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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond called on his colleagues to “swiftly” remove a city government appointee, Leofric Thomas Jr., from the Public Service Grants Council after he appeared to justify the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “Calling on my council colleagues to swiftly remove Leofric Thomas, Jr. as an appointee to our City government,” Diamond said. “Disgusting.” Thomas’ now-deleted post read: “When you spew hate it’s what you get back. Charlie spewed nothing but hate, so what he got back, was….. yeah,” adding a shrug emoji.

I wonder if America is called a terrorist organization now days. In my opinion we literally are. If you look at it from a perspective. We tell countries what they can and what they can't do. If they don't abide we basically go to war with them and change their government and maybe to an extent their culture for them. Is this not a form of terrorism? To force a country to do something against their will. In my opinion it is, but that's just me. An it's not just with Iran and Iraq, which are recent acts of this,...

There are a few things William Henry Weddington might consider striking from his next just-got-out-of-prison to-do list: Taking a drinking buddy to meet probation officers. Getting smashed with that buddy en route to the probation office. Passing out in the lobby. Biting the hand of a deputy U.S. marshal. Weddington, fresh out of federal prison after serving time for an alcohol-fueled shooting at a Knoxville apartment complex, is headed back after a drunken brawl last week with law enforcement in the lobby of the U.S. Probation Office. According to a warrant filed against him for violating his federal supervision just...