 6, 2016 (after the outage). The hashtag was missing when Twitter went back up, but it seems to be reinstated. (Twitter) <p>Many are connecting the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNCLeak2?src=hash" type="external">#DNCLeak2</a>, which implied the Clintons were responsible for the killing of Vince Foster — whose death was ruled a suicide.</p> <p>Here are some twitter users’ ideas on the subject:</p> <q> <p>DDOS ATTACK BY GOV IN PROGRESS! THEY WILL DO THIS THRU ELECTION NIGHT! THEY DONT WANT US COMMUNICATING! STEALING ELECTION UNDER BLACK OUT!</p> <p>— Deplorable Jack! (@risetoflyy) <a href="https://twitter.com/risetoflyy/status/795514305311444992" type="external">November 7, 2016</a></p> </q> <p>Do you think Twitter was in on the outage? Do you think the NSA was involved? Leave your thoughts below!</p>	Why Was Twitter Down? Another DDoS Attack? Everything You Need To Know	false	http://heavy.com/tech/2016/11/why-was-twitter-down-wikileaks-ddos-attacks/	2016-11-08
<p>Sex-trafficking is happening in nearly every city and in every state in the U.S.</p> <p>In an all-new Crime Watch Daily in-depth investigation, we take you inside the epidemic that has exploded in recent years.</p> <p>Human trafficking is defined in the simplest terms as the exploitation of another person through force, fraud or coercion.</p> <p>The average age of trafficking victims entering the sex trade world is 13 years old.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.iamjanedoefilm.com/" type="external">Mary Mazzio's documentary I Am Jane Doe</a>, there are more than 1.6 million homeless or runaway kids on the streets of America, and up to 15 percent of them have fallen victim to sex-trafficking.</p> <p>"That's hundreds of thousands of children every day, and that's only the homeless and runaway population," said Mazzio.</p> <p>HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES</p> <p>Crime Watch Daily rode along with a group of undercover deputies from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department as they busted men looking to hook up with underage girls.</p> <p>TRAFFICKING IN HOUSTON</p> <p>In Houston, Texas, one woman is tackling the problem from a very different angle. She's not a sex worker -- not anymore.</p> <p>"I know what it's like to be more afraid to go home than you are to get in a car with a stranger," said <a href="http://www.rebeccabender.org/" type="external">former trafficking victim Rebecca Bender</a>.</p> <p>Bender become a victim for nearly six years, traded between three different traffickers in all. She says it was only after police busted her trafficker for tax evasion that she was able to finally break free. But it would take years to get her life back on track.</p> <p>After a decade free from the life, Rebecca Bender is about to go back on the streets, posing as a sex worker to expose just how big the problem may be in your town.</p> <p>TRAFFICKING DELUNA</p> <p><a type="internal">Much like the heroin epidemic we are now facing</a>, sex-trafficking is a massive problem in the United States.</p> <p>These are not just women being brought in from other countries. We're talking about teens, or even younger, being recruited from middle schools and high schools in just about every city in America.</p> <p>So far we've taken you undercover on sex-trafficking stings and you've see some cities that have become sex-slave hubs.</p> <p>Crime Watch Daily interviews a young woman lured into the sex-trade world and how it's now landed her in prison doing serious time.</p> <p>Lizette Deluna ran from abuse at home into the arms of a sex-trafficker. Now she's in prison in Texas, convicted of trafficking herself. How did she get there? She share her journey exclusively with Crime Watch Daily.</p> <p>TRAFFICKING IN DEKALB COUNTY</p> <p>Crime Watch Daily teams up with law enforcement agencies all over the country who are cracking down on the illegal sex trade business.</p> <p>On the streets of Georgia, we encountered an alleged pimp that was more than happy to talk to us.</p> <p>TARGETING ONLINE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING</p> <p>No matter where we went, there seemed to be one name that kept coming up: Backpage.com.</p> <p>Operating in more than 900 cities worldwide, the online classifieds website commands, by some estimates, more than 80 percent of all online sex ad revenues. And it's through those ads that many allege the company has knowingly permitted the sale of underage children.</p> <p>"The <a href="http://www.missingkids.com/home" type="external">National Center for Missing and Exploited Children</a> has stated that at least 73 percent of all reports to them, of online sex trafficking, where does it happen? Backpage.com," said <a href="http://www.iamjanedoefilm.com/" type="external">I Am Jane Doe filmmaker Mary Mazzio</a>.</p> <p>Just recently, under pressure from the U.S. Senate, Backpage did shut down its adult section in the United States.</p> <p>The company itself may be worth more than $500 million, and by some estimates, 99 percent of that global income comes from illicit ads.</p> <p>For their part, Backpage claims no responsibility for what they call third-party content. But in a series of new civil suits brought by former victims, attorney Erik Bauer claims Backpage actually helped edit the ads to make them appear more legitimate.</p> <p>Not long ago, Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer, along with former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin were actually brought up on pimping charges by former California Attorney General and current U.S. Senator Kamala Harris.</p> <p>Crime Watch Daily Correspondent Melissa McCarty was there during their latest arraignment. They ignored our questions, but considering the serious nature of the charges, we had to keep trying.</p> Is freedom of speech more important than protecting children being forced into prostitution? Is there some type of moral responsibility that technology companies and CEOs have? No comment from the men or their attorneys. <p>The judge granted Crime Watch Daily exclusive access inside the courtroom for the proceedings, where ultimately the defense requested a delay. While they wait for the next hearing, Carl Ferrer is released on a $500,000 bond, while Larkin and Lacey get out on $250,000 bonds.</p> <p>"We have lost all common sense," said Mary Mazzio. "If you had a site that said 'Murder for Hire,' do you seriously think the American public would stand for that, that a federal jurist would stand for that? But because it's prostitution, it's 'Pretty Woman,' it's the victimless crime, it's the world's oldest profession, you know what -- not that big of a deal."</p> <p>So is there a solution? Can awareness alone help stop the problem? And just how many more lives will be stolen for sex?</p> <p>RESCUING A TRAFFICKED DAUGHTER</p> <p>The parent and the pimp. How far will one dad go to rescue his girl from the clutches of a criminal?</p> <p>"Say no to drugs. Stay in school." These are the things brad smith thought to teach his daughter.</p> <p>But there was one threat that never even crossed his mind.</p> <p>This is not a victimless crime. And to all the "johns" out there feeding the illegal sex trade, you can be sure that law enforcement and Crime Watch Daily will not stop until you are in handcuffs.</p> <p>RESOURCES</p> <p>The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has resources for mental health professionals, law enforcement personnel, health care professionals, and survivors on the signs of trafficking and services for human trafficking survivors.</p> <p>Children of the Night is a privately funded non-profit organization established in 1979 and dedicated to rescuing America’s children from the ravages of prostitution.</p> <p>GenerateHope provides a safe place for survivors of sex trafficking to be restored through long-term housing, healing, psychotherapy and education. Since recovery from sexual exploitation is a long-term process, GenerateHope provides individualized support to work through past trauma until the women reach the ability to live independently and become a positive influence on their communities and future generations.</p> <p>Help fight trafficking by uploading photos of your hotel room. These photos will be used to determine where perpetrators of sex trafficking are committing their crimes.</p> <p><a type="internal">#HumanTrafficking</a> <a type="internal">#SexTrafficking</a> <a type="internal">#SexCrimes</a> <a type="internal">#SexualAssault</a> <a type="internal">#Prostitution</a> <a type="internal">#Rape</a></p>	Crime Watch Daily investigates sex-trafficking epidemic in U.S.	false	https://crimewatchdaily.com/2017/05/17/crime-watch-daily-investigates-sex-trafficking-epidemic-in-u-s/	2017-05-17
<p>How much money did it cost the nation's taxpayers for Vice President and Official Glarer at North Korea Mike Pence to spend just enough time in Indianapolis on Sunday to storm out of a Colts game in protest of a protest?</p> <p>CNN has an <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/pence-indianapolis-flights-cost/index.html" type="external">estimate</a> just for the plane alone:</p> <q> <p>According to the Air Force, flying a C-32, the model of plane used for Air Force 2, for one hour costs about $30,000. Pence's flight from Las Vegas to Indianapolis Saturday took about three hours and 20 minutes, so it cost about $100,000.</p> <p>Pence then flew from Indianapolis to Los Angeles on Sunday, which took about four hours and 45 minutes, costing about $142,500.</p> <p>The grand total: about $242,500.</p> </q> <p>Keep in mind this is just for the plane. It does not include any of the ancillary costs that accrue anytime the vice president travels anywhere. There were increased security costs to local police once Pence was on the ground in Indianapolis. Costs to locals stuck in traffic as roads were likely closed for his motorcade. Costs to the Colts to increase security at the stadium. And so on.</p> <p>All so Pence could release a statement that was the equivalent of his <a type="internal">infamous stern gaze</a> across the Demilitarized Zone at North Korea:</p> <q> <p>I left today's Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem. At a time when so many Americans are inspiring our nation with their courage, resolve, and resilience, now, more than ever, we should rally around our Flag and everything that unites us. While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem. I stand with President Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem.</p> </q> <p>Pence's office would like you to think this was just a spontaneous reaction by a man proud of his flag and his nation. This is belied by the fact that his reporters traveling with him were <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/917091068797161472" type="external">not allowed out</a> of their vans when they arrived at the Colts' stadium but were told ahead of time that “there may be an early departure from the game by VPOTUS.”</p> <p>It is also belied by this tweet sent Sunday afternoon by Donald Trump:</p> <q> <p>I asked <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@VP</a> Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and <a href="https://twitter.com/SecondLady?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@SecondLady</a> Karen.</p> </q> <p>The Colts were playing the San Francisco 49ers, the former team of Colin Kaepernick, who started the kneeling protests a year ago. The chances that Mike Pence would see players kneeling were approximately 100 percent.</p> <p>He knew this ahead of time, yet he still chose to fly from Las Vegas to Indianapolis despite the fact that he had to fly back to California immediately afterwards for fundraisers, just so he could get a picture of himself holding his hand over his heart (a picture his staff immediately made the header photo on his Twitter page) before theatrically storming out and scolding the NFL players for offending him.</p> <p>A real leader might have tried to find out exactly why the players <a type="internal">started kneeling</a> in the first place, which was to protest police brutality and <a type="internal">racism</a>, and then spoken with them and tried to figure out ways to address their concerns.</p> <p>Mike Pence did the exact opposite.</p> <p>As of Monday morning, he has yet to make a peep about the white nationalists returning to Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday night to once again rally around the Robert E. Lee statue there. That he is seemingly far more concerned with staging a political stunt slapping down African-American players protesting systemic racism tells you all you need to know about him.</p> <p>Oh, and to top it off, one of the fundraisers Pence is attending in California is for <a type="internal">Dana Rohrabacher</a>, the strongly pro-Russia congressman. Fiction writers could not make this up.</p> <p>Please note: This is a commentary piece. The views and opinions expressed within it are those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect the editorial opinion of IJR.</p>	Trump VP Pence Wastes Hundreds of Thousands of Tax Dollars on Fake NFL Photo Op	true	http://ijr.com/the-response/2017/10/993649-trump-vp-pence-wastes-hundreds-thousands-tax-dollars-fake-nfl-photo-op/	2017-10-09
<p>UPDATE May 22, 2018:</p> <p>The Little Rock Police Department <a type="internal">has recovered human remains in Chalamont Park</a>, the last place Ebby Steppach was seen.</p> <p>May 25, 2017:</p> <p>Crime Watch Daily joins in the hunt for a missing Arkansas teenager whose parents fear she may have been kidnapped and forced into the dark world of sex-trafficking.</p> <p>Ebby Steppach, 18, was planning to go to the Little Rock Police Department to report an alleged sexual assault. But before she could make talk to cops -- she vanished.</p> <p>She's a young woman who has become famous in Little Rock, Arkansas for all the wrong reasons.</p> <p>"Everyone knows Ebby," said <a href="https://twitter.com/MitchellMcCoy" type="external">KARK-TV reporter Mitch McCoy</a>. "Ebby is the 'Little Rock Girl.' You can say the name Ebby Steppach and most people will know who you're talking about."</p> <p>She went to a house party to kick off the weekend. But that was the end of the good times for 18-year-old Ebby.</p> <p>"Ebby went to a party on a Friday night and had been assaulted, and there was a videotape," said Ebby's mother Laurie Jernigan.</p> <p>And it's the beginning of a nightmare for her and her family.</p> <p>"She got extremely upset about it and was threatening to go to the police about it. And then two days later she disappears? Yes."</p> <p>And now only Crime Watch Daily tracks down a key witness who sheds light on the frightening possibilities.</p> <p>Laurie Jernigan says her daughter Ebby is a joy to have around. But Ebby has an independent streak too.</p> <p>"When she started pushing the boundaries, it was 'I have a car of my own, I should be able to come home when I want,'" said Laurie.</p> <p>When Ebby got that first car, a whole new world opened up, and she's taking the ride all the way.</p> <p>"She didn't realize the danger," said Laurie.</p> <p>One night Ebby heads to a party in Little Rock.</p> <p>"She did have bad influences on her life, some that I didn't know," said Laurie.</p> <p>The next morning Ebby sends a frightening text message to her friend Gage Fulton. Gage read the text out loud on a phone call to private investigator Monty Vickers, who recorded the conversation.</p> <p>"I was hanging with some dudes last night and we smoked and I had sex with one of them and he [----]ing recorded me dude, like when I wasn't looking."</p> <p>Videotaped during a sexual encounter -- Ebby doesn't tell Gage who did it. But he tells Vickers that she is horrified and confused.</p> <p>Vickers: "Did she tell you that she was raped?"</p> <p>Fulton: "She said she felt forced into it. Her last text message to me is 'I am going to go kill myself.'"</p> <p>But Ebby doesn't kill herself. She is enraged, and plans to do something about it.</p> <p>That same night, she again sends a text, this time to her stepfather Michael Jernigan while he is at dinner with the family.</p> <p>"An incident had occurred at that party that she wanted to discuss, and discuss with the police," said Michael Jernigan. "There had been an encounter with a particular individual at that party that he had videotaped."</p> <p>Michael leaves a message with Ebby that he's heading to her grandparents' house where she is staying. But he gets no response.</p> <p>"I called over to her grandparents to ask if she was over there. They stated that she left, said that she was going to meet me," said Michael.</p> <p>But Michael says there hadn't been an arrangement to meet anywhere. And it is the last contact he ever has with his stepdaughter.</p> <p>But suddenly the family hears from Ebby the next day when she answers a phone call from her brother Trevor. Like everyone else he has been trying desperately to reach her.</p> <p>"She answered and he said 'Where are you?' And she said 'I'm out in front of your house,'" said Laurie Jernigan. "So he hung up and says cool and he goes out there and she's not there. So he calls her back. She answers and she says she's messed up and he said 'Where are you?' And she said 'I'm in my car,' and he said 'Where is your car?' And she said 'I don't know,' and hung up. And that's the last time anyone's talked to her."</p> <p>And now the family is truly alarmed and terrified for the fate of their Ebby.</p> <p>"He called the police immediately, and he said 'You've got to look for her car. I know something is wrong. Something's happened,'" said Laurie. "They listed her as a runaway and they weren't going to look for her."</p> <p>No possibility that she just decided to leave town on her own for whatever reason?</p> <p>"She would move out and hang out, which was really unusual, but she would never run away and not talk to her family," said Laurie.</p> <p>And Ebby's family is searching for her everywhere. Until days after her disappearance, they suddenly get news that leaves them thunderstruck once more. Ebby's abandoned car is reported at a nearby city park by security guard Guy Hooper.</p> <p>A surveillance image shows her car on the road shortly after she went missing. But police are not saying exactly where or if anyone was in the car with her.</p> <p>"I called Little Rock and notified them that the car had been sitting there for three days, and they had gotten the car and taken it in," said Guy Hooper.</p> <p>"It was devastating. I can't describe to you how bad that was that night. Finding her car and not her, you might as well tell me she was dead. It was unimaginable," said Laurie.</p> <p>And what police find in her car only deepens the family's fear that something terrible has happened to Ebby.</p> <p>"What 18-year-old leaves her cellphone or their clothes? Her makeup? She spent all of her money on makeup. Her contact lenses, she can't see without contacts," said Laurie.</p> <p>But Laurie says she still cannot convince police that Ebby is a victim of foul play and not a runaway.</p> <p>"No matter how hard I tried I could not get detectives to do anything about it," said Laurie.</p> <p>Not only that, Ebby's family says they still don't know if some of the people who were with her at that party have even been questioned by police.</p> <p>Stepdad Michael Jernigan says Ebby gave him some names in that last text conversation, but he will not reveal them for fear of jeopardizing the ongoing investigation.</p> <p>"I know two of the individuals," said Michael.</p> <p>Do the police know who they are?</p> <p>"Yes."</p> <p>Ebby Steppach, 18, has been missing for weeks after disappearing on Oct. 25, 2015. And the alarming possibility that she has been sex-trafficked haunts everyone who knows this case.</p> <p>How does the sex-trafficking work?</p> <p>"They pick up this girl, lock her up in a room, feed her with heroin, keep her doped up," said private investigator Monty Vickers. "They charge guys to have sex with her, to the point where she is just a zombie slave."</p> <p>The best-case scenario is Ebby is still alive, but being sex-trafficked.</p> <q> <p>"That's the worst-case scenario to me," said Ebby's mother Laurie. "If she's not with us anymore, she's in peace."</p> </q> <p>The search for any sign of her goes on, with no results.</p> <p>Ebby's family hires private investigator and former Little Rock Police detective Monty Vickers. He says he tries to help the department work better with the family.</p> <p>"The last thing that we need to do is to run out here and start our own investigation and interfere with the police investigation in some way, so we basically did nothing other than try to communicate with the police department and stay in communication with the family," said Vickers.</p> <p>But he still does a lot of digging himself. About five months after Ebby goes missing, he visits security guard Guy Hooper, the man who reported Ebby's abandoned car at a city park.</p> <p>We tracked down Guy Hooper ourselves, and he gave us the shocking details about seeing Ebby with two young black men in the park only days before she disappeared.</p> <p>"It was late evening, I advised them all, everybody to leave the park, which they did," said Hooper. "Then a few days later I run into her again with another young black gentleman. This time they were in the back seat of the car. And the third time she was back with another couple gentlemen."</p> <p>He's sure it was Ebby?</p> <p>"Yes sir," said Hooper. "After I saw the pictures of her later on, of course -- I didn't have a name at the time."</p> <p>And Hooper says he notices one guy in particular, who he says is there all three times.</p> <p>"They were hugging, kissing back and forth," said Hooper.</p> <p>Does he remember what these guys looked like, especially the one she was close to?</p> <p>"He was about five-foot-six, five-seven, had long dreads," said</p> <p>And his eyewitness account is about to go ballistic when we show him what we've brought along with us.</p> <p>There was a bust involving sex-trafficking that took place in Louisiana but the individuals that were arrested many of them have connection to Little Rock. We showed Hooper their mug shots to see if he recognized any of them.</p> <p>"It's this middle one on the top and the gentleman on the left," said Hooper.</p> <p>Which individual was the one kissing and hugging Ebby?</p> <p>"This gentleman right here, the guy with the dreads," said Hooper.</p> <p>How positive is Hooper?</p> <p>"About 70 percent. I'm pretty sure this was the gentleman that was directly with her," said Hooper.</p> <p>It is a stunning development that could have a major impact on the search for Ebby.</p> <p>The man with the dreadlocks is Keith Pruiett, 21, of Little Rock. Police in Arkansas have not connected him with Ebby's disappearance. But Pruiett was recently charged with human-trafficking and promoting prostitution near Shreveport, Louisiana.</p> <p>Also charged in that case in Louisiana is 23-year-old Gary Jackson of Little Rock. Gus Hooper also pointed out Jackson as the second man he believes he saw in the park with Ebby.</p> <p>Both men are currently in jail in Louisiana awaiting trial, and we have been not been able to contact them or anyone representing them.</p> <p>Little Rock Police have not named either man, or any suspects, in Ebby Steppach's disappearance.</p> <p>We don't know if the Little Rock Police Department has ever seen the potential bombshell evidence that Crime Watch Daily has brought to the table.</p> <p>So Crime Watch Daily went right over to the station and hand it to them personally. We couldn't get the lieutenant or a detective on camera, but we ran into Public Information Officer Steve Moore out front.</p> <p>"I'm trying to find him and I'm going to call the assigned detective and give him this also," Moore said.</p> <p>Police say they are actively pursuing the information we provided them.</p> <p>"I think there's a lot more to the story," said KARK-TV's Mitch McCoy.</p> <p>McCoy from has been on the story since Ebby first went missing.</p> <p>"I think that there are a lot of unknowns with this case that sooner or later will come out. The question is when," said McCoy.</p> <p>McCoy interviewed retired detective Tommy Hudson, who recently worked on the case. Today Hudson says the investigation is back on track. He won't discuss sex-trafficking, but he does lean toward foul play.</p> <p>"My opinion is is somebody has her and somebody's done something to her," McCoy tells Crime Watch Daily.</p> <p>And Ebby's family says that they are now satisfied that police are doing everything possible to find their daughter.</p> <p>"I have full confidence in who has her case now," said Ebby's mother Laurie Jernigan. "I can actually sleep at night knowing that there are those looking for her. Thank God we have someone now, we have people now that understand that and check on that as soon as they can."</p> <p>Ebby Steppach stands 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 110 pounds. She also may have dyed her blond hair black after her disappearance.</p> Crime Watch Daily investigates sex-trafficking epidemic in U.S.	Crime Watch Daily joins hunt for missing Little Rock teen Ebby Steppach	false	https://crimewatchdaily.com/2017/05/25/crime-watch-daily-joins-hunt-for-missing-little-rock-teen-ebby-steppach/	2017-05-25
<p>As seen on <a type="internal">Watters' World</a></p> <p><a type="internal">'More Scandalous Than We Can Fathom': Huckabee Goes Off on Clinton Foundation</a></p> <p><a type="internal">RPT: Aggressive Protesters Push, Spit on Trump Supporters at Fundraiser</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Trump: 'Obama Ought to Get Off the Golf Course' and Go to Louisiana Flood Zone</a></p> <p>On last night's "Watters' World" special, Jesse Watters dropped by New York City's Dominican Day Parade to learn about Dominican culture and to ask revelers about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the 2016 race.</p> <p>"Are you guys out here celebrating or are you just looking for girls?"</p> <p>My vote is for Hillary Clinton, because I think she represents women.</p> "Bill Clinton represents women too..." <p>To be honest, Trump doesn't know how to make up his mind.</p> "Yeah, most men don't." <p>You don't like Trump or Hillary... what about me?</p> <p>Watch more the "Watters' World" clip above.</p> <p><a type="internal">'Low-Level Simpleton': Thief Leaves Nasty Note After Stealing Man's Trump Sign</a></p>	Funny SEE IT: Watters Drops by NYC's Dominican Day Parade	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/21/watters-world-visits-new-york-citys-dominican-day-parade	2016-08-21
<p>Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway reacted to Trump's debate performance and the fact he held a press availability with four women who have accused the Clintons of misconduct.</p> <p>"These women want to be heard," Conway said of Kathleen Willey, Kathy Shelton, Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Corbin Jones.</p> <p>"I'm really proud of Donald Trump for raising it in exactly the right way," she told Megyn Kelly on The Kelly File, " How does Hillary Clinton treat these women after the fact?"</p> <p>Conway was referring to Clinton's statement that alleged victims of sexual assault "deserve to be heard".</p> <p>"Or, are we excluding those who have had contact with her husband?" Conway asked.</p> <p>"Juanita Broaddrick in the pre-debate press availability said 'Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton attacked me'. This is her chance to tell her story."</p> <p>"If [Hillary] is going to... be some Joan of Arc for women...she totally ignored all four of the women tonight."</p> <p>Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, represented the accused rapist of then-12-year old Shelton, and reportedly laughed about the case after the suspect was vindicated.</p> <p>Willey and Jones have accused Bill Clinton of assault and have insinuated that Hillary Clinton enabled him and attacked them.</p> <p>Regarding Trump's vulgar recorded discussion with Billy Bush, Conway said it was "disgusting [and] offensive, and I'm not going to excuse what he said."</p> <p>What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.</p> <p><a type="internal">Overdoses Suspected After Little Girl Alerts Bus Driver About Unresponsive Parents</a></p>	Trump Campaign Mgr: He Raised Clinton Accusers Issue 'Exactly the Right Way'	true	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/09/kellyanne-conway-juanita-broaddrick-trump-raised-issues-exactly-right-bill-clinton	2016-10-09
<p>Jul 1, 2017 at 3:15 PM</p> <p>The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.</p> <p>The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets started hasn’t succeeded either, despite serial efforts to sue over election results, alter the Electoral College vote, boycott the inauguration, delay the confirmation of appointments, demand recusals, promise Trump’s impeachment or removal through the 25th Amendment, and file suit under the Emoluments Clause.</p> <p>A third strategy of portraying Trump as a veritable monster likewise so far has failed in four special elections for House seats.</p> <p>Apparently progressives have accepted the idea that Barack Obama’s formula of twice winning the Electoral College is not yet transferable to other progressive candidates such as Hillary Clinton. And they probably have concluded that Obama’s progressive political agenda proved unpopular with voters by 2010 and had to be implemented by ad hoc executive orders — presidential prerogatives now utilized by Donald Trump to overturn the ones Obama issued.</p> <p>A fourth potential pathway to power would be a return to Bill Clinton’s pragmatic agendas of the 1990s. But apparently progressives find that centrist remedy worse than the malady of losing elections — given that during the Obama tenure, more than 1,000 state and local offices were lost to Republicans, in addition to majorities in the House and Senate, and a majority of governorships and legislatures.</p> <p>What next?</p> <p>Trump acts as if he is a Nietzschean figure, assuming that anything that does not destroy him only makes him stronger. And now, slowly, his accusers are becoming the accused.</p> <p>One nagging problem with the progressive case against Trump for purported Russian collusion and obstruction of justice was that members of the Obama administration had more exposure to those allegations than did the political newcomer Trump.</p> <p>Last year, then-FBI Director James Comey testified that not only did former Attorney General Loretta Lynch improperly meet in secret with Bill Clinton during an investigation of Hillary Clinton, but that Lynch had asked Comey to downplay the investigation into Hillary’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Comey confessed that he had reluctantly agreed to Lynch’s request.</p> <p>Last month, in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey admitted that he asked a friend to leak notes about Comey’s earlier conversation with Trump in hopes of forcing the nomination of a special investigator to lead the Russia investigation — perhaps a successful gambit, given that Comey’s friend, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, was soon appointed to that role.</p> <p>Comey also wrongly dismissed Hillary Clinton’s email problems because of a perceived lack of criminal intent — a supposedly mitigating circumstance that legally should have had no bearing on things.</p> <p>As far as alleged Russian collusion, there had long been conservative accusations that Bill and Hillary Clinton used Hillary’s status as secretary of state to leverage honoraria for Bill and donations to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for concessions to Russian interests.</p> <p>Moreover, Russian tampering efforts had been going on for months before the 2016 election, but without any retaliatory measures from the Obama administration, which knew about Russia’s meddling.</p> <p>In an inadvertent hot-mic request in 2012, Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin “to give me space” during Obama’s re-election campaign, so that after his assumed success, Obama could reciprocate with “more flexibility” on Russian issues. In the present highly charged climate, would that be seen as a form of Russian collusion?</p> <p>Meanwhile, the House Intelligence Committee is still investigating whether top Obama administration officials wrongfully used the power of foreign-intelligence collection to conduct surveillance of Americans — particularly members of the Trump campaign.</p> <p>The point is not whether the Clintons, James Comey, Barack Obama or members of the Obama administration can be proven to have engaged in illegal or unscrupulous behavior.</p> <p>Rather, the lesson is that progressives should have offered alternative political visions that might have won back the American people rather than attempting to terminate the Trump presidency on charges to which the progressive side was far more vulnerable.</p> <p>Now that Trump is emerging from successful House special elections and has fended off six months of media attacks, celebrity invective and progressive efforts to abort his tenure, he seems to be going back on the offensive.</p> <p>Currently, House and Senate investigations are doing to Democrats what has been done Trump. So far these probes seem to have better chances to prove alleged wrongdoing.</p> <p>What does all this political back-and-forth mean?</p> <p>Democrats struck preemptively to take out Trump before he unwound the Obama legacy. That effort has probably been stalled.</p> <p>The return volley is being launched at a time when an energized Trump is gaining momentum on health care and tax reform, and an improving economy.</p> <p>In sum, to thwart a new president’s policies, it is probably wiser to offer alternative agendas instead of trying to destroy him before he has even entered office.</p> <p>Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.</p>	Hanson: Progressive attacks on Trump are backfiring	true	http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2017-07-01/hanson-progressive-attacks-trump-are-backfiring
<p>This past weekend, I took a camping trip with my dad and older brother. We sat around a camp fire drinking beers, talking politics, reminiscing, and acting like a couple of teenage boys degenerating into far lower forms of conversation. There were no kids, no wives, and no distractions—male bonding at its finest. It was everything I needed in a break from the daily grind of having to be the guy who deals with people beating, stabbing, shooting, stealing from, and lying about each other for a living. It’s the youngest I’ve seen the old man look, the most laid back I’ve seen my brother act, and the most humbled I’ve felt in years. I’m glad we did it.</p> <p>I don’t get to see my old man very often anymore since I moved across the country, and I almost forgot how hilarious he can be. As a retired cop himself, he’s able to bounce back and forth between sidesplittingly entertaining stories and philosophical and profound ones before bringing it back around and making you laugh all over again. It’s the type of unique style that can only develop in a man who has put in 26 years on the job and lived to tell about it. I could go on all day about the tales told, laughs had, and lessons learned, but there’s one story in particular that is sticking out in my mind today now that the image of Kathy Griffin holding up the <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2017/05/30/kathy-griffin-beheads-donald-trump-photo-tyler-shields/" type="external">severed head</a> of our president has broken the internet.</p> <p>One of the main reasons Pop’s stories have so much depth and detail is because he patrolled the streets of the same city as an adult that he once called his stomping grounds as a kid. It wasn’t uncommon for some of the most ridiculous people he’d dealt with as a cop to have been his friends or schoolmates at one point in time. A shining example of this was the time my old man found himself wrapped up in a childhood acquaintance’s plot to assassinate President Reagan.</p> <p>One fateful night, Joe Blow had two or ten drinks too many and sat himself down behind the wheel of a car that ultimately paved his way straight to a jail cell on a DUI. My dad, along with a few other local boys turned cops, knew Blow growing up, and their names started getting thrown around by the drunken clown as soon as he parked his butt in the drunk tank to dry out.</p> <p>Drunks are pure entertainment for cops up until the point where they get in the way of us going home on time. It’s not unusual for their ranting and raving to lead to demanding things like water, trips to the restroom, phone calls, and all kinds of other earthly desires, as was the case with Blow. Eventually, the ridiculous behavior and name-dropping piqued someone’s interest enough to call Lefever and find out what he knew about this guy.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>By the time Pop answered the phone in the middle of the night, his buddies are down at the precinct having a good old time laughing and joking at the expense of an individual who was obviously making a fool of himself. Instead of asking nicely for a cup of water or to use the restroom, Blow had been calling these guys every name in the book and telling them they had better do as he says. In the same way you don’t give into the demands of a child throwing a temper tantrum, the officers are giving him what he deserves—absolutely nothing. Eventually, Blow makes his big mistake when he shrieks, “Well if you don’t give me a glass of water, I’m gonna kill President Reagan!”</p> <p>To this day, Pop doesn’t know who put pen to paper, but the Secret Service found out about Blow’s empty threats to assassinate the president over a glass of water that he had nothing to do with two states away. Blow’s drunken rampage went down early on in Reagan’s first term, and the prez made at least three trips to Jersey in the following eight years. Blow was put on lockdown each time for the duration of the visit. Years later, my dad had a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment with the guy at a high school reunion because Blow held him responsible for his place on a Secret Service watch list for almost a decade. You play stupid games and you win stupid prizes, they say. I’m guessing Dutch didn’t get his vote in the second term.</p> <p>All joking aside, four presidents have been assassinated while holding office, and an additional fourteen have survived actual attempts or failed plots on their lives. Make no mistake about it—the threat is as grave or worse for President Trump as it has been for any president to ever sit in the Oval Office. Despite the fact that Trump’s name is not included on Wikipedia’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots" type="external">list</a> of US presidential assassination attempts and plots, I’d argue that he’s facing greater danger than many of the former presidents inhabiting the list ever were.</p> <p>Just look at the ever-escalating flirtation with Trump death threats made by celebrities. My earliest memory of this was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AB6u6K2wIs" type="external">Pitbull</a> shouting to Trump, “Watch out for El Chapo, Dude!” after ripping him at the Univision Awards. A short time later, we had <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/05/eminem.lyrics/" type="external">Eminem</a> rapping “I don’t rap for dead presidents, I’d rather see the president dead” in his song “We as Americans.” Then, there was <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/03/13/snoop-dogg-shoots-fake-president-trump-new-video-lavender/99139774/" type="external">Snoop Dogg</a> holding a gun to a clown depicted to be Trump and pulling the trigger in his music video for Lavender. Who can forget about Bow Wow’s Twitter rant threatening to pimp the First Lady or Sarah Silverman’s call for the US military to get rid of Trump?</p> <p>While it is no secret that publicity-starved and emotionally stunted Hollywood types have a time-honored tradition of one-upmanship and grandstanding to the point of absurdity, fantasizing over Trump’s death went too far the moment they declared it in vogue. What started as a refusal to accept the results of a democratically held election has turned into Kathy Griffin doing her best ISIS impression on the president of our country. The worst part about the whole thing is that most people blamed the beheading stunt on Carrot Top. As a cop, I’m an expert witness—but I can see how many have been fooled. Therefore I’ve created this meme to show the American people that Carrot Top has been wrongfully accused.</p> <p>I hate to use the word “normalize” in the same way I hate to use the word “problematic,” because both come almost exclusively out of the mouths of social justice warrior liberals who believe the guy who invented white chocolate is racist. In this case, however, I’ll go ahead and do it. The way in which the killing of President Trump is being normalized is reckless and inexcusable.</p> <p>Speaking of reckless and inexcusable—lest we forget who lit the torch for the 2017 Trump Assassination Olympics just in time for the inauguration back in January, it was none other than CNN, who ran a <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/5290422982001/?#sp=show-clips" type="external">segment</a> captioned “Disaster Could Put Obama Cabinet Member in Oval Office.” Calling a network that muses of a newly elected president and his inner circle being murdered the Clinton News Network or Crap News Network just doesn’t suffice here. I prefer the Caliphate News Network. After all, it is CNN who has been allowing Kathy Griffin to host their coverage of New Year’s Eve in Times Square since 2013. Will they separate themselves this year, or will the 11 people tuning in be seeing the ball drop replaced with President Trump’s dismembered head falling from his body?</p> <p>While the Secret Service has already opened investigations on some of the celebrities I mentioned above without going so far as to put them on a watch list, many people are calling for Kathy Griffin to be locked up. If Joe Blow can be placed on a watch list for eight years for his drunken rant against Reagan, I’m all for Griffin, Snoop, Bow Wow, Eminem, Pitbull, Silverman, and the entire CNN production team responsible for the assassination segment getting scooped up and placed under supervision anytime Trump comes to town. May he do us all a favor and come to town often.</p>	As Kathy Griffin Joins ISIS, the US Must Enforce Laws Regarding Threats to the President	true	http://opslens.com/2017/05/31/as-kathy-griffin-joins-isis-the-us-must-enforce-laws-regarding-threats-to-the-president/	2017-05-31
<p>By Kathryn Blackhurst, LifeZette:</p> <p>American Spectator Senior Editor John Fund blasted the media for refusing to cover former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s “ravings” claiming that “voter suppression” contributed to her Election Day loss, during an interview Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”</p> <p>Fund, a national-affairs columnist for National Review Online, said both Democrats and the mainstream media ridiculed President Donald Trump for claiming that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally while giving Clinton a complete pass for her claims. Pointing to the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s Monday report proving that more than 5,556 illegal voters were enrolled across 138 of Virginia’s counties and cities, Fund claimed that voter fraud is far more substantiated than Clinton’s claims.</p> “All they do is yell ‘voter suppression!’ But they don’t have any evidence. They don’t have any statistics. They don’t have any of them. All they have are Hillary Clinton’s ravings.” <p>“There’s no evidence that voter ID laws prevent people from voting. What really defeated Hillary Clinton was that in every single swing state, including states that don’t have voter ID, African-American turnout went down because African-American voters didn’t particularly like Hillary Clinton,” Fund said.</p> <p>“What we have is the Democrats actively trying to hide the ball on any attempt to find out if there is voter fraud,” Fund continued. “All they do is yell ‘voter suppression!’ But they don’t have any evidence. They don’t have any statistics. They don’t have any of them. All they have are Hillary Clinton’s ravings.”</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>Fund referred to Clinton’s recent interview with New York magazine in which she insisted, “I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians, aided and abetted by the suppression of the vote, particularly in Wisconsin. . . . Whoever comes next, this is not going to end. Republicans learned that if you suppress votes you win.”</p> <p>Declaring this unsubstantiated claim to be utter nonsense, Fund noted that even liberal organizations such as the fact-checking site Snopes, Vox, and Slate have all “called Hillary’s assertion that she lost because of voter suppression just a fantasy.”</p> <p>“But by the way, how much media coverage did you get?” Fund said.</p> <p>Instead, Trump’s claims of 3 million to 5 million people illegal voters have been getting all the attention.</p> <p>“Trump should have never have said it. It discredits the cause,” Fund conceded. “Having said that, the outrage against Trump was perfectly appropriate. But where’s the outrage at Hillary Clinton coming up with her fantasy about voter suppression with just as little evidence? I don’t know if anyone in the media … has talked about it or heard about it.”</p> <p>Pointing once again to Virginia and its resident “consigliere of the Clinton White House,” Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Fund noted that he has “desperately tried to prevent groups like the Public Interest Legal Foundation to go into voter registration rolls and try to find out who has been removed from the rolls in Virginia because” they were illegally registered to vote when they obtained a driver’s license.</p> <p>“That would be the evidence that there were non-citizens voting in our elections,” Fund said. “Well, McAuliffe sent out a directive to every local election official: Don’t cooperate with these questions. And it turns out they now have the answers from 138 communities in Virginia. Not the whole state, just part of it, [that] 5,500 non-citizens have been removed from the voter registration rolls in the last 5 years. Over a third of them had been voting.”</p> <p>The real issue, Fund insisted, is former President Barack Obama’s reluctance to investigate or illegal voting or allow others to investigate whether the country’s democratic election process had been compromised.</p> <p>“For eight years, state after state asked the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security, ‘You have a list of every legal alien in the country, people with green cards, student visas. Please send us the list. All we’ll do with it is match it with out voter-registration rolls and see if some non-citizens are registering and possibly voting,'” Fund said.</p> <p>“For eight years the Obama administration refused to turn over those lists, claiming ‘privacy’ considerations, which were bogus,” Fund added. “The reason why he claimed there is no voter fraud is he’s actively trying to hide it.”</p> <p>The Trump administration has since set up, by executive order, a commission to investigate voter fraud.</p> <p>This article was used with permission from <a href="http://lifezette.com" type="external">LifeZette</a>.</p>	Fund: Hillary’s ‘Ravings’ Are Only Evidence of Voter Suppression	true	http://opslens.com/2017/05/31/fund-hillarys-ravings-evidence-voter-suppression/	2017-05-31
<p>Have you ever had one of those days when you swear that you are actually being secretly taped for some sort of bad internet prank show? One of the best examples for me was when James Comey, then-director of the FBI, laid out the most impressive case against Hillary Clinton for illegal handling of classified information but then basically told the world, April Fools! I actually looked around my room to see if I was being filmed. I occasionally have the same experience when I read stories about liberalism and how they support the Constitution through totalitarian values. I found myself in that same situation this morning after reading about the new procedures for the police in Seattle, Washington.</p> <p>It all started when three outstanding young community members attempted to rob a 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle—a 17-year-old woman and two 19-year-old men. A police officer who was nearby immediately engaged with one of the men in a ground fight. During this fight, he was hit over the head with a bottle by the 17-year-old.</p> <p>One of the 19-year olds then ran into a building, where he engaged in a firefight with the police. During this exchange, one of the officers was shot in the face and ribs. Another officer was shot in the chest, but luckily she was wearing a protective vest. Yet another officer had his hand grazed by a bullet. The young community member who was shooting at the police was eventually killed in the gunfight, and the other two community members were apprehended without further injury.</p> <p>So, what about this is so surreal? While horrific and sad, nothing in this story thus far challenges our current view of the world. That is unfortunate in its truth, but what bothers me more is how the police are now being required to report upon these incidents. Instead of stating the truth—that these individuals are suspects in a crime (until they are tried in court and judged to be guilty, they are still innocent, no matter how obvious or horrendous the crime)—the police are now being told they are to refer to them as community members.</p> <p>I wrote recently about this very phenomenon. If the left cannot ignore the horrific nature of crime, they will simply relabel it so as not to offend those who are affected by the consequences. Well, that is not entirely true. There are those whom the left will not concern itself with. The victim of the crime will clearly be affected by this event. I am certain that they will carry with them a new sense of fear for the rest of their lives. The officers who were shot will also be affected forever as well, both mentally and physically. Being shot at is a significant event; I can only imagine that being shot magnifies this factor exponentially. Not only will the officers shot have their lives changed, but think of their families and especially their children. Every day they will wonder if that is the last time they will see their mother or father. Yet the left does not view any of them worthy of their guardianship.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>As always, liberals will attempt to take responsibility away from the perpetrators of crime and throw that accountability onto society itself (often by blaming the victim). Since the crime itself cannot be questioned, they will instead change the verbiage so as to misconstrue the true depth. These scums aren’t suspects at all, they are simply community members. No different from you or me in any way that matters or is worthy of note.</p> <p>This is the essence of Newspeak, which George Orwell wrote of in his book 1984. If you want to control the minds of the people, simply choose the words that they can use. Once you lack the words to describe something, then that event or emotion cannot exist. Here we can see that very occurrence in real life. Forget about the victims or the police. Forget about those affected by causality. They are simply the collateral damage caused by society failing. There is no personal responsibility—only responsibility of society. Therefore, there is no individual control. This is why the left is so vehemently opposed to any sort of label that makes an individual take responsibility for themselves. To do so leaves them powerless and voids their control.</p> <p>In the book 1984, the hero makes a very astute statement: “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.” This fact is not lost by liberals. Simply forcing someone to conform is not enough. Making someone say what you want does not change their beliefs or values. Instead, manipulate their ability to formulate thoughts through limitation of the language.</p> <p>I will close with this quote from the same book, which I feel sums up my view of progressives completely.</p> <p>The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power…We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others…never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.</p>	Police in Seattle Can’t Say ‘Suspect’ Anymore, It’s Now ‘Community Members’	true	http://opslens.com/2017/05/31/police-in-seattle-cant-say-suspect-anymore-its-now-community-members/	2017-05-31
<p>Most of the country condemned Kathy Griffin’s now-infamous photo shoot holding a fake severed head of President Trump. The shocking photo shoot prompted a nationwide outrage and sparked debate over whether or not Griffin should be investigated as a threat to national security. As the Trump family reacted to the photo, it was reported that President Trump’s youngest child—11-year-old Barron—had seen the photo while watching the news and became understandably upset.</p> <p>The one thing these so-called artists fail to take into account is the impact their message will have on family members of their targets. It’s incredibly hard to believe that creating images of this violent nature wouldn’t provoke thought into how they will affect families or even the audience. Not only was Griffin’s photo shoot and full admission of wrongdoing completely unacceptable by anyone’s standards, it was disrespectful to victims of terrorism and their families. Radical Islamic terrorists are notorious for beheading innocent people—including Americans—for propaganda videos.</p> <p>By far, the most disgusting social media post came from some guy who apparently won big on Jeopardy over ten years ago. Ken Jennings took to Twitter and decided to campaign for Dirtbag of the Year. “Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad and his little heart is breaking,” the game show winner from 2004 posted on his Twitter account. He even defended Griffin’s actions, citing—you guessed it—another game show from the ‘90s where he said Griffin was known for holding up severed heads.</p> <q> <p>Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad &amp; his little heart is breaking</p> <p>— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/869982330743513089" type="external">May 31, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>This kind of reaction is absolutely reprehensible, especially under the circumstances. CNN has since announced that Kathy Griffin has been fired from her job as a New Year’s Eve announcer for the network alongside Anderson Cooper, who also expressed outrage over the violent photo. With serious reactions to the photo taking place in the United States, opportunists usually crawl out of the woodwork to make a sad attempt at humor. This was a huge fail. Attacking a child who was understandably disturbed by the gruesome image of his father’s mock beheading is a new low in our society.</p> <p>Adding to this creep’s sentiment, Rosie O’Donnell weighed in via her Twitter account, dismissing Barron Trump’s reaction by asking, “Do you think he saw anything about these 2 heroic men who died defending young girls? Hatred promoted by his father?”This was in reference to the two men who were killed in Oregon defending a Muslim girl from an attack. Regarding which, by the way, President Trump released a statement condemning the act as hatred that has no place in the United States.</p> <p>It seems like reactions to disturbing incidents like the Kathy Griffin photo expose the true nature of individuals and separate those with compassion for humans—regardless of political belief—from truly heinous people.</p>	Game Show Winner Mocks Barron Trump’s Response to Gruesome Kathy Griffin Photo	true	http://opslens.com/2017/06/01/game-show-winner-mocks-barron-trumps-response-gruesome-kathy-griffin-photo/	2017-06-01
<p>By Joe Boatwright:</p> <p>I’m amazed that there is still an argument surrounding global warming. Most of the literature is full of articles from organizations that deal with planetary weather issues or other political organizations that have joined the climate change movement. Conclusively, none of any of their global warming predictions have come to fruition. Almost every assertion has been debunked or proven false, sometimes by other parts of the same organization!</p> <p>Why should conservatives continue to debate liberals on this topic? Firstly, conservatives should always try to stop any insanity from the left, no matter what the subject. Secondly, the left continues to put forth their agenda on global warming, no matter how idiotic. So unfortunately, the right must respond against these arguments (again, no matter how absurd).</p> <p>Rush Limbaugh agreed by positing another reason: “The only reason we’re even talking about global warming — well, the real only reason — is its part of the left’s agenda of expanding government worldwide, raising taxes worldwide, and a key ingredient of this is blaming average citizens for the problem.” The conservative fight is to keep the left’s ‘one world order’ and worldwide tax increases from happening. We should not allow them to blame anyone for something that does not exist and can’t be proven.</p> <p>Back in August 2014 Alex Newman wrote in The New American, <a href="https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/18888-embarrassing-predictions-haunt-the-global-warming-industry" type="external">“Embarrassing Predictions Haunt the Global-Warming Industry.”</a> This excellent article details in length the litany of failed global warming predictions. It also criticizes organizations like the UN that recanted some of their farcical claims, sometimes even before they could be proven wrong. In one instance, the UN discovered their ‘scientific’ evidence came from the World Wildlife Fund propaganda literature. The claims from the liberal agenda of these organizations are so outlandish that it wouldn’t be surprising for them to throw in some type of zombie apocalypse.</p> <p>Global Warming is not scientific; it has become a political issue with many commenters who act as experts. In addition, articles that have been debunked continue to be echoed in other commentaries. These commentaries continue to make further inane assertions based on information already proven wrong. Global warming theorists who act as though this information is the word of God have taken the definition of non-sequitur to another level. Neuman points this out: “the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has acted as the main scaremonger for the global warming lobby that led to the Kyoto Protocol.” However, “the IPCC is a political, not scientific, body.” Only liberal extremists still beat the global warming drum — you shouldn’t be listening.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>However, global warming myths continue to circulate periodically, despite being dispelled at length. For instance, there is the worry of our ecosystems being disrupted by rising temperatures or increasing CO2. Numerous studies show that there is no proof of rising temperatures distinct from natural system variations, and atmospheric CO2 is a beneficial fertilizer for plants! Regardless of the causes of these variations, the planet’s ecosystems have been adapting since the beginning of time. Almost as an urban legend, abnormal ice melting claims about both the north and south pole regions continue. But the only thing that is abnormal is that anyone believes them.</p> <p>I had two liberal colleagues at the CIA who believed in global warming and neither had any proof to justify their opinions. One had just experienced a hurricane and said that he would crush anyone’s head who was a non-believer in global warming. He was later fired, not because of his global warming beliefs, but because of his poor analytical skills. Our very liberal office allowed the other colleague to show slides from a vacation trip to the Arctic Circle. In addition, an alleged diminishing local animal population was presented as further proof. Of course, no real proof was presented. As one of the senior analysts of the office, I took no real part in the discussions. Office politics aside, I took to heart Mark Twain’s saying, “never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”</p> <p>However, in their defense, they never professed to be experts — they were just more misguided liberals (is that redundant?) who are plentiful everywhere including the intelligence agencies. How can you argue with the so-called global warming experts that use the inanest ‘evidence’ and arguments to support their claims? For instance, it is amazing how many ‘experts’ use fictional movies about global warming to support their claims! If Al Gore gives up on Global Warming, he should move on to vampires, werewolves, and zombies. There are plenty of movies with that type of scientific evidence!</p> <p>I’m surprised that people aren’t curious why there are no other climate claims other than global warming. For example, what happened to concerns about oceans. Seriously, decades ago severe pollution and rising sea levels was as big of a concern as global warming. I read that there was a swordfish in the Smithsonian that was over 150 years old, and that a group of global warming advocates would have conclusive proof of the effects of industrial man if the tissue in the swordfish was significantly different from fish of today. However, examination showed that it wasn’t. Thus, they had to go back to their old theory of rising oceans, which of course, can’t be proven either.</p> <p>When I was living in the D.C. area, one of the stations was particularly proud of their new Doppler radar that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They touted that it could predict snow arrival, as well as depth. As a former Army air defender with a knowledge of this radar, I didn’t think they fully understood its capabilities or value. The other stations predicted the weather just as well without the radar, one station even used an old wooden yardstick to show the depth of the snow. Their depth measured the exact same as the station with the Doppler. Some cynics believe accuracy was never the goal in any global warming forecasts anyway; the goal was always to gain more money, power, and influence.</p> <p>I agree with other rational, logical ‘climate deniers’ that “the Earth’s climate has always changed, and very likely will continue to change, regardless of what humans do. What is now clear, though, is that the establishment has no idea what those changes will be — much less what drives the changes or how to control them.” However, does it really matter to a liberal what the truth is? They control almost all of the main stream media,which in turn presents their propaganda. It is shamefully evident why there are so few conservative messages from the media. If the left are so correct, shouldn’t they still compare and contrast their opinion with others to prove their point?</p>	Global Warming…Enough Already	true	http://opslens.com/2017/06/03/global-warming-enough-already/	2017-06-03
<p>Hours after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history, former Democratic presidential candidate <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton</a> tweeted a statement attacking the NRA.</p> <p>Clinton asked followers to “put politics aside” and “stand up to the NRA”.</p> <p>Her message came shortly after the <a type="internal">devastating Las Vegas massacre</a> that left more than 50 dead and 200 injured.</p> <q> <p>Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.</p> <p>— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/914853632083877888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Clinton wrote, “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”</p> <p>A bill introduced earlier this year by Republican Jeff Duncan, frames the issue as a public health matter, saying that gun owners risk suffering hearing damage without access to silencers.</p> <p>Her response, which also called for a change in access to firearms, contrasted President Donald Trump’s response:</p> <q> <p>My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!</p> <p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/914810093874671617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Gun rights was a major issue between the two candidates during last year’s election. Trump called himself a defender of gun rights and the Second Amendment, while Clinton called for “common sense” regulations on who was able to buy weapons and the need for background checks.</p> <p>The NRA endorsed Trump in the election.</p> <p>Former Vice President Joe Biden also called on Congress to “act now to save lives.”</p> <q> <p>How long do we let gun violence tear families apart? Enough. Congress &amp; the WH should act now to save lives. There's no excuse for inaction.</p> <p>— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/914867985558491136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 2, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Connecticut’s senators, who have pushed for tighter gun control ever since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, were also quick to issue statements Monday.</p> <p>“Nowhere but America do horrific large-scale mass shootings happen with this degree of regularity,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in a statement. “This must stop. It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren’t public policy responses to this epidemic. There are, and the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference. It’s time for Congress to get off its ass and do something.”</p> <p>The primary suspect, <a type="internal">Stephen Paddock</a> of Mesquite, Nev., was found dead in his room on the 32nd floor of the <a type="internal">Mandalay Bay hotel and casino</a>, where he had at least 10 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.</p> <p>Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy – Delivered right to your inbox.</p>	Hillary Clinton’s Response to Las Vegas Shooting Calls for Gun Control	false	http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/hillary-clintons-response-to-las-vegas-shooting-calls-for-gun-control-attacks-nra-silencer-law-tweet-statement/	2017-10-02
<p>By T.A. Frank; VanityFair:</p> <p>With Donald Trump busy spreading havoc around the world—most recently tweeting about James Comey’s testimony, or feeding into the crisis over Qatar—it’s reasonable to ask who can be bothered to gripe about Hillary Clinton. But I can. One makes the time. Or maybe one doesn’t, but in a two-party system there’s only one alternative to the party of Trump, and the role of Clinton in that party is therefore important.</p> <p>Lately, it has been increasing. Hillary has been making high-profile public appearances and started talking frankly about her distaste for Trump and her dismay over the people and things that cost her the election. She has even founded a PAC called Onward Together, a 501(c)(4) that will “advance progressive values.” Whether we like it or not, the Clintons are back in the game. It’s up to the rest of us to figure out if we approve.</p> <p>Just about everything we do lends itself to a generous or hostile interpretation. Our friends think we feed the poor because we have genuine compassion, and our enemies think we do so because we want to look good. The benign take on motives isn’t always closest to the truth, but it’s the better bet. (On the occasions that I’ve had an inside view of something in the glare of the press, those with the darkest take on it have usually been wrong.) I’ve been tough on Chelsea Clinton—hard not to be—but Hillary Clinton has a much higher accomplishment-to-self-regard ratio. So why not start generously?</p> <p>To read rest of article visit <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/can-hillary-clinton-please-go-quietly-into-the-night" type="external">VanityFair</a>.</p> The Clinton Blame Game: Hillary Needs to Accept Responsibility for Loss <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>By Brian Brinker; OpsLens:</p> <p>Now that Hillary Clinton is making her way back into the public spotlight, we’re starting to hear a lot more about who’s to blame for her loss. Of course, President Trump is at the top of her list. So too are members of her campaign staff, pollsters, The New York Times, supporters who didn’t show up at the polls, James Comey, Putin and the Russians, and various others. You know whose name you’re not going to find? Hillary Clinton’s own.</p> <p>Save perhaps for President Trump, no one else is singularly so responsible for her loss than Hillary herself. Yet, she has so far proven unwilling to take any of the blame. As Hillary stated in a recent interview, “I take responsibility for every decision I make—but that’s not why I lost.” In other words, the blame doesn’t fall on Hillary’s shoulders, at least in her mind.</p> <p>However, as the nominee and candidate for president, no one else should have to shoulder as much blame as Hillary. And I say this as someone who does believe that sexism and other “unfair” factors played a role. Still, it wasn’t sexism that inspired Hillary to ignore voters in Michigan and Wisconsin and to jet set out to California to meet with rich donors. And it wasn’t sexism that inspired a largely negative campaign that focused on why people should vote against Donald Trump, rather than why they should vote for Hillary Clinton. Turns out that her campaign didn’t inspire a lot of people to the polls.</p> <p>Sexism may have been a factor in Hillary’s inability to connect with voters, especially working and middle class voters. But there were many other factors as well. Hillary has a tendency of coming off as an elitist. She can’t pour a beer, she hasn’t driven a car in years, and she always seemed to struggle to relate to people directly.</p> <p>Her campaign, meanwhile, was mostly tone deaf. After winning the DNC nomination, she largely blew off Michigan and Wisconsin. The problem is that if you want midwestern voters, you have to meet with them and respect them. You can’t ignore them and skip off to sunny California to eat triple-digit meals and hob knob with celebrities and millionaires instead.</p> <p>To read rest of article visit <a type="internal">OpsLens</a>.</p>	Can Hillary Clinton Please Go Quietly Into the Night?	true	http://opslens.com/2017/06/10/can-hillary-clinton-please-go-quietly-night/	2017-06-10
<p>The military taught me at an early age that one must know their enemy. This adage does not simply pertain to combat either. In all facets of your life, you must always endeavor to see things from the perspective of others. Not only does this allow you to empathize with them, but it also shows you the way to gain the tactical advantage.</p> <p>The greatest pundit of this would have to be Sun Tzu, an ancient Chinese warlord who wrote the book The Art of War. This book is one of the best books on strategy ever written. This strategy goes far beyond the confines of combat, however. He spends a great deal of time discussing how war is mostly a mental game, explaining that force is simply one facet within an expansive set of options.</p> <p>One of my favorite quotes is, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” I do this very well. In fact, I do it too well. Just ask my wife. I know how I argue and I know how she argues, and I use this knowledge to my advantage every time. It is not intentional at this point, just something that has been ingrained into me. So at the end of the day, I can respect an adversary who is capable of truly manipulating a situation to gain the psychological advantage.</p> <p>It is for this reason that I must tip my hat to the Democratic party as a whole. I try very hard to be honest regardless of which side of the political aisle you may be on. When someone does something wrong, I will call them out for it. Typically, this is very easy to do with the Democrats, as virtually everything about their platform goes against what I believe the Constitution stands for.</p> <p>With that being said, I must also recognize when my enemy is gaining the advantage through manipulation; while I may not agree with their methods, I have to respect and be impressed with their results. Consider this—the Democrats have for the past eight years seen a huge loss in political power. According to Fox News, the total loss of Democrat-held elected positions as of December 2016 was 1,042. In fact, during the Obama reign, they went from 55 to 46 Senate seats and from 256 to 194 House seats at the federal level. Things didn’t improve at the state level, with the number of Democratic governors going from 28 to 16 and a total loss of 958 legislative seats.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>There is only one way to look at these numbers—a complete and total repudiation of liberal policies and beliefs. What made this even funnier at the time was how the Democrats then doubled down on their divisiveness. A great example is when Sally Brown, DNC Chair hopeful, stated that, “My job is to listen and be a voice and shut other white people down when they want to interrupt…We have to teach [others] how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white.”</p> <p>Or even when Howard Dean said that hate speech wasn’t protected speech. My favorite, though, was when Tom Perez, Democratic National Committee chair, said that if you wanted to be a Democrat, you had to be pro-choice. However, what was originally funny to me quickly curdled into shock.</p> <p>The problem is that the Democrats have something going for them that those on the other side simply don’t seem to be able to do. They know their enemy. They know how to manipulate the Republicans in office to give the left everything they want. I would never have believed that this was possible.</p> <p>The Republicans own both houses of Congress and had the overwhelming support of the American people. They were elected into office to enact the items that they ran on: defunding planned parenthood, repealing Obamacare, enacting tax reform, and building a wall. What did they accomplish out of that? Nothing! To make it even worse, they showed their incompetence by releasing Obamacare version 2.0.</p> <p>How is it possible for a party to have the majority control at both the state and national levels and yet not be able to enact the very legislation that it ran on? The answer to that is the Democratic party. Not only were they able to keep the Republicans from moving on their platform, they now get to pass the buck on the failure of Obamacare to the Republicans.</p> <p>Now, in a continuing show of their exceptional ability to control the government even when not in power, they have managed to have special council appointed to look into the Russian involvement in the election cycle. This ensures that even though there has been no evidence to suggest that the Trump administration did anything illegal, the question remains front and center over his presidency.</p> <p>They were even able to avoid the same scrutiny within their own party, where there were a plethora of potentially illegal actions that were swept under the rug. I hate to say it, but my hat is off to you, Democratic party. You have managed to ensure the catastrophic collapse of the party who won control of the country due to your failed policies.</p> <p>So how is it possible that they were able to do this? The answer is simply that they actually believe in their cause. This has both helped and hurt them. Wanting an America with less freedom and constricted liberties does not sell well. At the end of the day, there is only so much crazy talk the populace can endure without finally shutting you down.</p> <p>However, when you truly believe in your cause, the elected posts are secondary to what your message is. This is not true for the Republicans, who clearly covet power over the interest of the country. They are so worried about keeping their control that they would turn on their own principals to protect themselves.</p> <p>Knowing this allows the left to continue to move their position and policies forward, even when not in power, and the right is doing the same thing that they always do. They are sitting by and watching out of fear that they will be blamed. The typical Republican politician is clearly not capable of real leadership. Real leadership inspires those around them and rallies them under a single banner. The sad thing is that in this case, this was the banner that the American people elected their officials to turn into reality.</p> <p>If the Republicans do not figure this out quickly, they are setting themselves up for more than just a loss. They are looking at a complete shakeup of their party. Maybe that is what is needed, though. Maybe this is actually for the best. I remember right before retiring telling my son that there comes a point in every career when you are no longer able to bend and adapt. You have grown too complacent in your ways and view new ideas and thoughts as a threat to your existence. It is at this point that you have become the dinosaur. I am pretty sure that at this point, what the party needs is an extinction-level event, and the Democrats are more than willing to lead us to that well.</p>	Sun Tzu and the Democratic Party	true	http://opslens.com/2017/06/18/sun-tzu-and-the-democratic-party/	2017-06-18
<p>By FoxNews:</p> <p>City officials in Los Angeles have been trying to legalize street vending for years — L.A. is one of the few major cities where the practice is still illegal — but their efforts are finally gaining ground with local lawmakers.</p> <p>The reason for this hasty change of heart? Lawmakers are trying to stick it to President Trump and his immigration policies.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/26/529846279/los-angeles-moves-closer-to-legalizing-sidewalk-food-vendors" type="external">NPR</a>, many of the 50,000 street-vending operations in L.A. are currently run by immigrants, some of whom may be in the country illegally. So, in order to prevent U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials from having another reason to detain, arrest or deport vendors, the Los Angeles City Council is moving to legalize vendor operations across the city.</p> <p>To read rest of article visit <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/06/27/los-angeles-to-legalize-street-side-food-vendors-to-spite-trump-ice.html" type="external">FoxNews</a>.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>By Stephen Owsinski; OpsLens:</p> <p>Ever wake up and go on about your day as you please, without complying with laws or having to pay your fair share of taxes? Although a tax-free life is enticing, I firmly adhere to my patriotic duty as an American citizen investing in the United States by paying taxes. However, “sovereign citizens” do not feel that way and opt to make up their own rules which, basically, refrain from playing by the rules whatsoever.</p> <p>A man in Washington County, Oregon did just that. He ignored our laws and thought he’d be Scot-free of responsibility…until a deputy sheriff got behind his pickup truck and saw his license plate. It read “No driver license or insurance required.” You know how license plates have unique characters identifying the vehicle/owner, like ABC-123? Well this sovereign citizen’s vehicle license was to the point, displaying the special characters “PRIVATE” below which were the words “Not for Commerce Use – Private Mode of Travel.”</p> <p>Craftily, the license plate also had a logo depicting our shared planet, encircled by the words “Peace on Earth…Good Will Towards Men.” No color scheme was used, only a black-on-white graphic design. Frankly, because it was so well designed, I am led to believe it was mass-produced for other sovereign citizens to tool around in their cars or trucks, doing as they please. Entitlements come in all shapes and forms; just ask any cop about the bizarre culture they encounter on the streets.</p> <p>For his role, Richard Leroy Garrison, 63, was arrested and charged with failure to carry and present a valid license and interfering with a peace officer. His vehicle bearing a fake license plate was impounded by Washington County cops. Why impounded? Since Garrison’s vehicle was involved in the commission of a crime, law enforcement authorities reserve the right to tow said mode of transportation. Besides, every state’s motor vehicle laws require that only properly registered cars be permitted to drive upon its public thoroughfares.</p> <p>Invalid license plates equates to an immobilized car, so towing is the remedy. It is customary protocol throughout the United States as it pertains to motor vehicle statutes and compliance with same. Like pay-to-play, only legitimate.</p> <p>Motor vehicle registration fees, surcharges and taxes fund the actual public roads motorists drive upon. So, a so-called sovereign citizen like Mr. Garrison is traversing roadways we paid for, exempting himself from highway maintenance. In his mind, it’s that simple.</p> <p>This is not the first time a self-professed sovereign citizen motoring down a tax-payer funder public roadway was stopped by police and arrested for his/her vehicle’s attached license plate. I’m not referring to a state-issued, legally sanctioned license plate with a minor expiration date violation. In most cases, that is a civil infraction resulting in nothing more than a ticket or warning to get it updated. I am referring to an artificial DIY license plate clandestinely manufactured by anti-government groups whose membership believes it does not have to comply with our nation’s laws.</p> <p>These folks are not only anti-police—although it is law enforcement officers who get to engage their subversive tendencies—they are opposed to all-things-government. Self-proclaimed sovereign citizens go about their lives fully relinquishing the responsibility of social norms practiced and funded by law-abiding citizens. Adhering to all federal, state and local laws is not their cup of tea. Therefore, the <a href="https://www.teaparty.org/" type="external">Tea Party</a> –whose “mission is to bring awareness to any issue which challenges the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our beloved nation, the United States of America”– is definitely not in the cards for this bunch.</p> <p>So what exactly is a sovereign citizen and what are the philosophies, objectives, and membership all about? According to the FBI, sovereign citizens can be violent extremists.</p> <p>The FBI defines “sovereign citizens” as “ <a href="https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2010/april/sovereigncitizens_041310" type="external">domestic terrorism</a>” made of members who are deemed “anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or ‘sovereign’ from the United States. As a result, they believe they don’t have to answer to any government authority, including courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, or law enforcement.”</p> <p>The perils are palpable. Our nation has experienced instances whereby some proclaiming sovereign citizenship had no pause before going up against and horrifically murdering police officials, exacting full-on gun battles.</p> <p>The FBI reports that sovereign citizens are a “ <a href="https://leb.fbi.gov/2011/september/sovereign-citizens-a-growing-domestic-threat-to-law-enforcement" type="external">growing domestic threat to law enforcement</a>,” capable of violence and government subversion. At its core, sovereign citizenship holds jurisdictional indifference and believes the US operates without care or concern for its citizens. Hence, they go it alone, albeit illegally.</p> <p>Sovereign citizens can poke holes in our national security defenses as well as our country’s stability. Be not fooled by statistics and verbiage claiming sovereign citizens are a loosely-knit group informally conducting their lives without any recognized leadership. In fact, federal intelligence agencies do not bill them as neither an anarchist group nor a militia, “although they sometimes buy and use illegal weapons.” However informal they may be as a demographic, their belief system fuels the dangers they present. Spontaneous outbursts when stopped by police have culminated in volleys of bullets.</p> <p><a href="https://www.policeone.com/investigations/articles/6176998-10-tips-and-tactics-for-investigating-Sovereign-Citizens/" type="external">Police training</a> now includes how to deal with sovereign citizens, and law enforcement <a href="http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2012/09/sovereign-citizens-a-clear-and-present-danger.aspx" type="external">trainers indoctrinate street cops</a> in optimal ways to handle these particular encounters.</p> <p>FBI reports indicate these folks are engaged in and finance themselves with white collar crimes such as mortgage fraud, counterfeit currency and money orders, credit fraud, identity theft, and false tax filings.</p> <p>Just as it is often said “Driving is a privilege, not a right” accorded by law, the allowance is never free. And that is the pulse of “sovereign citizen” philosophy, that they do as they please without abiding by government…to include (exclude) paying a fair share otherwise known as taxes.</p> <p>Given Mr. Garrison’s age, I presume he listened to Frank Sinatra croon “I Did It My Way.” He may also have had the experience of listening to lyrics such as “I Fought the Law and the Law Won.”</p> <p>I bet getting his vehicle out of police impound will be an interesting feat for Mr. Garrison and others embracing the sovereign citizen belief system. Must be legal to roll on down the road, no ifs, ands or buts. Back to square one: “May I see your registration, please?”</p>	Los Angeles to Legalize Street-Side Food Vendors to Spite Trump, ICE	true	http://opslens.com/2017/06/28/los-angeles-legalize-street-side-food-vendors-spite-trump-ice/	2017-06-28
<p>Recently the NRA put out a new ad featuring their female spokesperson <a href="https://twitter.com/@Dloesch" type="external">Dana Loesch</a> that calls for people to join the NRA. The ad has been called many things across social media. Many on the left are calling it an outright call for violence against the left and protesters. They cry that it is attempting to incite violence. Some even said it was “barely a whisper shy of a call for full civil war.”</p> <p>Now I am a firm believer in the right of all people to defend themselves. The ad is very easy to understand, and pretty straight forward if you are a logical and sensible person. But if you are looking for a reason to incite violence I guess you can try and twist the words of the ad to suit your needs.</p> <p>Here is the transcript of the ad:</p> <p>“They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance.</p> <p>“All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia. To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding — until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness.</p> <p>“And when that happens, they’ll use it as an excuse for their outrage. The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. I’m the National Rifle Association of America, and I’m freedom’s safest place.”</p> <p>The only thing in the entire ad that talks about fighting back is this one line, “to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth”. Now if that calls for attacks and violence against others, you really are stretching your imagination a bit and need to look at all the other things listed that are already being done by the anti-American types.</p> <p>Now I may be just a simple man, and try to look at things as logically as I can, but in listening to the ad, and reading the transcript, all I see is the statement of facts on how some people act, and that you confront them with the truth. The reference to the “fist” is in reference to the fist emblem used by the “resist” movement, not the NRA. I have found in debating people online (@downrangewithcw) that when you bring out the facts and truth, they resort to name calling and ugly threats. The reasons that progressives use violence against law-abiding innocent citizens are simple and straightforward. In addition, remember those reasons which Dana Loesch mentions are already used to commit riots and violence against communities across this country.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>So to all of those that are crying that the ad incites violence and calls for a civil war, I say get a life! You are what is wrong with this country. Here we have a spokesperson talking about using truth to combat violence and you, the ones complaining about the ad are whining that it calls for violence.</p> <p>I hate to break it to you, if you thought Ms. Loesch’s words were inciting you must be apoplectic in reading my article “ <a href="https://bit.ly/2tcqFwH" type="external">Protesters Be Warned</a>” where I discuss the facts surrounding the lawful use of force to defend yourself if confronted by a violent crowd.</p> <p>It’s time for the people that think it is OK to violently protest anything that comes to mind to understand that a time is coming when they will find that the law abiding people of this country, who would love nothing more than to be left alone, will no longer allow their businesses or homes to be burned and looted. People will no longer allow themselves to be dragged from their cars and beaten for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.</p> <p>The NRA’s Dana Loesch ad calls for nothing more than the truth, and obviously is more than the progressive left can take. You know the old saying, the truth hurts, doesn’t it! Oh, I guess that is calling for violence too.</p>	Does the New NRA Ad with Dana Loesch Call for Violence?	true	http://opslens.com/2017/07/01/new-nra-ad-dana-loesch-call-violence/	2017-07-01
<p>Many liberal talking heads have made a big deal out of the supposed demographic wave facing Republicans and conservatives as the nation morphs into a more diverse population. Growth rates amongst minorities have begun to exceed those of whites. The narrative goes like this — as the white, European-based population diminishes, America will become less conservative and more socialist, demanding more and more free stuff. The rich will just have to pay for it — in other words, the takers will get more from the makers.</p> <p>While the demographic trend may be true, the pre-conceived outcome is anything but.</p> <p>I’m not one to forecast a ‘conservative century’, but I will say the notion that the up-and-coming generation largely believes in socialism is a falsehood.</p> <p>First of all, many minority groups have historically held conservative values. Although this trend has diminished to some extent, due to the brainwashing and self-imposed victimization of minority youth, it has not gone away entirely. Hispanics go to church; they believe in hard work. I’ve know many Hispanic businessmen and families who are angry at the open border crowd pushing for illegal immigration and benefits for millions of undocumented immigrants. They did not go through the process legally as many immigrants have and this annoys successful minority entrepreneurs.</p> <p>There is also the fact that ‘Obamanomics’ and social welfare policies did nothing to help the minority groups he promised to assist. Aside from increasing dependency on government, every other statistic for prosperity for minorities went down.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>Many minorities are starting to see this. I recently overheard one minority veteran tell someone at the VA that the government aid was helpful but what he really needed was a job. Trump is right — the dignity of work is a beautiful thing to behold.</p> <p>The election of President Donald J. Trump has been a game changer when considering the political support for one side of the spectrum. The identity politics of the Left has done nothing but cause election losses. That is a fact. The white, working-class, middle-American will be missing for a long time in the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton made it perfectly clear that the Left did not care about flyover country during the election. The overt racism of Black Lives Matter and other minority hate groups has further cemented this condition. What does the Left offer the hard-working American? It doesn’t offer a job. It doesn’t offer dignity. It just offers derision of other Americans and government dependency. This is not what American wants — hence the election of Donald Trump.</p> <p>Trump sure has delivered, on his promises that is. Jobs are being created; economic optimism is soaring; plants are opening; coal mines are being dug; and business investment is growing again. I read today that Trump will push for America to be the energy capital of the world. The optimism is only going to grow. The business climate is only going to get better.</p> <p>Americans have seen the results of a decade of socialist, liberal, culturally Marxist policies, and they don’t like it. But most of all, the policies don’t work. All Obama and his minions brought to the table was failure, massive failure. Failure in government, failure in the economy, failure in foreign policy and national security, and failure in the ability of a citizen to realize the American dream. Americans have had enough. Of course, there will always be those who choose to be dependent on government and live off the largess of others. But my gut tells me as Trump makes America great again, many of those people will see the light and actually get a job.</p> <p>The younger generation, who is now moving to college age and called Generation Z, have seen all of this happen. They have seen their parents struggle. They have seen their parents lose their dignity. They have seen their parents becoming dependent on the local commissar for a handout.</p> <p>They will also see the opposite — they will see the fruits of capitalism. They will see factories open. They will feel the optimism. There will be no where else to attribute this change in circumstances except to Trump and conservative policies. America is becoming one big learning lab for its younger citizens.</p> <p>In addition to the national policies changing the face of America, there will be changes in our university and educational systems. We are at the zenith of cultural Marxism right now in this country. It is painfully obvious that the communism lovers in our institutions of higher education have had the run of the asylum and wreaked havoc. There will be changes here. I don’t know what form it will take or how it will happen, but the groundswell of public outrage and alumni queasiness about the lack of freedom of speech on campus is coming to a head.</p> <p>There will be consequences.</p> <p>It is not okay for speech to be restricted anywhere in our educational process. It is not okay for due process to be withheld from male victims of rape accusations. It is not okay for tenured professors to spew racist and communist propaganda at our young people. This will change, I am confident of it. The pendulum is slowly starting to swing the other way. Generation Z will face a smaller sea of Neo-Bolsheviks as they enter college. This is a good thing.</p> <p>There was a study released recently which delved into the political beliefs and tendencies of Generation Z as they move to take the place of the Millennial generation. There could not be a more striking divide between the ‘live in your parent’s basement’ generation and the new group coming of age.</p> <p>The study concluded that Generation Z is the most conservative since the end of World War II. This is a stunning revelation and I believe it is due to the factors I have outlined above. They have been able to observe the two different views of the world, the two ways of living your life as a taker and a maker. They want to be the latter.</p> <p>Perhaps it is deeper and more simple than that. Perhaps they have seen that the Democratic Party — the Left, the ‘progressives,’ the cultural Marxists, the racists, whatever you want to call this rag-tag opposition to President Trump and Make America Great Again — have nothing to offer that will make their lives more successful or fulfilling. Perhaps Generation Z has seen with their own eyes that the Democratic Party is nothing more than a huge, stinking mountain of organized crime, that desires to steal from other’s hard work and vision.</p> <p>Maybe that is why even the term ‘hard work’ is now deemed a ‘micro aggression’ by these idiots.</p> <p>Yes, I believe that America is about to experience a generation of success and prosperity, driven by a reawakening of conservative principles.</p> <p>Before the election, I did a book signing in a hotel near an airport. The young manager of the place was an Indian man. He came over and started asking me questions from time-to-time when the crowd thinned down. The conversation quickly turned to politics and he guardedly asked me my opinions on Trump and Hillary — I gave them to him.</p> <p>As I was packing my things to leave an hour or so later, he came over and quietly informed me that he was voting for Trump. “My family did things legally,” he declared, “I can’t stand the Democrats.”</p>	The Conservative Warriors of Generation Z	true	http://opslens.com/2017/07/06/conservative-warriors-generation-z/	2017-07-06
<p>This week, a Minneapolis mayoral candidate is running on major police reform that involves <a href="https://www.policeone.com/Officer-Safety/articles/387938006-Minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-wants-to-strip-cops-of-their-sidearms/" type="external">disarming</a> the city’s police force. Raymond Dehn <a href="http://www.fox9.com/news/270151845-story" type="external">revealed</a> the radical approach to public safety he’ll be taking should he be elected mayor in an interview with Fox 9 Minneapolis less than two weeks following the death of an Australian national by the name of Justine Damond. Damond, of course, was the woman shot and killed by Officer Mohamed Noor on July 15 while attempting to report the sound of a woman screaming behind her house.</p> <p>No one will ever know for sure whether it was the fireworks taking place in the area that night or if it was the alleged “slapping” of the patrol car by the victim just before the shooting that caused it. The only absolute in this tragic situation is that Justine Damond—a woman who called the police for help—is dead from a bullet shot from an officer’s gun.</p> <p>As is the case with every high-profile (Officer Involved Shooting) OIS, the equation cannot be balanced by departmental explanations that offer no objective truth in the minds of the masses. People are angry. They don’t want explanations. They want action. Dehn, of course, knows this and is attempting to capitalize on it at the polls by painting police with a broad brush as incompetent and unnecessarily armed.</p> <p>Don’t miss the fact that the District 59B representative only wants MPD officers to be restricted from carrying firearms on their hips. If he had it his way, he’d still allow them to keep guns in their vehicles. Therefore, his “solution” doesn’t even attempt to prevent the Justine Damond death from occurring. It’s an empty proposal made at an opportune time.</p> <p>There’s a reason the Justine Damond story has become an international story. It is a statistical anomaly. According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/" type="external">Washington Post OIS Database</a>, of the 574 civilians killed in officer-involved shootings so far this year, Damond is one of five unarmed women. The other four casualties on this list are <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2017/04/24/teen-shot-police-during-fugitive-takedown-brandon-pequeno-has-died/100855256/" type="external">Sariah Marie Lane</a>, <a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2017/02/12/news/mid-maine/second-suspect-shot-by-police-in-vassalboro-dies/" type="external">Ambroshia Fagre</a>, <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/241884111-story" type="external">Elena Mondragon</a>, and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pregnant-woman-killed-during-swat-raid-sheriff-says-her-boyfriend-used-her-as-shield/" type="external">Alteria Woods</a>.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>Lane, Fagre, and Mondragon were all killed while riding as passengers of fleeing vehicles that had been suspected by police to be stolen, involved in burglaries, and/or armed robberies. All four vehicles were used as deadly weapons by their drivers as they rammed police in attempts to get away. Woods, on the other hand, was used as a human shield by her boyfriend during a SWAT raid targeting him and his father for multiple shootings. While these four women were killed during deadly force encounters in which they were accessories to crimes committed by boyfriends, Damond’s case is entirely unique.</p> <p>The trend continues if we go back a few years. In 2016, three unarmed women were killed by police. <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Veteran-SFPD-Officer-Who-Fatally-Shot-Woman-Feared-for-Partners-Safety-Sources-380334691.html" type="external">Jessica Williams</a> was shot in San Francisco after nearly trapping one officer between a fence and the stolen vehicle she was attempting to flee in. <a href="http://www.westword.com/news/conifers-kelsey-hauser-killed-by-cops-in-california-after-high-speed-chase-7528368" type="external">Kelsey Hauser</a> was killed riding as a passenger in a stolen vehicle when her boyfriend attempted to run over officers after leading them on a high-speed pursuit in California.</p> <p>The third was 12-year-old <a href="http://abc27.com/2016/01/12/police-to-id-victims-of-shooting-near-duncannon/" type="external">Ciara Meyer</a>, who was struck and killed after a constable’s bullet passed through her father’s arm. Meyer’s father reportedly pointed a rifle at the chest of one constable as he served an eviction order at the apartment. Meyer was set to lose his apartment. Instead, he got his daughter killed.</p> <p>In 2015, three unarmed women were shot and killed by police. <a href="http://www.13newsnow.com/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/va-beach-ca-to-release-findings-in-deadly-shooting-investigation/74458040" type="external">India Kager</a> was killed in Virginia while driving a vehicle with a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. When police approached the vehicle in a convenience store parking lot, Kager’s passenger opened fire on police. Both were killed in the shootout.</p> <p>The second was a 55-year old woman named <a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Police-Involved-Shooting-Leaves-Two-Dead-Family-363547691.html" type="external">Bettie Jones</a> during a domestic violence call in Chicago. As an officer opened fire on a bat-wielding man in the apartment, Jones was caught in the cross-fire.</p> <p>The third, <a href="http://wqad.com/2015/03/24/body-camera-video-shows-deadly-burlington-shooting/" type="external">Autumn Steele</a>, was shot by an officer responding to a domestic violence call in Iowa. Steele and her husband were actively fighting upon the officer’s arrival. After being bitten by the family dog, the officer fell backward while opening fire on the animal. Two rounds hit Steele instead.</p> <p>Each of the eleven officer-involved shootings involving “unarmed” females in the past three years is tragic—but the trend shows that seven of them were killed while engaging in criminal activity with boyfriends with a penchant for violence. Bettie Jones, Ciara Meyer, and Autumn Steel were killed as bystanders in legitimate deadly force encounters where officers feared for their lives. That leaves Justine Damond in a class of her own. Like I said, her death is the anomaly of all anomalies.</p> <p>Politicians like Raymond Dehn are free to use their own <a href="http://www.startribune.com/both-parties-unite-to-give-ex-felons-a-second-chance/214555101/" type="external">history of criminality</a> to bolster their political profile in a society that loves a comeback story. Being a recovering cocaine addict and felon doesn’t preclude anyone from running for mayor, but when a politician takes advantage of tragedies such as Justine Damond’s death to suggest that police officers should place themselves in imminent danger…well, that’s where the line needs to be drawn.</p> <p>Despite advances in proficiency for firearms training over the course of several decades, 27 police officers have already been murdered by gunfire in the line of duty this year. In 2015, the total was 47. In 2016, it was 63. According to the <a href="https://www.odmp.org/" type="external">Officer Down Memorial Page</a>, we are currently on track to lose around the same number to gunfire this year. Hopefully, we’ll buck the trend.</p> <p>Every officer will tell you that there is a wide spectrum of skill levels as it relates to weapons tactics, handling, and marksmanship. What we’ll also all tell you is that the level of skill a cop possesses matters little if someone is hellbent on killing them. An easy response for anyone telling you Dehn is onto something is to tell them that many of the gunfire-related deaths American police get hit with each year are ambushes.</p> <p>The most self-confident man or woman knows that it doesn’t take much skill to walk up behind them, point a gun to the back of their head, and pull the trigger. Our guns—readily accessible at our hips—are of little use in defending an attack from a gunman who’s got the jump on us.</p> <p>Just last week, <a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/23334-lieutenant-aaron-allan" type="external">Lieutenant Aaron Allan</a> was shot 14 times by the occupant of a rolled-over vehicle on an Indiana roadway. One minute the LT is trying to help people involved in a car accident, and the next he’s getting shot dead by one of them.</p> <p>Earlier this month, New York State <a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/23313-trooper-joel-r-davis" type="external">Trooper Joel Davis</a> was shot while exiting his vehicle upon arrival at a domestic disturbance. Like Lt. Allen, he hadn’t even gotten the chance to get out of his holster.</p> <p>Four days prior to that, there was <a type="internal">Detective Miosotis Familia</a>, who was shot one time in the back of the head in the Bronx while writing in her note pad.</p> <p>Policing in America has become less and less desirable over the years, and the decline in numbers of police patrolling the streets shows it. The city with a major staff shortage will tell you the reason is “a stronger economy” creating more competition for prospective employees. The cop-hating fringe of the public will tell you, “Good. We don’t need them.” The local police union will tell you that it’s because of low pay, dissolving of pensions, lawsuits, etc. The police officer will tell you it’s because the risk is no longer worth it.</p> <p>Many officers feel like this job is punishing whether we do our jobs or we don’t. We’re trained to carry guns to save the lives of others and our own. If we don’t use deadly force when we should, we’re screwed. If we do use it when we should, we’re still screwed. Every now and then, we use it when we’re not supposed to—and that gets twisted to look like it’s the national norm.</p> <p>To pretend that police officers anywhere in America can do the job we do without access to a firearm by our side is to be willfully ignorant of the dangers we face daily in a society armed to the teeth with guns.</p> <p>We are not Great Britain, Ireland, or France. People don’t use machetes to hack at us, or vehicles to run us over. They come at us with guns—and we require our own to stand a chance. Whether it be Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, or Berkeley, mark my words, the progressive metropolis that turns officers into guinea pigs for this social experiment will find itself without a test subject—and without a police force.</p>	Statistics Dispel Why Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Dehn’s Push To Disarm Cops Will Fail	true	http://opslens.com/2017/08/01/statistics-dispel-why-minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-dehns-push-to-disarm-cops-will-fail/	2017-08-01
<p>By Kathryn Blackhurst; LifeZette:</p> <p>LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said that Never-Trumper Republicans and resisting liberals are “happiest” when President Donald Trump’s approval numbers go down, even if their own numbers plummet as well.</p> <p>Ingraham, who was guest-hosting Tuesday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” blasted balking GOP members of Congress and Democrats for blocking and stalling the president’s legislative agenda throughout his first 200 days in office. Noting that Republican senators such as Jeff Flake (Arizona), John McCain (Arizona), and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) delight in making rounds on the news talk shows to criticize Trump, Ingraham pointed out their own plunging approval numbers as the American voters wait for them to fulfill their campaign promises.</p> <p>“Do you know what a liberal’s idea of Armageddon is? No, it’s not a nuclear North Korea, but a successful Trump presidency. Do you know what the Never-Trump Republicans on Capitol Hill fear the most? No, it’s not ISIS and it’s not a 5,000-point [drop] in the Dow, but a successful Trump presidency,” Ingraham said.</p> <p>“Today is the 200th day of this administration,” she added. “And despite the hyperventilation and alarmism we’re hearing from the national press corps — they’re prematurely declaring the Trump administration a failure, of course — but in fact, it’s the resistance to Trump that is playing a risky gambit.”</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>In this “resistance,” Ingraham included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and “supposed right” senators such as Flake, McCain and Tillis.</p> <p>And what unites all of them is their sad and rather pathetic fear and loathing of President Trump,” she said. “So they want you so saturated in this endless and mindless Russia story deal, and other irrelevant West Wing staff intrigues that’s mostly fueled by leaks, that you even begin to believe their negative spin. And let’s face it — these people are happiest when his numbers go down, when his legislation and his confirmations stall, even if their own approval numbers go down, too. It’s like they don’t even care.”</p> <p>Pointing to recent Quinnipiac University poll measuring congressional approval ratings, Ingraham noted these politicians have plummeted even as Trump’s numbers have dwindled into the 30s.</p> <p>“And Trump’s approval rating may only be about 37 percent according to one poll, but check this out. Tom Tillis’ approval rating, North Carolina — 29 percent. Nancy Pelosi’s — 27 percent. Chuck Schumer’s is 26 percent, and [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s is a very impressive 17 percent,” Ingraham said, noting that McConnell has failed repeatedly to rally 50 of 52 GOP senators in support of various measures to repeal and replace Obamacare.</p> <p>“Now despite two years of non-stop bile and vitriol from Washington’s bipartisan elite class, Trump is actually beating all of them,” she added. “Now while of course it’s true that key legislative successes are lacking, whether on health care, tax reform, infrastructure — but it’s equally true as well that President Trump has done a lot even without Congress to make our lives better.”</p> <p>Ingraham said that Trump does need to work on boosting his approval numbers, but she argued the president has “done a heck of a lot in just 200 days.” Pointing to the successful confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s slashing of Obama-era red-tape and regulations, the thriving stock market, consumer confidence and more, Ingraham said that Trump’s presidency hasn’t been the failure that the media, the Left and the Never-Trumpers are making it out to be.</p> <p>“His approval numbers — yeah, they need boosting, that’s for sure. But considering the 24/7 media onslaught against him, the distraction of the Russia probe, and the resistance from Congress — both sides in Congress — he’s done a heck of a lot in just 200 days,” she said. “And if he can keep focused and he can keep his team motivated, keep them together, and put pressure on the Hill to deliver on some of these big issues, he’ll improve his numbers and he’ll grow the populist movement.”</p> <p>To read related content visit <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/" type="external">LifeZette</a>.</p>	Ingraham: ‘Successful Trump Presidency’ Would Be ‘Armageddon’ for Liberals	true	http://opslens.com/2017/08/08/ingraham-successful-trump-presidency-armageddon-liberals/	2017-08-08
<p><a type="internal">Trump: Let Hillary 'Release Her Emails and I'll Release My Tax Returns Immediately'</a></p> <p>One of the biggest issues of this presidential race is race itself. Jesse Watters traveled to Philadelphia and asked people about the definition of racism, whether Black Lives Matter is a racist group, and of course, Donald Trump.</p> <p>Check out some Watters' World exchanges below...</p> <p>Do you think "Black Lives Matters" is a racist term?</p> 'If they were such a caring organization, I don't know why they're not going into their own neighborhoods and cleaning them up.' 'They do matter, don't get me wrong. But also, all lives matter.' <p>Do you feel like the term 'racist' is thrown around too loosely these days?</p> 'Every time you turn around there's an incident with a black vs a white, or a Hispanic...' 'You have a whole group of people that heard a man say 'I'm going to build a wall and deport millions of Mexicans and Hispanic-Americans from this country.' Nobody batted an eye.' <p>Watters wondered whether "we're living in the same country," recalling that Trump got a "lot of heat" for the comments.</p> <p>Enjoy the Watters' World segment above, and don't miss the next Watters' World monthly special, airing October 1!</p>	Is 'Black Lives Matter' a Racist Term? Watters' World Tackles Racism	false	http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/09/06/black-lives-matter-racist-term-watters-world-tackles-racism	2016-09-06
<p>A wave of liberal rage has marked the last 11 months since the rise and subsequent election of President Donald Trump.</p> <p>Antifa protestors clad in black masks shut down college campuses, destroy property and indiscriminately attack those they disagree with, whether women or the elderly. Meanwhile, CNN fires Kathy Griffin for taking photos with a bloody replica of the president’s decapitated head.</p> <p>Amid this backdrop, The Huffington Post publishes an article calling for the execution of Trump and “everyone assisting his agenda.”</p> <p>Then, shots ring out as a man gorged on media hysteria attempts to slaughter Republican congressmen while they practice for a charity baseball game.</p> <p>The aggression since Trump’s nomination is difficult to enumerate, but nevertheless, The Daily Caller News Foundation pored over media reports to compile a close but non-exhaustive list of violent acts against conservatives in months following the Republican National Convention.</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this video.</p> <p>In creating the list, The DCNF reviewed numerous articles detailing attacks and violent threats against conservatives and Trump supporters. While there are examples of anonymous threats, The DCNF chose to include only those that resulted in the cancelling of events and two to members of Congress deemed credible. Some instances of violence between rival protestors were not included as it was difficult to ascertain who initiated the event.</p> <p>To see the list of attacks visit <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/06/16/this-list-of-attacks-against-conservatives-is-mind-blowing/" type="external">The Daily Caller.</a></p> <p>By now, you already know that Republican lawmakers were the target of a brutal and unjustifiable shooting in Virginia. House majority whip Steve Scalise was shot several times and has been hospitalized. He appears to be in critical but stable condition. Several other Republican lawmakers witnessed the carnage.</p> <p>The shooter, “socialist democrat” James Hodgkinson, wasn’t so lucky, succumbing to wounds received in a shootout with police officers. This shooting is a harsh reminder of the growing vitriol in American politics where violence between liberal and conservative hard-liners is only becoming more common, with both sides committing inexcusable violence.</p> <p>The shooting occurred during an early morning baseball practice. The shooter, Hodgkinson, appears to have been an ardent Bernie Sanders supporter and opposed President Trump. His choice of targets was almost certainly not random and was likely premeditated. Hodgkinson is from Illinois but has been staying in the DC area for at least six weeks.</p> <p>Besides Scalise, two police officers were wounded during the shooting. Senator Paul Rand, who witness the event, has hailed the police officers and credited them for preventing a far worse tragedy. The police officers present were there to guard Scalise.</p> <p>Hodgkinson already had a track record with the police before the shooting. He had previously been charged with assault and battery for punching a woman in the face with a closed fist. He also confronted that woman’s boyfriend with a shotgun, reportedly firing one shot in the air. Apparently, he also physically abused his daughter, and police were called when he started shooting several pine trees on his property. Neighbors were worried that bullets would strike nearby homes.</p> <p>Hodgkinson also claimed to be a “democratic socialist” on his social media profiles. Writing to the Belleville News-Democrat, he stated, “I don’t ever again want to hear how great a president [Ronald Reagan] was. All he did was give tax breaks to the rich and put the rest of the country (or at least 13.1 percent) out of work.” He added, “To think the Republican Party can call this man their idol is un-American. It’s all about the money.”</p> <p>To read rest of article visit <a type="internal">OpsLens.</a></p>	This List Of Attacks Against Conservatives Is Mind Blowing	true	http://opslens.com/2017/06/16/list-attacks-conservatives-mind-blowing/	2017-06-16
<p>Hundreds marched against a scheduled (but then canceled) "Dixie Freedom Rally" in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. Public pressure against the event was immense, and after receiving threats of violence, the Texas Confederate Militia decided to postpone the event to a later date. That didn't stop the counter march the Austin chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America had planned.</p> <p>Chanting their way through downtown Austin, the capital of Texas, demonstrators denounced Confederate symbolism and called for the dismantling of public works and streets that bear the name of Confederate icons. At the end of the march, fights broke out both between protesters and between protesters and police. Two people were arrested. Event organizers reached out to lawyers and are fighting the charges.</p> <p>According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, only Virginia has more Confederate symbols (which include roads, schools, statues and county names) than Texas.</p> <p>Austin has already been taking steps to remove public reminders of its history as part of the Confederacy. Just last week Texas House Speaker Joe Strauss called for removal of a plaque near the Capitol that asserts slavery was not the underlying cause of the Civil War. And finally after years of resistance, administrators at the University of Texas Austin decided to take down <a type="internal">Confederate statues on campus</a>.</p> <p>Related stories <a type="internal">The University of Texas is removing its Confederate statues</a> <a type="internal">Workers removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from a Dallas park under police guard</a> <a type="internal">Retailers say Confederate flag sales are surging after Charlottesville</a></p>	Hundreds marched against 'Confederate pride' in Austin, Texas	false	https://www.circa.com/story/2017/09/23/nation/more-than-1-000-people-marched-against-onfederate-pride-in-austin-texas	2017-09-23
<a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/5669803910001/lawmakers-demand-probe-into-special-treatment-clinton" type="external" /> <p>Hillary Clinton called Monica Lewinsky a “narcissistic loony tune.” She called Gennifer Flowers “some failed cabaret singer.” She said Republicans in Congress had organized “a vast right-wing conspiracy” against her husband, President Bill Clinton.</p> <p>And now the former secretary of state and defeated Democratic presidential candidate says those of us still interested in the investigating of her conduct are engaging in an “abuse of power.”</p> <p>Hillary Clinton expects special treatment. She always has. The real question is: why did the FBI give it to her?</p> <p>The FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton was referred to as “special” in an email sent by current FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. He was the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office before his promotion to the second-ranking spot in the bureau.</p> <p>Despite a deep web of connections to Clinton, McCabe formally recused himself from the email investigation only a week before the 2016 election. McCabe’s admissions are telling, but not inaccurate.</p> <q> <p>Four months have passed since 20 members of the House Judiciary Committee demanded a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton. No action from the Department of Justice has been taken.</p> </q> <p>Only a special person could have her spouse meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix during an ongoing criminal investigation. Recently released emails show that Bill Clinton purposely altered his departure to get time alone with Lynch.</p> <p>While the FBI was very concerned with punishing the agent who disclosed the Lynch-Bill Clinton meeting, the impropriety of the gathering garnered far less attention.</p> <p>When Lynch told then-FBI Director James Comey to refer to the Hillary Clinton investigation as a “matter” rather than an “investigation,” language had a special meaning.</p> <p>According to McCabe, “the decision was made to investigate (Hillary Clinton) at HQ with a small team.” The double standard is glaring. More prosecutors are currently investigating President Trump than were assigned to the Oklahoma City bombing, but Hillary Clinton got the small team at HQ.</p> <p>And how did the “small team at HQ” handle the investigation? In a word – special. Somewhere between the first and the final draft, Comey’s statement changed. He first wrote that Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was “grossly negligent.” The final draft said she was “extremely careless.”</p> <p>Comey’s exoneration was drafted before the FBI interviewed key witnesses – including Clinton herself.</p> <p>When Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough confronted officials about the depth of Clinton’s crimes, he faced threats and “personal blowback” against him and his family.</p> <p>McCullough’s reports were delivered to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper spoke of the “heartburn” that exposure would create for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.</p> <p>In every instance, being special has redounded to Hillary Clinton’s political and legal benefit. Not so for President Trump. Some at the Department of Justice and the FBI seem to have a special bias against the president.</p> <p>FBI Agent Peter Strzok sent biased anti-Trump text messages. He worked on both the Clinton email scandal and the Mueller probe. It remains unclear what evidence he reviewed, generated or damaged in either investigation.</p> <p>Four months have passed since 20 members of the House Judiciary Committee demanded a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton. No action from the Department of Justice has been taken.</p> <p>As members of the Judiciary Committee, we have demanded an investigation into the FBI’s procedures, practices, oversight and reporting. If biased agents have tainted evidence, we need to see it. If politically-interested prosecutors have an agenda, we need to know it. If our government institutions are being undermined by the deep state, we must expose it.</p> <p>After all, equal treatment under the law is just one thing that makes America so special.</p> <p>Republican Matt Gaetz represents Florida's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.</p>	Reps. Gaetz, Biggs: Hillary Clinton's FBI special treatment must be investigated	true	http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/06/reps-gaetz-biggs-hillary-clintons-fbi-special-treatment-must-be-investigated.html	2017-12-06
<p>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called out former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon just days after he accused the Catholic Church of having ulterior motives in helping undocumented immigrants.</p> <p>James Rogers, the USCCB's chief spokesman, called Bannon's comments "preposterous" in a interview on Sirius Radio.</p> <p>Rogers was referring to Steve Bannon's interview with Charlie Rose on "60 Minutes" where he claimed the Catholic Church only needs "illegal aliens" as worshipers.</p> <p>Rogers says Bannon's statements are untrue.</p> <p>"Our pro-immigration stance is based on fidelity to God's word and honors the American dream. For anyone to suggest that it is out of sordid motives of statistics or financial gain is outrageous and insulting," he added.</p> <p>"And the Bible is so clear, so clear, that to treat the immigrant with dignity and respect, to make sure that society is just in its treatment of the immigrant is Biblical mandate," Dolan said. "It's clear in the Old Testament -- my Jewish neighbors remind me of that all the time -- and it's clear from the lips of Jesus when he said, 'Whatever you do to the least of my brothers you do to me. When I was a stranger -- meaning an immigrant or a refugee -- you welcomed me.'"</p> <p>Bannon's comments have drawn widespread criticism.</p> <p>Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, said in an interview on the Catholic Channel on Sirius XM, "I don't really care to go into what I think is a preposterous and rather insulting statement that the only reason we bishops care for immigrants is for the economic because we want to fill our churches and get more money."</p> <p>The full interview of Steve Bannon on "60 Minutes" will air this Sunday.</p> <p>Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is accusing the Catholic Church of needing "illegal aliens" as worshipers.</p> <p>“The Catholic Church has been terrible about this,” he said while discussing immigration policy in a new interview Thursday. “The bishops have been terrible about this.”</p> <p>“[It’s] because [they’re] unable to really to – to – to come to grips with the problems in the church,” Bannon continued on <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannon-on-trump-daca-decision-60-minutes/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=41917515" type="external">CBS’s “60 Minutes.”</a> “They need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches.”</p> <p>“They have an economic interest. They have an economic interest in unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal immigration.”</p> <p>Bannon was discussing President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.</p> <p>DACA temporarily blocks undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and lets them get renewable work permits.</p> <p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday announced that Trump’s administration would eliminate the program in six months.</p> <p>Nearly 800,000 “Dreamers,” or DACA recipients, have benefited from the program since former President Barack Obama’s administration implemented it in 2012.</p>	Catholic bishops called out Steve Bannon over his comments about undocumented immigrants	false	https://www.circa.com/story/2017/09/07/politics/steve-bannon-says-catholic-church-needs-illegal-aliens	2017-09-08
<p>ISIS is "dreaming that Hillary Clinton becomes President. ISIS, their number one dream, Hillary Clinton, let her become President. She's the one that allowed it to form, she's the one that watched it go, now they say it's in 32 countries, worse than ever." A dozen interviews with ISIS extremists and a review of their social media networks <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-08-24/why-isis-rooting-trump-0" type="external">by Foreign Affairs magazine</a> found that the terrorist group has a strong preference in the 2016 election: they'd like to see Donald Trump elected, not Clinton.</p> <p>Fact checkers have also reviewed Trump's repeated claim that ISIS' rise is directly Clinton's fault and <a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/jul/20/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrongly-blames-hillary-clinton-creati/" type="external">declared it to be false</a>.</p>	No, ISIS Isn't Rooting for Clinton	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/card/no-isis-isnt-rooting-clinton-n671531	2016-10-23
<p>Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called on President Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton to calm protests that have broken out in opposition to Donald Trump’s election as president.</p> <p>Referencing thousands of protesters outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, chanting “Not my president”, Conway said “I think it’s time for them to give this man a chance, too.”</p> <p>According to Conway, President-Elect Trump has already addressed the protesters and “he will continue to address them. He’s going to be the president of all people.” But, she added, “This is a two-way street.”</p> <p>“It’s time really for President Obama and Secretary Clinton to say to these protesters: ‘This man is our president,’” Conway continued.</p> <p>Conway cited what she claimed was media hypocrisy, saying that if Hillary Clinton had won and “if there were two Donald Trump protesters somewhere, people would be freaking out that his supporters were not accepting the election results.”</p> <p>Speculation has already begun about what President-Elect Trump’s administration will look like, especially who will serve as his Chief of Staff in the White House.</p> <p>Conway commented on reports RNC Chair Reince Priebus and Trump Campaign CEO Steve Bannon are the top candidates being considered for the post.</p> <p>While she said both will “have big roles in a Trump administration”, she particularly highlighted what she sees as Bannon’s qualifications for the job.</p> <p>“I think having worked with him and known him, Steve Bannon, in this particular campaign, was the general. And he is much more the Goldman Sachs managing partner and much more the naval officer, I think, than people realize. That’s a big part of his background.”</p> <p>Conway denied that Bannon, who also served as editor of conservative site Breitbart, would come to Washington to proverbially “burn it down.”</p> <p>Finally, Conway commented on recent <a type="internal">reports</a> that Hillary Clinton partially blamed her loss in the election on FBI Director James Comey.</p> <p>While calling Secretary Clinton “a woman of enormous gifts and talents”, Conway said “I just can’t believe it’s always somebody else’s fault. Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror and reflect on what went wrong.”</p>	Trump Campaign Manager Calls on Obama, Clinton to Calm Protests	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-campaign-manager-calls-obama-clinton-calm-protests-n683206	2016-11-13
<p>Donald Trump defended past disparaging remarks about women during Thursday’s GOP debate, saying he doesn’t have time for “total political correctness” and that oftentimes he’s just kidding.</p> <p>“You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly told Trump.</p> <p>“Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president,” she added.</p> <p>Trump said those comments were directed at TV personality Rosie O’Donnell, who has publicly feuded with Trump in the past.</p> <p>“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness and to be honest with you this country doesn't have time either,” Trump shot back to cheers.</p> <p>“Frankly what I say and oftentimes it's fun, it's kidding, we have a good time,” Trump added.</p>	Donald Trump Defends Past Remarks About Women	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-defends-past-remarks-about-women-n405631	2015-08-07
<p>US President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. President-elect Donald Trump and future First Lady Melania Trump are meeting with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House and are expected to discuss efforts toward a smooth transition of power.</p> <p>President elect Donald Trump , with his wife Melania Trump, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, gives the thumbs up after a meeting in the Majority Leaders office in the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day President elect Trump met with US President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.</p>	President-Elect Trump Tours Washington	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/president-elect-trump-tours-washington-n682241	2016-11-10
<p>U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in New York early on Nov. 9, 2016.</p> <p><a type="internal">Trump stunned America</a> and the world Wednesday, riding a wave of populist resentment to defeat Hillary Clinton in the race to become the 45th president of the United States.</p>	Team Trump Celebrates Surprise Election Victory	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/team-trump-celebrates-surprise-election-victory-n681366	2016-11-09
<p>President Obama won't just be handing over the keys to the Oval Office in January — he will also be relinquishing the all-important @POTUS Twitter account.</p> <p>Obama is the first sitting president to join Twitter, making this transition unprecedented. However, there's already a plan for what happens next.</p> <p>On January 20, 2017, when either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton takes office, they'll gain access to the @POTUS account and its 11 million followers, according to Twitter.</p> <p>The National Archives and Records Administration will also archive other Twitter handles, including @WhiteHouse, @VP, and @PressSec, according to Twitter.</p> <p>One big question mark is what will happen to the @FLOTUS Twitter account. While it's also included in the transition, it's possible Twitter may need to change that to @FMOTUS come January 20 if we elect our first female president.</p>	What Happens to the @POTUS Twitter After Obama Leaves?	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/what-happens-potus-twitter-after-obama-leaves-n678066	2016-11-04
<p>MAINZ, Germany — At least 17 ISIS militants have arrived in Europe concealed as refugees, according to Germany’s domestic intelligence service.</p> <p>Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of the BfV agency, said in an interview with the daily FAZ newspaper over the weekend that “most of them are already in prison or dead."</p> <p>The total includes two suspects who died in the Paris terror attacks, according to the report.</p> <p>Last year, Germany alone <a type="internal">welcomed more than 1.1 million migrants</a>, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan.</p> <p>In an <a type="internal">interview with NBC News earlier this year</a>, Maassen said that ISIS was trying to "send a political, not an operational signal" by capitalizing on the migrant crisis.</p> <p>“It wanted to show ... that it is capable of smuggling terrorists to Europe concealed as refugees and that every refugee can be a terrorist," the intellgence chief added.</p> <p>His agency's <a href="http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Broschueren/2016/vsb-kurzfassung-engl-2015.pdf;jsessionid=480D226A3D81AE5B62BEC5536DF2B7B7.2_cid295?__blob=publicationFile" type="external">annual security report</a> published last week notes that Europe is faced with “a new dimension of [Islamist] terror," stating that “it has to be assumed that ISIS is planning further attacks in Europe, including Germany.”</p>	17 ISIS Militants Posed as Refugees to Reach Europe: German Official	false	http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/17-isis-militants-posed-refugees-reach-europe-german-official-n603366	2016-07-04
<p>With the end of his second term on the horizon, <a type="internal">President Obama spoke to 60 Minutes</a> this week, reflecting on his achievements -- and on the problems not yet solved. At the top of that list is the protracted crisis in Syria, where more than 250,000 people have died, according to UN reports, and some 12 million have been forced from their homes.</p> <p>Correspondent Steve Kroft asks President Obama about the lack of progress in Syria, but Obama says improvement takes time. "In a situation that is as volatile and with as many players as there are inside of Syria, there aren't any silver bullets," he says.</p> <p>One of those players, Kroft points out, is Russia, which recently stepped up airstrikes and naval bombardments in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. President Putin "is challenging your leadership, Mr. President," Kroft says.</p> <p>Obama disagrees. "Steve, I've got to tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally, is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership," he says.</p> <p>Kroft and Obama discuss domestic issues as well, including gun violence. At a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/01/statement-president-shootings-umpqua-community-college-roseburg-oregon" type="external">press conference</a> after last week's mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, Obama urged the country to do more to prevent these tragedies.</p> <p>In the unaired clip below, Kroft asks the president if he can personally make a difference. Obama acknowledges that his options are limited.</p> <p>"We are running out of administrative actions that could really move the needle in reducing gun violence in this country," he says. At the same time, he adds, "it is not realistic to think that this Congress will pass any common sense gun safety legislation."</p> <p>But that doesn't mean a public outcry can't effect change, Obama says. "The most important thing I can do right now is just to keep on lifting up the issue and saying, 'It doesn't have to be this way,'" he tells Kroft. "I genuinely believe that."</p> <p>The two-part interview also touches on the 2016 presidential race, and the candidates on both sides of the aisle. Kroft asks the president what he thinks of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. "He is, you know, the classic reality TV character," Obama says. "At these early stages, it's not surprising that he's gotten a lot of attention."</p> <p>As to whether that attention will evaporate, the president declines to speculate. "I'll leave it up to the pundits to make that determination," Obama says. "I don't think he'll end up being president of the United States."</p> <p>At different moments in the interview, the president turns reflective, taking stock of his time in office and eyeing the year ahead. In the unaired clip below, he tells Kroft that, at this point, he's learned to trust his instincts.</p> <p>"The nice thing about being a veteran in anything is your fear kind of goes away," he says. "There's no doubt I'm better at this job now than I was when I started."</p> <p>At the end of the interview, Kroft asks Obama if he's glad he can't run for president again. Obama says he feels a mixture of satisfaction at what he's accomplished and a desire to still do more. "But by the time I'm finished, I think it will be time for me to go," he says, adding that new blood in the White House is essential for a healthy democracy.</p> <p>"Do you think if you ran again, could run again, and did run again, you would be elected?" Kroft asks.</p> <p>"Yes," says Obama, without missing a beat.</p>	Highlights, outtakes from Obama's 60 Minutes interview	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/highlights-outtakes-from-obama-60-minutes-interview/	2017-10-11
<p>Hillary Clinton’s campaign is refocusing on Donald Trump and turning away from <a type="internal">the latest investigation of her emails</a>, reminding voters of all the reasons why she believes Trump is unqualified to be president.</p> <p>At three Florida rallies Tuesday, CBS News’ Nancy Cordes reports that Clinton ticked through her opponent’s most notorious comments about the opposite sex.</p> <p>“I want all the girls in America to know: you are valuable,” Clinton said at a rally in Fort Lauderdale. “Don’t let somebody like this bully tell you otherwise!”</p> <p>To another crowd in Dade City, Florida, she added: “He calls women ugly, disgusting, nasty, all the time... He doesn’t see us as full human beings.”</p> <p>For proof of her closing argument, Clinton <a type="internal">turned to former Miss Universe Alicia Machado</a>, who Trump publicly shamed in 1997 for gaining a little weight.</p> <p>“He said to me, Miss Piggy, Miss Housekeeping, Miss Eating Machine,” Machado said, joining Clinton in Dade City.</p> <p>It’s a closing argument aimed not just at female voters but also the men who love them. The Clinton campaign released a series of ads Tuesday -- all of them with the same message.</p> <p>“I wouldn’t feel good as a father voting for somebody like that,” one man says in an ad.</p> <p>In Columbus, Ohio, President Obama warned that Trump is unlikely to change.</p> <p>“If you disrespected women before you were elected, you will disrespect women once you’re president,” he said.</p> <p>But in Fort Lauderdale, a protester interrupted Clinton with a sign that said her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is a rapist -- a common sight at Clinton rallies that set her off last night.</p> <p>“I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous divisions and behaviors of people who support Donald Trump,” Clinton said.</p> <p>Aides to the Democratic nominee insist the race is not as tight as new polls suggest.</p> <p>And yet they’ve begun airing ads in four states that supposedly tilt their way: Michigan, Virginia, Colorado, and New Mexico.</p> <p>The campaign says that is not a sign of nervousness -- it’s a sign that they still have a startling $150 million in the bank so why not put it to good use, especially if it helps Democrats down the ballot.</p> <p>But that doesn’t explain why Clinton has added a stop in one of those states -- Michigan -- to an already packed schedule.</p>	To distract from email controversy, Clinton targets Trump's record with women	true	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-distracts-from-email-controversy-targets-trumps-record-with-women/	2016-11-02
<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is recommending to the Justice Department that no charges should be brought against Hillary Clinton for her use of private email servers as secretary of state, FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday.</p> <p>"Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," Comey said after detailing the FBI's findings in its investigation of Clinton's use of personal email servers. "No charges are appropriate in this case."</p> <p>Comey announced that the FBI has completed its investigation of Clinton's use of a personal email server and is now referring the matter to the Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute. Comey made clear he didn't coordinate his statement with the Justice Department or any other part of the government.</p> <p>The FBI assessed whether classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on Clinton's personal email server or whether classified information was mishandled intentionally or in a grossly negligent way -- which is a felony -- or whether people knowingly removed classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities, which is a misdemeanor, Comey said. He added that the FBI also investigated whether there was computer intrusion by nation states or hostile actors.</p> <p>Comey said that the FBI found that Clinton actually used "several different servers" and administrators of those servers during her four years as secretary of state as well as "numerous mobile devices" to send and receive email on her personal domain.</p> <p>When one of the servers was decommissioned in 2013, the software was removed, but millions of email fragments remained in a "slack space of the server" which the FBI had to use to piece the puzzle of her emails back together.</p> <p>"We searched through all of it to understand what was there and what parts of the puzzle we could put back together again," Comey said.</p> <p>From the group of approximately 30,000 emails that Clinton provided to the State Department, the FBI found 110 emails in 52 email chains that "have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received," Comey said.</p> <p>Eight of those chains contained top-secret information, Comey said, 36 chains contained information that was considered secret at the time and eight were considered confidential.</p> <p>Comey said that the FBI "found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them in some way." Therefore, Comey said the FBI has "reasonable confidence" that there was "no intentional misconduct" in connection to the sorting of Clinton's emails.</p> <p>The FBI director, however, slammed Clinton for her general use of the email server.</p> <p>"There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," he said, adding that anyone in Clinton's position or in the positions of people she communicated with "should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation."</p> <p>Comey said that the FBI did not find "direct evidence" that Clinton's personal email domain was hacked successfully, but cautioned that the government is "unlikely to find such direct evidence." At the same time, he warned that "hostile actors gained access" to private email accounts with which Clinton was in regular contact. He also said that because Clinton sent and received work emails in territories of sophisticated adversaries, Comey said, "It is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account."</p> <p>The conclusion of the investigation comes after <a type="internal">Clinton met with FBI officials in Washington for three and a half hours Saturday</a> about her use of the private email server she used while she was secretary of state, her campaign said. Federal investigators also <a type="internal">interviewed Clinton's top aides</a>, including Huma Abedin, who was questioned in April.</p> <p>Clinton had turned over her email server to the FBI in August, and at the time she turned it over, it had been wiped clean.</p> <p>In May, Clinton told CBS News that she expected a quick conclusion to the FBI probe into whether she mishandled classified information on her server, which Clinton used exclusively to send and receive State Department correspondence.</p> <p>"I always took classified material seriously," she <a type="internal">told "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson</a>. "There was never any material marked classified that was sent or received by me. And I look forward to this being wrapped up."</p> <p>There has been increased scrutiny of the Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch after she had a <a type="internal">spontaneous half-hour-long meeting</a> with former President Clinton early last week.The attorney general said Friday of the meeting with Clinton that she "certainly wouldn't do it again," a sentiment seconded by the former president and by Hillary Clinton, who told MSNBC in an interview that "hindsight is 20-20."</p> <p>Lynch confirmed Friday that she would be accepting the recommendations of the career prosecutors in the email case, though she stopped short of formally recusing herself from the matter.</p> <p>CBS News' Paula Reid contributed to this report.</p>	FBI: No charges against Hillary Clinton are appropriate for email server use	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-no-charges-against-hillary-clinton-are-appropriate-for-email-server-use/	2016-07-05
<p>(Newser) – Miss America chairman and CEO Sam Haskell resigned Saturday—just a day after saying he wouldn't, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/america-organization-president-resigns-scandal-report-article-1.3717462" type="external">New York Daily News</a> reports. He was joined by chairman Lynn Weidner, president and COO Josh Randle, and board member Tammy Haddad. The resignations of Miss America leadership come after HuffPo <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miss-america-ceo-emails_us_5a3bd266e4b025f99e153fdb?h4" type="external">published internal emails</a> Thursday that feature Haskell calling a former Miss America winner "fat and gross" and joking that he's one of very few people who haven't had sex with her, according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/12/23/3-miss-america-organization-leaders-resign-amid-scandal/979182001/?" type="external">USA Today</a>. He also mused about renaming Miss America winners "c--ts," as per the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/miss-america-president-josh-randle-reportedly-resigns-1070264" type="external">Hollywood Reporter</a>.</p> <p>On Friday, Haskell was <a type="internal">suspended pending an investigation</a> as 49 former Miss America winners signed a petition calling on pageant leadership to resign. Haskell remained adamant that he wouldn't resign over what he said were false accusations and a "mistake of words." In a statement, the Miss America Organization says Haskell's resignation will take effect immediately. Randle and Weidner will stay on for the coming weeks to "facilitate a smooth transition." "The board thanks Lynn and Sam for many years of tireless work for, and significant financial support to, both the Miss America Organization and thousands of young women," the statement reads. In addition, the board says it "will be conducting an in-depth investigation" into the emails.</p>	CEO, More Resign Amid Ongoing Miss America Scandal	false	http://www.newser.com/story/253237/ceo-more-resign-amid-ongoing-miss-america-scandal.html	2017-12-23
<p>(Newser) – If his TV was tuned to <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/29/donald-trump-russia-probe-gowdy-says-he-should-be-upset-democrats-obama-not-fbi" type="external">Fox News</a> on Tuesday, President Trump surely didn't like what he heard. Rep. Trey Gowdy, a Trump ally and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, appeared on the network to poke holes in Trump's claim that the FBI planted a spy in his 2016 campaign. According to memos from James Comey, "President Trump himself … said, 'If anyone connected with my campaign was working with Russia, I want you to investigate it,' and it sounds to me like that is exactly what the FBI did," Gowdy said, referring to reports that <a type="internal">FBI informant Stefan Halper</a> reached out to Trump advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page before the 2016 election. Gowdy added that a Justice Department briefing last week convinced him the move had "nothing to do" with Trump.</p> <p>What <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/29/gowdy-fbi-informant-spygate-trump-611600" type="external">Politico</a> calls Gowdy's "significant pushback against the president" then received backing from another Trump supporter, Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano. "There is no evidence" to support Trump's claims that a spy infiltrated his campaign in order to pass information to the Obama administration and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and "I'd want to see evidence before I made an allegation that outrageous," he said, before describing Halper's actions as "standard operating procedure in intelligence gathering and in criminal investigations." Despite anchor Shepard Smith later saying much the same, Trump stuck to his "Spygate" theory at a Tuesday rally in Nashville, asking the crowd, "How do you like the fact they had people infiltrating our campaign?" per the Post.</p>	Trey Gowdy: FBI Was Only Following Trump's Order	false	http://www.newser.com/story/259948/gop-rep-fbi-was-only-following-trumps-order.html	2018-05-30
<p>The FBI has discovered a batch of new emails that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server</a> while she was secretary of state, according to a letter FBI Director James Comey sent to the chairs of pertinent Congressional and Senate committees Friday.</p> <p>The FBI’s investigative team briefed Comey Thursday about the new emails and is now assessing, Comey wrote, “whether or not this material may be significant.” In his letter, the FBI director also warned the committee chairs, “I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work.” Law enforcement sources told CBS News’ Jeff Pegues that the sheer volume of emails and the process of examining them will take days. Investigators are looking into whether they contain classified information.</p> <p>In a hastily arranged press conference Friday night, Clinton <a type="internal">said it was “imperative”</a> for the FBI to “explain this issue ... without delay.”</p> <p>Clinton said she is “confident” the conclusion reached in July about her emails will not change and downplayed its potential effect on the election.</p> <p>“I think people a long time ago made up their minds about the emails,” she said.</p> <p>The new emails -- which potentially number in the thousands -- came from a laptop that had been shared by top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her now-estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, CBS News’ Jeff Pegues reported.</p> <p>Asked if Abedin had shared with her what might have been discovered, Clinton said she had no information and “we don’t know what to believe.”</p> <p>“We’ve heard these rumors, we don’t know what to believe, and I’m sure there are going to be even more rumors, which is why it is incumbent on the FBI to tell us what is going on,” Clinton said.</p> <p>“Right now, you’re guess is as good as mine, and that’s not good enough.”</p> <p>Clinton’s campaign said it had no advance knowledge of Comey’s letter, and the campaign staff found out about it only after the news had broken Friday afternoon, while Clinton was on a two-hour,15-minute flight traveling with staff and with reporters to Cedar Rapids, all of whom had little or no Wi-Fi access for most of the duration of the flight</p> <p>Reporters shouted questions to Clinton as she walked from the plane in Cedar Rapids to the car that took her to her rally. She just smiled and waved, ignoring the questions.</p> <p>House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, announced the FBI’s discovery of the emails.</p> <q> <p>FBI Dir just informed me, "The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation." Case reopened</p>— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasoninthehouse/status/792047597040971776" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q> <p>Pegues confirmed Friday that the new batch of emails was discovered during the investigation into the August <a type="internal">sexting scandal of Anthony Weiner</a>, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, after the agency seized electronic devices belonging to the couple. Weiner was alleged to be exchanging sexually explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl.</p> <p>Comey’s letter to Congress informed lawmakers that he was supplementing <a type="internal">his previous testimony on the matter of the investigation</a>, which was completed in July. At the time, Comey recommended no charges against Hillary Clinton, which was accepted by the Justice Department.</p> <p>Following the release of the FBI letter, House Speaker Paul Ryan reiterated his call for the Director of National Intelligence to stop giving classified briefings to Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.</p> <p>“This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators,” Ryan said in a statement. “I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved.”</p> <p>State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Friday that the Department is trying to figure out what these emails pertain to and whether they’re relevant to Clinton’s time as secretary of state.</p> <p>Toner said they can’t make any assumptions that they are, “but they may be.”</p> <p>If so, Toner said the State Department is ready to cooperate with the FBI, but as of Friday afternoon, the department had not been contacted by the agency.</p> <p>Donald Trump weighed in on the news at a Friday rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, saying that “perhaps justice will be done” after the FBI takes further investigative steps on the emails.</p> <p>The audience roared, “Lock her up! Lock her up,” as Trump declared, “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before...We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”</p> <p>Trump also commended the FBI for now being “willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made” in announcing its investigation was complete.</p> <p>“This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understood and it is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected,” he said.</p> <p>Later, Trump said of the “system” he has <a type="internal">claimed to be “rigged” for several weeks</a>: “It might be not be as rigged as I thought. I think they’re going to right the ship, folks. I think they’re going to right this yet.”</p> <p>John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, called on Comey in a statement to “immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter” sent to Senate and House committee chairmen.</p> <p>“Director Comey’s letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant,” Podesta wrote Friday afternoon. “The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July.”</p> <p>He added that, in the months since the email investigation was completed, partisan efforts have continued to undermine the agency.</p> <p>“Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign,” Podesta said.</p> <p>The timing of the revelation has angered some former Department of Justice employees.</p> <p>Former spokesman Matthew Miller called the disclosure “inappropriate” on Twitter and suggested that Comey had broken a cardinal rule:</p> <q> <p>But today's disclosure might be worst abuse yet. DOJ goes out of its way to avoid publicly discussing investigations close to election. 5/</p>— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/792064622933209088" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q> <p>CBS News’ Jeff Pegues, Catherine Reynolds, Nancy Cordes, Andres Triay, Steven Portnoy and Hannah Fraser-Chanpong contributed to this report.</p>	FBI reviewing newly discovered Clinton-related emails	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-is-taking-investigative-steps-to-review-more-clinton-emails/	2016-10-28
<p>Donald Trump reported raising $100 million for his presidential campaign and the Republican party in September, a number that trails far behind Hillary Clinton’s fundraising haul in the same month.</p> <p>Trump’s campaign sent a statement Saturday announcing its “new fundraising record,” which will fill the coffers for his presidential bid as well as the joint efforts of the Republican National Committee, and various state GOP parties. The campaign said Trump himself contributed $2 million of that total.</p> <p>In total, the campaign and its affiliated joint fundraising committees finished September with approximately $75 million cash on hand.</p> <p>“These numbers show that Donald Trump continues to have incredible broad based support from across America,” Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s finance chairman.</p> <p>But Trump’s campaign apparatus is playing a catch-up game compared to Hillary Clinton’s behemoth fundraising efforts, <a type="internal">which drew in more than $154 million</a> for her campaign and the Democratic Party in September alone. HFA, along with the campaign’s other joint fundraising committees, began the month of October with a combined $150 million cash on hand.</p> <p>And when it comes to advertising, the numbers in the final stretch of the campaign continue the election-cycle trend of Clinton outspending Trump.</p> <p>Bloomberg reports that Clinton and various super PACs supporting the Democratic nominee have booked ads through election day with buys totaling $78.3 million. The amount is more than twice what Trump and his super PAC backers have scheduled -- $50 million, according to Kantar Media.</p>	Donald Trump's September fundraising lags behind Hillary Clinton	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trumps-september-fundraising-lags-behind-hillary-clinton/	2016-10-16
<a href="http://kwes.images.worldnow.com/images/14837936_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=800" type="external" /> (Source: KWES) <p>ODESSA, TX (KWES) -</p> <p>An Odessa man and his company are donating $1 million to the American Red Cross towards Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. The Red Cross said they're expecting to spend $30 million from their funds on the rebuilding.</p> <p>As The Red Cross is helping with the aftermath, they're also preparing for an even stronger hurricane to hit the country.</p> <p>"This is a marathon, it's not a sprint, so this is gonna go a long way to help those people recover," said Tracy Austin, Executive Director of the American Red Cross of The Permian Basin.</p> <p>John Bushman, owner of Investment Centers of America (ICA), decided to give back after watching families and single mothers trying to survive the high floodwaters. He describes to us what he saw on TV.</p> <p>"So all she [single mother] can do is put out a white flag for the police to come help her. She's just standing there with an 8-month-old baby in her arms, I don't know where the other two minor children were that got mentioned were, probably on top of the roof already," said Bushman. "So if that doesn't bring tears to your eyes or makes you think, then I don't know [what will]."</p> <p>The American Red Cross can't ignore a stronger hurricane, Irma. Irma could possibly hit Florida or the east coast, needing the American Red Cross to give even more help.</p> <p>"We will deploy and we encourage everyone to take cover, to go to their shelters, and also to prepare in advance," said Austin. "Right now, that's our messaging to make those preparations in advance and to take cover and go to a shelter because this is going to be a massive storm."</p> <p>The American Red Cross won't know what help to deploy until after Hurricane Irma makes landfall. Even though many resources are in South Texas, they say they're "Red Cross ready."</p> <p>You can donate or sign up to volunteer at <a href="http://redcross.org" type="external">redcross.org</a></p> <p>Copyright 2017 <a type="internal">KWES</a>. All rights reserved.</p>	Odessa businessman donates $1M to American Red Cross as they prepare for more possible tragedy	false	http://www.newswest9.com/story/36295776/odessa-businessman-donates-1m-to-american-red-cross-as-they-prepare-for-more-possible-tragedy	2017-09-05
<p>Mike Vanderjagt's brief run as a middle-school soccer coach is on the ropes.</p> <p>The former <a type="internal">Indianapolis Colts</a> kicker has been suspended from that role after a March incident in which Vanderjagt allegedly grabbed a student by the throat at Charter Middle School in Marco Island, Fla.</p> (Darron Cummings/Associated Press) <p><a href="http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/may/24/prep-football-marco-charter-school-mike-vanderjagt/" type="external">The Naples Daily News reported Thursday</a> that Vanderjagt, a school parent, was investigated by police for attacking a student who taunted him with cries of "wide left, wide left" through a rolled-up piece of poster board doubling as megaphone.</p> <p>Flashback: Vanderjagt missed a game-changing field goal attempt at the end of the <a type="internal">Colts</a>' AFC Divisional playoff loss to the <a type="internal">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> in January 2006.</p> <p>According to police, Vanderjagt was crossing the school's parking lot when he heard the taunts. The student told authorities the former kicker "walked up to him, grabbed him by the throat and started cursing at him."</p> <p>Vanderjagt told police he simply placed his hand on the child's shoulder. He claimed a mouthy band of students had been issuing the insults for months. Vanderjagt admitted growing tired of the taunts.</p> <p>Police went so far as to file the incident with the State Attorney's office, which ruled that no charges would be issued against Vanderjagt.</p> <p>He has apologized to the student and currently awaits word from the school's principal about his coaching future. In the meantime, this former NFL kicker is running a pizza joint on Marco Island.</p> <p>Strange days, indeed.</p>	Mike Vanderjagt suspended from coaching gig	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82957d8b/article/mike-vanderjagt-suspended-from-coaching-gig	2012-08-03
<p>During <a type="internal">Drew Brees</a>' <a type="internal">media</a> <a type="internal">whirlwind</a> in New York on Tuesday, the <a type="internal">New Orleans Saints</a> quarterback levied yet another serious criticism of the NFL. He said that the suspended <a type="internal">Saints</a> coaches are afraid of speaking out about their situation.</p> <p>"I've been informed a lot of those coaches feel there are further sanctions being held over their head if they don't cooperate with the investigation," Brees said on The Dan Patrick Show, via ProFootballTalk. "If they were to speak out on behalf of the players, maybe that's the fear they have."</p> <p>NFL spokesman Greg Aiello has told a variety of outlets that there is simply no truth to Brees' claims.</p> <p>"Of course people are free to speak, as <a type="internal">Joe Vitt</a> has done," Aiello told Around the League on Wednesday.</p> <p>ProFootballTalk's Mike Florio <a href="http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/coaches-fear-further-sanctions-from-league-office/" type="external">reported that Sean Payton and Gregg Williams fear further retribution</a> if they say anything. As Aiello points out, <a type="internal">Saints</a> interim coach <a type="internal">Joe Vitt</a> has spoken out against the league. Vitt <a type="internal">wondered aloud</a> if NFL evidence has been tampered with.</p> <p>After Williams' indefinite suspension was announced, the league indicated that Williams' cooperation with future proceedings would be a factor in his possible reinstatement.</p> <p>"Commissioner Goodell said he will give close attention to the extent to which Coach Williams cooperates with the NFL in any further proceedings," the <a type="internal">league explained in a March 21</a> statement detailing Williams' punishment.</p> <p>Cooperating with proceedings doesn't mean Williams has to take a vow of silence. But that's essentially what he's done to this point.</p> <p>The back-and-forth between the players and the league over the bounty evidence is seemingly never-ending. We would be surprised if the coaches got involved publicly. Payton and Williams have openly apologized, admitted their mistakes, and seem to want to move past the controversy as much as possible.</p>	NFL: 'Of course' bounty coaches are 'free to speak'	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82a29d87/article/nfl-of-course-bounty-coaches-are-free-to-speak	2012-08-03
<p>You know it's an election year when the President of the United States is tweeting about the <a type="internal">NFL's referee apocalypse</a>.</p> <q> <p>NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon. -bo</p> - Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/250651756789366784" type="external">September 25, 2012</a> </q> <p>Obama's Twitter feed then pointed to a recent telephone interview with WTAM-AM in Cleveland, in which the POTUS pined for the return of locked-out officals.</p> <p>"But one thing I got to say, though, is it just me or do we have to get our regular refs back?" Obama asked WTAM's Bill Willis ( <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/171186751.html" type="external">via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>). "I can't get involved with it, but I'm just expressing my point of view as a sports fan."</p> <p>In a potentially related story, Mitt Romney has dropped Paul Ryan as his running mate in favor of <a href="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/the-huddle/2012/05/25/edx-large.jpg" type="external">Ed Hochuli</a>.</p> <p>Follow Dan Hanzus on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/danhanzus" type="external">@danhanzus</a>.</p>	President Barack Obama tweets about locked-out refs	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000066199/article/president-barack-obama-tweets-about-lockedout-refs	2012-09-27
<p>President Donald Trump took a new swipe at U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday, referring to him in a tweet as "beleaguered" and wondering why he isn't digging into Hillary Clinton's alleged contacts with Russia. (REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein) President Trump took his criticism of Jeff Sessions to a...</p> <p>good grief, you're going to always have squabbles of course the president wasn't happy that Sessions recluse himself from the Russian investigation from the Russian investigation... it's one of those situations damned if you do and damned if you don't...</p> <p>User from CA</p> <p>2017.7.25</p> <p>You will not get another ine because the democrats will not put another attorney general through Get down to business now and let all this other junk go by the way side repeal obama care and put another health care in but if you guys do not get together and quit going against each other because you want more medical</p> <p>Vicky Walters</p> <p>2017.7.25</p>	Trump taking aim at Sessions for 'weak' position on Clinton, reportedly discussing firing	false	http://www.newsbreakapp.com/news/trump-taking-aim-at-sessions-for-weak-position-on-clinton-reportedly-discussing-firing?id=08HbWHt3&s=i2	2017-07-25
<p>Vice President Biden defended <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a private email server as secretary of state</a> in an interview Thursday with “Face the Nation” moderator John Dickerson.</p> <p>Dickerson asked Biden about a lesson from his Grandfather Finnegan: “Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they’ll like what he, the public servant, has to say.”</p> <p>He asked the vice president, “Do you think that applies to Hillary Clinton’s dealing with this private server that she set up?”</p> <p>“Well, I think it’s a combination of a couple of things,” Biden replied. “One, I don’t think she understood the gravity of setting it up. She thought it was, ‘This is okay to do.’” Clinton has said she set up her private server for the sake of convenience, but she has since acknowledged that it was a mistake and that she would use the government system if she had to do it over again.</p> <p>Biden further suggested that Clinton may be a bit battle-scarred from her <a type="internal">long time in the public eye</a>, and he said that may have contributed to her initial clumsy response to the email controversy.</p> <p>“This woman has been so battered over 30 years,” Biden explained. “I think then when faced with, ‘This is a problem,’ I think instead of just cutting it and dealing with it immediately, there’s always an inclination to overthink it.”</p> <p>The vice president also weighed in on his own future after his time in the Obama administration. “I’m not going away,” he began. “Everything from this issue of violence against women, to income inequality, to the cancer ‘moonshot,’ I’m gonna devote the rest of my life to this.”</p> <p>“I have been so proud of being involved in public service that I’m not sure exactly how I’m gonna do it,” he added, “other than the structure of [the] American political system.”</p> <p>When Dickerson asked Biden what he’ll do on his final day in office, the vice president replied, “What I’m going to do is go home and begin to figure out what I do for the rest of my life.”</p> <p>More of Dickerson’s interview with the vice president will air Sunday. <a type="internal">Check your local listings for airtimes</a>.</p>	Biden: Clinton didn’t recognize “gravity” of setting up private email server	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-didnt-recognize-gravity-of-setting-up-private-email-server/	2016-10-28