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  • 5th Night of Protests Planned in Brooklyn for Kimani Gray

    03/15/2013 1:02:28 PM PDT · by Kartographer · 38 replies
    Demonstrators planned to protest in Brooklyn for a fifth night Friday against the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy, who officers claim had a gun when he was killed. No major clashes were reported on the fourth night of demonstrations Thursday in East Flatbush, after protests earlier in the week resulted in arrests, looting and minor scuffles with officers. Carol Gray spoke publicly for the first time Thursday, choking up as she talked about her son, Kimani Gray, who was killed Saturday in a confrontation with police. Police have said the boy had a gun, but his supporters dispute...
  • Schumer’s Transfer Tyranny “Protecting Responsible Gun Sellers Act of 2013”

    03/15/2013 7:21:16 AM PDT · by EXCH54FE · 35 replies
    National Review ^ | Mar. 14, 2013 | Charles C. W. Cooke
    S. 374 represents a direct blow to Americans’ right to keep and bear arms without excessive government interference. The bill holds that any “transfer” of a firearm must be conducted via a middleman (in practice, a law-enforcement officer or the holder of a Federal Firearms License) and that a transferee is obliged to submit to a check under the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. There are good-faith arguments in favor of and against this provision. But Chuck Schumer has narrowed the definition of “transfer” so strictly as to make his proposition absurd. If, for example, a gun owner...
  • Councilman urges residents to channel anger on 4th night of Brooklyn unrest (Shorten)

    03/15/2013 5:53:48 AM PDT · by Kartographer · 71 replies
    PIX 11 ^ | 3/15/13 | by Jay Dow
    For the fourth consecutive night residents, police officers, and news crews converged on East Flatbush Brooklyn Thursday to take part, respond to, and report the outrage over the fatal police shooting of 16-year old Kimani Gray. Carol Gray told Pix11, “He’s not the public’s angel. But he’s my baby. And he was slaughtered. And I want to know why. Even after the first shot, second bullet, why third bullet, why fourth bullet, why?” Gray’s mother seemed to acknowledge the negative characterizations of her son now swirling in the media. Statements made by the NYPD that Gray was armed, his gun...
  • TV-smashing, rock hurling 'candlelight vigil'

    03/15/2013 5:05:26 AM PDT · by Anila · 25 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | 03/12/13 | Colin Flaherty
    Kiki Gray would never point a gun at a cop, said his family and friends. He was a “good boy.” Kiki would never even carry a gun. But if he did point it at two plain clothes cops in Brooklyn last Saturday night, Kiki would not have shot them. After all, Kiki was only 16 years old and he was a “some mother’s son.” The videos show a different picture of Kiki. A violent, lawless Kiki that perhaps his family and friends did not know. More on that in a minute. First the killing, then the riot that followed Kiki’s...
  • [NY] Attorney General challenges NFL

    03/14/2013 12:27:20 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 15 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 14, 2013
    ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman urged the NFL on Thursday to investigate whether possible draft picks were improperly asked about their sexual orientation during the league's combine, which he said would be illegal in New York. "We ask that the league immediately issue a statement that any form of discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation by league teams or players against potential recruits or players constitutes a violation of state, local and, in some cases, contractor law and will not be tolerated," Schneiderman said in a letter dated Thursday and released to news...
  • TSA sells your confiscated items

    03/14/2013 9:11:38 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    Tucson News Now ^ | Mar 13, 2013 | Jackie Kent
    According to TSA, an average of 425 pounds of "stuff" is turned over at some of the nation's largest airports, and TSA sends it to states to make a profit. ... Pennsylvania, specifically, is turning the collected items into a profit. They have one of the largest receiving centers, which holds boxes and buckets of your personal belongings from major airports, including Laguardia, JFK and Newark. Over the past nine years, they have sold knives and other paraphenalia for nearly $900,000. Some items are sold at a government surplus store. Ten pounds of assorted black knives can be worth an...
  • 3rd straight night of rioting in Brooklyn (Over young man shot by police)

    03/14/2013 7:37:45 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 57 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 03/14/2013 | Rick Moran
    An incident involving a teenager who was shot by police after he pointed a .38 at them has enraged Brooklynites and caused three straight nights of rioting. From NY Daily News: At least 46 demonstrators were arrested along Church Ave. in East Flatbush. Police struggled to control a hostile crowd that broke away from a planned peaceful vigil for Kimani (Kiki) Gray, 16, killed by police on Saturday night. Gray's sister Mahnefeh was among those arrested. A police officer suffered a gash in the face when a tossed brick hit him, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said, and a window was...
  • To Speak of Woe That Is in Teen Pregnancy - Mayor Bloomberg dares do it, with predictable backlash

    03/13/2013 8:33:23 PM PDT · by neverdem · 24 replies
    City Journal ^ | 11 March 2013 | HEATHER MAC DONALD
    New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has drawn the ire of the poverty-industrial complex for launching a gutsy ad campaign against teen pregnancy. Posters in thousands of bus shelters and subways show tiny tots bewailing the bad news about teen pregnancy. “Because you had me as a teen,” cries one, “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school.” Other stressed-out toddlers warn of the financial burdens their unwed mothers will face and the near certainty that their fathers won’t stick around. One little sage identifies the simplest way to avoid poverty: graduate from high school, get a job, and...
  • Posters on Teenage Pregnancy Draw Fire

    03/13/2013 7:28:00 PM PDT · by Bon of Babble · 24 replies
    NY Times ^ | March 6, 2013 | Kate Taylor
    The curly-haired baby looks out from the poster with sad eyes and tears dripping down his tawny cheeks. “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen,” the text next to his head reads. In another poster, a dark-skinned little girl casts her eyes to the sky and says, “Honestly Mom ... chances are he won’t stay with you. What happens to me?”
  • JUDGE BLOCKS BLOOMBERG'S SODA BAN — Calls It 'Arbitrary And Capricious'

    03/11/2013 1:38:49 PM PDT · by blam · 54 replies
    TBI ^ | 3-11-2013 | Kim Bhasin
    JUDGE BLOCKS BLOOMBERG'S SODA BAN — Calls It 'Arbitrary And Capricious' Kim BhasinMarch 11,2013 A judge has invalidated New York City's ban on large sodas, which was supposed to go into effect tomorrow, saying that the limits on sugary drinks are invalid, according to CNBC. The New York City Mayor's Office said it would appeal the decision "as soon as possible" in a tweet shortly after the ruling came down. Bloomberg's new sugary drink regulations, which were supposed to go in effect Tuesday, are "fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences," New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling wrote. "It is...
  • New Gun Law Facing Court Hearing (NY)

    03/13/2013 6:03:50 PM PDT · by neverdem · 17 replies
    WENY-TV NEWS ^ | March 13, 2013 | NA
    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A state judge is scheduled to hear arguments challenging New York's tough new gun law by more than 1,000 plaintiffs who claim it violates the state constitution because it was passed too quickly and restricts the guns of its citizen militia. Robert Schulz, who's helping lead the effort, wants a preliminary injunction from Justice Thomas McNamara to stop further implementation of the law...
  • Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

    03/13/2013 3:12:46 PM PDT · by TurboZamboni · 8 replies
    fox ^ | 3-13-13 | Eric Shawn
    a total of four Democratic officials and political operatives have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election. The latest guilty pleas expose the ease with which political insiders can apparently manipulate the electoral system and throw an election their way, by the forging of signatures of unsuspecting voters that are then cast as real votes.
  • Charlie Rangel Goes off the Liberal Plantation

    03/13/2013 4:58:27 PM PDT · by wesagain · 18 replies
    GodFatherPolitics.com ^ | Mar 12, 2013 | Gary DeMar
    New York Congressman Charlie Rangel was asked by MSNBC anchor and openly homosexual Thomas Roberts what he thought about the next Pope and the direction of the Catholic Church. Here was Rangel’s response: “I hope they stick by their guns on same-sex marriage and telling a woman what she should do with her body.” Wow! Where has Charlie been all these years? Let’s see if the Gaystapo go after him to force an apology out of him. It doesn’t take them long to hunt down anyone who utters a word against their so-called lifestyle choice. Liberals will attack Rangel by...
  • Shooting in Herkimer, New York kills four.

    03/13/2013 3:22:11 PM PDT · by karatemom · 37 replies
    SWAT teams have moved in on a jewelry store in upstate New York where a man accused of killing four people and wounding two others is in hiding. The Herkimer Police Department confirmed that the suspect fired shots at police officers. A black armored vehicle and a track-driven robot with a camera on top rolled up in front of Glory Days Food and Spirits in the village of Herkimer on Wednesday afternoon as officers surrounded blocks of shops topped with apartments Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/13/4-dead-2-injured-in-upstate-new-york-shooting-spree-manhunt-underway/#ixzz2NSeTnWRz
  • Four NY Democrats Sentenced to Community Service, Jail Time For Role in Voter Fraud Case

    03/13/2013 2:33:07 PM PDT · by rustyweiss74 · 33 replies
    Mental Recession ^ | 03/13/2013
    Four Democrats involved in an upstate New York voter fraud scandal were sentenced yesterday for their respective roles, receiving punishments ranging from hundreds of hours of community service, to jail time. The group consisted of a former city clerk, an ex-City Councilman, a Democrat operative, and a Committeeman who a year ago had declared ballot forgery in upstate New York to be “a normal political tactic“. Those sentenced yesterday were cooperating witnesses in a scheme which saw dozens of voters testify that absentee ballots had been submitted in their names during the 2009 Working Families Party (WFP) primary. Securing the...
  • Piers Morgan: People Need Dictators and Slave Masters “Occasionally”

    03/13/2013 10:56:56 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 42 replies
    Political Outcast ^ | March 13, 2013 | Gary DeMar
    Piers Morgan and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s want to be dictators and slave masters. Regulating a person’s diet is the regulation of a person’s life. Here was Morgan’s response to a guest who disagreed with him on sugary drink control:“I think people need [these types of laws] occasionally, particularly on issues like smoking, drinking, guzzling sodas too big for them, you know, eating 16 Big Macs a day, whatever it may be, the reality is we all need a bit of nannying about that. That’s why so many people are on diets. That’s a form of nanny state.”When governments...
  • New York's Retirees and Veterans Stand to Lose $8.5 Billion with Chained CPI

    03/13/2013 9:51:11 AM PDT · by saywhatagain · 10 replies
    Heraldonline.com ^ | March 13, 2013 | By AARP New York State
    As President Obama heads to Capitol Hill to push his deficit reduction plan, AARP is urging the New York congressional delegation to oppose the so-called 'chained CPI,' which would make significant cuts to Social Security and veterans benefits in New York according to a new analysis based on data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
  • Disabled 13-year-old Brooklyn girl hurled off moving bus by bully

    03/13/2013 9:02:25 AM PDT · by Sopater · 89 replies
    Daily News ^ | March 13, 2013
    A bully tossed a disabled girl out of the back door of a moving school bus and straight into the path of oncoming traffic — an attack that easily could have ended in death. Two matrons were on the bus dealing with a ruckus, but neither was able to protect Amore-Virginia Peterson, 13, on Friday. She said that when she slammed into the pavement she thought she “was going to die” — but she managed to scramble out of the road before she was hit by the cars bearing down on her. The bipolar sixth-grader suffered a broken collarbone and...
  • “People can be convicted for thoughts”: ‘Cannibal cop’ attorney says decision will be appealed

    03/13/2013 7:48:59 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    PIX 11 ^ | 03/13/2013 | James Ford
    His online fantasies to kidnap, sexually torture, cook and eat women were more than just gory make believe. That’s what a jury concluded in its guilty verdict against so-called Cannibal Cop Gilberto Valle that left him, his lead attorney and his family in tears. “I’m shocked!” was the terse reaction from the mother of Patrol Officer Valle as she ran out of the federal courthouse on Centre Street. Her outburst came minutes after the jury of six men and six women concluded that her son was guilty on the two charges he faced: conspiracy to kidnap and accessing a federal...
  • Democratic Congressman: ‘Capitalism By Itself Is Not What American Values Are All About’

    03/12/2013 1:16:39 PM PDT · by pacificpundit · 17 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 3/12/13 | Noah Rothman
    Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) took a swipe at American capitalism on Tuesday amid a discussion with MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts about the Catholic Church’s ongoing conclave to determine who will be the next Pope. Rangel declared that the church needs a new pontiff in order to continue their global charitable works and that Americans support that charity because Americans do not value “capitalism by itself.”