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There is much work to be done: white privileged classes created, checks to the reverends (Al and Jesse), marketing to lure new capitalists suckers to rebuild in burnt out lots, more teachers, more voter registration programs.....
While we are asking how about a new sports stadium?
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"We gave those who wish to destroy, a space to do that....now we're requesting that your tax dollars be used to re-build that space" who could argue with that? If you do, you're a racist.
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Baltimore has been around since 1729 - they should havew been around long enough to "get it right"
Then again, they've had a Democratic Party mayor continuously since 1967 - so it rightfully should be a disaster area. Perhaps "sister city for Detroit (whose last Republican mayor left office in 1962).
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Israeli soldier who was tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! earlier this week for eating a non-kosher sandwich has been sprung after the army agreed to release him following a wave of public pressure.
The soldier, who recently immigrated to Israel from America, was initially tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for 11 days after eating a sandwich containing pork, which is forbidden by Jewish dietary law, public radio reported.
But news of his punishment spread quickly on social media, sparking a public outcry which prompted the army to revoke the punishment, admitting it had made a mistake.
"The bottom line is that we were wrong," wrote army front man Brigadier General Moti Almoz on his official Facebook page on Tuesday.
"The punishment which was given to the soldier was cancelled and he will be released home," he said.
"On the one hand, the IDF (army) will continue to keep kosher but we not poke our noses into soldiers' sandwiches," he wrote acknowledging there were tensions within Israeli society but saying the army had a "place for everyone."
Public radio said the offending sandwich was given to him by his grandmother who lives on a kibbutz and who had offered to take his place in jail.
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When I was growing up, we had a jewish neighbor who was married to a highly orthodox wife. He had a deal with my dad that whenever we were having ham or BBQ'ed pork my dad would leave a red rag hanging on the fence out front, and Benny would need to stop in and 'ask' about something.
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[Daily Caller] Senior IRS officials set up a special internal committee after congressional investigators sent information requests to the IRS's two White House political appointees to investigate conservative and tea party non-profit applicants.
Mary Howard, the IRS's director of privacy, governmental liaison and disclosure division, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Wednesday she never saw any of the information requests because the requests were forwarded to the special committee. Howard is also the tax agency's chief Freedom of Information Act officer.
"I think Lois Lerner was just the tip of the iceberg," Howard said. Correct, she was the agency focal point or 'go-to' person. The decision to engage specific targets would have likely been made by someone much higher up the regime's food chain than Lerner.
"You're telling me your group doesn't get that?" Republican Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz asked. "Do you realize that there are only two political appointees in the IRS, the commissioner and the chief counsel?"
Chaffetz pressed Howard on White House involvement in screening documents related to the scandal. He held up an April 2009 memo from President Barack Obama that required agencies to send any requested documents to the White House that held "White House equities."
Since those information requests never went to her department, Howard couldn't tell the Oversight Committee who had to sign off on the release of any documents related to Lerner or the nonprofit targeting.
Chaffetz also said the committee had to subpoena the IRS for Howard's presence at the hearing.
"We will drag the IRS up here every single week if we have to," Chaffetz said. "You work for the American people."
"If the IRS went after an individual ... there's no way you'd put up with this," he continued.
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Today, using the police and taxation power of the state to stifle the first amendment rights of those who wish to limit the size and cost of the public sector and their magic paychecks.
Tomorrow?
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Cut their funding another 15 - 20%; make 'em squeal like pigs.
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Updated: A spokesman for the rebel Battalion "Vostok" said today that their units were not involved in the figthing in Marinka. Reference to Vostok Battalion removed.
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A late night Tuesday attack by rebel units on the western Donetsk city suburb of Markinka was driven back with losses for the rebels said to be "heavy", according to Russian language news accounts.
Russian military journalist and analyst Boris Rozhin said on his Live Journal blog that losses for the rebels in the area were heavy with at least 14 killed in action (KIA) and about 90 wounded.
A news account on tsensor.net, a pro Ukrainian news website said that KIAs for the Ukrainian amounted to one, with wounded totaling 19. Rozhin disputed that number, but did not venture a guess as to his estimate of Ukrainian KIAs.
Rebel officials deny the fighting in Marinka was an attack, saying the action was intended as a response to near constant Ukrainian artillery fire on civilians in rebel areas.
According to a news account on tsensor.net by Yuri Butusov, the rebel attack including elements of the Donetsk "Somaliya"and "Ryazhan" battalions, struck Ukrainian positions at Marinka, Krasnogorovka and another locality at around 0410 hrs. The positions were held by the Ukrainian 28th Mechanized Brigade "Odessa".
According to Butusov, rebels used tanks and troops classified as assault troops supported by artillery on positions of the brigade's 2nd Battalion, using heavy artillery fire support including 122mm and 152mm artillery.
When the attack hit it was strong enough to eject one rifle platoon from its positions, forcing it into a tactical retreat, but attempts by rebel troops to press further to the west were stopped by relief forces of the brigade's 1st Battalion.
Another Ukrainian volunteer unit deployed to the area was hit by the rebel attack, the "Kiev-1" battalion. Rebels claim this unit simply broke.
Rebel reconnaissance units attempted to filter further west supported by heavy artillery fire, but were stopped by Ukrainian artillery counterfire.
The brigade's commander, Colonel Leszczynski, in response to the attack, also brought forward two self propelled artillery batteries, one rocket artillery battery, as well as elements of the brigades tank battalion.
According to other reports, rebel forces involved in the attack also used rocket artillery to such an effect that parts of Marinka were set alight.
According to a post by Rozhin, rebel tanks units occupied Ukrainian positions within an hour of the start of the attack, and held those positions until the Ukrainian relief forces, on a road march from Kurakhovo, closed in on their positions.
It was then that rebel tanks closed on the Ukrainian column, a battle took place and rebel forces withdrew from Marinka.
Rozhin remarked that Ukrainian KIAs may have been as high as 40.
According to remarks by Donetsk Ministry of Defense spokesman Lt. Colonel Eduard Basurin, the attack was in response to Ukrainian shelling of rebel controlled mines, presumably to mean the rebel attacks were spoiling attacks, pressed as a response to Ukrainian artillery fire on civilian occupied areas.
According to the latest reports, the Ukrainians are saying the situation in Marinka has been restored with no loss of territory to rebel forces.
Fighting near Mariupol
Exchange of artillery and direct fire weapons continued between the two combatants around the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol, especially near Shirokino and points north.
According to rebel reports, on Tuesday Ukrainian rocket artillery struck rebel positions near Shirokino, Berdyanskoye and near Sakhanka to the north. Rebels say Ukrainian artillery units deployed at Talakovka fired the artillery.
Rebel media also said that Ukrainian artillery at Mariupol itself hit rebel targets at Dzerzhinskoye Tuesday afternoon. The village was emptied as residents left to find shelter.
Ukrainian media claimed that rebel 152mm artillery hit Ukrainian troops clinging to the western sectors of Shirokino Wednesday evening.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
[DailySignal] A poll by John McLaughlin confirms again we may have a significant problem with noncitizens participating illegally in our elections. Based on a sample survey of 800 Hispanics in 2013, McLaughlin found that of foreign-born respondents who were registered voters, 13 percent admitted they were not United States citizens.
In our 2012 book on voter fraud, John Fund and I noted numerous cases of noncitizen registration and voting all over the country. Only a month ago, the Board of Immigration Appeals of the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Justice Department held that a Peruvian citizen who illegally registered and voted in the 2006 congressional election could be deported for violating federal law. The only reason she was caught is because she applied for naturalization in 2007 and admitted in the INS interview that she had voted in an American election.
In 2014, a study released by three professors at Old Dominion University and George Mason University, based on survey data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, estimated 6.4 percent of noncitizens voted illegally in the 2008 presidential election and 2.2 percent voted in the 2010 midterm congressional elections.
Since 80 percent of noncitizens vote Democratic, according to the study, noncitizen participation could have "been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes [in North Carolina in 2008], and Congressional elections" such as the 2008 race in Minnesota in which Al Franken was elected to the U.S. Senate, giving "Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote" to pass Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... . The Old Dominion/George Mason study was sharply attacked by progressive critics, but the mounting evidence makes clear this is a real problem.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) leader Ali Ameen Gandapur had manhandled female polling staff and police officials in his early morning visit to Himad polling station a day after local government polls were held in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , according to police report.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Israeli soldier who was 
[Daily Caller] Senior IRS officials set up a special internal committee after congressional investigators sent information requests to the IRS's two White House political appointees to investigate conservative and tea party non-profit applicants.
[DailySignal] A poll by John McLaughlin confirms again we may have a significant problem with noncitizens participating illegally in our elections. Based on a sample survey of 800 Hispanics in 2013, McLaughlin found that of foreign-born respondents who were registered voters, 13 percent admitted they were not United States citizens.
