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Tulsa police officer who shot Terence Crutcher acquitted by jury
Post Date: 2017-05-18 20:29:21 by Tooconservative
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Betty Jo Shelby, the Tulsa police officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher last year was acquitted by a jury Wednesday. The case became national news in part because Officer Shelby is white and Crutcher was black and unarmed at the time of the shooting. From the Associated Press: The family of Terence Crutcher burst into tears and expressed outrage after jurors found Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby not guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 16 shooting. About 100 demonstrators later gathered outside the courthouse and some briefly blocked a main street. “Let it be known that I believe in my heart that Betty Shelby got away with murder,” Crutcher’s father, the ...
A Victory for School Reform in Los Angeles
Post Date: 2017-05-18 19:21:08 by Tooconservative
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Contentious school board elections in Los Angeles served up a dramatic victory for education reformers in a district, the second-largest in the nation, that has long been dominated by teachers unions' hand-selected board members. Nick Melvoin, right, and his brother Charlie on election night. With victories for pro-reform school board contenders Nick Melvoin—who unseated longtime board president Steve Zimmer—and Kelly Gonez on Tuesday, the balance of power shifted to a 4-3 majority in favor of reform measures like increased school choice, the elimination of seniority-based pay and protection for public school teachers, and the shuttering of failing schools. The city's ...
Rosenstein knew Comey would be fired before writing memo, Dem senators say
Post Date: 2017-05-18 19:01:24 by misterwhite
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein knew that FBI Director James Comey would be removed before he penned a now-famous memo that was cited by the White House as rationale for the firing, Democratic senators said Thursday after a briefing with the senior DOJ official. Rosenstein, who a day earlier named a special counsel to oversee the Russia probe that Comey was helping lead before his ouster, briefed all U.S. senators on Capitol Hill Thursday. Coming out of that briefing, lawmakers said Rosenstein revealed that President Trump’s decision preceded his letter. “He knew that Comey was going to be removed prior to him writing his memo,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., ...
Report: Jared Kushner to Play ‘Key Role’ in Overhaul of Trump Team
Post Date: 2017-05-18 18:18:31 by cranky
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Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close advisor Jared Kushner is expected to play a “key role” in an overhaul of the president’s team, according to a report from The Washington Post. “If and when Trump does overhaul his team, Jared Kushner is expected to play a key role in rethinking the structure and personnel within the West Wing.” “If and when Trump does overhaul his team, Jared Kushner is expected to play a key role in rethinking the structure and personnel within the West Wing.” Restructuring his team is just one of a number of delicate problems that Trump expects Kushner to solve. Other tasks include resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, ...
Times Square driver ... was apparenTly high on synThetic marijuana (K2) --- aT Time of pedesTrian crash
Post Date: 2017-05-18 17:06:13 by BorisY
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Sources: Times Square driver was apparently high on synthetic marijuana (K2) at time of pedestrian crash TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police said the Bronx man who drove his car down a crowded sidewalk in Times Square Thursday was apparently high on synthetic marijuana. Law enforcement sources told Eyewitness News 26-year-old Richard Rojas appeared extremely impaired after the crash. It's believed he had been smoking the drug, also known as K2, prior to the crash that killed a tourist and injured 22 others. Initial tests have come back negative for alcohol but positive for drugs. Blood tests are underway to check for the presence of synthetic marijuana or PCP among other ...
Free Repubic Is Down!
Post Date: 2017-05-18 15:31:38 by HomerBohn
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We can only wonder what happened to the perpetual alms begging website! I regret every stinking dollar I donated to this money gobbling machine. Of course the bucks go to pay the marvelous 'moderators' who don't moderate, but rather censor every damned thing that's written. If it fits their fancy it's allowed to be seen by others. It's today's gestapo posing as a gaggle of conservatives.
Trump's mental health 'keeps getting worse'
Post Date: 2017-05-18 11:56:34 by Willie Green
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Concerns over Donald Trump’s mental status are taking hold in Washington and the media after the latest report that he leaked classified information to Russian officials. Reporters and television news programme pundits have been diving into comments from sources close to the president that speak to his mental health and mood in a way that has not been done with other presidents. However, the recent news about Mr Trump is also somewhat unprecedented. The Washington Post recently reported that Mr Trump revealed “highly classified” information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak during a meeting in the Oval Office. The meeting ...
Comey Under Oath: ‘Have Not Experienced Any Requests to Stop FBI Investigations’
Post Date: 2017-05-18 10:17:01 by cranky
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The debate about former FBI Director James Comey’s alleged memo about President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the agency’s investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn showed up on Twitter Wednesday. A reporter tweeted that Comey denied any interference in the agency’s investigations while under oath at a Senate hearing earlier this month. Jack Posobiec, Washington Bureau Chief for The Rebel.media, tweeted about it on Wednesday. Although Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) didn’t specifically ask about Trump in the question she posed to Comey, the inquiry was about whether or not he had experienced having a higher authority stop an FBI ...
BREAKING NEWS: Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has died, aged 77, less than one year after resigning from the station he founded amid sexual harrassment scandal
Post Date: 2017-05-18 08:48:59 by cranky
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Roger Ailes has died at the age of 77, his wife Elizabeth revealed in a statement on Thursday Roger Ailes has died aged 77, according to his wife. The founder and former Chairman and CEO of Fox News's death comes less than a year after he resigned from the company over allegations of sexual harassment. His wife Elizabeth, with whom he has one son, released the following statement to Matt Drudge: 'I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning. Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. 'He was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity ...
Muslim Cleric Faces Backlash After Saying Muhammad Was Originally Christian
Post Date: 2017-05-18 08:25:29 by cranky
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p>TEL AVIV – Muslim preacher Mostafa Rashed, considered by many to be the highest authority on Islam in Australia, has sparked a storm of criticism by saying on television that the Islamic prophet Muhammad was a Christian until age 40. He further stated that Muhammad was the assistant to a Christian preacher named Waraqa Bin Nofal. On a show on the LTC television station, Rashed claimed that Khadija, Muhammad’s first wife, was also Christian. Rashed stated that Muhammad was married to Khadija before his divine revelations and his marriage to a Christian is further proof that he was a Christian himself. Another religious scholar from Al-Azhar University participated in the ...
Trump Considering Joe Lieberman for FBI Director: Spicer
Post Date: 2017-05-18 07:25:22 by HomerBohn
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President Donald Trump is considering former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to lead the FBI, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Wednesday. Trump will meet Wednesday with Lieberman and other candidates, including acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, and former top FBI official Richard McFeely, Spicer added. During a briefing on Air Force One en route to Washington, D.C. from New London, Connecticut, where Trump delivered a commencement address to Coast Guard cadets, Spicer said "the president will continue to meet with candidates for FBI director." But a senior administration official tells NBC News that this is the first ...
John Kerry Admits: “WTC 7 on 9/11 was Brought Down in a Controlled Fashion”
Post Date: 2017-05-18 06:03:44 by Deckard
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What do you believe of 9/11? You “know” that two planes crashed into the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center. One plane hit the Pentagon, and another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Combined, over 3,000 Americans died on September 11, 2001, in an apparent terror attack on the United States by 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists. Unfortunately, what you are made to believe and what you know is a lie. There is evidence that 9/11 was a controlled demolition planned and executed by the United States’ president George W. Bush as a false flag operation, as a pretext for launching the so-called War on Terror. The European Scientific Journal, which analyzed the ...
‘The Drug Whisperer’ | Drivers arrested while stone cold sober
Post Date: 2017-05-18 05:59:16 by Deckard
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Drunk driving arrests are down sharply after decades of aggressive enforcement, while drugged driving arrests are climbing. Georgia now has more than 250 officers with special ‘drug recognition expert’ training. But 11Alive News Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe discovered some drivers are getting arrested for driving stoned — even when their drug tests came back clean. Cobb County Police Officer T.T. Carroll: “You said you haven’t had anything to drink tonight?”Katelyn Ebner: “Not tonight, no.”Officer Carroll: “Not tonight, okay. One of the things we do is we ask people to blow through this thing, okay.” Katelyn Ebner crossed the ...
The Drug War Escalation Is Cruel and Stupid
Post Date: 2017-05-18 05:46:08 by Deckard
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions's order to prosecutors to seek maximum sentences is wrongheaded.President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for drug-related crimes. This is both cruel and stupid.It's cruel because Session's 5,000 prosecutors must now push for long jail sentences even for people who pose no violent threat and for some who are utterly innocent. It's stupid because it will cost America a fortune but won't make us safer. The U.S. already locks up more people than any other country. We have 4 percent of the world's population but more than 20 percent of the world's prisoners. This ...
Media Hysteria: WaPo Treats Kevin McCarthy Joke as Proof of Trump-Russia Link
Post Date: 2017-05-17 20:45:00 by cranky
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The Washington Post released the latest salvo in the media’s effort to take down President Donald Trump on Wednesday: a joke made last year by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin pays Trump. The joke occurred during a private conversation involving the House Republican leadership. The conversation was recorded. The exchange — from the transcript alone, since the Post has not made the audio available — is as follows: McCarthy: The Russians hacked the DNC and got the opp research that they had on Trump. McCarthy: laughs [Crosstalk] Ryan: The Russian’s hacked the DNC… McHenry: …to get oppo… Ryan: ...
Special Prosecutor For Trump/Russia Investigation Is A Disaster
Post Date: 2017-05-17 20:09:06 by cranky
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The Trump Administration may never recover from the decision of Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein to cave into Democratic pressure and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the totally fictitious “scandal” of Trump’s relationship with Putin. The prosecutor, hired to investigate something that never happened, will not report Trump’s innocence. Special prosecutors never do. They justify their own existence, importance, budget, and staff by finding something to prosecute. Usually the “crime” they end up going after is one that his own investigation has created. Remember the Valerie Plame affair? After years of work the special prosecutor found that no ...
They Want to Destroy Trump & America
Post Date: 2017-05-17 19:56:40 by U don't know me
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They Want to Destroy Trump & America-Gregory Mannarino By Greg Hunter On May 17, 2017 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Analyst/trader Gregory Mannarino says America is in conflict with itself. Mannarino explains, “We have a President who gets it. He’s obviously not a socialist, and there is no doubt this man has the back of America. . . . There is a literal war going on right now between political parties here. This is a deliberate effort by some to destabilize our country, to bring America to its knees from the inside. They want to basically throw this country into some kind of third world situation, and I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think there are ...
Experts: No Case Against Trump
Post Date: 2017-05-17 19:18:26 by cranky
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While the GOP establishment, Democrats, and media have the knives out for President Donald Trump after his firing of ex-FBI Director James Comey—and the subsequent leaks from Comey associates portraying alleged conversations between the two—legal experts are skeptical that there is any case to be made for an “obstruction of justice.” Professor emeritus at Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz writes in the New York Daily News that “on balance, the obstruction case against President Trump is not strong, as a matter of law”: In more recent times, Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson interacted with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. It is only in subsequent ...
Former FBI Director Mueller to lead Trump-Russia probe
Post Date: 2017-05-17 18:31:49 by cranky
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The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. The appointment came amid a growing Democratic outcry for someone outside the Justice Department to handle the politically charged investigation. It followed the revelation Tuesday that fired FBI Director James Comey had written in a memo that Trump, in a February meeting in the Oval Office, had asked him to end an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The White House has denied that account. Mueller was appointed FBI ...
Trump considering former Sen. Joe Lieberman for FBI director: Spicer
Post Date: 2017-05-17 16:47:43 by cranky
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President Trump will interview four candidates for FBI director — including former independent senator Joe Lieberman and the acting head of the bureau, Andrew McCabe — White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday. Trump will also meet with Frank Keating, a former Oklahoma governor, and Richard McFeely, a former top FBI agent, Spicer said during a briefing on Air Force One as Trump returned to Washington after speaking at the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. The interviews come a week after the president abruptly fired former FBI Director James Comey, who was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump campaign officials ...
Donald Trump: ‘I Didn’t Get Elected to Serve the Washington Media’
Post Date: 2017-05-17 14:28:20 by cranky
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President Donald Trump defied media coverage of his presidency, vowing to keep fighting for the people who elected him president. “Look at the way I’ve been treated lately especially by the media,” Trump said. “No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.” The president made his remarks during his commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, offering his advice to the graduates. “You will find that thing happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted, but you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight.” Trump said. “Never ever, ever give up. ...
John McCain: Comey Leaks ‘of Watergate Size and Scale’
Post Date: 2017-05-17 14:08:30 by cranky
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Longtime Trump opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) added his voice to the chorus of alarm Tuesday in the wake of a New York Times report on an alleged memo from ex-FBI Director James Comey. “We’ve seen this movie before,” McCain told CBS News’s Bob Schieffer. “I think it’s reaching the point where it’s of Watergate size and scale… it’s a centipede that the shoe continues to drop.” “Every couple of days, there’s a new aspect of this really unhappy situation… None of us, no matter what our political leanings are, no matter how we feel about Trump, feel this is not good for America,” McCain added. The comments are the ...
Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump
Post Date: 2017-05-17 12:24:18 by cranky
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Current and former U.S. officials, supposedly concerned that President Trump had shared some “highly classified information” with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S. last week, leaked that information to the Washington Post in an article published Monday. However, the report admits that it is “unlikely” Trump broke any laws. “As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law,” the report said. In addition, his national security adviser, who was at the meeting, told the Post nothing was shared that was not already publicly known. “At no time were any ...
WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning released from prison: army
Post Date: 2017-05-17 12:19:14 by cranky
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Fort Leavenworth (United States) (AFP) – Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US history, was released from prison Wednesday, a US Army spokeswoman said. Manning “has been released from the United States Disciplinary Barracks” at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in a brief statement. In July 2010, Manning — then a male soldier known as Bradley — was arrested over the release of a huge trove of more than 700,000 classified military and diplomatic documents via WikiLeaks. Manning, now 29, was serving a 35-year sentence for the leak but president Barack Obama commuted her ...
GOP wall around Trump is starting to crack
Post Date: 2017-05-17 12:12:30 by Willie Green
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After a week of tumult and negative news, the protective Republican wall around President Donald Trump is starting to crack. Leading Republican politicians are becoming more vocal in their complaints, while networks are struggling to find Republicans willing to go on-air to defend the president. The cracks come after a trio of bombshells. The first was Trump's controversial firing of FBI Director James Comey last week. He was let go while he was overseeing an investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials to swing the November presidential election in Trump's favor. Next were reports on Monday that Trump had disclosed highly classified ...
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