The AP’s title should read “Seattle Man Charged with Hate Thought Crime over Mosque Threats”. After all, a hate crime is just a thought crime. And who gets to define which thoughts are criminal and which ones are not? A hate-crime charge has been filed against a man who allegedly made online threats against a […]
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This from the ever so tolerant intolerants. Protesters disrupted a vigil for the Orlando terrorist attack victims in San Antonio Thursday night, heckling Mayor Ivy Taylor for not standing up for LGBT rights. About a dozen people carried signs and shouted at her as she stood to lead the crowd in prayer, a local CBS
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Because a riffle emoji will make people start shooting randomly. Just like the poop emoji makes people poop randomly… Dozens of new emoji are scheduled to become available Tuesday, including smartphone-friendly designs depicting salad bowls, scooters and six different jugglers with varying skin tones. Despite being initially approved for release, however, a rifle emoji and
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The Obama administration Friday struggled to contain the fallout from a leaked internal State Department cable signed by more than 50 mid-level diplomats slamming the White House’s Syria policy and calling for “targeted [U.S.] military strikes” against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad to boost embattled pro-U.S. rebel forces. Secretary of State John F.
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The man accused of murdering British lawmaker Jo Cox gave his name as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain” in court Saturday, following the killing that has brought campaigning ahead of the country’s EU referendum to a standstill. Thomas Mair, 52, made his defiant statement as he made his first appearance in Westminster Magistrates’ Court
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You have to wonder if they also hacked into Hillary’s insecure personal email server in her home. The hackers believed to be responsible for recently breaching the Democratic National Committee also compromised computers used by law firms, lobbyists and others closely tied to the U.S. political system, Bloomberg reported Friday. Citing a person familiar with
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Flip-flop. An Orlando police officer’s life was saved Sunday, when a bullet was stopped by his Kevlar helmet, but if Hillary Clinton becomes president, future first responders may not be so lucky. At a rally in Cleveland this week, notably held at a military-grade helmet manufacturing plant, Mrs. Clinton emphasized her commitment to supply law
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Less than a month after the Facebook summit between founder Mark Zuckerberg and leading conservatives, the tense relationship between Silicon Valley and conservatives has taken a turn for the worse. There was more uproar on the right Monday over moves by two top websites to suppress information about the Orlando mass shooter’s ties to the
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It takes a village™ Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign rolled out a multimillion-dollar ad campaign this week in eight battleground states across the country, offering an early glimpse of what’s likely to be an unprecedented advertising war leading up to the November election. The commercials — which will air in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina,
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Apple has decided it won’t provide funding, technology or other assistance for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month as a direct result of controversial comments made by presumptive nominee Donald Trump, Politico reported Saturday. Despite contributing towards previous conventions — including roughly $140,000 worth of equipment split between both parties in 2008 —
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Yet it’s OK for Obama to sell guns to Mexican cartels. From The Washington Times: Attorney General Loretta Lynch overruled FBI Director James B. Comey this week, saying the Obama administration does support denying firearms sales to those on terrorist watch lists and that it can be done without harming investigations. Mr. Comey last year
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Via CBS News: The co-owner of a Florida gun store says his employees contacted law enforcement before the Orlando shooting after gunman Omar Mateen attempted to purchase body armor and ammunition. Robbie Abell, co-owner of Lotus Gunworks, said Thursday his workers had a gut feeling about Mateen when he came to the store four or
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Via The Washington Post: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the elder Republican statesman, said President Obama was “directly responsible” for the terror attack in Orlando due to his failure to combat the rise of the Islamic State terror group. McCain’s statement goes beyond the criticism of Obama that has been leveled by his Republican colleagues in
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In a newsletter from Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador’s office today: “The House passed an important bill this week to strip the IRS of a tool the agency used to harass nonprofit and charitable groups and threaten First Amendment Rights. The Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act prohibits the IRS from requiring tax-exempt organizations
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I didn’t even realize that there were 249 Democrats in the State of Idaho. ?
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From the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s unemployment rate in May remained unchanged from the previous month at 3.7 percent. The Idaho Department of Labor in a news release Friday says gains in construction, financial activities and other services were offset by weaker-than-expected performance in manufacturing and wholesale trade. Other industries that were
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