Posts on Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Cali Carlisle admits she is a heroin addict — 'but in a healthy way,' she insists, even if the visual evidence belies that claim.Her nose is the brightest shade of red imaginable. She constantly picks at scabs all over her body. Her home is a makeshift bed beneath Interstate 80 in Sacramento.And Monday was her 26th birthday. Not that you would ever guess. Anyone looking at her would think she is at least 15 years older. Carlisle is part of California's growing homeless emergency. The state has around 130,000 people without a roof over their heads. But she is not in downtown Los Angeles where Skid Row is a symbol
Investigate journalist John Solomon of The Hill released another breaking report in his appearance on Hannity on Wednesday night. According to Solomon the Trump Administration is creating an “Office of Transparency” to expedite the release of DOJ documents that have been stalled by Deep State operatives.This comes after months of waiting for subpoenaed documents from the FBI and Director Christopher Wray who has done all he can to stall and protect Hillary Clinton and the Deep State cabal.Via Hannity:(Video)
Two cameras that malfunctioned outside the jail cell where financier Jeffrey Epstein died as he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges have been sent to an FBI crime lab for examination, a law enforcement source told Reuters. Berman in Manhattan on Tuesday they had doubts about the New York City chief medical examiner's conclusion that their client killed himself. The two cameras were within view of the Manhattan jail cell where he was found dead on Aug. 10. A source earlier told Reuters two jail guards failed to follow a procedure overnight to make separate checks on all prisoners every 30
Eric Trump vowed that the Trump Organization will take legal action against MSNBC and Lawrence O'Donnell after the left-leaning host aired a singled-sourced, unverified report that President Trump had loans co-signed by Russian oligarchs. "This was a reckless attempt to slander our family and smear a great company. Apologies are not enough when the true intent was solely to damage and cause harm. As a company, we will be taking legal action. This unethical behavior has to stop. @Lawrence @MSNBC," Eric Trump tweeted Wednesday night.
As we head into the long Labor Day weekend, here are two tips to make your holiday even more cheerful. First: Remember to watch out for drunk driving illegal aliens! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a report after report showing that Hispanics are wildly overrepresented in drunk driving accidents (but also contribute so much to our cultural life, musical heritage and landscape!) Or, as the Huffington Post puts it: “Latinos At Greater Risk of Dying From Driving While Intoxicated.” They’re victims of the drunk driving epidemic! German Concentration Camp Guards At Greater Risk of Dying From Accidental Inhalation of Zyklon B. One NHTSA report
Exactly 11 years ago today, then-Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain put out a video congratulating then-Sen. Barack Obama on winning the Democratic nomination — the first African-American to do so. "Too often, the achievements of our opponents go unnoticed. So I wanted to stop and say congratulations," McCain said in a video that day. "Tomorrow, we'll be back at it. But tonight, Senator, job well done." McCain's congratulating and acknowledging Obama wasn't the only time the revered late US Senator spoke positively of his opponent on the campaign trail. At 2008 campaign events, McCain famously rebuked attendees who spread fear
A college student who was interning in Washington, DC, for the summer was fatally stabbed in an apparent random attack on Tuesday, police and reports said. Margery Magill, 27, was walking a dog that she was looking after on Irving Street in the Northwest section of the city just before 9 p.m. when Eliyas Aregahegne, 24, allegedly knifed her to death, NBC Washington reported. Police and medics responded and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she died, DC cops said. Cops arrested Aregahegne for the killing on Wednesday and charged him with first degree murder, authorities said. Police said Wednesday they believe
An interesting article in the South China Morning Post outlines how Chinese companies producing everything from canned mandarin oranges, to mid and high-tier furniture, cannot sustain a business model without access to the U.S. market.
Their problem?…
In essence, when they established their decades-old business model the overwhelming majority of their manufacturing was/is contingent on U.S. buyers.
Right now those Chinese companies are praying the CCP central government keeps devaluing their currency, because U.S. purchasers, including wholesalers and intermediaries, have told those manufacturers they will not pay the import duties.
Apparently, U.S. corporate buyers are leveraging the pressure applied by President Trump – a remarkable dynamic.
Brexit Maneuvering – Boris Johnson
Requests Queen Suspend Parliament,
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Internal British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn was developing a plan to stop the U.K from leaving the European Union through legislation aimed at blocking any Brexit without a pre-existing deal. Additionally, Corbyn was proposing calling a vote of ‘no confidence’ in a scheme aimed at weakening Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s no-deal brexit.
To thwart that opposition plan, PM Boris Johnson asked Queen Elizabeth to suspend Parliament, thereby cancelling the legislative time Corbyn would have to form his anti-Brexit law and scheme. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II agreed to suspend Parliament.
The perfect companion accompanied my family’s trip West this summer in the modern covered wagon: A new, single-volume book of U.S. history. As our RV motored across the plains, I read of how they were discovered and settled. I looked across the prairies, the badlands, and the mountains and imagined myself coming in an ox-drawn cart instead of a motor vehicle with a gas stove and bathroom.
“Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story,” by University of Oklahoma historian Wilfred McClay, is extremely readable. It’s written in a conversational but not casual tone, and thus approachable to readers from around age ten
Donald Trump’s repeated use of the name “Pocahontas” as part of an attack on Democrat Elizabeth Warren has been condemned as “an insult for political gain”, by the country’s largest indigenous rights groups. The president started using the name in a way many find offensive, even before he was elected to the Oval Office.(Snip) On Wednesday, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), which describes itself as the oldest and largest indigenous rights organisation in the US, formally criticised Mr Trump, saying his actions were part of a long tradition of insults endured by Native Americans and other indigenous groups. “For centuries Native people
Tuesday on the “Joe Madison Show,” Fair Fight Action Chair and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said she would “love” the opportunity to be the 2020 vice-presidential candidate. When Madison asked if she would be interested in being a running mate for the eventual 2020 Democratic nominee, Abrams said, “If the question is would I like the job I’m not going to be coy and say no. Of course, I would love that opportunity.”
Reports today about FBI raids on the homes of United Auto Workers (UAW) President Gary Jones who is under investigation in a nationwide corruption sweep MICHIGAN – FBI and IRS agents raided the home of UAW President Gary Jones in metro Detroit early Wednesday as part of a nationwide sweep of sites tied to the autoworker union.
Agents also raided the California home of Dennis Williams, who preceded Jones as UAW chief; the union’s northern Michigan conference center; and additional UAW locations in Wisconsin and Missouri.
The raids were a major step as federal officials ramped up their corruption investigation of the autoworkers union —
Jessi Combs—vehicle builder, racer, fabricator, TV personality, and all-around automotive legend—was killed on Tuesday in a crash while attempting to break her own land-speed record in southeast Oregon. She was 39.
The crash occurred as Combs was piloting her jet-powered land-speed car on the Alvord Desert, a dry lake bed where several land-speed records have been set. According to local reports, the crash happened shortly after 4pm local time.
Combs held the title of "fastest woman on four wheels" after setting a record of 398 mph in her jet-powered North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger in 2013. More recently, she had piloted that same car to 483.227 mph
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has barred Democratic staffers from the House Oversight Committee from visiting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a planned trip this week after committee staff allegedly were “disruptive” and refused to follow instructions during their last trip, Fox News has learned.
Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., had sent his staff to visit border facilities for “oversight inspections” last week and planned to send staff again to view Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and CBP centers.
Former Vice president Joe Biden (D) suffered yet another mental glitch on the campaign trail in South Carolina, forgetting former President Barack Obama’s name and instead referring to him as “president my boss,” according to a video that surfaced Wednesday. Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the video, which shows Biden referring to Obama as “president,” before pausing and adding “my boss,” seemingly due to a failure to recall his name: (Tweet/Video) “It is unfair to expect Vice President Biden to remember that he served with President Barack Obama,”
The progressive left scoffs at the notion they are engaged in a war on straight white men, but that doesn’t prevent them from singling out the demographic on a regular basis for vile attacks.According to the perpetually aggrieved left’s critical race theory, all white people are inherently racist, but they reserved their strongest ire for white males as they push a myth of white privilege while denouncing patriarchy.Lost in the week’s news was a Sunday segment of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” where host Joy Reid compared what she sees as benign coverage of President Donald Trump to how Adolf Hitler was treated leading up to World War Two.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is preparing to release a separate report on former FBI Director James Comey’s conduct, according to investigative reporter Byron York. The report on Comey will be separate from the “FISA abuse” report Horowitz should be releasing any time between mid-September to early October. Via Byron York of the Washington Examiner: The Justice Department inspector general is preparing to release a report on the conduct of fired FBI Director James Comey in the Trump-Russia investigation,
Lawrence O'Donnell says he made 'an
error in judgment' by reporting unverified
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MSNBC prime-time anchor Lawrence O'Donnell issued an apology for running with a single-sourced unverified claim about President Trump and Deutsche Bank."Last night I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process," he tweeted on Wednesday. "I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air. I will address the issue on my show tonight." (Tweet) On his show the day before, O'Donnell claimed that a source close to the bank was in possession of "documents that Donald Trump obtained loans with co-signers"
Foreign policy experts say that President Donald Trump is right to play hardball in the ongoing trade negotiations with China, despite critics’ assertions that his actions are doing more harm than good. [Snip] Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, former National Security Council senior director of strategic planning, said in an interview with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily that Trump is actually following the administration’s National Security Strategy, which seeks to confront the economic and security challenge posed by China. [Snip] He said more steps are in the works to confront Beijing, whose stated goal is to replace the U.S. as the world’s leader by 2050:
Trump — or what, exactly?
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In traditional political terms, there is always an alternate agenda to an incumbent president’s that reasonable voters can debate. In Trump’s case, two massive annual budget deficits — coming on top of the previous two administrations that doubled the national debt — seem fair game. No president for the past 19 years has sought to offer any remotely sane budget. And with still relatively low interest rates, massive federal spending, a $22 trillion national debt, and an annual deficit of nearly $1 trillion, it is hard to imagine, in extremis, that there remains any notion of “stimulus” or “pump-priming” left.
FBI and IRS agents, in a growing investigation of the US auto industry, carried out raids across 'multiple' states, including at the homes of United Auto Workers President Gary Jones in Michigan and of California home of former President Dennis Williams in California.
Investigators are probing into bribes, kickbacks and attempts by auto executives to influence labor negotiations with the UAW, a person with knowledge about the raids told DailyMail[dot]com. In the raids staged on Wednesday, federal agents armed with search warrants showed up at Jones' home in Canton, a suburb of Detroit, and Williams' home in Corona, California, the person said.
Language and the limits of the common law suffered this week as an Oklahoma judge declared Johnson & Johnson liable for supposedly creating what the judge called a “public nuisance” resulting in the state’s opioid crisis.
In this case, the judge’s adoption of the state attorney general’s claim that Johnson & Johnson caused a “public nuisance” as the basis for ordering the company to pay $572 million to fund a crisis abatement plan represents a use of the term unmoored from its bounded common law meaning.
Parkchester, the Bronx—Police are looking for a man that’s accused of walking into a mosque in the Bronx on Sunday and asking the imam for help in executing an attack on a police precinct. according to the NYPD. Authorities said the unidentified man entered the Bronx Muslim Center on Rhinelander Avenue, in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, around 4 p.m. Sunday. According to police, the man approached the mosque’s imam and requested assistance from the imam in committing an act of terror against a police precinct. The man was ordered to leave the mosque, at which time he complied and left
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar obviously thinks that being a “woman of color” grants her the privilege of keeping her “personal life” off the public radar screen—a status that doesn’t exist for American politicians, ‘women of color’ or not.
Activist politicians of our day work with social media to create and control their own digital image.
In the case of active “Squad” member, Ilhan Omar, the man with whom she is allegedly ‘romantically’ connected, was paid
BRANDON — Dale Inman tried to run.
It didn’t matter that a Hillsborough County detective flashed his badge, Inman wasn’t stopping.
He abandoned the generator and power washer he had just stolen and tore out of the Home Depot on E. Adamo Drive. He made it through the special exit for contractors and into the parking lot, where his partner waited in a getaway car.
But detective Philip Merkle wasn’t alone. Officers who’d been hiding in unmarked cars shouted: “Stop! Sheriff’s Office.” Surrounded, Inman eased to the pavement. His arms began to flail before deputies could cuff him. His body shook and seized.
“What’s wrong?” Merkle called down.
Inman couldn’t answer.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn—A 63-year-old man with plans to exercise was in a Crown Heights Park Tuesday morning when he was attacked with a brick in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Abraham Gopin, 63, lost two front teeth, suffered a broken nose and lacerations to the face in the 7:40 a.m beating, officials said.(Snip) At this point in 2018, there had been 90 incidents of anti semitic crime, Deutsch said. There have already been 146 incidents this year. "From what I heard, he was yelling 'dirty Jew,' which makes it very painful," Friedman said
As a crowd of nearly 250,000 people gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these historic words: "I have a dream." That was today in 1963. His pivotal speech not only helped bring the Civil Rights Movement even more to the forefront, it also pressured Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act, which they did the following year.
The March on Washington was a revolutionary event at the time. People came from all over the country to attend, with one boy—Robert Avery, who was just 15 years old—hitchhiking almost 700 miles from Alabama to reach Washington.
On August 28, 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Approximately 250,000 people attended. They were attempting to draw attention to the discrimination, physical mistreatment, and racist policies that existed in the Deep South. Many Americans were moved when Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial and shared his dream that, “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
President Donald Trump‘s reelection campaign blasted out a petition on Tuesday to protect the Electoral College, the voting system that Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have increasingly attacked.
“Crazy AOC wants to ABOLISH the Electoral College. Let’s remind her this is OUR country, not the Coastal Elites,” a text message from the Trump Campaign to supporters read.
But it was Trump who railed against the “sham” Electoral College, calling the system a “disaster for a democracy” and a “travesty” in the years before he entered politics. (Tweet) Trump even called for “a revolution in this country” after claiming President Barack Obama lost the popular vote to Mitt Romney in 2012.
Cali Carlisle admits she is a heroin addict—'but in a healthy way,' she insists, even if the visual evidence belies that claim. Her nose is the brightest shade of red imaginable. She constantly picks at scabs all over her body. Her home is a makeshift bed beneath Interstate 80 in Sacramento. And Monday was her 26th birthday. Not that you would ever guess.(Snip) Carlisle is part of California's growing homeless emergency. The state has around 130,000 people without a roof over their heads. But she is not in downtown Los Angeles where Skid Row is a symbol of the national crisis
A federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Idaho must pay for a transgender inmates’ sex reassignment surgery. Inmate Adree Edmo, a convicted sex offender, was diagnosed with gender dysmorphia in 2012. His attorney, Deborah Ferguson, argued in January that the state was placing him at risk of suicide if they refused to fund his surgery. “They certainly would treat a prisoner with cancer, they treat a prisoner with diabetes, or other chronic conditions,” Ferguson said, according to local CBS affiliate KBOI-TV. “So, we have a medically recognized condition that’s very treatable and we have been trying to get her the treatment that she very much needs.”
MSNBC's Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday took shots at former president Barack Obama during her defense of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. "Let's try something new for a change. How about someone with experience? Every time someone has experience it's ‘Oh he might be too old.' Really? Really? Think about it. Don't you want someone who's been there, who's been serving, who wants to go back to Washington, which can be a horrible snake pit," Brzezinski said. "Here's the pitch for Joe Biden. He's been there. He's done that
Bad Law Keeps People Poor
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Why does most of Africa stay poor while other parts of the world prosper?
People blame things like climate, the history of colonialism, racism, etc.
But I say Senegalese businesswoman Magatte Wade gives the right explanation: too many rules.
"Once you hire someone, good luck getting rid of them for any reason," Wade complains. Her government must approve every firing.
"Then the tax code is so complicated... worth at least two or three truckloads of paper."
Wade started a lip balm company. Some of her ingredients are not made in Senegal, so she imports them. To "protect" Senegalese manufacturers, the government makes importing ingredients expensive.
Shocking video that shows an electronic voting machine malfunction during Mississippi's runoff election has gone viral on the internet, sparking concern from citizens. The clip was shared to Facebook on Tuesday by Oxford resident Sally Kate Walker, and shows a male voter trying to cast his ballot by selecting from two available options on a touch screen. The man touches a box marked 'Bill Waller Jr' - the candidate for whom he is voting to be the state's next Republican governor. However, once he selects his option, the machine inadvertently marks a box labelled 'Tate Reeves' - the other candidate
Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson announced Wednesday that he will resign from the Senate, citing health reasons.“After much prayer & consultation with my family and my doctors, I have made the very tough decision to leave the U.S. Senate at the end of this year..my health challenges are taking their toll on me, my family and my staff. My Parkinson’s has been progressing.”“With the mounting health challenges I am facing, I have concluded that I will not be able to do the job over the long term in the manner the citizens of Georgia deserve.
Joe Biden claimed racism is institutional in America on Tuesday, but would not commit wholeheartedly to picking a person of color as his running mate if he were to win the Democrat presidential nomination. Biden, who has faced scrutiny over his ties to avowed segregationists and opposition to school busing, told a group of reporters that racism is an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of color” within the United States. “White folks are the reason we have institutional racism,” the former vice president said. “There has always been racism in America.
The outline of primary support at the end of August is traditionally how the voting ends up during the first primaries the following year. Biden, Sanders, Warren and Harris look to be the only viable candidates. The challenge now becomes keeping the existing support.(Via Emerson) […] Spencer Kimball, Director of Emerson Polling, points out that “Mayor Pete Buttigieg has seen his poll numbers drop all summer and is now at 3%, behind Andrew Yang who is at 4%. Mayor Pete has raised enough money to stay in the race for now but will need a strong debate performance to remain relevant.”
The New York Times and others are complaining that allies of President Trump are targeting hostile reporters by exposing controversial social media postings from their past. But most voters consider these reporters fair game for public criticism.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters think reporters at major news organizations like CNN, Fox News and the New York Times are public figures who deserve the same level of scrutiny as the people they cover. Just 19% disagree, although just as many (20%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Just over half (51%) say it is
If wishing for a recession could make it so, then the economy would be headed over a steep cliff. The hate-Trump left’s drumbeat for a hoped-for R word has been growing louder and more persistent with every passing day.
They point to polls of economists predicting a 2020 recession and never mind that this is the same crowd of academics who told us that Trump election would cause a “global economic calamity.”
These are the people who said the economy was overdue for a recession three years ago.
These are the very same prophets who said the Trump tax cut wouldn’t work to create jobs and higher wages.
These were the academic whiz kids
A decade ago, single payer health care—the government-run health care system that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) refers to as Medicare for All—was a fringe idea in the Democratic Party. President Obama positioned his health care law as an alternative to the notion of a fully government-run system, and the few Democrats in Congress who supported single payer tended to do so softly, believing that most Americans would reject the idea.
When former Sen. Max Baucus (D–Mont.) led negotiations over the legislation that would become the Affordable Care Act, he had one rule: All options would be up for discussion—except for single payer. As
A suspected arson attack on a bar in southern Mexico on Tuesday night has killed 23 people and injured 13. The attackers started a vicious blaze that ripped through Caballo Blanco bar in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, killing eight women and 15 men. State police are investigating a possible arson attack, which may have been started with petrol bombs, and said the search for the attackers continues.(Snip) The attack, along with the killing of 19 people in the western city of Uruapan earlier this month, is likely to renew fears that the public violence of the 2006-2012 drug war has returned.
Supporters of Beto O’Rourke heckled a man at a campaign event who urged the former congressman to lead America back to more Christian values to reduce violence.
The man stood up and addressed O’Rourke at a town hall event at Seminar Brewing Company in Florence, South Carolina.
“I grew up with goals, I’m the son of immigrants, we prayed in school, the worst problem in school was chewing gum under the desks,” the man said.
“Boo!” shouted O’Rourke supporters when the man mentioned prayer in school and God.
“It’s 2019!” another supporter jeered.
“Nobody wants to hear you, give the mic back!” another supporter shouted.
But the man continued,
2016 really is the deepest GOP field in a very, very long time. In fact, it isn’t even close.” — Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics, Jan. 29, 2015
Five U.S. senators, a former cabinet secretary, a visionary tech entrepreneur, a polyglot mayor-soldier-intellectual, and a crusading former congressman will be on the stage for the third Democratic presidential debate, hosted by ABC on September 12 in Houston. Add to that a former vice president.Is the Democratic field as strong as it appears? Or is it as weak as the Republican field of 2016 when an outsider thundered onstage and wiped all Republicans away? A fair estimation leads me to think the latter.
Big Tech Censors Strike Again
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ouTube on Monday banned three more independent commentators: James Allsup, “The Iconoclast,” and “Way of the World.” Their crime? Outspoken defense of Western Civilization, which apparently now is considered “hate speech.” Taken together, the videos posted by these three commentators had been watched more than 100 million times.
The most prominent of the newly banished, James Allsup, had over 450,000 subscribers. Thanks to this latest move by YouTube, America’s de facto Ministry of Truth, nearly a half-million Americans now have less reason than ever to believe their First Amendment rights will be respected, or, by extension, any of their constitutional rights.
Do the masters of YouTube fear “right-wing extremism?”
America's greatest get-togethers
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The street preachers posted just outside the main gate of the Minnesota State Fair are relatively mild in their condemnation. Yes, their yells strongly suggest the tens of thousands who stream past in pursuit of funnel cake and Pronto Pups are headed as certainly to hell as to indigestion, but they do consistently allow the possibility of salvation.
It's a Minnesota Nice touch to the standard hellfire and brimstone, as is only right at the "Great Minnesota Get-Together," the largest state fair in the nation by daily attendance.
I went on opening day this year. The weather was a perfect 70 and sunny, and the parking lots were full by 10 a.m.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is back from vacation which means her modern-day fireside chats via Instagram Live are back in action. With these online townhall comes a bevy of asinine and concerning statements coming from the freshman Congresswoman's kitchen.
Ryan Saavedra of the Daily Wire captured much of her comments from Tuesday night's showing. AOC says she had a rather stressful vacation due to one major issue she is most concerned about -- climate change (also known as global warming before predictions made by Al Gore didn't exactly pan out).
"Even when I was on vacation, I woke up in the middle of the night at 3:30 in the morning,
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told fans on a live stream Tuesday that if climate change isn’t stopped, glaciers could melt and expose humans to diseases tens of thousands of years old.
“There are a lot of diseases that are frozen in some of these glaciers that scientists fear that there is a potential that a lot of diseases could escape these melted glaciers,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram Live.
“Things that were frozen for thousands of years, and that they’re going to get into our water, and that humans could contract them, and they’re going to be diseases that
Rep. Ilhan Omar's mysterious marital life has been much written about. Was she a bigamist? Was she married to her brother? It's unclear, but not unlikely. At a minimum, she seems to be playing musical husbands -- or is it lovers? The latest seems to be this fellow:
A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.
Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich told CNN Tuesday night that he doesn't see any path "right now" to beating President Trump in the Republican primary. He noted that "that doesn't mean there wouldn't be a path down the road... But right now, I don't see it."
What started out as a confrontation over Victor Sojos-Valladares's snooping through a woman's iPhone quickly escalated to the previously deported illegal immigrant attacking and choking her until the point o passing out, according to the East Hampton, New York victim.
Sojos-Valladares has a sordid history in the Hamptons, including being arrested for sexual assault and burglary on two separate occasions. In 2010, the pervert climbed into the window of an unsuspecting woman. He climbed into her bed and began kissing her without her permission. The woman did not even know him. She woke up yelling in terror, which caused him to flee the scene. He was arrested a week later
The Lawfare group are the external influence agents for corrupt politically motivated lawyers working in government. The group fingerprints show up everywhere including among “beach friends” and legal schemes hatched from the premise of their assembly. Lawfare = use the law as a tool in warfare. (Snip)The Lawfare group is headed by Comey’s friend Benjamin Wittes; and the group give resistance advice to ideologues inside government as well as outside organizations who are resisting (suing) the Trump administration.
So when Benjamin Wittes announces to his ideological resistance followers:
…”You should thus expect charges against McCabe to be forthcoming (Snip)
…readers can assume Lawfare leadership has known
President Trump's latest foray into the world of international economics -- his ongoing trade war with China -- has been widely derided by his critics. It's been derided on the grounds that there is no long-term strategy; on the grounds that the trade war will not be, as Trump has bragged, "good and easy to win"; on the grounds that Trump continues to send mixed signals, simultaneously claiming that China is bearing the brunt of his tariffs while desperately urging Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
Now, Trump's trade policy may not be well-considered
Over the last few weeks, we've been exploring the competing narratives about the US economy -- with the White House insisting that all is well, as many in the media hype up the possibility of a coming recession. My general conclusion at this point has been that while there are some soft spots and genuine warning signs, the economy's fundamentals remain quite strong. Unemployment has been quite low, the job market has been quite robust, and wage growth has broken free from years of frustrating stagnation. We also recently received positive news on other indicators, including productivity, retail sales, and overall consumer spending:
Queen Elizabeth has approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to suspend British parliament, a statement from the official body of advisers to the Queen, known as the Privy Council, says. The statement confirmed that parliament would be suspended on a day between September 9 and September 12, until October 14. "It is this day ordered by Her Majesty in Council that the Parliament be prorogued on a day no earlier than Monday the 9th day of September and no later than Thursday the 12th day of September 2019 to Monday the 14th day of October 2019," the statement said on Wednesday.
Queen Elizabeth II has formally approved Boris Johnson's request to temporarily suspend Parliament, a move that will largely prevent lawmakers from pushing through new legislation and ultimately sabotaging the prospect of a no-deal Brexit.
In a letter to lawmakers released Wednesday, the prime minister said he "spoke to Her Majesty The Queen to request an end to the current parliamentary session."
He said an integral feature to the legislative program will be the introduction of a bill to leave the European Union and "to secure its passage" before Oct. 31. Hours later, the queen approved the request, suspending Parliament from mid-September to Oct. 14.
A new national poll shows nearly four in 10 Americans say they’d have little or no confidence that next year’s presidential election was conducted fairly if the candidate they back ended up losing.
That’s the sobering finding in a new Suffolk University Poll for USA Today that was released on Wednesday.
The deep concerns about the legitimacy of the 2020 election crossed party lines – with 45 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of Republicans indicating they’d have serious questions about the legitimacy of the victory regardless of the winner.
Among their top concerns – voter suppression, voter fraud, foreign interference in the election,
Facebook has revealed new rules for political ads in the US, hoping to stop misbehaviour ahead of the 2020 election.
The company will force organisations to disclose details of who they are if they are before posting ads on Facebook or Instagram, it says.
It is just the latest in a series of attempts by Facebook to stop its platform being abused to influence elections. But many of those efforts have been criticised as ineffectual or miscalculated.
In the latest change, Facebook is introducing a "confirmed organisation" label for U.S. political advertisers who show government-issued credentials to demonstrate their legitimacy.
All advertisers running ads on politics or social issues
The U.S. Navy shut down its Task Force Climate Change (TFCC), which was established by President Barack Obama in 2009, reported E&E News' Greenwire.
The closure was quiet and occurred in March, according to Greenwire, and "the group's tab on the Navy's energy, environment and climate change website was removed sometime between March and July."
The purpose of the TFCC was to evaluate how climate change affects or could affect Naval and national security operations. Retired Navy Rear Admiral Jon White, who ran the TFCC under the Obama administration from 2012 to 2015, said the shut down was "suspicious."
"It was a very quiet canceling of the task force," he told E&E News.
Idaho Governor Criticizes 'Activist
Court' for Ordering Gender Surgery
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Idaho taxpayers must pay for a 31-year-old prison inmate to undergo "gender confirmation surgery" -- the opinion does not call it sex reassignment -- allowing the inmate to remove the bits that show the inmate was born a male.
Mason Dean Edmo, now called Adree Edmo, pleaded guilty in 2012 to sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy at a party.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little, frustrated by the "activist court," said his state plans to appeal once again, this time to the U.S. Supreme Court: "Well, there have been two other courts that have ruled opposite, and we appealed this to the Ninth Circuit
In the midst of the daily tarring and feathering of President Trump by our "objective" press, we are treated to some precious moments where these badly disguised political operatives write something unintentionally hilarious.
Take, for example, The New York Times story on Aug. 25 headlined "Trump's Allies Scour Internet to Punish Press." Reporters Ken Vogel and Jeremy Peters ominously warned, "A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists."
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-avowed socialist, sometimes sounds like a multibillionaire entrepreneur when promoting his political agenda.
He intends, you see, to "invest" a great deal of money.
Of course, unlike a billionaire entrepreneur, Sanders won't be investing his own money. He will be "investing" yours.
Nor does Sanders intend to be a mere retailer. He is promising to make "massive investments" in a "Green New Deal" that will result in "a wholesale transformation of our society."
Trump administration shifts
millions earmarked for emergency
relief to fund border projects: report replies
millions earmarked for emergency
relief to fund border projects: report replies
With the 2020 election only 15 months away, President Donald Trump is determined to keep reminding his base that he is tough on U.S./Mexico border security. And the Trump Administration, according to NBC News, is shifting $271 million in federal funds — including funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — in order to fund additional immigrant detention space and temporary hearing locations for those seeking asylum.
According to a letter from Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard of California, ICE would gain $155 million. The funds would not only be taken from FEMA, NBC News is reporting, but also, from the U.S. Coast Guard.
A DHS official, quoted
Rep. Ilhan Omar violated campaign finance law by using campaign funds to pursue an affair with married Democratic consultant Tim Mynett, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Wednesday.
Omar’s campaign has disbursed $223,000 to Tim Mynett’s company, E. Street Group, LLC, from August 2018 through June 2019, mostly for fundraising consulting, FEC records show. But on April 1, her campaign began making payments to E. Street Group for “travel expenses.”
Less than a week later, on April 7, Tim Mynett confessed to his wife that he was “romantically involved with and in love with” Omar, according to a divorce filing Tuesday by Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House aide Kellyanne Conway defended Trump administration’s stance against China on trade by arguing a better trade deal would be “worth the wait” given the abuses by the Chinese over the past few decades.
Conway told host Martha MacCallum Trump was elected to “disrupt” the status quo of Washington, D.C. and improving trade agreements was part of it.
Partial transcript as follows:
MACCALLUM: So, why — why did the president say that they had called and wanted to come back to the table? And they say that they never called.
CONWAY: These trade negotiations are ongoing, and everyone knows that. The
Analysis: Joe Biden says he’d prefer a running
mate who is ‘of color and/or a different gender’ replies
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Former vice president Joe Biden has been leading the Democratic field in most polls since he entered the race, but even he acknowledges that he’s a long way from winning the nomination. If he does, Biden said it would be ideal for his ticket to reflect the diversity of the American population. The presidential hopeful told a small group of black journalists Tuesday that if he wins the nomination, he’d prefer that his vice presidential candidate not be a white male. Asked by Washington Post reporter Vanessa Williams whether it would be important to him to select a running mate
The Ferguson Effect comes to
New York: NYPD arrests plummet
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New York: NYPD arrests plummet
in wake of officer firing
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What is it about the left that fails to understand that painting cops as racists has consequences?
In the wake of the firing of a police officer over the death of black cigarette street seller Eric Garner, New York's police are focused now on just playing it safe.
According to Fox News, citing a report in the New York Post:
The firing of NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was involved in the fatal arrest of Eric Garner in 2014, appears to have already had an effect on the Big Apple, with the number of arrests dropping sharply compared to 2018 and cops warning of plummeting morale among New York City's finest.
Next week Catholic University of America in Washington will host a debate between New York Post columnist Sohrab Ahmari and National Review writer David French on the conservative movement's response to the "post-liberal left." It's just one of several discussions, conferences and forums attended by conservatives arguing about the future of a movement that has arguably already collapsed.
The Republican Party's conservative coalition, formed in the late '70s and early '80s, has been replaced by a hodgepodge of contradictory views. George Will just published a book, titled The Conservative Sensibility, that never mentions the word "abortion."
When President Trump calls it “the failing New York Times,” he certainly has a point.
As New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin recently pointed out, rampant bias in news coverage at the direction of the paper’s leadership has swept away the “Gray Lady’s” position as a bastion of journalism. And the paper doesn’t seem to care.
Media bias, however unprofessional, is to be expected in the Trump era. Even as we sit here today and discuss the egregious implications of Times executive editor Dean Baquet’s leaked comments during a staff meeting, the headlines will fade, the commentators will stop talking, and the Times will follow
China and the 2020 Election
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On April 25, 2019, Joe Biden declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Seven days later, on May 3, 2019, the Chinese sent a diplomatic cable to the Trump Administration blowing up a 150-page draft agreement that had taken many months to negotiate. The cable was riddled with reversals by China that undermined core U.S. demands. (snip) Why then would he willingly take on a grueling 18-month marathon of running for president? As the timing of Biden’s announcement and Chinese abrupt volte face on the trade agreement implies, one must, therefore, assume he was coerced into declaring his candidacy
As summer draws to an unofficial close this week, movie theaters and Hollywood are whining about the disappointing income year of 2019. Or at least that part of Hollywood that isn’t owned by the Walt Disney Co. Movie ticket sales revenues for the summer, which comprises only a third of the year but usually more than 40 percent of ticket sales, are down two percent for the summer and down over six percent for the year. [Snip] The National Association of Theater Owners, which represents the nation’s 40,313 movie screens, plus the 524 surviving drive-ins, claims the average ticket price is down a few pennies
Many grand ideological narratives of the present moment proclaim some tectonic collision between “nationalism” and “liberalism.” One of the things that have made this battle so hard to follow (and perhaps even so vitriolic) is that there seems to be a lack of common agreement about what these terms even mean.
Take “nationalism.” Many of the folks affiliated with the Niskanen Center are pretty staunch in their anti-“nationalist” sentiments, but what exactly constitutes “nationalism” is up for grabs. In a piece hosted at Niskanen’s website, political scientist Jeffrey Friedman defines “nationalism” to mean having any care for one’s fellow countrymen qua countrymen
Chanel Beauty has announced that transgender model Teddy Quinlivan has been picked as the company’s new face.
“I find I don’t cry anymore when things are sad,” Teddy Quinlivan said in a statement on Instagram, “but isn’t it interesting when we shed tears in moments of triumph?”
“This was one of those triumphant cry moments for me,” Quinlivan continued. “My whole life has been a fight. From being bullied at school consistently, kids threatening to kill me and going into graphic detail how they were going to do it, my own father beating me and calling me a f–got, to receiving industry blowback after speaking publicly about
Miami Herald Columnist Echoes
Farrakhan’s Antisemitism, Smears
Jewish Conservative as ‘Termite’ replies
Farrakhan’s Antisemitism, Smears
Jewish Conservative as ‘Termite’ replies
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., used what many conservatives and Jewish leaders are saying is an antisemitic attack against those working to expose the media, calling in a just-published column those involved in the effort, such as GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz, “termites.”
Schwartz, the only person Pitts, Jr., names as involved in the effort, is a Jewish conservative and ally of President Donald Trump.
The use of the word “termites” echoes antisemitism from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has recently used the word to attack Jewish people.
“A president who has branded journalists ‘enemies of the people’ and news media ‘an evil propaganda
The initial goal of invading Afghanistan in the immediate weeks after 9/11 could not have been more clear: Get Osama bin Laden and oust the Taliban regime that gave his fanatical pack of beards safe haven to plan and practice the deadly attacks. [Snip] Now 6,533 days later, the Taliban is back. Al Qaeda too and ISIS cells are blowing up weddings to create fear. A massive multi-year drought has swept the land, drastically curbing food supplies. And polls in both Afghanistan and the U.S. are questioning the outcome and entire value of the
Florida farmers formed a coalition this summer to study and combat the impact of climate change on agriculture in the state. The group also might seek new state subsidies to ensure the future of farming and open land in the nation's third-most populous state. (snip) Trees help to capture carbon -- a major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Open land also allows rainwater to soak in and recharge groundwater aquifers that feed many public water supplies. The Climate-Smart group believes farmers or any landowner could receive payment or tax cuts for such benefits. Nothing like that exists in the United States, the group acknowledges.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has said publicly that he doesn’t believe government should own the means of production. Yet he appears on national television last week and agrees there should be a “federal takeover” of the energy sector. His Marxist slip is showing.
“When I use the world socialist — and I know some people aren’t comfortable about it — I’m saying that it is imperative” to “create a government that works for all and not just the few,” the Vermont Democratic lawmaker said in 2015.
“I don’t believe,” he continued, “government should own the means of production,” which of course is a hallmark of socialism.
Most of the Democrat candidates pushing Medicare for all cite Canada’s system as the envy in the entire world. Bernie Sanders has been touting Canada’s health care system as far superior than anything here in the United States. At the same time there have been several articles debunking that reputation by patients needing immediate care. I must disagree with all the 2020 Democrat candidates who are proposing the single payer socialist health system. I believe we have the best system in the world and my recent health care proves it. If I lived in Canada, I’d be dead.
Hillary Clinton had a relaxing day catching up with a friend on Monday as she continues to enjoy the last days of summer in the Hamptons. The 71-year-old former secretary of state and her pal were seen taking a stroll near Amagansett Square, a shopping and dining area in Amagansett, New York. Hillary looked like she was in vacation mode in her striped shirt dress, which she paired with a sporty white sunhat and dark sunglasses.
State officials have confirmed at least three reports of voting machines in two counties changing voters’ picks in Mississippi’s GOP gubernatorial primary runoff.
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves are currently in a runoff for the Republican nomination in the governor’s race to see who will take on Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in the November general election.
'Disappearing delivery vehicles':
Vanishing polymer offers US
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Vanishing polymer offers US
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Military researchers have developed a material that can self-destruct instantaneously, offering a way to send equipment into enemy territory without leaving a trace.
The material is a special type of polymer that disintegrates after reaching a "ceiling temperature." Unlike biodegradable plastics, which take a long time to dissolve, the polymer can break down in as little as five minutes when exposed directly to sunlight.
Dr. Paul Kohl and his team developed the polymer for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which wants to use it to deploy electronic sensors and deliver supplies into hostile areas. It has already been made into a 10-pound rigid glider
Beginning of US Slavery
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The New York Times has begun a major initiative, the "1619 Project," to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe American history so that slavery and the contributions of black Americans explain who we are as a nation. Nikole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine wrote the lead article, "America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One." She writes, "Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different -- it might not be a democracy at all."
There are several challenges one can make about Hannah-Jones's article,
Thousands of would-be illegal immigrants are being returned to await asylum hearings in Mexico as part of a program the Trump administration has credited with curbing the recent wave of family migration at the southwestern border.
The Migrant Protection Protocols—more colloquially known as the "Remain in Mexico" policy—are regulations issued by former secretary of homeland security Kirstjen Nielsen in December 2018. Under the MPP, a subset of individuals who claim to be seeking asylum after being apprehended at the border now must await the results of their immigration court hearings in Mexico, rather than being detained—or, more often, released on their own recognizance—in the United States.
John McLaughlin, the CEO and Partner of McLaughlin & Associates, joined Laura Ingraham on Tuesday night to discuss the current political climate in the Trump era. John McLaughlin was a Trump pollster in 2016 during President Trump’s first presidential election. John says his polling shows Americans want Trump elected by a wide margin. (Photo) John McLaughlin: You’ve already mentioned they (the NeverTrumpers) lost the 2008 and 2012 race to Barack Obama. And Obama went on to destroy the health care system for middle class America, raise their taxes, lose their jobs.
Despite President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to push climate change to the front of the discussion during the recently concluded G-7 meeting in France, the confab ended without a concrete agreement to take action on the issue.
Some of the blame was laid at the feet of President Donald Trump, who was “a no-show at a crucial session on climate change” today. While blaming Trump for the lack of progress on climate change might make for a good headline, the broader story is more complex. Indeed, a look at the numbers shows that the U.S. has slashed its coal use and cut its total greenhouse emissions
It is truly time to effectively confront and oppose the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), which is nothing less than an attempted end run around the constitutionally established operations of the Electoral College embedded by America's Founders in Article II of the United States Constitution. The NPVIC is largely funded and promoted by wealthy, politically leftist donors primarily living in and around large cities on the West and East Coasts of the United States.Because the Electoral College is an integral part of the Constitution, the proper and perhaps only valid legal course of action to change the operations of the college is through the amendment process
Want to write a puff piece about the fake Indian, Elizabeth Warren?
Take a ticket!
It used to be that the Boston Globe practically had a monopoly on slobbering, unctuous flattery of the erstwhile Native American, the first woman of color at Harvard, emeritus.
It wasn’t enough for the Boring Broadsheet to pretend that the New England Historical and Genealogical Society hadn’t busted her melanin-impaired grift, or to peddle fake statistics about her scam DNA test. No, the bow-tied bumkissers also penned hagiographies of her dead dog (Otis), her new dog (Bailey) and her campaign headquarters in Charlestown (complete with a cameo appearance by Bailey).
But the Globe is one busy
VA secretary rejects Obama
religious expression rules: 'They
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religious expression rules: 'They
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Robert Wilkie, the soft-spoken and managerial-minded secretary of Veterans Affairs, went public in a big way this summer when he said he refused to be “bullied” by a federal lawsuit claiming a Bible on display at a New Hampshire VA hospital violated the separation of church and state.
In an interview with The Washington Times in his office at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Mr. Wilkie said displaying a Bible in a VA hospital is a matter of liberty and that the Obama administration erred in trying to eliminate religious symbols from the veterans health care system.
“The last administration … had a very ahistoric approach [to veterans],”
David Koch: An Appreciation
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Washington-
David Koch, one of the two celebrated Koch brothers known to millions of Americans who follow the news, passed away last Friday. He was 79.
Now there is only one Koch brother to appear in the news. Yet, the name Koch will be around for years. One sees the name frequently when business is being discussed, in discussions of the arts, in discussions of politics, particularly libertarian politics.
Does anyone stop to wonder why the name Koch appears so frequently in the news? Well, I have had some experience with the Kochs and I have an insight into the frequency with which one encounters their name. It is because the Kochs
Omar's lies proliferate
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My sources first made me aware of Ilhan Omar’s affair with Tim Mynett a month before the Daily Mail got around to reporting it in July. Today the Star Tribune has finally broken the story in Omar’s hometown newspaper and it must come as something of a shock to readers who get their news from the Minnesota media and who take Omar at face value. Omar continues to play them all for chumps. The lies she is living are too many to count, beginning with the identity fraud implicit in her claim to be Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.
Coincidentally, Omar was scheduled to sit for an interview
This week’s widespread media blitz heralding Netflix’s broadcast of its first Obama-endorsed presentation, “American Factory,” was more than synchronicity. It felt as though US publicists and journalists collectively exhaled their relief at finally regaining the bully pulpit.
Reviews of “American Factory,” a doc by indie veterans Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, were not reliable accounts of the film’s quality. Its lack of focus following a Chinese manufacturer’s takeover of a former General Motors plant in Ohio — a move that fails to relieve working-class anxieties but, instead, predicts job-market doom — didn’t faze flacks and reviewers. The media class saw Reichert and Bognar’s facile, generalized survey
A former Google engineer spent months downloading Google’s secret files on self-driving cars before he abruptly quit the company in 2016 to run Uber's autonomous vehicle program, federal prosecutors alleged on Tuesday. The engineer, Anthony Levandowski, has been charged with 33 counts of stealing trade secrets.
U.S. Attorney David Anderson said that a forensic investigation revealed that Levandowski downloaded around 14,000 files belonging to Google on or around Dec. 11, 2015, and that he later transferred those and other files to his personal laptop and then gave them to Uber.
The files included critical engineering information, schematics and engineering drawings related to Google’s self-driving vehicle program,
I confess that this story shocks me.
The New York Times reported yesterday that “Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director and a frequent target of President Trump, on charges of lying to federal agents.” Reporter Adam Goldman declares that,
In two meetings last week, Mr. McCabe’s lawyers met with the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who is expected to be involved in the decision about whether to prosecute, and for more than an hour with the United States attorney
Family members claim the girl's mother, father and stepfather acted in self-defense after they found the 17-year-old boy in their daughter's bedroom closet.
But the teen said the adults tied him up with rope, assaulted him and called him slurs in a racially motivated attack.
The parents are now charged with a hate crime and other felony offenses including kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats, according to police in the northern California town of San Bruno.