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“Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes…Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after NFL star-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn’t sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive." (Wall Street Journal, July, 1.)In case some have forgotten who Colin Kaepernick (“The Face of Nike, Inc” as boasted by Nike’s advertising campaign) idolizes on the t-shirts he shows off at press conferences: That idol is the terror-sponsoring Stalinist dictator whose lifelong craving was to destroy the nation that made Colin Kaepernick a multi-millionaire and made the famously “ultra-hip...

A legendary New York City high school basketball coach was sentenced to five years of probation today after pleading guilty to charges he sexually molested a 14-year-old boy while at a Boston hotel in 1976 for a Red Sox - Yankees game.

Man facing child pornography charges possessed numerous images BY ELIZABETH LANGTON AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Federal court records un sealed Tuesday say a man charged Monday with receiving a single image of child pornography actually possessed numerous such images downloaded from the Internet. FBI agents arrested Her lindo Oliva, 34, of Lubbock. According to an affidavit by Special Agent Keith Quigley, agents interviewed Oliva on July 24. He purchased a membership at a child porn site that subsequently was raided by law enforcement, according to Quigley's report. Oliva told the agents that he first encountered images of child pornography while viewing an adult...