[FOXNEWS] An Alabama sheriff who pocketed $750,000 from funds meant to feed inmates is coming under fresh scrutiny for the purchase of a beach house that cost nearly the same amount of money.
AL.com reported Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin received $750,000 of "compensation" from a source he called "food provisions" during a three-year period. When AL.com contacted Entrekin about the money he did not deny he received it despite the money being "allocated by federal, state and municipal governments to feed inmates in the Etowah County Jail."
Entrekin like other Alabama sheriffs believe a pre-World War II state law allows them to keep any "excess inmate-feeding funds" for themselves. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... in counties such as Jefferson and Montgomery, any excess money is supposed to be given to the county government.
In forms filed with the Alabama Ethics Commission, Entrekin reported he made "more than $250,000 each of the past three years via the inmate-feeding funds."
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after he's incarcerated, I wonder what the other inmates will allow him to eat? $hit sandwich but with the crusts trimmed...after all..we're not lacking the social graces!
[Dallas Morning News] With visions of a fall tidal wave spinning in their heads, Democrats spent Wednesday celebrating a win in a Pittsburgh-area congressional district that Donald Trump had carried by 20 points. However,
The White House also insisted that Trump's personal involvement kept the race closer than it would have been.
"The president's engagement in the race turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate to what is essentially a tie," said principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah. "Also, the Democrat in the race really embraced the president's policies and his vision, whereas he didn't really embrace Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader."
Lamb himself did not frame the race as a referendum on Trump. Unlike many of the Democrats seeking to topple Texas incumbents, he wasn't urging voters to "send a message."
"I never really asked anyone who they voted for in November 2016. I thought that was a little impolite and kind of beside the point," he said Wednesday on MSNBC, emphasizing a willingness to work with Trump. "The president is still very popular in this district, and my guess is he did energize some voters." The Dems also 'sees what they want to see and disregard the rest'
Democrats insist that means Pennsylvania voters effectively repudiated the GOP tax bill, which, as Democratic national chairman Tom Perez put it, "gives massive giveaways to corporations and their wealthy shareholders at the expense of American workers."
"Last night's stunning upset was just the latest rebuke to the Trump-Republican agenda," Perez wrote in an open memo.
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That and the Dem candidate looked and sounded more conservative than his opponent.
I'm sure that will change shortly.
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Yeah... he basically ran on Trump's platform in a historically Demoncrat area and was backed by unions.
This is not a referendum on Trump as the dems can't do this all over the nation.
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Conservative Democrat, riiight!?! He will 'wander off the reservation' from time to time if the Democrats get a Majority+5 and the rest of the time it will be 'lock-step Liberal clone'.
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Senator Paul had pleural effusion as a result of the attack, which might have caused his lungs to collapse and kill him. His attacker could have been charged with attempted manslaughter... or had he died, successful manslaughter.
Separately, the GOP is challenging the results of the special election, claiming multiple voting irregularities, so we’ll see if that goes anywhere. Link.
[BLOOMBERG] New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy proposed taxing online-room booking, ride-sharing, marijuana, e-cigarettes and Internet transactions along with raising taxes on millionaires and retail sales to fund a record $37.4 billion budget that would boost spending on schools, pensions and mass transit.
The proposal, 4.2 percent higher than the current fiscal year’s, relies on a tax for the wealthiest that has yet to be approved and lacks support from key Democrats in the legislature. It also reverses pledges from Murphy’s predecessor, Republican Chris Christie, to lower taxes in a state where living costs are among the nation’s highest.
Murphy, a Democrat who replaced term-limited Christie on Jan. 16, said his goal is to give New Jerseyans more value for their tax dollars. He has promised additional spending on underfunded schools and transportation in a credit-battered state with an estimated $8.7 billion structural deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
"If we enact another budget like the one our administration inherited, our middle class will continue to be the ones shouldering the burden, while seeing little in return," Murphy said Tuesday in his budget address to politicians. "A millionaire’s tax is the right thing to do ‐- and now is the time to do it."
No mention of converting current existing gov employee pension plans into 401Ks or IRAs and eliminating further government pensions to save the citizens of the state?
They’ll get there eventually. But first they have to drive out the most productive portion of their population.
Sorry, we're full up. Georgia simply cannot take anymore folks from New Jersey, New York, California, Illinois, or Massachusetts.
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Sorry, we're full up.
After these last three winter storms perhaps they will turn their gaze towards warmer climes, like Mexico.
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All those Yanks will move south and just mess everything up. See Virginia and North Carolina. (The NC court system is jammed up with PC critters and feminists on the bench).
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The problem is that millionaires in that part of the world are just working stiffs like the rest of us. With Connecticut and New York already high tax, where are the Jersey folk going to go? They still have to commute to the office.
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...cash in. Move on (to use a phrase). Got to cut your losses sometime.
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
Civil Liberties for Europe, spun off of Soros’ Open Society Foundation, tried to convince the German Foreign Ministry to intervene against a controversial Hungarian law targeting Soros’ NGO donations
h/t Instapundit
Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces a dangerous decision with a deadline. Should he fire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe within hours of his retirement Friday, and thereby likely deprive him of a lucrative lifetime federal pension ‐ or should he let McCabe’s week run out?
If only the decision were so straightforward. There’s much more to the back story on this one.
The dilemma was thrust upon Sessions earlier this week by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which recommended that McCabe be terminated before his pension begins. Federal law allows civil service pensions to be denied for serious offenses, but once the checks start flowing it’s illegal to stop them.
The OPR got involved after Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s investigators found that McCabe had lied to them about his actions in leaking information to the media about the FBI’s probe of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and address.
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The article makes a pretty fair case the Deep State?FBI wants him fired, to stir up more Trumpian controversy. He'd sue to get his pension, and the story would go on forever.
McCabe has already been disgraced - forced out early - so he'll have to live the rest of his life as a CNN Analyst.
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I personally think the criminations about McCabe that are in the IG report and the incidents about McCabe behavior after the election are bit more than leaking information to the press to present an agenda.
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Dammit, g(r)omgoru! You know I adore you, but the rule is that after 2:00 p.m. ET the only things posted that day are active terror attacks. This should have been posted for tomorrow. All one need do is click on the Tomorrow button on the left side of the article box, or like in the news link box one can easily change the date to the next day and the time to 00:00.
[American Thinker] House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has always lived on a different planet. What's more, she's always pandering, and she will pander to anyone. So it was natural that she pandered in surreal terms to her favorite pet group, the DREAMers and their illegal parents and coevals, labeling the U.S. lawmen tasked with looking for criminal aliens among them as "terrorizing" their communities and calling their legitimate law enforcement actions "cowardly attacks."
Cowardly attacks? Scooping up the worst of the worst among illegals ‐ the cartel members, the killers, the kidnappers, the child-molesters, the drunk drivers ‐ and that's somehow a task that takes cowardice? Seriously, cartel members? What an insult. And this from a person who wants her party to run these agencies?
Fortunately, she got an impressive smack-down on Fox News from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director, Thomas D. Homan, a big, beefy tough guy, who knows the score and communicates it well. Homan told Fox News's Stuart Varney:
[ARABNEWS] US 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... is seeking to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports and will target the technology and telecommunications sectors, two people who had discussed the issue with the Trump administration said on Tuesday.
A third source who had direct knowledge of the administration’s thinking said the tariffs, associated with a "Section 301" intellectual property investigation, under the 1974 US Trade Act begun in August last year, could come "in the very near future."
While the tariffs would be chiefly targeted at information technology, consumer electronics and telecoms, they could be much broader and the list could eventually run to 100 products, the source said
The White House declined to comment on the size or timing of any move.
In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry front man Lu Kang said Sino-US trade relations should not be a zero-sum game, and that the two countries should use "constructive" means to manage tension.
"We have said many times that China resolutely opposes any kind of unilateral protectionist trade measures," Lu told news hounds.
"If the United States takes actions that harm China’s interests, China will have to take measures to firmly protect our legitimate rights."
Trump is targeting Chinese high technology companies to punish China for its investment policies that effectively force US companies to give up their technology secrets in exchange for being allowed to operate in the country, as well as for other IP practices Washington considers unfair.
The Trump administration is also considering imposing investment restrictions on Chinese companies over and above the heightened national security restrictions, but details on these were not immediately known. A US Treasury spokeswoman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
But lobbyists in Washington expressed concern that Trump’s ambitious tariff plan would also include other labor-intensive consumer goods sectors such as apparel, footwear and toys.
Higher tariffs on these products would "hurt American families," said Hun Quach, a trade lobbyist for the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
"We’re not talking about fancy cashmere sweaters, we’re talking about cotton T-shirts and jeans and shoes that kids wear for back-to-school," she added. "Alarm bells are ringing."
China runs a $375 billion trade surplus with the US and when President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser visited Washington recently, the administration pressed him to come up with a way of reducing that number.
Trump came to office on a promise to shield American workers from imports and his first action as president was to pull the US out of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
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The relabeling business just went up in Central America.
Of course the Chinese could reduce the trade imbalance by removing the barriers they erect against imports. Nah, just scream 'Smoot-Hawley' to scare those the knee jerk globalists.
Japanese and Chinese shipping companies charge US firms more to ship a particular good to Japan or China than they charge one of their compatriots to ship a comparable good to the US.
And then there is the massive scam of the import and customs paperwork and holding warehouses and facilitators that charge our companies huge sums of money to quarantine, hold the paper and then facilitate the inspections by the customs...
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[BLOOMBERG] New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy proposed taxing online-room booking, ride-sharing, marijuana, e-cigarettes and Internet transactions along with raising taxes on millionaires and retail sales to fund a record $37.4 billion budget that would boost spending on schools, pensions and mass transit.
[American Thinker] House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has always lived on a different planet. What's more, she's always pandering, and she will pander to anyone. So it was natural that she pandered in surreal terms to her favorite pet group, the DREAMers and their illegal parents and coevals, labeling the U.S. lawmen tasked with looking for criminal aliens among them as "terrorizing" their communities and calling their legitimate law enforcement actions "cowardly attacks."
