[CNN] The grandson of a sitting congressman was shot to death in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Friday evening.
Jovan Wilson, 15, was shot in the head over a dispute about gym shoes in the boy's Englewood home, police said. Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat who has represented Chicago in Congress for two decades, confirmed his grandson's death Saturday.
"His father had just told me about how proud of him," Davis said at a news conference, "that he was because he was catching on and realizing that all of his life was in front of him."
Police said two people forced their way into Wilson's residence before a physical altercation ensued and an unknown male offender began to fire shots.
No suspects were immediately in jug Saturday morning, but Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police front man, said a person of interest has been identified.
Chicago Police front man Officer Jose Estrada, who earlier characterized the incident as a home invasion, said police believe it was "not a random act" and that "somebody in the residence did know the offenders."
Estrada could not confirm whether Wilson knew the suspect.
A source with knowledge of the investigation said the incident began as an argument over a personal matter related to clothing and eventually led to the victim being shot. The offenders then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
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To Stalinists the Nazis were on the right. To the rest of us both are far to the left.
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In my opinion it is immigration and the French economy that will determine the outcome of the French election. But Brexit and Donald Trump are undeniable harbingers of thing to come.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo's apparent delusion with climate change, as a political strategy, may very well be the overriding misconception that dooms her to the same fate as Hillary Clinton.
For those who may not be familiar with Marine Le Pen I think this would be an excellent introduction.
This interview took place before the U.S. election and I dearly wished at the time (and I still do) that Donald Trump would be able to enunciate these things as clearly in English as Marine Le Pen does in French.
It's about 23 minutes long but I think you will find it well worth your time.
h/t Instapundit
Now that Jeff Sessions is Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, you're going to hear a lot of people dig up old accusations that Sessions is a racist. In fact, CNN did so last night. However, between the nature of the accusations and Sessions's actual record of desegregating schools and taking on the Klan in Alabama, it strains credulity to believe that he is a racist.
These accusations all center around the bruising judicial nomination process Sessions went through in 1986. Ronald Reagan had tapped Sessions to serve on the federal bench and the Senate judiciary committee ultimately rejected him after they heard testimony that he had supposedly called the ACLU and NAACP "un-American" and "communist-inspired," as well as made racist remarks. The accusations came from Thomas Figures, a black assistant U.S. attorney who worked for Sessions who said Sessions called him "boy" and had made a joke about how he thought the KKK was "O.K. until [he] found out they smoked pot." Another prosecutor, J. Gerald Hebert, said Sessions had called a white lawyer "a disgrace to his race" for representing black clients.
There is no concrete reason to doubt Figures or Herbert. Sessions vehemently denied calling Figures "boy," but he didn't rebut the substance of some of the claims--though he asserted they were taken out of context. It's not exactly inaccurate to point out that the NAACP and ACLU were "communist-inspired." He said he thought it absurd to think he would make a pro-KKK joke considering he was prosecuting the Klan at the time he made the remark. And for what it's worth, Figures also directed accusations at a another assistant U.S. Attorney who worked with Figures. That assistant U.S. Attorney also said Figures wasn't telling the truth and defended Sessions's integrity. Ultimately, the charges were no more than hearsay.
...Sessions's actual track record certainly doesn't suggest he's a racist. Quite the opposite, in fact. As a U.S. Attorney he filed several cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. And he also prosecuted Klansman Henry Francis Hays, son of Alabama Klan leader Bennie Hays, for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. Sessions insisted on the death penalty for Hays. When he was later elected the state Attorney General, Sessions followed through and made sure Hays was executed. The successful prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan, effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.
As a U.S. attorney, he also prosecuted a group of civil rights activists, which included a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., for voter fraud in Perry County, Alabama. The case fell apart, and Sessions bluntly told me he "failed to make the case." This incident has also been used to claim that Sessions is racist--but it shouldn't be. The county has been dogged with accusations of voter fraud for decades. In 2008, state and federal officials investigated voter fraud in Perry County after "a local citizens group gathered affidavits detailing several cases in which at least one Democratic county official paid citizens for their votes, or encouraged them to vote multiple times." A detailed story in the Tuscaloosa News reported that voting patterns in one Perry County town were also mighty suspicious in 2012: "Uniontown has a population of 1,775, according to the 2010 census but, according to the Perry County board of registrars, has 2,587 registered voters. The total votes cast there Tuesday--1,431--represented a turnout of 55 percent of the number of registered voters and a whopping 80.6 percent of the town's population."
So, the man fought racists of all colors in his life?
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But he blasphemed 35 yrs ago when he uttered the verboten N word, permitted only by people of color to use, and called someone boy. Those acts of sacrilege override a lifetime of achievement because they speak of the infection of the soul that cannot be forgiven according to SJWarriors. Their own egregious racism is acceptable because by a definition they approved, they canot inherently be racist. The triumph of emotive reasoning over fact that rules the left and college campus life today. I call political BS and manipulation of the useful idiots on a national scale by the true forces of evil.....
[THEHILL] Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. (D-N.Y.) is denying he and President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... had a close relationship in the past.
"He was not my friend. We never went golfing together, even had a meal together," Schumer said in an interview with Politico published Saturday.
"He’s called me, we’ve had civil conversations a couple of times. But I’ve got to see what he does."
Schumer is set to be the Senate Democratic caucus's lead negotiator with Trump's administration.
During the campaign, Trump claimed that his relationship with Schumer would help him reach bipartisan deals as president.
"Hey look, I think I’ll be able to get along well with Chuck Schumer," Trump said in an interview with MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" in January. "I was always very good with Schumer. I was close to Schumer in many ways."
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And Schumer is not my Senate majority leader.
Thank God.
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"You gave me money, pretending I meant something to you. I took it, pretending the same."
And as long as The Trump Organization does business in New York state, those running the company will have to smile as they write checks to Senator Schumer's re-election campaign. That's the honourable senator's calculation, anyway.
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I believe there is an episode of "The Apprentice" where the apprentices are brought over to Schumer's office in NYC. Schumer tells them about the close relations he and Trump had growing up together.
Trump's father and Schumer's father were both in the construction business and worked together on many projects. The kids would play together while the parents inspected the property. There were other occasions they got together as well.
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Gov Pat McCrory is trailing Democratic challenger Roy Cooper in race
McCrory, who is trailing by nearly 6,300 votes, has not conceded
Republican's allege that dead people and felons were casting votes
If McCrory trails by 10,000 or fewer votes once final tallies are submitted, he could demand a recount
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Key element is McCrory was ahead by over 20 thousand until well after most counts were tallied, Durham county "found" 90,000 ballots that went about 70-30 for the Democrat. A Superior Court Judge was recently quoted as saying, “Durham historically hasn’t figured out how to carry out an election properly.”
examination of same-day student registrations revealed that 240 students at Duke University were living at ‘1 Duke University Road, Durham.’ no such address was located. However, did find a gravel parking lot that had about 20 cars in it and a shed.
a quick check on 30 names on the list through Social Media found that at least 60% of the names linked to a social account that identified the students as from another state.
At North Carolina Central University (NCCU), 340 students were registered to the college’s generic address of 1801 Fayetteville Road, Durham, NC.
several hundred fraudulent absentee ballots, corroborated by a forensic handwriting expert, all voting a straight Democrat ticket ... described the situation as an “absentee ballot mill,” and it was perpetuated by the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, which is funded by the North Carolina Democrat Party.
Absentee ballots require two witnesses to sign off on their authenticity, unless a notary signs as witness. The witnesses who signed off on these ballots have all received financial compensation from the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, for “Get Out the Vote” efforts, according to financial disclosures.
That's just TWO counties and a thousand or more improper or forged ballots. There are allegedly irregularities in 50 or more of the 100 counties, most of them Democrat strongholds, enough to swing local races and in aggregate enough to swing the state wide races.
And remember this Democrat Cooper is the one that had the VoterID Law in North Carolina suspended before voting began and has fought all fraud prevention efforts in that state as the Attorney General.
How convenient on all those accounts.
Thank God Trump managed to exceed the margin of cheating and win the state. Think how much wider his margin of winning was if you get rid of the fraud Hillary votes!
Democrat-dominated Durham county, where 94,000 ballots were manually entered into the system late on election night, which put Cooper ahead of McCrory.
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...In hindsight, this was the race where we should have expected the Dems to really run up the black flag, show no mercy, and give no quarter - McCrory literally spat in their face with the bathroom laws, and made it clear he wasn't backing down. IMHO, as far as they were concerned they HAD to win this one. On top of that, the MSM ignored the fact that the social beating NC was taking wasn't getting them to think twice but rather making a lot of people dig in who would otherwise might have been urging popular opinion towards a compromise/repeal.
Perhaps our new AG-designate might mention that elections like this need, perhaps, a quick look from the new DOJ. Might end this right quick.
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Isn't Michigan still holding out on certifying the Nov 8 vote as they wait for their bulk printed ballots to be delivered from North Korea?
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'Dead people and felons' - the usual Democrat constituencies.
Of course, this is a swamp that needs drained too and if they self drain... WINNING!
If this works I'd move Sessions to a new department every six months...
Donald Trump's decision to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general is being met with alarm at the Justice Department's civil rights division and could trigger an exodus there, former officials said Friday.
Longtime lawyers in the unit that enforces voting rights laws, conducts investigations into alleged police abuses and prosecutes hate crimes were already on edge about what Trump's victory would mean for their mission, but the selection of Sessions pushed those fears to another level, former officials said.
"If there was a level above DEFCON One, it would be that," said Sam Bagenstos, who was the civil rights division's No. 2 official from 2009 to 2011. "Jeff Sessions has a unique and uniquely troubled history with the civil rights division. ... From the perspective of the work of the enforcement of civil rights, I think the Sessions pick is a particularly troublesome one ‐ more than anyone else you can think of."
The concern at the Justice Department's anti-discrimination unit stems largely from the same accounts of alleged racist remarks and racially tinged incidents that emerged when Sessions was nominated to a district court judgeship in 1986. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard a black lawyer testify that Sessions referred to him as "boy," and another attorney testify that Sessions said about the Ku Klux Klan that he thought the group was "OK, until I heard that they smoked pot."
Sessions said that was a joke and he denied allegations that he'd used an ugly racial epithet. But his nomination was voted down 10-8, only the second time that had happened in half a century.
However, the grievances many of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers have with Sessions go beyond his language to his actions as U.S. attorney in Mobile, where he unsuccessfully prosecuted black civil rights leaders on charges of ballot-tampering.
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Sessions pick as AG could spark exodus from civil rights division
They say it like it's a bad thing.
Mike
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Huge exodus from the Civil Rights Division? That can only be a good thing. CRD is not about civil rights.
BTW, I recall Dirty Harry Reid suspended cloture in the Senate (nuke option) so that only 51 votes were needed to pass or stop legislation in the Senate and to confirm cabinet appointees. Sessions ought to breeze through confirmation with 51 votes in a Trump administration.
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The Dems will try to Bork him, but there's no Teddy "Ladykiller" Kennedy left
And they no longer have a monopoly on the information stream to the public.
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Amazing that their complaint about him is he treated people as equal before the law. They wanted "black civil rights leaders" to be free to falsify elections.
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"It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature!"
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.
[THEHILL] Incoming Senate Democratic Leader 
