[San Diego Union-Tribune] Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, recently stepped up his advocacy for a Navy SEAL on trial for war crimes, including contacting military leaders with administrative and supervisory roles in the trial.
Wednesday Hunter also sent a letter to President Donald Trump, calling on him to remove from the Navy’s hands the case of Chief Petty Officer Edward R. Gallagher, who is accused of stabbing to death a teen-age Iraqi combatant. Co-signing the letter was Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, a Republican who represents the western panhandle region of that state.
The letter alleges political bias against Gallagher and repeats other claims about his confinement and access to attorneys, claims the Navy has disputed.
The White House has not commented on the request.
Gallagher, a chief special warfare operator based in San Diego, was charged with several war crimes from a 2017 deployment to Mosul, Iraq.
Navy investigators say Gallagher killed a wounded teenage ISIS fighter brought to him for medical treatment. He also faces aggravated assault charges for allegedly shooting an elderly man and a little girl, and charges related to allegedly shooting indiscriminately at civilians during deployment.
Gallagher has denied all the allegations and pleaded not guilty.
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OH YES WE train you to kill everything in sight, BUT don't kill your enemy? WAR is NOT a game. If he was a bomb maker he would kill again or teach his trade to someone else. LET THIS MAN GO! He did his job. From what I have researched, The Seal did his job.
[Huffpoo] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sent a warning Friday to the bigots who flood her offices with hateful telephone calls.
The freshman lawmaker tweeted that all the threats were forwarded to Capitol Police "to build files." She added: "For all those who think your bigoted calls + digital threats are anonymous: Enjoy!"
Ocasio-Cortez’s warning was in response to a tweet from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who also reported being "flooded with bigoted voicemails and calls every day" amid an exchange with Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who without evidence had earlier intimated that she disliked Jewish people.
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Her vapid nonsense stupid positions/massively over-the-top publicity was fine until she started threatening to primary Dems who aren't sufficiently stupid/socialist/green. Internal Dem power gloves come off. Good! Let's you and her fight. I'll watch, and rub my hands in satisfaction
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[Daily Mail] Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now denies appearing in a racist photograph that he on Friday apologized for, and claims he can prove it wasn't him Senator Louise Lucas said Saturday.
The 59-year-old from Nassawadox has done a complete about face the Portsmouth Democrat learned during a private conversation.
The Democratic party tweeted Saturday morning: 'We made the decision to let Governor Northam do the correct thing and resign this morning - we have gotten word he will not do so this morning.' Perhaps a 236th Trimester Infanticide is in order?
After previously speaking to the Associated Press off-the-record, Lucas added in a tweet about his change of mind after the apology: 'He should have said that yesterday then. He just told me he didn't think it's him. And I said, "Ralph, this is a day late and a dollar short. It's too late".'
Northam was allegedly calling state lawmakers Saturday to try and gain support so he can remain in office despite top politicians calling on him to resign after seeing a picture of people wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and another in blackface.
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Total Fiasco: VA Dem Gov Northam Retracts Apology, Says That’s Not Him In Blackface, KKK Photo
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"When did you stop beating your wife?"
"Last week.. No, wait..."
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We need a Special Counsel to investigate this.
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I'll volunteer.
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If it wasn't him he'd have said so right away.
He realized that if he's the one in blackface he's screwed.
And if he's the one in Klan uniform the next question is, was he an actual member. At this point he has no out. He's an idiot and the folks that believed his nonsense feel tricked and want blood.
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High School Newspaper editor(s) at the time absolutely knew who was in the photo, as did the kid/teacher who took the photo. That's why the Yearbook staff put it on Northam's content page. Kids know each other pretty well, no matter what they look like.
Betcha the DNC folks have already hunted them down and either paid off or threatened them into future denials.
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Wait, not his High School but his college yearbook. Same applies.
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First Statement by Northam:
“Earlier today, a website published a photograph of me from my 1984 medical school yearbook in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive. I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. This behavior is not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, in medicine, and in public service. But I want to be clear, I understand how this decision shakes Virginians’ faith in that commitment. I recognize that it will take time and serious effort to heal the damage this conduct has caused. I am ready to do that important work. The first step is to offer my sincerest apology and to state my absolute commitment to living up to the expectations Virginians set for me when they elected me to be their Governor.”
Next Day:
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted calls to immediately resign from office—claiming he does not appear in a racist yearbook photo but admitting he had worn blackface in his past.
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I guess it took him a day to get a hold of the other person in the photo and the photographer to get their promise of silence.
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Ah, its in the past. Just like the real Klan Senator from West Virginia. Wasn't a problem for you back then when there was not question. Why the drama now?
[Breitbart] Friday on ABC’s "The View," Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he was running for president because in the last two years under President Donald Trump’s administration there is a "cancer in many ways in our country" caused by his "caustic type of politics."
Partial transcript as follows:
GUEST HOST ANA NAVARRO: I wanted to ask you, so, the last two years under president loco have seen a spike in hate crimes, homophobia, anti-immigrant crime. Anybody that is a person of color is a target. You know, his comments haven’t helped. It creates culture wars, things like the anthem. How do we heal that? How do we move on from that? How do you propose to heal that?
BOOKER: That’s one of the calls that I feel to run right now. I feel like the strength of my economic ideas, environmental justice ideas are really strong. But look, I faced tough problems when I was managing a city in recession and we learned really early on political fights and the like I realized that what my city needed was healers, people that bring folks together. There’s an old saying if you want to go fast, go alone but if you want to go far, go together. The biggest threat, the cancer in many ways in our country right now is a caustic type of politics that wants to pit us against each other and create the illusion of separateness. We need to put that indivisible back in this one nation under God and address the injustices in our country and tell the truth to people. And look, I think when people make a mistake, they think to be tough you need to be cruel. They think to be strong you need to be mean. Some of the strongest people I’ve ever seen are those who risk a little bit of vulnerability, who stand with unarmed love in front of dogs and fire hoses and batons. We need to reignite a sense of civic grace in our country. We need to not be so quick to judge each other and we need to begin to see that we are in this together. No matter what, we’re in this together. And so that’s what I’m going to be talking about a lot in this campaign.
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Doesn't Spartacus appearing on The View exceed some maximum stupidity regulation?
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The extremely low end of the bell curve
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A spike in hate crimes? Like the smiling kid last week? Have the non-progressives done anything in the same ballpark as the COngressional softball shoot-up two years ago?
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...is a caustic type of politics that wants to pit us against each other and create the illusion of separateness.
Like - going after a Supreme Court nominee on completely made up stories? Is that 'pit(ting) us against each other'? You useless bag of shit.
[Townhall] Democrat presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, who hasn't officially declared her candidacy for the White House, issued an apology to the Cherokee Nation this week for her DNA test stunt.
"We are encouraged by this dialogue and understanding that being a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and laws not through DNA tests," Cherokee Nation Executive Director of Communications Julie Hubbard told Tulsa World. "We are encouraged by her action and hope that the slurs and mockery of tribal citizens and Indian history and heritage will now come to an end."
Hubbard did not reveal the contents of the letter Warren sent.
In October 2018, Warren published the results of a DNA test which showed she might be 1/1024th Native American. She used this as "proof" she is Cherokee. She's actually a white woman, which we've known all along.
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I'm confused. Did she apologize to the Cherokees for even attempting to prove she is part Cherokee? Or was she apologizing to the Cherokees for claiming she was part Cherokee? Or trying to be clever and combining the two apologies?
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"try the crabcakes, they're delicious"
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She is apologizing to cover all the bases. The "Cherokees" are outraged because, Cherokees or something. There was/is nothing wrong with her doing the DNA test, despite whatever the "Cherokees" say. Her biggest mistake was claiming native ancestry way back when without any evidence. Her next mistake was publicizing her DNA test and trying to make more out of nothing. I do know a former tribal chair (no relation to Cherokees) who still defends Warren (at least in private), but he's a Democrat.
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The only apology I want to see from her and her kind - and we've a lot of her kind in Israel, is a Japanese style (and I don't mean Yakuza type) apology.
[Breitbart] Virginia Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam apologized in a statement on Friday for a medical school yearbook showing two men ‐ one of them of himself ‐ in blackface and the other in Klu Klux Klan attire. Northam did not state which person he was in the inflammatory photo.
Northam released a statement on Friday admitting to having the photo included in his medical school yearbook. The Virginia Democrat Gov. also admitted to appearing in the photo; however, he did not say whether he was the man in blackface or in Klu Klux Klan attire.
Breitbart News also reported how, during the 2017 gubernatorial campaign, Northam decried Republican nominee Ed Gillespie’s "racist rhetoric and fearmongering."
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The Governor is being kept comfortable. The resuscitation of his political career is being discussed. But it is doubtful that the party actually desires a resuscitation.
Leaders are called to a higher standard, and the stain of racism should have no place in the halls of government. The Governor of Virginia should step aside so the public can heal and move forward together.
Karma says there is a skeleton in Kamela's closet.
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there is a skeleton in Kamela's closet.
Is that a euphemism for Willie Brown burying his bone?
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Infanticide will kill many, many, many more blacks than the KKK ever did. And that is OK with the debased left.
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You know, all the Dems have to do to fix the Chicago murder rate is classify them as 50th trimester abortions. They should be able to get down with that.
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I could wish that youthful follies, which in adulthood are seen by the parties involved as stupid at best, would be ignored as being various paths to mature wisdom. But it is only fair that the politics of destruction is applied equally to both politicial parties.
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It's really too bad that this only came out in the last year of his term, rather than during the campaign when he was accusing his opponent of racism.
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Standard Republican strategy would be to make no comment on this unseemly incident. Fortunately, Donald J. Trump will be delivering the State of the Union Address on Tuesday.
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#3 Welcome to the Inverted Age.
#11 I bet the Gillespie campaign knew about this and deliberately stayed their hand. It would be rude do otherwise.
And let's not forget what a GOPe turd Gillespie was.
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This is the guy all the NeverTrumper assholes supported and voted for instead of the pro-Trump GOP candidate. The abortion "kill em at birth" wasnt bad enough for them to apologize. But this? Even this isnt enough to make them admit just how wrong they were in acting out their Trump hatred instead of voting for the better candidate.
Looking at you Bill Kristol. They need to kick your ass OUT of the GOP.
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If the GOP had this before the election, they needed to use it. Playing by the genteel rules is out the window now that the Left has shown their true selves.
Hit them fast, hit them hard, hit them again and again, until they stop moving. They will most certainly do that to you.
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When Northam won the Virginia governor’s race, in November, and enough Democratic legislative candidates won to turn the suburbs from red to blue, “I found myself pleased,” Kristol said.
[PULSE.NG] Democrat Cory Booker announced Friday he is running for US president, bringing a charismatic African-American voice to the crowded nomination race to take on Donald Trump in 2020. Newark's former mayor and his pal T-Bone will make the USA much like Newark.
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MNGA - Make Newark Great Again. So sorry, Newark hasn't been great for a long time and Booker sealed the deal.
[Red State] On Monday, Democratic Virginia Del. Kathy Tran promoted her bill removing all restrictions on late-term abortion, even ‐ by her own admission ‐ allowing doctors to kill the baby as the woman is dilating (PLEASE read more here and here).
Is that really an issue of "abortion?" It seems to me that even the most radical pro-choice advocate would call that straight murder.
Well, Kathy’s not all heart-of-stone:
On January 9th ‐ the same day she introduced her human murder bill ‐ Tran submitted "House Bill No. 2495 ‐ Eradication of fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months."
Whereas 2491 puts to death a baby about to be birthed, the other intends to protect insects. Included in the significant group are "gypsy moths" and "cankerworms."
Here’s the official description, courtesy of Virginia’s Legislative Information System:
[NY Post] Sen. Chuck Schumer's longtime communications director was forced out of his job soon after the 2018 midterm elections because he had inappropriate sexual contact with junior staffers, a spokesperson said Friday.
"Upon learning that he had inappropriate encounters within the office and that it was making some staff uncomfortable, he was asked to leave," Schumer's spokesman said of Matt House, who worked as the senator's communications director for more than five years.
In a statement to the Post, House said: "I absolutely loved my time working in the senate and it was the honor of my life. I deeply regret the mistakes I made on the number of occasions when I had too much to drink, and I apologize to anyone who was affected by my behavior." "I thought 'since I was a Democrat like Ted Kennedy, it's all cool'"
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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
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[Breitbart] Virginia Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam apologized in a statement on Friday for a medical school yearbook showing two men ‐ one of them of himself ‐ in blackface and the other in Klu Klux Klan attire. Northam did not state which person he was in the inflammatory photo.
Meet Justin Fairfax, Virginia Lieutenant Governor and next Governor of Virginia. 
