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'The officers gave loud, clear verbal commands which were also heard by many of the witnesses,' the police chief said.

After Keith Lamont Scott, an armed black man, was fatally shot by police officers in North Carolina on Tuesday, Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters blocked a highway and attacked police officers, injuring at least 12 of them last night. The case dominated cable news networks Wednesday morning, with legal analysts breaking down the information given by Charlotte police. Culture critic and BLM sympathizer Michaela Angela Davis was also invited on CNN Newsroom where she spent the time bemoaning white “brutality” and defending violent protesters as “burning down the plantation.”

I do not usually go out of my way to publicly disagree with National Review editorials, but I respectfully dissent from our piece calling for the impeachment of IRS commissioner John Koskinen. He shouldn’t be impeached. He should be imprisoned. When the feds couldn’t make ordinary criminal charges stick to the organized-crime syndicate that turned 1920s Chicago into a free-fire zone, they went after the boss, Al Capone, on tax charges. Under Barack Obama, the weaponized IRS has been transformed into a crime syndicate far worse than anything dreamt of by pinstriped Model-T gangsters — because Al Capone and Meyer Lansky did not have the full force of the federal government behind them. If you do not know the story — in which case, shame on you — a brief recap: After years of pressure from Democratic grandees including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Senator Chuck Schumer, the IRS began targeting conservative nonprofit groups for various kinds of illegal harassment. Applications for nonprofit status were wrongfully delayed and denied, while investigations into those organizations’ tax statuses were turned into partisan fishing expeditions in order to expedite harassment against donors, volunteers, and political activists. This involved organizations that are under the law explicitly permitted to engage in political activity. Democratic officials at the state level joined in and continue to do so, with California attorney general Kamala Harris demanding donor lists from California-based nonprofits that came into her crosshairs — with no legal justification. This is a flat-out illegal campaign of criminal harassment and intimidation of political activists involving the criminal misuse of federal resources for illegal partisan political ends. And what is IRS Commissioner John Koskinen up to? Lying to Congress and overseeing the destruction of evidence. Every day this crime-enabling, justice-obstructing, lying, craven, tinpot totalitarian walks around in the sunshine is a day we should be ashamed to be Americans. Oh, but he’s sorry! So, so very sorry. Koskinen was called before the House on Tuesday to explain a few things. One of those things is: Why is the IRS destroying evidence under subpoena in this case? Another was: Why is the IRS commissioner lying to Congress? Every day this crime-enabling, justice-obstructing, lying, craven, tinpot totalitarian walks around in the sunshine is a day we should be ashamed. Koskinen is fluent in the mustelid dialect of Washington: “We did not succeed in preserving all of the information requested, and some of my testimony later proved mistaken.” There is a term for failing to “succeed in preserving information requested” during an official investigation: obstruction of justice. What was he lying about? Obstruction of justice. Specifically, Koskinen told Congress that no e-mails involved in the case had been destroyed since the current investigation was opened. In fact, e-mails and backup tapes duplicating those e-mails were destroyed with some vigor after the investigation began, and were being destroyed at least as late as 2014. Congressional Republicans are preparing an attempt to impeach Koskinen. And that’s all well and good — an impeachment would at least constitute some punishment, and would keep him out of public office in the future. But is strains credibility to believe that IRS agents were acting with anything other than malice aforethought when they destroyed evidence related to this case. The case has been very highly publicized, and it is extraordinarily unlikely that there is a single employee of the IRS, including the janitors, who is unaware of the investigation into the agency’s grotesque wrongdoings. Yes, what has happened is an abuse of authority and an indictment of the IRS on charges ranging from stupidity and incompetence to partisan servility. It is also a crime. The IRS has extraordinary investigative powers. It is the most fearsome of federal agencies: If Ahmad Rahami had been on the IRS’s radar for corporate tax fraud instead of on Homeland Security’s radar as a potential terrorist, his New Jersey chicken stand would have been swarming with neckless, gun-toting federal agents like it was a Cartagena whorehouse. They must be held accountable for their crimes. We will not survive as a free society operating under something roughly resembling the rule of law if federal law-enforcement agencies — which is what the IRS really is — are permitted to run amok. #related#Do you know what happened to Lois Lerner, the IRS manager at the center of the targeting scandal? She got a $129,000 bonus and a fat pension. She probably is beyond Congress’s reach for the moment, and it is a certainty that Barack Obama’s so-called Justice Department, which has been almost entirely reduced to an instrument of partisan politics, is ever going to lift so much as a pinky finger in this matter. That leaves us with the commissioner. He is not the guiltiest party involved in this goat rodeo, but he is guilty enough. That evidence did not destroy itself, and it was not the work of some obscure junior personnel in Cincinnati. Impeach him? Sure. Take his pension? Absolutely. Bar him from ever setting foot on federal property for the rest of his miserable, shameful, parasitic life? If a way can be found. But the reality is that John Koskinen is a common criminal, even if the relevant law-enforcement agencies refuse to treat him like one. He should spend the rest of his life in a very small room with no window. — Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent.

Two more counties have joined a Colorado town in rejecting grants covered by HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, effectively nullifying a federal program designed to gain control over…

Just one week before FBI Director James Comey announced the Bureau would not recommend charges be filed against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for storing and transferring top secret, classified information on multiple private,

Word says, Hillary Clinton’s former private computer specialist Paul Combetta,who asked Reddit how to hide and delete her emails,has flipped and ready to testify against Hillary. The users of Twitter and Reddit have done the job that the Federal Bureau could not and they made an inspection about Paul Combetta. This man was given immunity ?

NFL Ratings Drop Faster Than Colin Kaepernick Hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner'

In the midst of a heated but civil debate on CNN Tuesday night, host Erin Burnett admitted on her eponymous show to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway that her program should not have aired a chyron on Monday’s show suggesting that Donald Trump was in favor of “racial” profiling. Burnett was twice pressed by Conway on why her show made such an editorial error and so Burnett paused the debate to offer an explanation of regret.

Watch PunditFact magically turn a statement that is "clearly accurate" and "technically true" into something that is "Mostly False."

The NFL continues to be America’s pastime, but fewer people are passing the time watching NFL games. According to Austin Karp of SportsBusiness Daily, Monday night’s Eagles-Bears snooze-fest generated an overnight rating of 8.3. That’s an 11-percent drop from last year’s Week Two Monday night matchup between the Jets and the Colts, and it’s also…

+ Saturday, my amazing God-sent team pulled off our first powerful Blue Lives Matter Celebration event. Each celebrity guest spoke masterfully on their topic; educating and dispelling negative myths about our brave men and women in blue. Radio talk show…Read more →

A high school girl, whose name is being withheld by DailyMail.com because she is a minor, has revealed her online relationship with Anthony Weiner began last January.

The news comes just a week after Boehner joined the board of tobacco giant Reynolds American for an estimated $400,000 a year.

In college, I had a buddy whose entire worldview was circumscribed by whatever happened to be in front of his face at that very moment. We would drive down the street and he’d read off the signs as we passed by them in the car. Instead of engaging in deep philosophical conversations about Camus or the Green Bay Packers, he’d rattle off phrases such as “Oooh, Arby’s,” or “Same-day Martinizing!” (We often joked that he always thought whatever direction he was facing was north.) A recent myopic editorial by the New York Times, however, makes my friend look like Ben Franklin for his scope of knowledge. In opining about a recent document dump stemming from a previously secret “John Doe” investigation into Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and his allies, the Times peddles a wildly misleading argument completely devoid of context. Last week, the Guardian, a British left-wing paper, released nearly 1,500 pages from the investigation into whether Walker “illegally” coordinated with third-party groups such as the Club for Growth during his 2012 recall election campaign. The Times asserts that these groups “are not allowed to work with a campaign to urge voters to vote for a candidate, because that would essentially allow donors to funnel money toward these groups to get around contribution limits that apply to campaign committees.” Yet this assertion is flatly false. A Wisconsin state judge, two Milwaukee-based federal judges, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago have all ruled that relevant portions of Wisconsin state law are unconstitutional, which is why not a single person investigated in this aspect of the probe has ever been charged with anything. The argument basically comes down to whether state laws apply to “issue” advocacy (ads that don’t expressly urge voting for or against a specific candidate) in the same way they apply to “express” advocacy (ads that explicitly direct the viewer to “vote for” or “vote against” a candidate). Virtually every court that has considered the Doe probe has come to the same conclusion: The state ban on coordination between candidates and third-party groups applies only to express advocacy. Issue advocacy, on the other hand, is outside the framework of the state’s election law: The state cannot regulate “issue” television ads any more than it can regulate those insufferable “Peyton on Sunday Morning” spots. Thus, candidates are free to communicate in any way they want with groups that produce issue ads. But these facts are too much for the Times editors, who focus their attention on the Guardian’s lengthy article of last week — which, incidentally, says that Walker signed a law inoculating paint manufacturers against nuisance lead-paint lawsuits only after a lead manufacturer donated $750,000 to the Club for Growth (a pro-Walker group) during Walker’s hotly contested recall election. Yet the Guardian article conveniently fails to mention that for nearly a decade, Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature had been pushing a bill to grant “retroactive immunity” to paint companies. Walker signed this bill as soon as Republicans took full control of state government, in 2011. Nor does the Guardian choose to mention that over that decade, left-wing third-party groups had received millions from trial lawyers intent on blocking the proposed bill. Even more embarrassing are the Times’ comments on the Wisconsin Supreme Court — from reading the editorial, you’d think the Wisconsin Supreme Court was the only court that reviewed the Doe case. The Times editors also make the spurious charge that justices were influenced by third-party spending, saying: “At least two of the court’s justices who voted to end the [Doe] inquiry also benefited from millions of dollars spent by some of the same conservative groups backing Mr. Walker, including the Wisconsin Club for Growth, in their own re-election campaigns in recent years.” The Times adds, “Republican operatives knew that losing the court’s conservative majority would spell the end of Mr. Walker’s right-wing, anti-union agenda.” But, as noted, the case went through several different courts, each of which ruled in Walker’s favor. Is the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago under the thumb of the Wisconsin Club for Growth? Is U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert a clandestine Tea Partier, despite being a Clinton appointee to the bench? It is particularly risible that Times editors would cite the battle over Walker’s union reforms in making their case that conservative justices should recuse themselves. In 2011, public-sector unions, knowing that Walker’s new union-reform law would one day make it to the high court, spent millions upon millions to defeat the conservative candidate in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race. (The conservative candidate, David Prosser, narrowly won, and the union-reform law was ultimately upheld.) But the Times is wholly unconcerned that the liberal justices who benefited from union money ruled against Walker’s new law. Apparently, it’s only conservatives who are swayed by third-party spending. Moreover, the Club for Growth spends money against liberal justices, as well —  wouldn’t left-wing judges be just as biased against third parties that had opposed them during their campaigns? (By this logic, shouldn’t the whole court have to recuse itself?) The Times is wholly unconcerned that the liberal justices who benefited from union money in their reelection campaigns ruled against Walker’s new union-reform law. Of course, no misleading editorial about campaign finance can be complete without a negative reference to Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court case that allowed corporations and unions to exercise their First Amendment right to free political speech during campaigns. But Citizens United had literally nothing to do with the recall election in Wisconsin; at issue in the Walker recall was state campaign-finance law, not the federal framework as erected by the frequently overturned McCain-Feingold law passed in the early 2000s. The Times quotes Justice Anthony Kennedy, who, in his dissent in Citizens United, wrote: “By definition, an independent expenditure is political speech presented to the electorate that is not coordinated with a candidate.” But, again, Kennedy was discussing the federal law, not the state law in Wisconsin, which was the focus of the John Doe investigation. Two different governments, two different laws; this is elementary-school civics stuff. Yet, like bacon on a salad, the Times must apply Citizens United to add flavor to any campaign-finance argument. Christopher Hitchens once wrote, “It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one.” In this case, the New York Times started with a motive and worked backwards, rather than letting the facts lead them to an honest conclusion. — Christian Schneider is a columnist for the USA Today Network.

At an event in New York City called “Building Progressive, Inclusive Cities,” Sadiq Khan, London’s London mayor, met with his counterpart in the Big Apple, far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio, and explained that urban dwellers should simply get used to jihadist rampages.

Charlotte race protesters rioted, injured police officers, hurled rocks at reporters and cars, looted and torched trucks on the interstate, ...

Not a great look for one of Hillary Clinton’s most loyal political allies.

The current and projected future public debt bubble is unsustainable, and financial markets will eventually ignore the accounting deceptions and pop it.

Editorial says AFL-CIO's call for amnesty for estimated six million illegal immigrants currently living in US and elimination of most sanctions on employers who hire them in future is surprising turnabout and should be rejected since it would undermine integrity of country's immigration laws and depress wages of lowest-paid native-born workers (M)

A frustrated federal judge ordered the State Department to begin producing within five days hundreds of documents on whether required or recommended security training, briefings or courses were comple

San Francisco State University has revealed plans to establish “Afro-themed” floors in residence halls following a confrontation between students last year over “cultural appropriation.”

Following an officer involved shooting in Charlotte North Carolina yesterday a mob of angry protestors assembled. Immediately the protesting mob began attacking police officers and vehicles. The mo…

It is almost axiomatic by now that bureaucrats in Washington have the same stake in supporting progressive candidates that progressive candidates have in supporting bureaucrats in Washington.

Obama says we just need to "open our hearts."

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