New Black Panther Party Leader Arrested on Charges of Gun Possession

The new Black Panther Party has re-emerged lately to issue an independent call for the vigilante capture of Trayvon Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman. So it may be concerning to some that Fox News now reports the New Black Panther Party leader who announced a $10,000 bounty on Zimmerman has been arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon:

“Hashim Nzinga, 49, was in possession of an FN Herstal 5.7×28 handgun that he allegedly sold to the Stone Mountain Pawn Shop on March 5 in DeKalb County, Sgt. Adrion Bell, the public information officer, told FoxNews.com.

Last month, Nzinga was convicted for felony deposit account fraud in nearby Gwinnett County, Bell said. It is illegal for a convicted felon to carry a firearm in the state and police were alerted to Nzinga’s alleged possession after the store’s transaction, Bell said.

He was arrested without incident at the probation office he was reporting to, Bell said.

The FN Herstal 5.7×28 is considered a high-end gun that can fetch $800 to $900 at a pawn shop. It is unclear how much Nzinga made from the alleged sale.

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Who Says There's No Bipartsanship?

Democrats and Republicans in the House agree, they don't like the way the Transportation Security Administration handles airport screening. At a hearing, they charged TSA with having rude screeners. Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly told TSA leadership, we're not cattle. Republican Darryl Issa cited dire ineffectiveness. The GAO has also found mismanagement of screening programs. It says TSA rolled out a program to monitor people's demeanor without knowing whether it works.

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Newt Gingrich Statement on Obama’s “Flexibility” In Defending America and Her Allies

The President’s remark to his Russian counterpart that he would have more “flexibility” on ballistic missile defense after the election underscores how dangerous an Obama re-election would be. The President promised the Senate during the ratification debate on the New START Treaty he would not compromise on the Russian demand to limit US ballistic missile defense. Now we find out that promise was nothing more than empty words. The Russian demands, including ballistic missile deployment restrictions, limits on the technological capabilities of our missiles, and joint control over launch decisions, if agreed to by the US government; constitute a clear-and-present danger to American security.

Background: The Russians are seeking the following:

1. A legally binding agreement to limit future US ballistic missile defense;
2. The Russians seek to impose deployment restrictions on US sea-based ballistic missile defense systems including the deployment of Aegis-class missile defense ships from the Black Sea – the path over which Iranian ICBMs would have to travel to reach the US;
3. The Russians seek joint control of a decision to launch ballistic missile defense interceptors – effectively “outsourcing” life-or-death” decisions about American security to the Kremlin;
4. Restrictions on the capability of US defensive missiles to prevent them from being able to shoot down ICBMs. This would be implemented by imposing performance limitations on US interceptors – the velocity (at burnout, Vbo) may not exceed 4-km/sec. This figure reinstates the limitation derived from the now defunct ABM Treaty of 1972. The Obama administration would use these agreements with Russia to effectively recreate the constraints of the ABM Treaty. Source

USPS Still Trying To Snowball Congress

The Postal Service will try to convince a skeptical Congress to let it pull out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. Officials go before the House Oversight Committee later today. They say the Postal Service could save $7 billion a year by setting up its own plan. But an expert will tell the committee that would devastate the FEHBP. Checkbook's Walt Francis plans to say the federal program could not withstand a loss of so many participants. The Postal Service represents about one-fourth of enrollees.On the other side of Capitol Hill, the Senate had planned to debate a bill to overhaul the Postal Service this week. That's been pushed back until after lawmakers' spring break.

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Parents Of Trayvon Martin In DC For Racial Profiling Briefing

WASHINGTON - The parents of Florida teen Trayvon Martin were in Washington D.C. flanked by members of Congress. It was a show of support for the family and a call for justice in their son's death.

"Of course my heart is broken, but it breaks even more to know that we have not gotten justice yet and that this man [George Zimmerman] has not been arrested for shooting and killing my son,” says Sybrina Fulton, Martin’s mother.

Before they addressed the media, Martin’s parents testified in front of a group of lawmakers including Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Frederica Wilson, who represents the district where Martin lives, and Rep. Corrine Brown, who represents the area where the Sanford Police Department is.

"We’vegot to make sure that what has happened in Sanford, with the police department and how they handled this situation never happens again in the Untied States of America," says Rep. Brown.

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Md. Senate Passes Bill To Limit Septic Systems

ANNAPOLIS — After days of delay and maneuvers that frustrated opponents and supporters alike, Maryland senators have approved a bill to regulate where new residential septic systems can be installed.

The legislation, passed by a 32-14 vote Tuesday afternoon, creates a four-tiered system that counties are expected to use to limit where residential septic systems can be located, especially in the most rural parts of the state.

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Feds: Democratic Campaign Treasurer Kinde Durkee Defrauded Dozens Out Of $7M

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee defrauded at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political organizations out of $7 million in a scheme that dates back more than a decade, according to a court filing made Tuesday by federal prosecutors.

The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento filed the additional charges in federal court, providing the most detailed account to date in a case that has left some Democratic candidates scrambling for campaign cash in an election year.

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Settlement Talks In Md. Poultry Pollution Case

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Attorneys in a poultry pollution case filed by a University of Maryland environmental law clinic will try to settle the dispute during a conference in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

The clinic represents plaintiffs suing Hudson Farm and Perdue Farms Inc., claiming they are polluting a nearby waterway.

Gov. Martin O'Malley has criticized the lawsuit. The governor wrote a letter to the dean of the university's law school complaining about what he called the "ongoing injustice" of pursuing costly litigation against the Worcester County farm.

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WICOMICO CO. FATHER CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH FATAL SHOOTING OF YOUNG SON

(HEBRON, MD) – Maryland State Police tonight arrested a Wicomico County man and served an indictment that charged him in connection with the fatal shooting of his son that occurred earlier this month when the child accidentally shot himself with his father’s handgun.

The accused is identified as Jamal A. Woolford Sr., 29, of the 100-block of Old Railroad Road, Hebron, Md. Woolford has been charged in a Wicomico County Grand Jury indictment with the following charges: manslaughter, reckless endangerment, permitting firearm access by a minor, possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine in a school zone, manufacturing cocaine, manufacturing cocaine in a school zone, possession of cocaine, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession/use of a firearm involving a drug trafficking crime, illegal possession of a regulated firearm, possession of a regulated firearm knowing it to be stolen, theft of a firearm, and use of a firearm in commission of a felony. Woolford is being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center without bond pending an initial appearance before a Circuit Court judge.

On the night of March 5, 2012, Maryland State Police were called to the residence of the accused for the report of a shooting. When troopers arrived, they found the son of the accused, Jamal A. Woolford Jr., 4, had sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and the child’s mother, Shanice A. Kellam, 24, had also been wounded by a gunshot. The child was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Maryland State Police investigators determined the victim had gained access to a handgun that belonged to the accused and he kept in the bedroom. The child had accidentally shot himself and the round also wounded his mother who was asleep in bed.

Maryland State Police Homicide Unit investigators forwarded their investigation to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney. On March 26, 2012, a State Police homicide investigator presented the case evidence to a Wicomico County Grand Jury. The Grand Jury handed down an indictment yesterday for Jamal A. Woolford Sr., with the charges listed above.

Members of the Maryland State Police State Apprehension Team conducted a search for the accused today. He was located about 6:30 p.m. today with another person in a truck at a fast food restaurant in the 1200-block of Mt. Herman Road in Salisbury. Troopers arrested Woolford without incident.

Two Snaps Up For The Coast Guard Academy

Six months have passed since the end of "don't ask-don't-tell." Now, gay students at military academies are no longer shy about themselves. In December, students at the Coast Guard Academy formed a group called Spectrum, a gay pride organization. A similar group with the same name forms in New York at West Point, the Army's main academy. Participants say they are treated no differently than anyone else.The phenomenon is also occurring at private military academies. Cadets at Norwich University in Vermont stage a gay pride week.

An Insider Helping Out Fellow Insiders

Few men have a resume quite like Jon Corzine. Not only has Corzine served in the U.S. Senate and been governor of New Jersey, he has also been the CEO of Goldman Sachs and the recently imploded brokerage firm MF Global. The insider blood filtrated through cronyism and the endless squandering of the public dime flows heavily through his veins.

When MF Global went belly up [20] back in the fall, Corzine was finally revealed for the inept, overly connected bureaucrat he really is. Corruption seemingly follows the former Senator, Governor, and banker like shadows on a sunny day. Earlier this week, New Jersey was declared the least corruptible state in the union much to the surprise of, well, everyone. But as the great Jonathan Weil pointed out [21], the methodology in the study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity was horribly flawed. New Jersey has historically been defined with corruption:

…this is a state where in 2009 three mayors, two assemblymen and five rabbis were among 44 charged in a single money-laundering and bribery sting by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [22]. One of those mayors, Peter Cammarano, was from Hoboken, where I live. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison. Five years before his arrest, another former Hoboken mayor, Anthony Russo, pleaded guilty to corruption charges. His son now sits on the city council.

Corzine was of course acquainted with one of the mayors listed and a member of his own cabinet faced investigation by the FBI [23]during the same time period. And that was only the man’s tenure as Governor. Anyone who spends their time horse-trading in Congress is instantly guilty of corruption by definition. Corzine was especially so as he coauthored the Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulatory bill which heaped another expense [24] on start up businesses to the benefit of already established and politically favored firms.

Corzine’s political career was launched after his term heading the financial vampire squid known as Goldman Sachs which has its tentacles within [25] practically every important or relevant governing authority around the globe. During his time at GS, he served on a presidential commission for Bill Clinton and a committee in the U.S. Treasury. In short, before his time heading MF Global, Corzine was an expert paper pusher whose connections in the political establishment were deeply rooted. That’s why he made the perfect candidate for a multinational investment firm on the up and up.

Not too long after Corzine went to MF Global, he visited [26] the New York branch of the Federal Reserve in an attempt to expedite the process by which MF could received the coveted “primary dealer” privilege. This primary dealer position gave MF the ability to be one of the first financial institutions the NY Fed would purchase government securities and bonds from when the central bank wished to expand the monetary base. It is the ultimate position any banking insider looking to game the system seeks. Though an official from the NY Fed denies [27] any special treatment was given to Corzine (as if they would own up to it in public anyway), as the Wall Street Journal [28] explains, “the New York Fed doesn’t publicly discuss” decisions of granting primary dealership status, “but a source with knowledge of the process says that it sometimes takes several years for a firm to gain acceptance.”

And yet we are to believe that Corzine’s numerous connections didn’t help fast track this process?

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Douse The Flames, Mr. President!

Barack Obama's statement that the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that cries out for a more thorough investigation was the right and necessary thing to say.

But it fell far short of what was needed: a presidential call for a halt to the rhetoric that is stirring up racial rage and inflaming the nation. The incendiary language being deployed is both divisive and dangerous.

Addressing the Sanford, Fla., incident, Black Muslim Minister Louis Farrakhan tweeted: "Where there is no justice, there will be no peace. Soon, and very soon, the law of retaliation may ... be applied."

The New Black Panther Party has issued a "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster featuring the face of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin, and printed up a flier saying Martin was "murdered in cold blood."

When Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad was asked if this could ignite an explosive situation that has already seen death threats drive Zimmerman and his father from their homes, Muhammad cursed and said Zimmerman "should be fearful for his life."

Demanding "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," the Black Panther leader offered $10,000 for Zimmerman's capture and called for 5,000 black men to run him down.

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Nuclear Bomb Might Not Destroy Washington, D.C.

A secret federal study finds, Washington D.C. might not be totally destroyed by a terrorist nuclear bomb. The study was made last year by FEMA and not made public. But it has circulated on scientific and government watchdog websites. FEMA looked at what would happen if a 10 kiloton bomb explodes near the White House. Everything in a half mile radius is destroyed, about as far as the FBI building. Also, 45, thousand people would die, and 300,000 would be injured. But the city survives. Across the river, the Pentagon would only have broken windows.

Obama Wants to Push Reduction of Nuclear Stockpiles

SEOUL — Seeking to lead by example on the nuclear dangers posed by North Korea and Iran, President Obama said Monday he’ll pursue talks with Russia to further reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.

“I’m confident that, working together, we can continue to make progress and reduce our nuclear stockpiles,” Mr. Obama said at Hankuk University at the start of a two-day summit on nuclear security with more than 50 world leaders.

In an address that focused largely on North Korea’s belligerence, the president said the U.S. has a “unique responsibility” to show the rest of the world the way to reduce nuclear arsenals and halt development of new weapons. The focus of the summit is preventing terrorists from obtaining nuclear weapons.

“The United States has a unique responsibility to act—indeed, a moral obligation,” Mr. Obama said. “I say this as president of the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons.”

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Profiling

Right now, there isn't enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman's actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there's a larger issue that few people understand or have the courage to acknowledge, namely that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make that connection does not make one a racist. Let's look at it.

Twelve years ago, a black Washington, D.C., commissioner warned cabbies, most of whom were black, against picking up dangerous-looking passengers. She described "dangerous-looking" as a "young black guy ... with shirttail hanging down longer than his coat, baggy pants, unlaced tennis shoes." She also warned cabbies to stay away from low-income black neighborhoods. Did that make the D.C. commissioner a racist?

In some cities, such as St. Louis, black pizza deliverers have complained about having to deliver pizzas to certain black neighborhoods, including neighborhoods in which they live. Are they racists? The Rev. Jesse Jackson once remarked, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery – (and) then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Does that make the reverend a racist?

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U.S. Gives Leftist Groups $42 Mil For Housing Counseling

The Obama Administration keeps pouring huge sums of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of leftist groups that specialize in “housing counseling” for minorities seeking a good home or struggling to keep one on the verge of foreclosure.

The latest allocation—$42 million in counseling grants—was announced just a few days ago by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of the administration’s continuing effort to help families find decent housing and prevent future foreclosures. The cash will go to hundreds of national, regional and local organizations that profess to assist low-income populations.

Among them is the National Community Reinvestment Corporation, a famously liberal activist group that seeks to eliminate “discrimination” in housing and mortgage lending, and the equally leftist National Urban League, which advocates for social justice and claims voter identification laws are racist. They are getting $2.5 million and $1.05 million respectively. The entire list of recipients and what they do can be found here for those who care to sort through it.

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Gay Woman Wins health insurance Battle With government

A gay federal worker who challenged the government to provide health insurance for her spouse appears to have won her battle. The Office of Personnel Management had said Karen Golinski's wife could not get coverage. But, in a letter given to the Washington Post, officials now tell her health insurance company to enroll her spouse right away. This is the first time such health care coverage has been allowed, gay rights advocates tell The Post. OPM's decision follows a court ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. The law prevented the government from recognizing gay marriages.

Romney Scrambles to Raise Cash for Santorum Battle

Mitt Romney scrambled on Monday to raise campaign cash to help him fend off the lingering challenge from rival Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination, and he acknowledged that the battle could extend into June.

The Republicans' extended race to find a challenger to President Barack Obama is sucking up more time and donors' money than expected, possibly weakening the eventual nominee at the November 6 general election.

Romney opened a two-day California blitz to raise money at five events, attending fundraisers in San Diego and the San Francisco area on Monday and then Stockton, Irvine and Los Angeles on Tuesday. He heads to Texas later in the week to raise funds.

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