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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” lawmakers who voted against President Joe Biden’s massive spending package are “defunders of the police.” Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Mayor Adams, you promised to focus on crime in your campaign. Major crimes have continued to rise on your watch. How do you explain it? What more can be done?”

Protesters on the way to the home of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best were met by armed residents of the neighborhood, leading to the quote of the day: Protestor: “We are peaceful! You pointed a gun at my face!” Resident: “That’s why you are peaceful.”

As INTERPOL general secretary, Ronald Noble said in 2013 that the ways to battle terrorism in “soft target” areas, such as shopping malls or movie theaters, is to erect secure safety perimeters or allow the citizens to carry their own guns, an “armed citizenry.” In an October 21, 2013 with ABC News [1], Noble said that mass terror attacks make “police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control.” “You have to ask yourself, 'Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving...

“The police are a tool of capitalism to control people in the state they are—staying in slavery, staying in poverty wages, staying in ridiculous working conditions,” one protester exclaimed at a rally after the die-in. “We are fighting against racism, we are fighting against capitalism, and we are fighting against patriarchy,” another protester neatly summarized. One student, in the course of haranguing PSU Public Safety, criticized officers for their alleged mishandling of sexual assault cases, and even accused them of being rapists. “Police are notorious for mishandling sexual assault cases. We all know that. They are often also rapists themselves,”...

It would serve race mongers well to consider that even a docile old dog will bite you if you mistreat it often enough and long enough. Tangential to same is the reality of the “laws of unintended consequences.” I’m tired of seeing, reading and hearing white people blamed for everything from black boys not being able to read to whites being privileged because of the color of their skin. If I am tired of these Americans being used as scapegoats to further the agenda of race mongers, then it is a sure bet that those being unjustly vilified are especially...

Pennsylvania’s chief justice wants the state Supreme Court to ban lawyers at an organization that currently handles many appeals by convicted murderers on the state's death row. Chief Justice Ronald Castille took that position in a rare single-justice opinion issued late Wednesday that resolved a number of issues surrounding a decision he wrote three years ago. In both opinions, Castille took aim at the Philadelphia-based Federal Community Defender Office, writing that the group has engaged in abusive and unethical practices that warrant removing its lawyers from all Pennsylvania cases. …

Yesterday, Vanity Fair released yet another long hatchet job piece about Sarah Palin. But what this piece has generated — well, besides incredulity that a magazine of Vanity Fair’s caliber would run a character assassination piece almost entirely based on anonymous sources — is a bipartisan backlash. Not against Palin, but against Vanity Fair. Politico’s Ben Smith has already debunked two of the stories told in the piece. Clara Jeffery, editor of Mother Jones, tweeted that she was “annoyed by [Palin] being called to task things normal for any male pol. Like using cute kids as props.” Later, in response...

“Art” cannot justify child abuse. In fact, “art” has no relation to morality. The commandant of Auschwitz arranged weekly concerts of classical music. Perhaps Beethoven helped him run the death camp more efficiently. If people weren’t elevated by the Ninth Symphony, why would we expect them to be elevated by “Rosemary’s Baby”? Many film personalities signed the petition. But as others have asked, how many of these people would have defended him if he were Father Polanski? Not one, I think.

CAMP RAMADI — Over the last two years, Ramadi has seen a dramatic in the number of policemen as the city progressively moves toward the final steps in becoming fully independent. In 2006, there were very few police in Ramadi when violence engulfed the city, the citizens lived in fear, and al-Qaida had a firm grip on the region. In the first two weeks of 2007, the city experienced an unexpected surge of applicants seeking to join the force. During that two-week span, more than 1,000 applicants sought law enforcement jobs in Ramadi, according to Army Maj. Thomas Shoffner, operations...

Essay Contest on POWs of the Japanese US-JAPAN DIALOGUE ON POWS, INC., a California non-profit organization, is pleased to announce that it will hold its first essay writing contest. The purpose of this contest is to promote understanding and dialogue among/between college students in Japan and the United States on the history of American POWs of the Japanese during WWII. We look forward to receiving many submissions from both countries. Two winners, one from Japan and the other from the United States, will win a free trip to Phoenix, Arizona, where the annual convention of American Defenders of Bataan and...

New York, August 3, 2005) - The Iranian government intensified its attacks on independent human rights defenders by arresting prominent lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani and threatening Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Watch said today. On Saturday evening, July 30, agents of the Judiciary, operating under the authority of Tehran chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, arrested Soltani inside the offices of the Lawyers Association in Tehran. The next day, a Judiciary spokesman announced that Soltani was arrested for "revealing secrets relating to the case of nuclear spies." Soltani is currently being held in Evin prison in Tehran but has yet to be...

I'm back from vacation. With a vengence, and I'm pissed off. Some people don't know it yet, but there's a war on. Oh, not that little dust-up in Iraq. That's hardly worthy of the name. No, it's a war for the heart, soul, and future of America. It's a war being waged by the media against the War on Terror--against our survival-- and they will stop at nothing, stoop as low as needed, tell any lie, twist any truth beyond recognition. The total bullshit about the so-called war crime committed by a Marine was bad enough. This morning on a...

A little more than $300 is not exactly what TIBETmichigan considers compensation for a recent Buddhist monk concert that was ruined by protesting members of a splinter Catholic group. A Grand Rapids District Court judge last week ordered members of Allendale's St. Margaret Mary Church to pay $316.22 to the Grand Rapids-based group as part of a small claims case it filed for the disruption of a Feb. 8. concert at the Basilica of St. Adalbert. TIBETmichigan members say morals, not money, were at the heart of the matter. "We wanted them to realize what they did was wrong," said...

At Blogs for Bush.com today -- the Dean supporters have turned out to attack Bush supporters because some of us have taken exception to the recent Tedd Rall commentary (see below) and are fighting back. Here is an example of several of the Dean supporters followed by the comments that set them off and then Rall's commentary: How are things here a Treason Central today? Planning the destruction of this great nation through four more years of treason in the White House? Thank God for Democracy! We can correct our horrible mistake of 2000. I Love America Posted by ILoveAmerica...

If a beady-eyed, rumpled, hard-drinking man with the personality of a treed bobcat rescued your family from a burning building, would you refuse to thank him, desperately wishing that someone more polite, well-educated and better looking had been your children's rescuer? Would you join in with the arsonists who maliciously set that house fire, who are mocking him as a publicity-hound and drunkard, pronouncing him delusional and even criticizing your family for being so easily tricked into believing there'd been a fire in the first place? That is a fair analogy to the life and times of Republican Senator Joseph...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Defenders of Wildlife, the Species Survival Network, and nearly two dozen other organizations today called for a halt to White House plans to allow the importation of hides, hunting trophies, and live specimens of endangered animals. In official comment on the proposal, Defenders charged that this approach could lead to the extinction of any of more than 500 species around the world. "This Bush policy is truly Orwellian, encouraging killing endangered animals in order to save them," said Carroll Muffett, director of international programs for Defenders of Wildlife. "Turning these species into commodities will...