[Daily Caller] A black man has been arrested in connection with a string of racist graffiti incidents at Eastern Michigan University that were protested by students on campus last fall.
Eddie Curlin, 29, was arraigned Monday, Oct. 23, in Washtenaw County District Court on three counts of malicious destruction of property, four counts of identity theft and one count of using computers to commit a crime, reports MLive.
The charges are related to three incidents of vandalism that appeared to be targeting the black community at EMU. In September 2016, EMU discovered "KKK" and "Leave N***ers" spray painted in red, white, and blue paint on a wall in the courtyard of Julia Anne King Hall.
In late October, the administration found another "Leave N***ers" message painted in black on Ford Hall. A third incident took place last spring in a men’s restroom.
[Daily Caller] The House of Representative’s top lawyer filed a 50-page motion late Monday slamming Fusion GPS for trying to hide its bank records that could show who paid for its "Trump Dossier" ‐ a document containing unsubstantiated and derogatory information about President Donald Trump.
The salacious dossier was publicly released on Jan. 10 by BuzzFeed and caused an immediate uproar.
The House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee issued its subpoena for the bank records, held by TD Bank, on Oct. 4.
Fusion GPS, the political opposition firm that authorized and paid for the anti-Trump dossier from former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele, went into federal court Oct. 20 to stop the subpoena. The firm now is seeking a temporary restraining order to block it.
The latest Progressive moral panic is having some interesting victims. They've really shot themslves in the foot with this one.
[FREEBEACON] One of the top labor figures in the Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign on Monday resigned from his senior position at the Service Employees International Union amid complaints about his sexual conduct toward staffers.
Scott Courtney's resignation as executive vice president of the SEIU and a member of the union comes a week after SEIU President Mary Kay Henry suspended him based on preliminary information from an internal investigation.
SEIU spokesperson Sahar Wali issued a statement on the resignation, quoting Henry's previous comments on the matter.
"There is no place in our organization for conduct that violates our Code of Ethics," Henry said. "Such conduct does not reflect who we are or represent the values that guide the important work we do every day for working people, our families, and communities."
"The internal investigation will continue and President Henry has taken additional steps to ensure that, across our union, all staff are respected, their contributions are valued, and their voices are heard," Wali said.
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The latest Progressive moral panic is having some interesting victims. They've really shot themselves in the foot with this one.
Guess they never read about Pandora's box. You demand perfection of others, you better be perfect yourself. Oops. A couple thousand years of history and human nature hasn't changed.
We are talking 70 kt winds and 54 foot or higher waves in the Western Aleutians and the Bering Sea. This is the end phase of Post-Tropical Hurricane Force Storm Lan. Click on the title to see the quite intimidating weather charts. Hat tip: gCaptain.
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They could, but it's far more likely that they could not. I'm calling bullshit.
[Breitbart] Identitarian movement activists unveiled a large banner on Westminster Bridge Monday morning, their anti-Islamification message facing directly onto Britain’s Houses of Parliament.
The banner, which read besides the movement’s name and lambda symbol ’Defend London Stop Islamisation’, is the latest in a string of Identitarian stunts across European cities, bringing attention to the anti-mass migration cause of the group.
A statement posted to social media by the group immediately after the action explained the symbolism of the location for the stunt. The group said: "On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place on Westminster Bridge. The Islamist inspired attack killed 5 people and injured more than 50.
"London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, believes that the threat of terror attacks are "part and parcel of living in a big city". On the contrary, we think that the source of islamisation lies in mass immigration, which must be stopped."
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Toasted and raped. Porkoranimal invasion. After centuries of fight back, the Europe future Dhimmis simply Islamic hordes they simply open the floodgates.
Charles Martel is spinning in his grave. At 200,000 RPMs.
[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ President Trump said on Monday that he would oppose any effort to reduce the amount of pretax income that American workers can save in 401(k) retirement accounts, effectively killing an idea that Republicans were mulling as a way to help pay for a $1.5 trillion tax cut.
The directive, issued via Twitter, underscored a growing fear among Republicans and business lobbyists that Mr. Trump’s bully-pulpit whims could undermine the party’s best chance to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.
Overhauling the tax code was never going to be easy given that it requires targeting lucrative and politically popular tax breaks to mitigate the magnitude of cuts Republicans are envisioning. Lawmakers must mitigate the revenue loss from those tax cuts in order to avoid a Democratic filibuster and pass a bill along party lines.
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Doesn't mean it woun't happen. It means that it's a bargaining chip.
Trump always establishes a negotiating position past where he want's to end up. You have to be prepared to give something away in negotiations.
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Saving a little money is always a good thing. Putting money into gov't structured IRA's and 401k's is also a good thing as long as your remember that the gov't can change the rules.
In retail it's sometimes referred to as 'bait and switch.'
[Ynet] The mayor of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's capital says he is resigning, apparently succumbing to weeks of pressure from President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek announced after a meeting with Erdogan on Monday that he would step down Saturday.
Gokcek is the fifth elected mayor from Erdogan's party to leave office under pressure from the president. Erdogan has said he wants to "rejuvenate" his party and replace officials he claims suffer from "fatigue." The mayor of Istanbul resigned last month.
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Prolly didn't want to wait around and find he'd won Gulenist of the Week.
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Early intervention via weekly home health care visits is exactly the kind of thing that should be handled at the local community or local charity level, not the national government. Especially not the national government of Britain, which is what the article, reprinted from the Telegraph, is advocating.
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obviously cutting child benefits and thus stopping fertility redistribution away from good parents and towards feckless surprised parents is the answer.
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration is coming under increased pressure from Congress to kill a landmark deal between Boeing and an Iranian airline known for engaging in terrorism over concerns the Western airline company would enable Tehran's transfer of militant fighters across the region, according to multiple sources, who told the Washington Free Beacon the administration is likely to nix the multi-billion dollar deal.
The Obama administration's nuclear agreement with Iran paved the way for U.S. aerospace corporation Boeing to ink a deal with Iran's state-controlled airline, Iran Air, which was recently caught using its commercial planes to ferry Iranian militants to regional hotspots.
The Trump administration's recent decision to increase economic pressure on Iran and rework the nuclear agreement has prompted a shift in thinking on the Boeing sales, which require special licenses from the Treasury Department to move forward, according to U.S. officials and those in Congress who are familiar with the shift in thinking on the issue.
Spoiler alert - it does not look like it's a coloring book...
Colin Kaepernick has inked a book deal worth just over $1 million with Random House imprint One World, Page Six has exclusively learned.
One World’s headed by book world superstar Chris Jackson, who also publishes Jay-Z and Ta-Nehisi Coates. He launched One World last year.
Ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Kaepernick launched the current movement of NFL players protesting during the national anthem, and he’s recently filed a controversial collusion grievance against league owners. He’s still looking for a job in the NFL after opting out of his 49ers contract earlier this year. Suing your employer when you're looking for a job with one of their teams is exactly how I go about finding gainful employment!
Working title - 'Anti-American Protests To Book Deal In Three Easy Steps.
[Free Beacon] The National Park Service told the Washington Free Beacon it is no longer providing funding for a controversial project "honoring the legacy" of the Black Panther Party after outrage that the agency would spend taxpayer dollars to memorialize a group that murdered a park ranger in the 1970s.
The Free Beacon revealed last month that the Park Service gave roughly $100,000 to the University of California, Berkeley for a research project on the Marxist extremist group to "memorialize a history that brought meaning to lives far beyond the San Francisco Bay Area."
"Committed to truthfully honoring the legacy of [Black Panther Party] BPP activists and the San Francisco Bay Area communities they served, the project seeks to document the lives of activists and elders and the landscapes that shaped the movement," the National Park Service stated in the grant awarded for the project.
A captain in the Black Panther Party murdered National Park Service ranger Kenneth Patrick while he was on patrol near San Francisco in 1973. Patrick was shot three times by Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr., who is currently serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. Patrick left behind a widow and three children.
[ChicagoTribune] Police are investigating allegations that a Des Plaines man threatened to lynch U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson in a racist Facebook post.
But Tom Keevers, 54, says an anonymous "meme-maker" put words in his mouth and that he and his family are now getting death threats.
Screen grabs of a post purportedly made on Keevers’ Facebook page went viral over the weekend after they were shared nearly 4,000 times on Twitter. The alleged post is the subject of a Des Plaines police investigation, Cmdr. Chris Mierzwa said.
The alleged post, which appears to have been captured in an iPhone screen grab, targets Wilson, who has been involved in a high-profile fight with the White House since she gave a deeply unflattering account of a phone call President Donald Trump made to Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger.
It shows Keevers’ name, photo and location in Des Plaines, a photograph of Wilson and the words, "Need ten good men to help carry out a lynching. Must have own horse and saddle. Rope will be provided."
Another purported screen grab appears to show a post on Keevers’ page that states, "This congresswomen (sic) is a disgusting pig. Someone should take their boot to her face."
During a lengthy phone interview Monday, Keevers initially told Chicago Inc. that he had not threatened to lynch Wilson, but that he last week got into a "fast and furious" argument with strangers "that got out of control" on Facebook about Wilson, who he said was "using the death of an American soldier for politics." Keevers said he deleted the thread because "there was some disgusting language" in it that he didn’t like. Somebody ‐ he doesn’t know who, he said‐ later made a "meme" to dishonestly suggest he had called for Wilson’s lynching as part of a "thought-out attack," he said.
He said the alleged lynching threat was "not something that should be said" but described it as "a joke, as I read it."
"I don’t have 10 horses either," he said.
"Don’t people get in arguments on Facebook all the time?" he added. Facebook. The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
Later, though, Keevers said he "cannot remember" whether he threatened to lynch Wilson and that it was possible someone had taken some of his words "and made them into a meme."
Keevers then returned to his more definitive statement. "I did not use those words," he said.
He initially said several times that police had not contacted him about the post, but later, after being told by a reporter that Des Plaines police were investigating, he said a Des Plaines officer had called him simply to check on his welfare after he and his family received threats. "There is no investigation," he insisted. Mierzwa declined to respond beyond his statement that the post is being investigated.
By Monday, Keevers’ Facebook page was no longer open to public comments. Many posts insulting liberals and supporting Trump remained, however, as well as several posts about Johnson. One, a meme, read, "I really don’t mind being called a bigot, racist, close minded (sic), redneck, backwoods... heard them all by now and use (sic) to it... still better than being called a liberal."
Threatening a member of Congress is a federal crime that can carry a sentence of up to five years in prison. Asked about Keevers’ alleged post, the U.S. Capitol Police on Monday said it does "not comment on open investigations."
But Keevers told Inc. that Des Plaines police promised him there was "nothing for me to worry about."
"People threaten Donald Trump all the time and nothing happens," he said. "I don’t think a lot about what I write on Facebook."
Keevers appeared in the Tribune under happier circumstances in 2003, when the FBI honored him and two other civilians for their bravery in capturing a bank robbery suspect.
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At a family reunion years ago, two cousins from different sides of the law, agreed on one thing: "Never say anything out loud that you would hate to hear repeated to a grand jury." Sage advice.
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[Wash Times] Federal taxpayer funding generally isn’t allowed to be spent on abortions, but Republicans say they have spotted a loophole in which tax-free municipal bonds have been used to put federal cash on the line in order to help build abortion clinics ‐ including Planned Parenthood’s headquarters in New York.
Rep. Robert Pittenger, North Carolina Republican, will introduce legislation this week aimed at stopping what he called "abortion bonds." He said it’s time to make the law agree with the principle that taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook in any way for the procedure.
"We’re utilizing the federal government to facilitate the development of these abortion clinics through the involvement of the American taxpayer, and they don’t want that," Mr. Pittenger said.
Under current law, known as the Hyde Amendment policy, taxpayer funding is supposed to be limited to abortions in extreme cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s life.
That prohibition generally covers Medicaid and other government-funded health care programs, but Mr. Pittenger said it also should cover areas where taxpayer money goes to subsidize abortion providers. He said construction of abortion clinics with publicly backed financing is one of those areas.
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.
[Daily Caller] A black man has been arrested in connection with a string of racist graffiti incidents at Eastern Michigan University that were protested by students on campus last fall.
[Breitbart] Identitarian movement activists unveiled a large banner on Westminster Bridge Monday morning, their anti-Islamification message facing directly onto Britain’s Houses of Parliament.
[Wash Times] Federal taxpayer funding generally isn’t allowed to be spent on abortions, but Republicans say they have spotted a loophole in which tax-free municipal bonds have been used to put federal cash on the line in order to help build abortion clinics ‐ including Planned Parenthood’s headquarters in New York.
