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Stephanie Lavoie, 32, of Waterbury, Vt., is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court at a date to be announced on six counts of assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery on EMS personnel, disorderly conduct, assault and battery and resisting arrest. No charges were announced against her friend, but Boston police said they met with “violent resistance” from Lavoie, who they said “began screaming at officers, threw herself on the ground and refused to leave the premises. “The female became physically combative and kicked one of the officers,” police said. “The female was told she...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) applauded the boycott of The New York Post being organized by corner stores in the city following the tabloid’s front page cover calling out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her comments about 9/11. Omar has faced criticism this week for comments she made at a speech in March, notably from colleague Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and President Donald Trump. “CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” she said, in comments that her critics said minimized the...

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sided with President Donald Trump and other Republicans in the controversy following comments made by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on the September 11 terrorist attacks. Omar drew some questions after she a vague reference to the September 11 terrorist attacks, saying that “some people did something.” As IJR previously reported, her comments sparked a lot of backlash from Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and at least one of her Democratic colleagues, Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.). Several people were frustrated with Omar’s comments, but some feared that calling out...

exandria Ocasio-Cortez ‏ Verified account @AOC 6m6 minutes ago More Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today. @IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.

DETROIT -- With political divide at an all-time high and misinformation impacting politics daily, former President Bill and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared in Detroit Friday night to deliver a message focused around voters reclaiming the political process while respecting one another. “We need to treat people as people instead of looking for opportunities to bash them,” Bill Clinton said to a round of applause early in the 75-minute show. Hillary Clinton echoed those statements several times but admitted part of the problem with politics today is the spread of misinformation and how it plagued the 2016 elections....

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has sparked outrage online after she used a poem written about the victims of the Holocaust to defend fellow colleague Ilhan Omar, in response to a 'dangerous' tweet from the president. Omar was once again the subject of controversial debate this week, after remarks she made last month in reference to the 9/11 terror attacks as ‘some people did something’, resurfaced. An outraged Donald Trump tweeted ‘WE WILL NEVER FORGET’ on Friday night, accompanied by a 43 second video that showed Omar’s comment during a speech to the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), interspersed with footage...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders returned to the friendly terrain of Wisconsin on Friday, promising to build a coalition that will defeat President Donald Trump as he kicked off a swing through pivotal states that are part of the Democratic "blue wall" strategy for 2020. Sanders, speaking to a crowd of about 2,400 who braved 40-degree (4 Celsius) temperatures with a stiff 20 mph (32 kph) wind, pledged to flip Midwestern states such as Wisconsin that Trump narrowly won in 2016. "Together, we are going to make sure that does not happen again," Sanders said to cheers....

On Friday night, Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminated her relative lack of knowledge regarding world history once again by invoking the Holocaust in her defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar from what she says is an "explicit attack" from President Donald J. Trump. The commander-in-chief shared a video yesterday evening reminding Rep. Omar and her allies about the tragedy that occurred on 9/11 resulting in nearly 3,000 dead Americans. Rep. Omar has previously diminished the terror attack by Al-Qaeda as "some people" doing "something," which was included in the video.  Conservative commentators and pundits across Twitter reminded Rep. Ocasio-Cortez her...

Sen. Bernie Sanders went to bat for Rep. Ilhan Omar on Friday night — calling her a “leader with strength and courage” — in a tweet that was later praised by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “[Omar] won’t back down to Trump’s racism and hate, and neither will we,” Sanders said, just hours after the president released a video on Twitter, ripping the Minnesota congresswoman over comments she made last month about 9/11. “The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end,” Sanders seethed. In response, Ocasio-Cortez said: “Thank you Sen. @BernieSanders for recognizing these attacks clearly for what they are.”

There is a reason why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the face of the Democratic Party. With almost childlike innocence, she challenges institutions in a way that is completely new for left-of-center politicians. Why should anyone be a billionaire? If the country is so rich, why do people work so many hours? Why can’t everybody have higher wages?All these questions have been studied by real economists, of course. But AOC’s naïve approach to public policy leaves no doubt that she couldn’t care less what economists think.If AOC is the voice of the left, New York Times writer Paul Krugman is its...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to ignite outrage while defending freshman colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, this time by using a poem about the Holocaust to defend the Minnesota Democrat. [cut] She also shared an image of the words of "First they came ... ," the famous poem by German theologian Martin Niemöller that was inspired by the tragedies of the Holocaust. (The words are mounted on a wall at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.) The poem reads: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. "Then they...

And … so? Don’t blame Ilhan Omar for coming up with this idea for doubling down on her dismissive rhetoric about 9/11. That idea originated with Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who argued that the criticism of Omar’s “some people did something” comment didn’t take into account its context. Omar was happy to use Kessler’s argument for the double-down, though: “The people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” President George W. BushWas Bush downplaying the terrorist attack? What if he was a Muslim 🤔 https://t.co/XMazssoD49— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 12, 2019...

Pelosi said she wants to speak to Omar about her tweet questioning then-President George W. Bush’s New York City address to rescue workers at ground zero, days after the worst terror attack in American history, in which he declared, "And the people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” Here's who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads Omar tweeted “Was Bush downplaying the terrorist attack? What if he was a Muslim,” under the Bush quote delivered at ground zero. The tweet quickly drew criticism and...

In 2006 Moammar Gaddafi said that Islam would conquer Europe without a shot. He said it would happen via immigration. We are seeing that today. Europe is well on its way to Islamification. The classic tale of how Islam conquers conquers nations and will conquer the America is unfolding before our eyes complete with the aid of the compliance of the goddam stupid left wing media and the useful idiots of late night TV. Ilhan Omar is ostensibly the representative from Hennepin County in Minneapolis but in truth is the representative from ISIS and represents a cancer in the House...

Shortened title. Full title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Faces Backlash for Scoffing that Veteran Dan Crenshaw Should ‘Go Do Something’ About Terrorism New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing backlash for telling Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a wounded veteran, to “go do something” about terrorism. Crenshaw is a U.S. Army veteran of Afghanistan and lost an eye in battle, Fox reported. Ocasio-Cortez stuck her foot in her mouth defending virulent anti-Semite Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar who Crenshaw criticized for her outrageous comment about the terror attacks on 9/11. Omar was seen on video breezily noting that on September 11, 2001, “some people did...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., had a heated exchange Tuesday over Kerry's education and climate change. Kerry, 75, appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing to talk about climate change. The incredible exchange began when Massie read a quote Kerry said regarding President Trump’s advisers. “It sounds like you’re questioning the credentials of the president’s advisers, but I don’t think we should question your credentials today. Isn’t it true you have a science degree from Yale?” Massie asked Kerry. Kerry replied that he had a bachelor of arts degree from the university.

On fellow freshman Democrat Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who leapt to Omar's defense, Christie dismissed her as nothing more than a flash in the pan. “This is the problem with people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They like to talk a lot, but they don’t want to be held responsible for anything they say, and the fact is that to diminish the attacks on 9/11, the greatest attack ever perpetrated on this country, on our soil from a terrorist organization, is to demean the lives that were lost that day, both among those who were in those buildings and on those planes, and those...

Yes, Bernie Sanders owes me money, and probably a lot of other people as well. Recent financial disclosures of Senator Socialist’s finances reveal that he made over $1 million in the past two years. His earnings mainly come from best-selling books Our Revolution, Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution, and Where We Go From Here. Sanders concedes that his tax returns will affirm this information and assures his supporters that his tax returns, when released, will reveal very little of interest. When asked about the millions he made, Sanders responded "If you write a best-selling book, you can be a...

Now, here's an ad to draw some attention.  Whom does that look like? Most hard work isn’t glamorous. But it’s worth it. Wherever you are on the journey to your goals, we’re here to help.— U.S. Bank (@usbank) March 29, 2019 By the wildest of coincidences, it follows the socialist "it" girl's recent statements on the value of hard work, the ones she made headlines for because she adopted a black accent to say it for a black audience: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: "I'm proud to be a bartender. Ain't nothing wrong that. There's nothing wrong with working retail...There is nothing wrong...

Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning wants out of a Virginia jail — and is getting support from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Manning, 31, who was jailed on March 8 on contempt charges by a federal judge for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks, wants to be released as the judge’s order is appealed. Manning, 31, is also asking to not be required to testify, reiterating her stance earlier this month to Virginia federal Judge Claude Hilton that she has no intention of doing so. Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that Manning has been “trapped in solitary confinement” for refusing...