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The two men belonged to rival Boston gangs, but told their supervisors it would not be a problem, prosecutors said. They were ready to move on with their lives, and leave the old ways behind. But soon after Donte Henley, 24, heard he had been assigned to the same snow-shoveling crew as Kenny Lamour, 21, this February, he decided “it’s him or me,” prosecutors said in court Monday.

During a campaign visit to Nevada today, Hillary Rodham Clinton will call for a “full and equal path to citizenship” for immigrants living in the country illegally, drawing a clear distinction from Republican candidates on the issue, a campaign official said. [Snip] Like Obama, the candidate will characterize immigration reform as an economic issue, an effort that would bring millions of people out of the black market economy, enabling them to pay taxes.

Bush 23, Rubio 18, Walker 14, Paul 11, Cruz 11, Carson 7, Huckabee 5, Christie 5, Perry 2, Fiorina 1, Santorum, Kasich, Graham, Jindal

“If I was going to change, who are my choices on the Democrats’ side? I don’t think Hillary Clinton’s going to be a candidate.” Pickens says he doesn’t think Clinton will make it to the end of the campaign. He says, simply, “I think she’ll pull out of the deal.” Why would the presumptive Democratic nominee, who at this point holds at least a 50 point lead over her nearest Democratic challengers in national polls, pull out of the race?

Rep. Steve King on Tuesday stressed the importance of defending free speech in the U.S. in the face of radical Islam, hours after ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack outside a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas. But the attack, carried out by two gunmen Sunday night, didn't come as a total surprise to King, a conservative Republican from Iowa who said Tuesday on CNN's "New Day" that "we knew this was coming in some fashion or another" -- pointing to attacks in Europe as harbingers of the threat the U.S. also faces from Islamist terrorists. And King beat back...

Ann Arbor area voters went to the polls Tuesday morning facing questions about the future of their roads and schools. Ann Arbor Public Schools officials have asked voters to approve a 10-year extension for the district's millage rate, which would raise an additional $33 million for area schools. The millage rate is scheduled to gradually fall off from its current 2.45-mill rate starting next year. If voters pass the ballot proposal it will stay at that rate for an additional decade. The district has said it would use the funds to purchase new classroom furniture, buses and instruments as well...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (CBS) – Arthur Kemberis may be 95 years old and walks with a cane but this WWII veteran had the strength to fight off a would be robber who tried to steal his wallet. “I am not a fighter. I am too old to do that but I did lift up my cane and struck him on the shoulder,” Kemberis said. Arthur says the unexpected confrontation unfolded Saturday morning when he went to pick up his wife’s prescription at Walgreens in Manchester. Police say that’s when a suspect began following Arthur inside the store. “I took the money...

The Muslim Students Association’s Petition to Cancel the Screening of “American Sniper”Posted By Jeffrey Herf On May 4, 2015 @ 12:30 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments [1]Reprinted from DiamondBackOnline.com [2].The history of the principles of freedom of speech and of tolerance is inseparable from the history of suppression of speech and intolerance. That is because ideas have been suppressed when they are held to be offensive to existing institutions. That was the case when the Catholic Church condemned the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei for the “heresy” of insisting the Earth revolved around the sun, when Christian fundamentalists objected...

A Seattle man has been detained by police after a lengthy stand-off during which he climbed up onto a basketball hoop and refused to get down. As you can see in this video taken by local news station KOMO, a hammer wielding man climbed shirtlessly onto a basketball hoop in Cal Anderson Park Friday, rendering the court unplayable. The cops were able to disarm him within the first minute, although it’s not known how long he was up there before the cameras started rolling. But while he gave up the hammer relatively easily, he was not so quick to give...

Mohammed Cartoon Shooter’s Muslim Brotherhood Mosque Featured Terror Supporter Mohammed Cartoon Shooter’s Muslim Brotherhood Mosque Featured Terror SupporterPosted By Daniel Greenfield On May 4, 2015 @ 6:25 pm In The Point | No Comments [1]Elton Simpson, the first Mohammed cartoon gunman, attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. There are already the usual testimonials, “He was very nice”, which will soon be followed by some incident, real or imagined, in which he rejected the “moderate” mosque.The Islamic Community Center of Phoenix however is controlled by the North American Islamic Trust [2] (NAIT) which is a Muslim Brotherhood front group.It featured...

It was announced over the weekend that the 10 p.m. curfew in Baltimore was being lifted in a move intended to bring a sense of normalcy back to the city. The curfew had been implemented last week in the wake of destructive riots and looting that occurred after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died from a spinal injury while in police custody. Now that the smoke has cleared and the clean up of the city continues, it has been revealed that approximately 200 businesses were destroyed in the riots, causing untold millions of dollars in...

Word For The Day, Tuesday May 5, 2015 In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". sententious [sen-ten-shuh s] -adj1. abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: 2. given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous. 3. given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: 4. of the nature of a maxim; pithy. [1400-50; late Middle English < Latin sententiōsus meaningful. See sentence, -ous]

Adolf Hitler’s Suicide and Nazism’s Irrational RationalityPosted By Vladimir Tismaneanu and Marius Stan On May 4, 2015 @ 12:25 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments [1]Seven decades ago, on April 30, 1945, amid the irresistible offensive of the Red Army, the man who had imagined himself anointed by History to retrace the steps of such historical figures as Friedrich the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte committed suicide in Berlin together with his partner—who on the eve of their departure from this world became his wife—, Eva Braun. An age of apocalyptic delirium and ideological trance—whose effect was a universal carnage...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Character Studies From The Bible David New International Version (NIV) 1 After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days. 2 On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor. 3 “Where have you come from?” David asked him. He answered, “I have escaped from the Israelite camp.” 4 “What happened?” David asked. “Tell me.” “The men fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many...

Monthly rail receipts of crude oil accounted for more than half (52%) of the crude oil supply to East Coast refineries in February. As U.S. and Canadian production of crude oil has increased, crude supply by rail to East Coast (PADD 1) refineries has grown, displacing waterborne imports of crude oil from countries other than Canada, such as Nigeria. While refinery utilization in Petroleum Administration for Defense District (PADD) 1 in early 2015 has been below typical levels, this still marks the first time in EIA's dataset that crude deliveries by rail have accounted for such a high percentage of...

ISIS-Inspired Jihad Comes to TexasPosted By Arnold Ahlert On May 5, 2015 @ 12:50 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments [1]A former terror suspect previously known [2] to the FBI was one of the two men killed in the shootout at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, TX during the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI).Elton Simpson of Arizona was an American Muslim convicted [3] five years ago of lying to federal agents about his plans to travel to Africa. Despite that conviction, U.S. District Judge Mary Murguia wrote that there was “insufficient evidence to support that the...

Cartoonists are Controversial and Murderers are ModeratePosted By Daniel Greenfield On May 5, 2015 @ 12:55 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments [1]Controversial, intolerant and provocative. Mainstream media outlets broke out these three words to describe the “Draw the Prophet” contest, the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Pamela Geller.While the police were still checking cars for explosives and attendees waited to be released, CNN called AFDI, rather than the terrorists who attacked a cartoon contest, “intolerant.” Time dubbed the group “controversial.” The Washington Post called the contest, “provocative.”Many media outlets relied on the expert opinion of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a multi-million...

Baltimore and the Betrayal of Black DignityPosted By Bruce Thornton On May 5, 2015 @ 12:45 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments [1]Baltimore is the latest American city to become a stage for the farce that is our national racial discourse. The swift, politicized indictment of 6 police officers for the death of Freddie Gray––which brought down, for now, the curtain on this performance by abandoning all the canons of procedural justice–– is a fitting end to this sorry spectacle.The winners of this shameful display are obvious, as they always are after these riots. Local thieves, gangsters, and thugs; bourgeois...

This will come as no surprise to those who see higher education as a bastion of liberalism. An analysis of political donations by 614 Harvard University faculty, instructors and researchers over a period of several years shows that 84 percent of the nearly $3 million that was donated to candidates and political action committees went to Democrats. Nearly 20 percent of the donations went to a fund that supported both President Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 and the Democratic National Committee (though Republican Mitt Romney got some cash too).The analysis was conducted by the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, which...

Glen Hann and his wife traveled from Newfoundland to western Canada’s oil fields eight winters in a row, returning to this former fishing town in the spring with income they could never hope to earn closer to home. Then, this past December, Mr. Hann’s employers told him to stay home. Mr. Hann is among the thousands of Newfoundlanders who have traveled west over the past decade to work in Canada’s booming oil sands, a trek that has become one of North America’s longest commutes and has supported communities in some of Canada’s poorest eastern provinces. Now, falling oil prices are...