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Fox News previewed a clip of Bill O'Reilly's pre-Super Bowl interview with Donald Trump, where the president was asked about his rosy relationship with Russian
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A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in Far Northeast Dallas overnight, and several others were injured, police said.
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A 5-month-old child was wounded in the foot and thigh during a shooting Saturday night (Jan. 14) in Algiers, according to witnesses and the New Orleans Police Department.
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JPSO identified the victim as 24-year-old Daneka Lotts of Kenner
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In just a matter of days — perhaps next Monday — a decision will be made in Washington affecting the futures of millions of children in low-income communities, and in the very troubled area of race relations in America. An opportunity has arisen — belatedly — that may not come again in this ?
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Bureaucrats Attempting to Sabotage Trump with Leaks
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Navy SEAL Raid in Yemen Spotlights Issue of Female Terrorists Amid Trump’s Temporary Refugee Halt
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Kelly issued a waiver on Jan. 29 that allowed permanent residents, or green-card holders, to be allowed back into the country.
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Summary of H.R.861 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.
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A major newspaper demands Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady answer for his support of President Trump.
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On Thursday, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, asked what  Black History Month meant to him, stated that racism against blacks was “systemic,” adding, “If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally and within the society offered his view on American society.” Popovich spoke before his Spurs played the Philadelphia 76ers, and pontificated that racism was America’s “national sin.”
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Police said they were investigating the incidents, two of which involved minors.
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A man and a 16-year-old boy were fatally shot and four other people were wounded in shootings in Chicago between Wednesday and early Thursday, police said.
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Police say a 5-year-old boy is recovering after being shot in the ankle on New Year's Eve.
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MILWAUKEE -- Just blocks from the interstate at 11th Lane and Locust, neighbors say a gun battle erupted in the middle of the street. Sources say over 100 shots were fired, and no one was killed. "It was echoes. It was something," said Marquise Brazil, resident. Neighbors are recalling a night they will never forget.
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Prosecute the Rioters

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

From time to time over the years, the eminent historian Daniel Pipes has lamented that treason, not just as a crime but as a concept, appears defunct in the West. The question of bringing treason charges against jihadists has been raised from time to time. Often its very asking proves Dr. Pipes’ point: Most radical Islamic terrorists are not American citizens; as to them, treason is not a cognizable offense because traitorous conduct is central to the crime. Even against American jihadists, a treason charge is of dubious usefulness. The 1996 overhaul of federal counterterrorism law codified crimes tailored to terrorism that are easier to prove than treason. The aim of an indictment in a national-security case should be the surest route to the severest sentence. The point is not to teach a civics lesson, regrettable as our education system’s default has been in that regard. Yet what is true of treason is not true of sedition. There are charges to bring against those who would destroy our society. They should be brought. Case in point: the University of California at Berkeley. As our National Review editorial observed in the aftermath of this week’s Berkeley rioting, “there is within the American Left an increasingly active element that is not only deeply illiberal — fundamentally opposed to free speech — but also openly violent.” I’d further contend that the problem is not confined to this increasingly active element, the Left’s “progressives in a hurry.” Whether it is Berkeley or Benghazi, it is standard operating procedure among the most influential, most allegedly mainstream Democratic politicians to rationalize rioting as mere “protest.” In their alternative reality, violence in the name of sedition is “free speech” — a passionate expression of political dissent — while the actual political speech they so savagely suppress is the atrocity. There is no mystery about how we got to this dark place. Violent rampaging was the coming-of-age rite of the New Left. That would be the Sixties Left that eventually won the battle for control of the Democratic party and, in its extremism, has estranged that party from its traditional working-class base, and thus from much of the country. The New Left rioted against racism, capitalism, colonialism, and the Vietnam War. They gleefully announced their hatred for AmeriKKKa. They bombed and killed. And in large measure, they got away with it. In fact, they got rewarded for it. One of the worst legacies of those Days of Rage was the failure of will to prosecute violent leaders of the radical Left to the full extent of the law — particularly the likes of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Weather Underground terrorists who got a complete pass. In its madness, the nation drew a moral equivalence between anti-American terrorism and the excesses of American government agents who pursued the terrorists, as if warrantless searches and spying, however concededly outrageous, were comparable to plots and attempts to commit mass murder. The government did not want the depths of its misconduct explored, so charges were dropped in some cases and pled away for a song in others — denying an exploration of the depths of the terrorists’ depravity. “Guilty as sin, free as a bird,” crowed Ayers, waxing nostalgic on the eve of the 9/11 attacks. It is worse than that, though, much worse. Ayers is not just free; he has been lionized — laundered into a respectable academic. It was a comfy fit for him and many of his confederates, once it dawned on them that indoctrination inside the schoolhouse was more effective than blowing up the schoolhouse. The plaudits, moreover, have rained down from the government as much as they’ve pushed up from the campus. It was famously in the Chicago living room of Ayers and Dohrn that their fellow “community organizer” Barack Obama made his political debut. Soon the radical leftists who actually had been prosecuted were being sprung from prison by President Bill Clinton with the help of his trusty deputy attorney general, Eric Holder — himself a onetime student radical, having participated in the occupation of an ROTC headquarters at Columbia University in 1970. First Clinton commuted the sentences of FALN terrorists. Then, in an infamous pardon spree on his last day in office, he released two Weather Underground confederates of Ayers and Dohrn. In an infamous pardon spree on his last day in office, Bill Clinton released two Weather Underground confederates of Ayers and Dohrn. Obama’s fondness for the radical Left was a hallmark of his administration, from its early dismissal of a civil-rights case against New Black Panther Party members who had menaced voters in Philadelphia through its outreach to Hugo Chávez, the mullahs of Tehran, and the Castro brothers, as well as its overt sympathies for anti-police rabble-rousers, and finally to its last-minute release of an unrepentant FALN leader. The prevailing attitude was best expressed in the spring of 2015, when Baltimore police were directed to stand down as rioters looted and torched sections of the city after Freddie Gray, a lawfully arrested black man with a criminal record, died in police custody — as a result of injuries primarily caused by his own wild misbehavior. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told the assembled press, “We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that.” As if cracking down on arson, assault, and theft would have suppressed the right to peaceful protest. Last summer, when Democrats gathered in Philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton for president, it was Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake whom they chose to chair their convention. The message could not be clearer: For the political Left in this country, violence in the pursuit of “social justice” is not to be condemned, it is to be understood. There is the occasional winking rebuke of the forcible methods, but the underlying “progressive” cause is always endorsed, and the seditionist vanguard is the object of adulation. It is a huge problem in our country. What is being championed is not dissent. It is the destruction of the right to dissent. It is the suspension of the rule of law, without which a free society protective of life, liberty, and property is impossible. During the Civil War, Congress enacted the first seditious-conspiracy law. Aimed at rioting and other aggression by Confederate sympathizers, it criminalizes plots to levy war against the United States, or to oppose by force the government and its execution of the laws. It has been on the books ever since, though rarely invoked. (It was used against the FALN in the late Seventies, and I used it in 1993 to prosecute terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center and conspired to bomb other New York City landmarks.) It is similarly a felony to advocate the destruction of the federal or state governments and their subdivisions. More pointedly, there is a sweeping federal anti-riot law, making it a crime to incite, organize, promote, participate in, or aid and abet a riot. In addition, the federal civil-rights laws make it a crime to conspire to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people “in the free exercise or enjoyment” of their constitutional rights — including, obviously, the right to free speech. These laws further criminalize forcible acts and threats that interfere with people’s lawful enjoyment of any federally subsidized activity (note that the government provides lavish funding to universities). They outlaw interference with the conduct of commercial business during a riot or other civil disorder. For too long, our elites have portrayed transgressive behavior (very much including its allegedly artistic expression) as virtue. The constant undercurrent is that our country, our principles, and our norms are not worth having — much less admiring or defending. We are perversely taught to loathe ourselves, and thus to excuse and even revere those who raise the loathing into intimidation, aggression, and violence. Much of this phenomenon is cultural, which means government cannot fix it. But government is duty-bound to uphold the rule of law, and thus to ensure that our problems can be addressed peacefully. Sedition and its related pathologies must be prosecuted. Equally important, they must be condemned. Without that, there cannot be a pluralistic, flourishing society. — Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior policy fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.
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155shares Many parents have no idea what is happening to our young adults (especially our young men) on college campuses today. Victims are being turned away, the innocent are being falsely accused, and families are being destroyed. At the heart of the problem is a legal system that has created broad definitions, weakened due process, and removed the presumption of innocence. It all began 2011, when, in an effort to protect women’s right to learn without fear of harassment or discrimination, President Obama’s Department of Education sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter seeking tougher action against sexual violence. The department began pressing colleges to more aggressively police sexual assaults and also threatened to take away Title IX funding from schools that failed to comply. Title IX is a law enacted in 1972 that prohibits any educational program or activity that receives federal financial assistance from denying benefits to or discriminating against someone based on their sex. As a result, well-meaning campus administrators responded by erasing due-process protections for suspected offenders. They also changed the definition of sexual assault, created Kangaroo courts on campus, and scaled back on protections for the accused. PolitiChicks recently interviewed Attorney Cynthia Garrett, the Co-President of Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE), and Board President of Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE). Both groups champion fairness in campus sexual misconduct cases. Garrett described the devastating impact that the 2011 ?Dear College? policy has had on young men who have been falsely accused of sexual misconduct: ?It has caused devastation to many of these young men. They often get expelled from the university where they are attending and have to transfer to another school. Many other schools, especially decent schools, won?t even accept them. Many experience humiliation and job loss. Many of these young men become very depressed and even suicidal.? One example of this ?gender injustice? is at Colorado State University at Pueblo where a supposed rapist was punished even though the ?victim? also said that she was not raped and that their sexual encounter was consensual. CSU student Grant Neal filed a federal lawsuit against the university and the U.S. Department of Education claiming sexual discrimination after he was sanctioned for a sexual act that he and his girlfriend insist was consensual sex. Neal claimed in the federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver that the reason his civil rights were violated and that he was punished only because of stereotypes about male athletes. According to the Denver Post: ?Neal claims he had consensual sex on Oct. 25 with a woman at the school he identifies as Jane Doe. But a peer of Jane Doe’s in the Athletic Training Program reported the encounter as rape to CSU faculty after seeing a hickey on her neck, says the 90-page lawsuit filed by Denver attorney Michael Mirabella and New York City attorneys Andrew Miltenberg, Tara Davis and Jeffrey Berkowitz. The lawsuit points out that the peer was not an eye witness to the sexual encounter and did not hear about it from either Neal or the woman. DeLuna notified Neal on Dec. 18 that he had been found responsible for “sexual misconduct” in violation of the university’s code of conduct. His “unwarranted and severe” penalty was suspension for the remainder of Jane Doe’s enrollment at the college, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit says the defendants failed to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation, failed to hold a hearing on the charges against Neal and failed to provide him with proper notice of the charges.? Neal lost his football and wrestling scholarships, which damaged his future education, career, reputation and athletic prospects. The lawsuit gives graphic details about several sexual encounters between Neal and Jane Doe. When later asked about the events, Jane Doe made it clear their relationship was consensual, the lawsuit said. Jane Doe was quoted in the lawsuit as telling a school official: “Our stories are the same and he’s a good guy,”  “He’s not a rapist, he’s not a criminal, it’s not even worth any of this hoopla!” Cynthia Garrett told PolitiChicks: ? These cases are more common than many people realize. After meeting someone who personally experienced this type of ?gender injustice,?  I felt I had to do something to help.? She also stated: ?What we represent is not a popular issue, we know that, but there are so many young men whose lives have been destroyed by these allegations? As a female lawyer, I also considered myself a feminist, as in “equal pay for equal work”  kind of feminism. But this new brand of female empowerment has led to job loss, humiliation, expulsion, and even sometimes suicide of men in college who were falsely accused and were stripped of their due process rights.?  Garrett also encourages our readers to contact FACE and/or SAVE if they (or somebody they know) experience this type of ?gender injustice? on a college campus. FACE (Families Advocating for Campus Equality) is a non-profit organization founded in 2013 by three mothers of sons who were falsely accused of sexual misconduct at their respective colleges. These mothers hail from different parts of the country and although their sons attended, variously, a large state school, a Big Ten university, and a small liberal arts college, their nightmare experience was remarkably similar. As a result, they established FACE to focus on promoting and insuring fairness and to seek justice for families and students caught up in the timely and devastating issue of sexual misconduct on college campuses. The mission of FACE is to advocate for equal treatment and due process for those affected by sexual misconduct allegations on campus and to support those students and their families through outreach and education. Garrett also told PolitiChicks: ?FACE is such a wonderful support group for these families and these young men because they oftentimes feel very humiliated, ashamed, and alone.? SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments)  is another organization that works on evidence-based solutions to end sexual assault and domestic violence. SAVE ?
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Students At UC Berkeley Support Man Waving ISIS Flag Students at the UC Berkeley campus set the bar for outrageous ...
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Journalists can't seem to get their stories straight in the opening weeks of the Trump administration, whether in tweets or in articles where falsehoods have been spread almost daily. The mistakes
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In Palestine, we could so easily have been treated as the enemy, but we were welcomed like family.
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One person was shot and two children were injured in connection with a shooting in the 7900 block of Military Trail in Riviera Beach Thursday afternoon, according to police.
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A man and a teenage boy were killed in separate shootings in Baltimore on Thursday night, police said.
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Two women are dead and three men are wounded after a shooting incident at 1510 Maryland Drive in Albany on Thursday morning.
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SEATTLE - A shooting that left three people wounded at the Crocodile Cafe in Belltown on Thursday night was a gang drive-by shooting, police say.Police say the shooting, by a high-powered rifle, is apparently one of six shootings in the last week that have
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