[Daily Wire] Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.
In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, Sander Levin of Michigan, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Greg Meeks of New York and Ted Deutch of Florida. These public officials have at one time or another employed one of three Pakistani Muslim brothers or their family and friends caught up in a criminal theft and hacking probe of the House Democrats' information security systems. In all, IT worker Imran Awan and his family and friends hoovered up an estimated $4 million in government funds over a period of 13 years.
For months, the D.C. Capitol Police have probed allegations that the Awan ring stole equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessed the House IT system without members' knowledge. Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak at The Daily Caller News Foundation has done excellent work on the case -- most recently breaking the news of Imran Awan's arrest in late July at the airport for alleged bank fraud, mortgage scams and shady wire transfers of nearly $300,000.
Awan was headed to Pakistan to join his wife, Hina Alvi, and three children, who had hastily fled America in March after Alvi was fired by Rep. Meeks. This reeks.
My question to the House Democrats was simple: Were the Awans and their family and friends H-1B tech workers -- like so many of the 650,000 "temporary" foreign guest workers imported into America under that program over the past quarter-century and predominantly working in IT?
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"In a world where you'll freak like Shaniqua'll,
Two highways, divided but equal...
She's weaving in traffic!
Some scenes are too graphic
For kids. In the Ghetto: The Sequel!"
Okay, I see now it's all boys young men. Poetastic license? Nice graduation pictures.
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When I was a kid we might have stolen some parts from junkyards, and a few might have gotten killed racing the resulting junk rods, but we didn't steal whole cars.
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Estimated insurance loss of the Ford Explorer, $31,970. Estimated savings to the criminal justice system and U.S. taxpayer resulting from the deceased yoots, incalculable.
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We used to call this death by misadventure, a legal term meaning doing something so stupid you got yourself killed.
My favorite part is Keontae Brown and his brother Keondrae. It's not quite "this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl", but it's close enough.
[6ABC] A man is under arrest, accused of killing his next door neighbor in West Goshen, Chester County.
Police have charged Clayton Carter, 51, in the shooting death of G. Brooks Jennings.
Man gunned down outside home in West Goshen
Shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, police responded to the 300 block of Box Elder Drive for a dispute between Carter and Jennings about cursing and video recording in the back yard. Police said they were able to resolve that dispute.
Then at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday, police say the neighbors got into another dispute. Carter told police that Jennings shined a light into his eyes while he was outside. Carter then allegedly pulled a car onto his lawn, shining the high beams of the car on Jennings' property.
Carter then allegedly retrieved a .380 semi-automatic handgun from his house and confronted the victim again outside.
Officials say Carter shot Jennings once in the head, knocking him to the ground. Carter then allegedly stood over Jennings' body and shot him once more in the head.
The victim was on his own property, police said.
According to the Chester County District Attorney's Office, Carter admitted to the details of the ongoing dispute and to shooting the victim. Carter claims that Jennings threatened him with a knife, but he had no injuries.
"My client says he was justified in doing so because he was under attack by a knife wielding assailant," said defense attorney Terrence Marlowe.
According to the district attorney's office, Carter did not call police for help or render aid to Jennings.
Jennings' wife allegedly heard the first gunshot, then saw Carter stand over her husband as he fired the second shot.
Police recovered two shell casings, the gun and a knife at the scene. One shell casing was located on Carter's property. The second shell casing was found on the victim's property, near Jennings' body.
Carter has been charged with murder and related offenses, and is currently being held at the Chester County Prison.
Neighbor Brian Dougherty got emotional when speaking of Jennings.
"You don't want to sound cliche, you see this on TV all the time, but he is probably the nicest, best guy I've ever met in my whole life. Really, seriously," Dougherty said.
Police say Carter had disputes with a number of other neighbors, and even pulled a gun on Jennings during a past altercation.
Neighbors say Carter was a quarrelsome, argumentative man. Court records claim Carter had a history of disputes with multiple neighbors. His front yard was crowded with cars and hand lettered anti-Trump signs.
But the disputes along the block were not political, but personal. Neighbors say they were fueled apparently by some unknown anger inside Carter's head.
"We steered clear of him. We were frightened of him because he's so unpredictable," said Kathy Pratt.
On hearing of a shooting Tuesday morning, former neighbor Mary Beth Wallace came to the scene fearing the suspect had been involved in harming someone.
"My heart sunk to my feet, because I knew something had happened," Wallace said. "I had seen that there was a shooting on Box Elder, and my heart just sunk to my feet. I knew all the way over here, I just suspected what I was going to find."
Wallace said she first feared that the target might have been someone from Carter's family.
She says she did not know Mr. Jennings, but that her heart goes out to his family.
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Anti-Trump signs but it wasn't political? WTF, who writes this stuff?
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Going to be hard to claim self-defense when he stood over the guy and shot him in the head again. Not to mentioning refusing to render aid afterwards.
Wonder who's fingerprints will be found on the knife...
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another democrat shooting another republican over politics but not covered by the mainstream media as indicative of the Democratic Party, interesting. good to have concealed carry laws.
As with most things Trump, the furor over the "fire and fury" has divided the nation in two - those who believe the president is a loose launchpad, impulsively blurting whatever flits through his mind, and those who believe his inflammatory talk is a wily combination of politically savvy instincts and a gut-driven populism that simply aims to please.
When President Donald Trump went off script Tuesday to deliver a startling threat to North Korea - "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" - it was as if the nation relived the most lurid themes of the 2016 campaign in one chilling moment.
Last fall, Hillary Clinton's campaign used as one of its final weapons a TV ad featuring a longtime nuclear missile launch officer who warned against voting for Trump: "I prayed that call would never come. Self-control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing."
Then, quick-fire, a series of clips of Trump on the stump: "I would bomb the s--- out of them." "I want to be unpredictable." "I love war."
"The thought of Donald Trump with nuclear weapons scares me to death," Bruce Blair, the retired launch officer, says in the ad. "It should scare everyone."
It very nearly did: Voters made clear last fall that they trusted Clinton vastly more than Trump on the use of nuclear weapons - by 57 percent to 31 percent in a Fox News poll in October, for example.
But Trump voters often said that their reasons for supporting him outweighed their sense that he could be dangerously impulsive - and they repeatedly expressed confidence that the national security apparatus would keep him in check.
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Actually, voters showed they preferred Trump in control of the nukes by putting him into office.
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My initial feelings about Trump have been pretty much borne out, he is bombastic. But, his verbiage, while pointing the way he wants to go, does not show the deliberation and pace with which he will move.
The best line of the campaign time frame was: his supporters take him seriously not literally, his critics the other way.
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#2 Didn't stop us in 1945. Same rationale, save more lives than a direct assault (military and civilian) and changed the thinking of those around the decision makers of the enemy altering who exercised the power.
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Trump's bombast has succeeded in putting the prospect of the US use of nukes back in play, which should have at least some deterrent effect on war. There is no point having nukes if everyone knows you would never use them.
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The US has huge amounts of Stealth technology. Terminators can have an M16 in fat boys face before he can clear the sleep out of his eyes. The key is to take him alive if possible back to Guam. Cover launch and development areas with hell fire drones. Strike anything that so much as moves an onch. If a nuke goes off during a strike it is localized. Continue stealth strikes until capitulation.
"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.
We must ensure that lawless states and terrorists will not be armed with weapons of mass destruction.
This is the single gravest threat to our security. Any potential adversary should know that we will defend ourselves against the possibility of attack by unconventional arms. If such a strike does occur, as commander-in-chief, I will respond with overwhelming and devastating force. If such an attack appears imminent, as commander-in-chief, I will do whatever is necessary to stop it. And, as commander-in-chief, I will never cede our security to anyone. I will always do what is necessary to safeguard our country.
This was was pretty tough rhetoric. The big problem is that both candidates subsequently worked as Obama's SoS to help Iran acquire nuclear weapons.
So North Korea might reasonably dismiss Trump's and Mattis' threats as empty bluster.
Western deterrence has been eroded over the last decades by Western politician making empty threats.
Reagan said “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” The left went ballistic then but when Hillary bombed Libya, not much. You recall the lovely babe, Hilda, who said: "We came, we saw, he died" in reference to Qaddafi.
The Latest on the increasing flow of migrants over the U.S.-Canadian border at a remote spot in northern New York and southern Quebec (all times local):
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Canada has sent about 100 soldiers to a remote spot on the Quebec-New York border where asylum seekers are crossing illegally.
The Canadian military said in a statement Wednesday that the soldiers will help the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency at the site.
They are preparing a place for tents that can hold almost 500 people. They will also install lighting and heating equipment.
The military says the soldiers won't play a role in security and won't be helping with law enforcement.
The military says that once the site is completed, only a few will soldiers will stay behind. The rest will go back to their home base.
The migrants fear the U.S. is becoming less welcoming and have decided to try their luck seeking asylum in Canada. Officials estimate that 400 people crossed the border at the site on Sunday alone.
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Thousands of migrants are fleeing the United States for Canada via a remote back road in upstate New York.
The Canadians arrest the migrants as soon as they step across the border. But the migrants prefer to take a chance by seeking asylum in Canada rather than risk being deported from the United States.
Canadian police have set up a reception center on their side of the border. It includes tents where migrants are processed before they are turned over to the government agency that handles their applications for refuge.
Officials estimate that 400 people crossed the border at the site on Sunday alone.
Canada said last week it planned to house some migrants in Montreal's Olympic Stadium. It could hold thousands, but current plans only call for only 450.
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Toilets will be supplied. But you will have to eat the Canadian food. And try to communicate in Canadian.
Plus it helps to know the Canadian national bird ( The red hoot owl) ) and the Canadian Motto, ("say what?" )
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Good news; bad news story. Good news that they are leaving the U.S.; bad news, the Canadians are trying to stop them. Would have thought that Trudeau would be at our border greeting them with hot chocolate, donuts and welfare benefits.
[Ynet] North Korea freed a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence on humanitarian grounds, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday, just hours after the United States warned it would counter any threat from the North with "fire and fury."
There was no clear connection between the release of Hyeon Soo Lim and the heightened rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang. Canadian officials said on Tuesday a delegation led by the country's national security adviser had gone to North Korea to discuss Lim's case.
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A Canadian Pastor? What was he in for life for ? Throwing his cigarette butt in the street?
Jackals of the upper classes sniveling at the heels of the Proletariat? Bad mouthing the Great Red October Classic?
Saying there is manure in the farmyard? Denying the Audacity of Grope for Change?
[Iran Press TV] US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says in case of a military conflict between the United States and North Korea the latter risks "the destruction of its people."
"The DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down its pursuit of nuclear weapons," Mattis said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The DPRK should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people," he warned.
The Pentagon chief's comments came a day after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... threatened to hit the country "with fire and fury."
In response to Trump’s apocalyptic warning, North Korea said it was "carefully examining" a plan to strike the American Pacific territory of Guam with missiles.
The North Korean military said it could carry out a pre-emptive strike if there were signs of an American provocation.
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[DAWN] China responded to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's apocalyptic "fire and fury" threat against North Korea by pointedly warning on Wednesday against any rhetoric that could inflame tensions over Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
Calling the situation on the Korean Peninsula "complicated and sensitive", China's foreign ministry issued a statement warning that parties involved in the impasse should avoid "words and actions that escalate the situation".
The ministry had been asked to respond to Trump's comment on Tuesday that North Korea would "be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if it did not refrain from further bellicose threats against the US.
New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English echoed China, saying that Trump's comments about North Korea are "not helpful" in an environment that is "very tense." He further said that the US president's comments are more likely to escalate the situation than to settle it.
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Trump's comments about North Korea are "not helpful"
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China could end this quickly by reining in their rabid dog but they would rather see Kim push Trump. We'll just have to see what develops. NZ is the snowflake of countries now.
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China's foreign ministry issued a statement warning that parties involved in the impasse should avoid "words and actions that escalate the situation".
Then his lips fell off.
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The crazy barbarian is the best role to break the situation and get China to force North Korea to back down. Trump is perfectly positioned (especially due to Democrat ravings) to play that role.
[DAWN] A couple was rubbed out in Dunai Karora area of Shangla, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , in what seemed to be an honour killing, police said on Wednesday.
Karora cop shoppe SHO Bakht Zahir said that the bullet riddled bodies of a 19-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man were recovered from a cornfield in the area. Police took their bodies to the rural health centre, Karora and had lodged a first information report (FIR), Zahir said.
The police official said that initial investigations suggested that the couple had been killed by the girl's brother and father.
He said that the girl's family claimed that the couple been in a extramarital relationship, for which they were punished.
Locals said the two had been romantically involved since their school-going days. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the boy's father had refused to give consent to their marriage and the girl had later been wedded to one of her cousins.
Police said that an investigation is underway. The suspects are still on the lam.
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[DAWN] A housemaid was killed by her employers in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... after being set on fire for failing to repay a debt, police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred on Sunday in Nankana Sahib district.
"Fouzia Bibi, the victim and her husband were working at the house of a local landlord for the last five months and they had taken Rs25,000 in advance from them," local police official Jaffar Hussain told AFP.
The police officer said the couple told the landlords -- a father and son -- that they planned to quit their jobs when the employers inquired about the advance.
"The couple had nothing to give back so the landlords beat the husband and locked him in a room and sprinkled petrol over the woman and set her ablaze," he added.
The victim was later rushed to a hospital in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... where she died.
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[Kit Up] LAS VEGAS -- Israel Weapon Industries will release an updated version of the Galil rifle in the U.S. market this spring, a company official said.
Hagai Katz, a weapons instructor at IWI, demonstrated the new semi-automatic rifle known as the Galil ACE this week at a gun range north of Las Vegas as part of the opening day of SHOT Show.
Based on the original Galil assault rifle developed in the 1960s, the updated version still draws inspiration from the Russian AK-47 and the Finnish Valmet RK 62, but is modernized with a lower receiver made out of a high-strength polymer to reduce weight, a 360-degree Picatinny rail for accessories, ambidextrous safety levers, adjustable buttstock and adjustable iron sights.
AK-47 is very rugged, requires little upkeep, almost fault free - you can stick the barrel in the ground, shake it out and shoot. Drawback it's not very precise.
M16 is flimsy (all the plastic parts always break), fault prone (a grain of sand can cause stoppage - and sand will enter because of the shutter arrangement*), and it's made of rust-prone steel. Advantage: it's very precise.
*You can train people to close the shutter automatically, once they stop firing.
Galil is not precise, not very robust, and it rusts like nobody's business.
[Daily Caller] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the Trump dossier, turned over thousands of pages of documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee late Wednesday, The Daily Caller is told.
But the documents do not appear to be what the committee was hoping that Fusion GPS and its founder, Glenn Simpson, would provide.
“The committee is reviewing the production received late this afternoon from Mr. Simpson, but virtually all of the documents appear to be merely news clippings rather than records of Fusion’s substantive communications,” George Hartmann, a spokesman for the Senate Judiciary Committee, told TheDC.
The paltry document production escalates the standoff between Fusion GPS and the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
After Simpson declined an invitation to testify before the committee last month, Grassley issued a subpoena to compel him to appear. But the subpoena was withdrawn after Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, said he would voluntarily meet in a closed session with committee staff.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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