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Missouri Gov. Nixon’s rush to judgment

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has called for the “vigorous prosecution” of the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year old black man. This comes just days after he made shameful comments about the Ferguson police on NBC’s Meet the Press, Aug. 17, 2014, reported in my post, “He didn’t bother nobody.”

The governor’s press representative claimed that the governor was not prejudging the police officer, who may have acted in self-defense.  Yet, in the governor’s scripted message, he called for the need to achieve justice for the family of the slain man, while referring to the shooting as having taken place in broad daylight; the last description newsmen say is normally used for criminal investigations.  So much for the presumption of innocence.

Nixon’s aggressive posture leads one to believe he is currying favor with those seeking the arrest of the police officer.  It comes as a grand jury is about to meet to consider the incident.  Democrats running for office in the Republican-leaning Missouri need the support of black voters to get elected.

Pressure is also on another Democrat, Bob McCulloch, St. Louis County prosecutor.  Those seeking justice for Brown are concerned that McCulloch comes from a police family.  His father was killed 50 years ago in the line of duty by a black suspect.  State and local Democrat Party members want him to step aside. Continue reading →

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And she wants to be president, Part 5

“… we don’t even tell our own story very well these days,” Hillary Clinton told Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic magazine interview; the same piece in which she criticized the president’s foreign policy of “don’t do stupid stuff.”

Like President Obama, Clinton must believe she operated completely under the radar and that no one was paying attention to what she said and did, or didn’t do.… read more

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“He didn’t bother nobody.”

After a school shooting, how often did we hear, “he was a good boy, never in trouble,” or “he would always wave to me as I passed, really a friendly guy.”

Remember the description of the Boston bomber Tsarnaev brothers as “regular guys?”  A teacher who lived on the same street said, I knew him (Dzhokhar) as nothing but sociable, compassionate, friendly, athletic, just a friendly kid.”

Fast forward to this past week in Ferguson, MO and the killing of 18-year old Michael Brown.  “My son just turned 18 and graduated from high school and he didn’t bother nobody,” his mother, Leslie McSpadden told CNN.

He wasn’t armed, yet he lay dead in the street after an altercation with a police officer, who was armed.  Call me cynic, but when I heard Brown was 6’ 4 “ and 290 pounds and that he allegedly pushed the officer into his vehicle and tried to get the officer’s gun, I wasn’t buying “he didn’t bother nobody.” Continue reading →

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Liberal journalist launches trial balloon

              Obama’s Immigration Amnesty Would Be Like Lincoln’s Emancipation

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Charles Lane (Amarillo.com)

 Just when you think you’ve heard it all from the liberal media, another Obama water carrier – this time Charles Lane – provides more red meat for those of us who comment on the right.  You just can’t make this stuff up.

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President Lincoln signing his Emancipation Proclamation. Charles Lane draws an analogy of President Obama signing an executive order legalizing 5 million undocumented illegals. (civil-war-150.com)

 “Not since Lincoln pondered his Emancipation Proclamation has a president considered a more sweeping change to membership in the American community than the relief for illegal immigrants that President Obama is contemplating,” writes Lane in the Investor’s Business Daily.

 “A plan to offer up to 5 million undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and others … wouldn’t cover all illegal immigrants any more than Lincoln’s proclamation freed every slave,” he writes.  “Still, its impact would be dramatic and might define Obama’s legacy as powerfully as the Emancipation Proclamation defined Lincoln’s.”  Incredible!

 Such a move would “tear up the Constitution,” commented George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who I have frequently quoted in past posts.  Perhaps it’s because he is a Democrat who voted for Obama, but stands strong on protection of the Constitution. Continue reading →

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Flagstaff editor wrong-headed

“When is a scientific question settled to the point that entertaining further debate becomes not only a waste of precious newsprint but also a diversion from finding a solution to the problems raised by the answer to the question?” So wrote  Arizona Daily Sun Editor Randy Wilson, as he told readers he would no longer publish opposition opinions on human-caused climate change.

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Randy Wilson, editor of the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff recently told readers human-caused climate change was settled science and will no longer publish opposing views (lee.net)

Indirectly, this is why my wife and I put Flagstaff in our rear view mirror in 2005, after residing there for four years.  We had decided to move to the cool pines community when I retired after living in Phoenix for 33 years.

With an interest in community relations, I began attending regular community meetings at the Daily Sun at the invitation of Wilson, who was interested in hearing the pulse of the city.  While I felt he leaned left as most newsmen do, he heard both sides of issues.

My wife used her degree in accounting and extensive institutional financial experience to successfully rescue the school district from a fiscal mess; a record that led to a successful run for a position on the school board and eventually its presidency. Continue reading →

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Tip to newspaper skimmers

                              Study: Keystone Pollution May Be More Than Figured,

That headline in the USA Today* naturally caught my eye.  What have those whacky environmentalists come up with now to further delay this project?”

“The much-debated Keystone XL pipeline could produce four times more global warming pollution than the State Department calculated earlier this year, a new study concludes,” read the lead.… read more

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Axelrod jab at Bush backfires

Obama advisor David Axelrod sought to take Hillary Clinton’s criticism of President Obama’s policy of “Don’t do stupid stuff,” and shift the focus to George W. Bush, but in the process he inferred that his boss’ appointees, Biden, Clinton, Kerry and Powell, were stupid.

“Just to clarify: ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision,” tweeted Axelrod, happy to get in still another jab at Bush, but forgetting that Obama’s appointees all supported going into Iraq.… read more

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Obama has full confidence in lying CIA director

When the shoe is on their foot, Democrats want you to look the other way and pretend it didn’t happen.

Take the case of CIA spying on the Senate.  “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth,” said CIA Director John Brennan, appearing before the Council on Foreign Relations on March 11, 2014.… read more