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The judge said Pamela Moses 'tricked' probation department officials into allowing her to obtain the right to vote A Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Tennessee was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally registering to vote while serving probation.

Black Kean University alumna, activist tweeted threats against black students during racism protest: officials BY STEPHEN REX BROWN A barrage of terrifying tweets directed at black students of a New Jersey university were actually made by a black alumna participating in a protest about racism, prosecutors revealed Tuesday. Self-proclaimed activist Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, sent messages from an anonymous Twitter account menacing black students of Kean University in Union, N.J., starting Nov. 17, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. “i will kill every black male and female at kean university,” read one of the tweets from the account @keanuagainstblk, which...

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<p>WASHINGTON -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the stalemated Afghanistan war, has told the Army that he will retire.</p>

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny. The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming. The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late, The Times has learnt. The ICO is now seeking to change the...

Bivins, TX, September 4, 2001 Racial Attack Hoax &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An East Texas woman who claims she was the victim of a racially motivated attack appears to have made the story up. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The woman told Cass County Sheriff&#39;s investigators that two white men abducted her last week. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She went on to say that the pair sexually assaulted her, and scrawled the letters&nbsp;K-K-K into her chest. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now the woman says she carved the letters into her own chest and was actually with the man who she said picked her up after the made up attack. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Investigators say they ...

Democracy: George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute , which gave him "legal and media advice"? That's right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship "philanthropy," by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's "politicization of science" program. That...

For the second straight week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) holds a fourteen percentage point lead in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Giuliani attracts support from 33% of Likely Primary Voters while Arizona Senator John McCain is supported by 19%. A week ago, it was Giuliani 32% McCain 18%. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) picked up a few points this week and now is favored by 13%. Trailing Gingrich is former Massachusetts Mitt Romney (R) at 9%. Senators Sam Brownback (R) and Chuck Hagel (R) each earn 3% support. It is not clear that...

Mother Sheehan fans will recall that as hurricane Katrina threatened to remove her grieving visage from the front page of the nation's newspapers, Cindy got together with her pals, the Veterans For Peace, to start a Katrina relief effort. The self-designated worthy being, Michael Moore, began vouching and shilling for the VFP's Katrina relief program.As discussed previously, the VFP asked for donations that they claimed would be used to "support" the Red Cross. The VFP later falsely claimed that the Red Cross had designated them "the best shelter" doing Katrina relief. (The VFP never opened any kind of shelter.)Meanwhile, the...

Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd) collapsed on the City Council floor this afternoon after delivering a speech in favor of a resolution calling for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq. The 72-year-old alderman was standing near one of the exit doors to the City Council chamber, on the 2nd floor of City Hall, about 1:25 p.m. during the council's regular meeting. Ald. Virginia A. Rugai (19th) had just started to speak when another alderman got the chairman's attention by yelling, "Call 911!" A recess was called and proceedings came to an immediate halt as Natarus' colleagues ran to him. An aide...

**Exclusive** HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA. The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director's cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone. The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak. The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition. The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted as a complete fraud. The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the middle of night at AIR AMERICA offices...