SENATORS CALL ON ADMINISTRATION TO HOLD COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ACCOUNTABLE FOR UNDERREPORTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON CAMPUS

New campus safety data suggests substantial underreporting of sexual violence by schools: out of 11,600 measured in 2014, 91% reported having no incidents

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) together with Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with 29 Senators, today sent a letter to the Departments of Education and Justice urging the agencies to ensure colleges and universities receiving federal funds adhere to new measures intended to help prevent sexual violence on campus and increase accountability for students’ safety. These regulations, which went into effect July 1st, 2015, were included in the Violence Against Woman Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) as amendments to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act(Clery Act), a key campus safety law. VAWA also required that schools focus on prevention of these crimes, instituting education and training programs for faculty and students, and provide students with clear information about their rights under the law.

A review of federal campus safety data from more than 11,600 colleges and universities shows that 91 percent of the schools reported no incidents of campus sexual violence in 2014. The reporting directly conflicts with data on sexual violence from the Department of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which shows one in five women are sexually assaulted on college campuses, strongly suggesting these institutions are not creating an environment where students feel comfortable reporting and vastly underreporting these crimes.

The Senators are requesting that the Departments evaluate how colleges and universities are falling short in complying with the VAWA reforms to the Clery Act, reinforce their obligation to students under the law, and clarify what steps these institutions can take to prevent gender-based violence on campus.

Gold Alert Issued for Missing Delmar Woman: UPDATE

Delmar, DE- Betty Turner has been located. The Gold Alert has been cancelled.

Delmar, DE- The Delaware State Police are issuing a Gold Alert for Betty D. Turner, 49, of Delmar, DE.

Troopers are looking for Betty D. Turner who hasn’t been seen or heard from since approximately 10:30 a.m. today, Friday, July 01, 2016, after calling her place of employment. There is a concern for Betty’s welfare as troopers have been unable to locate her and attempts to contact her have been unsuccessful.

Betty Turner is described as being 5’03” tall, weighs approximately 145 lbs., and has brown hair and brown eyes. She may be operating a white 1999 Nissan Altima which has a broken rear window covered by a plastic bag, and bears DE registration 965905. There is no clothing description available for Turner.

If anyone has any information in reference to the whereabouts of Betty D. Turner they are asked to call Troop 5 at 302-337-1090. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, via the internet atwww.tipsubmit.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword "DSP."

Tesla driver killed in crash while using car’s ‘Autopilot’

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced Thursday the first fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company who nicknamed his vehicle “Tessy” and had praised its sophisticated “Autopilot” system just one month earlier for preventing a collision on an interstate. The government said it is investigating the design and performance of the system aboard the Tesla Model S sedan.

Joshua D. Brown, of Canton, Ohio, died in the accident May 7 in Williston, Florida, when his car’s cameras failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky and didn’t automatically activate its brakes, according to government records obtained Thursday.

Frank Baressi, 62, the driver of the truck and owner of Okemah Express LLC, said the Tesla driver was “playing Harry Potter on the TV screen” at the time of the crash and driving so quickly that “he went so fast through my trailer I didn’t see him.”

“It was still playing when he died and snapped a telephone pole a quarter mile down the road,” Baressi told The Associated Press in an interview from his home in Palm Harbor, Florida. He acknowledged he couldn’t see the movie, only heard it.

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Sure looks like governments rigged stocks after Brexit vote

Ah, that wasn’t too bad.

I’m figuring that is what investors were saying on Wednesday after financial markets around the world regained more than half of the losses caused by Britain’s shocking decision to leave the European Union.

And if you include the hokey rally the day before the British voted to Brexit — as Britain’s abandonment of the EU is being called — stocks barely budged.

I say the decision was “shocking” only because the powers that be were pretty sure voters wouldn’t dare escape the EU.

The PTB were wrong.

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About 1.6M drop-outs from health law coverage this year

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1.6 million people who signed up for coverage this year under President Barack Obama’s health care law dropped out by the end of March, according to administration figures released late Thursday.

The report from the Health and Human Services department said some 11.1 million people were still signed up. But that’s a drop of nearly 13 percent from the 12.7 million who initially enrolled for subsidized private coverage this year. Those dropouts failed to seal the deal by paying their premiums.

The pattern of attrition is not new, and has been seen each year since customers began receiving health law coverage in 2014. However, this year the administration had been trying to do a better job of weeding out problem applications while sign-up season was still underway.

“The drop off is maybe a tad higher than expected, given that they dropped people as they went along,” said Larry Levitt, an expert on the health care law with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. “But it’s in the range of reasonable results.”

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Clinton childhood friend ‘astonished’ women would vote for Hillary

Says rape victims 'should be the most vocal in opposing'

Elizabeth Warren has emerged as a likely candidate for Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential pick, raising the possibility of an all-female ticket for the Democratic Party in 2016.

But one woman who knows the Clintons almost better than anyone is disgusted by the idea Hillary Clinton could be regarded as a hero of feminism.

“I don’t know how any women could vote for Hillary Clinton,” former Bill Clinton sweetheart Dolly Kyle told WND. “I am really curious how women are doing that because I know of some rape victims who are actually planning to vote for Hillary, and I don’t know how. I’m astonished. I don’t know if it’s Stockholm Syndrome or what. These people should be the most vocal in opposing Hillary, who has attacked every woman who has stood in her way since she attacked Marla Crider back in 1974.”

Kyle was a childhood friend of “Billy” Clinton and later the lover of the former president of the United States. She witnessed how Bill and Hillary Clinton teamed up to destroy any women who stood in the way of the couple’s ambitions for power, a story she tells in “Hillary The Other Woman.”

Kyle argues a President Hillary Clinton will be a disaster for women.

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SPD Press Release 7-1-16- Holiday Safety

SPD Press Release - Assault Arrests 07/01/16

WCSO Press Release 7-1-16

Waters, Dalonte

Incident: Assault
Date of Incident: 30 June 2016
Location: 600 block of S. Westover Drive, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Dalonte Marquez Waters, 21, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 30 June 2016 at 2:06 PM a deputy responded to a residence in the 600 block of S. Westover Drive for a reported altercation. Upon arrival, the deputy learned that Waters had engaged in an argument with a female subject that turned physical. It was alleged that Waters assaulted this subject and that was supported by signs of injury that were observed by the deputy.
The deputy also learned that Waters had entered the residence uninvited prior to committing the assault.. The deputy placed Waters under arrest and transported him to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner detained Waters in the Detention Center in lieu of $20,000.00 bond.
Charges: Assault 2nd Degree and Burglary 3rd Degree.

Dereik Michael Stephens

Incident: False Identity on a Traffic Stop
Date of Incident: 28 June 2016
Location: 1100 block of Shawnee Avenue, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Dereik Michael Stephens, 21, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 28 June 2016 at 7:11 PM a deputy stopped a vehicle operated by Dereik Stephens after observing that Stephens was not wearing a seat belt. Upon making contact with Stephens, he provided a different identity to the deputy. During the stop, the deputy would discover the duplicity and learn Stephen’s true identity.
The deputy placed Stephens under arrest for providing a false name on a traffic stop. At one point during the arrest process Stephens tried to push himself away from the deputy.
The deputy discovered that Stephens’ driver’s license was suspended once he ran a query on the correct name.
The deputy transported Stephens to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner detained Stephens in the Detention Center in lieu of $5,000.00 bond.
Charges: False Identity to Avoid Prosecution, Hinder and Obstruct, Resisting Arrest and Driving While Suspended.

Ruark, Elizabeth

Incident: Disorderly Conduct / Hinder and Obstruct
Date of Incident: 29 June 2016
Location: N. Salisbury Blvd. at Zion Road, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Elizabeth Jane Ruark, 51, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 29 June 2016 at 3:42 PM a deputy stopped a vehicle operated by Elizabeth Ruark for a registration violation. After stopping Ruark the deputy attempted to ascertain information from Ruark about the current status of her vehicle’s registration, but instead she began to get upset and began throwing things around inside her vehicle. During the stop, the deputy requested that Ruark exit her vehicle but she refused to follow the deputy’s request, actually replying at one point with “EXPLETIVE you.” The deputy attempted to assist Ruark with the exit, but Ruark resisted that assistance, holding on to the inside of her vehicle.
The deputy did manage to get Ruark from the vehicle at which point she was placed under arrest and transported to the Sheriff’s Office. During the arrest process, Ruark continued to be both uncooperative and verbally abusive to the deputy. These actions included hitting and kicking the inside of the deputy’s patrol vehicle while being taken back to the Sheriff’s Office.
Ruark was processed at the Central Booking Unit where she was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Ruark was detained in the Detention Center until being released on Personal Recognizance the following day.
Charges: Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest and Hinder and Obstruct

OCPD Rescued Kitten From Rt. 90 Bridge

How the TPP Could Affect You and Your Business

On February 4, 2016, President Obama signed the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement on behalf of the United States. The TPP agreement has been in negotiation behind closed doors since 2010 between the United States and 11 other countries around the Pacific Rim: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. The TPP is a “docking agreement” so other countries could be added without the approval of Congress. India, China, and Korea have expressed interest in joining the TPP.

Our elected representatives in Congress had no involvement in writing the TPP – it was written by the staff of the U. S. Trade Representative office, with over 600 corporate advisers (think corporate lawyers) helping them write it. It contains more than 5,500 pages, and no member of Congress could view it as it was being negotiated until late 2014. Even then, they could not take any staff with them and were not allowed to take pen, pencil, paper, or a camera when they went to view it at the U. S. T. R.’s office.

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SALUTE TO VETERANS DAY

SALUTE TO VETERANS DAY

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

We are proud to celebrate Independence Day with our
Senior Center veterans!

Where: Salisbury Wicomico Senior Center
Time: 11:00 a.m. ‐ 1:00 p.m.

What: A patriotic celebration, music, fellowship and a picnic lunch with all the fixin’s!

DC, Baltimore homicide surge among worst in nation in 2015

WASHINGTON — The District saw a spike in homicides last year. But halfway through 2016, the number of homicides has plateaued.

The nation saw what a National Institute of Justice report calls a “real and nearly unprecedented” spike in homicides last year with both Baltimore and Washington leading the way.

Both cities saw homicides climb more than 50 percent in 2015. Baltimore had the largest spike in violent deaths in the nation and D.C. had the fifth largest increase.

But this year, that rapid rise in homicides has leveled off.

D.C. has reported 63 homicides so far this year, five fewer than had been reported at this time last year. That’s a 7 percent decline compared to last year, but the rate is still higher than the 58 people who had been violently killed by midyear 2014 and the 38 by July 2013.

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A Message From The Marion Fire Department Chief

As most citizens of our community are aware, on Monday June 27th, a local business was destroyed by fire. 

I would like to thank all of the community that came together during this major incident at Chesapeake Boat and Lumber Yard. 100 fire and ems personnel and 50 pieces of apparatus from 18 companies in Somerset, Worcester, Wicomico, and Accomack Counties were on the scene of this massive blaze. 

We want to extend our deepest gratitude to all of these personnel, along with the law enforcement agencies, State Highway Administration, The Red Cross, and all of those businesses and individuals in our community and communities as far out as Dorchester County for bringing & serving foods, drinks and ice. 

I wish that I could thank you by name, but there are too many to name and I would hate to leave anyone out, as we appreciate ALL of you! Your support was well needed, and it is groups of people like yourselves that make our jobs a little easier in wake of an emergency. On behalf of every fire and ems provider serving on this incident, we THANK YOU, and are always here to protect and serve our community. We do this with great pride!

Chief David Evans, Sr

Marion Fire Department, Sta.3

Judicial Watch Demands DOJ Inspector General Probe Into "Scandalous" Lynch-Clinton Meeting

The political scandal of the day was the news that on Monday evening (coincidentally just before the Benghazi report was released), Bill Clinton and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch just happened to meet on the tarmac at a Phoenix airport - totally unplanned of course. Clinton saw the attorney general and wanted to say hello, so Clinton boarded Lynch's plane to talk for a bit. Sure, just a quick chat about the weather, his putting stroke, anything except oh, say, an update on what was about to be released on Benghazi, and especially not an update on the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary.

"Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels. He mentioned the golf he played in Phoenix, and he mentioned travels he'd had in West Virginia. There was no discussion of any matter pending for the department or any matter pending for any other body. There was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of the State Department emails, by way of example" Lynch told reporters.

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State Department Asks For Delay Release Of Clinton Emails

Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.

If the court permits the delay, the public won’t be able to read the communications until October 2018, about 22 months into her prospective first term as President. The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.

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Macy's stock in free fall since dissing Trump

Corporate America is learning a lesson: Don’t cross Donald Trump.

One year ago, Trump upended American politics when he declared he was a candidate for president.

Macy’s promptly declared it was cutting ties and dumping Trump’s clothing line because of “disparaging” remarks about Mexicans.

Trump fired back, declaring the company supports illegal immigration. His supporters even shredded their Macy’s credit cards and tens of thousands called to complain about the company’s cave to political correctness.

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None Dare Call It Conspiracy

Muslim refugee crisis in America is going to bring wave of terror and it's all intentional

If Obama is arming terrorists while at the same time disarming Americans – wouldn’t that be considered treason?

Darrin McBreen talks to political activist and former member of the original Black Panther Party, Larry Pinkney, about
the Muslim refugee crisis that Donald trump calls a Trojan Horse.

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State Department Won’t Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months

Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.

If the court permits the delay, the public won’t be able to read the communications until October 2018, about 22 months into her prospective first term as President. The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.

The State Department originally estimated that 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged by the aides with the Clinton Foundation. But a series of “errors” the department told the court about Wednesday evening now mean the total has grown to “34,116 potentially responsive documents.”

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Concealed carrier takes down shooter at South Carolina nightclub

A South Carolina man is facing multiple attempted murder charges after he opened fire on a crowd gathering outside a nightclub early Sunday, police said.

Deputies with Spartanburg County said 32-year-old Jody Ray Thompson pulled out an illegally carried firearm during an argument with another man and fired several rounds toward a crowd outside Playoffz nightclub in Lyman, a local NBC News affiliate reported.

“His rounds struck 3 victims, and almost struck a fourth victim, who in self-defense, pulled his own weapon and fired, striking Thompson in the leg,” Lt. Kevin Bobo said.

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Epic Video Shows Attack Helicopters Delete An ISIS Convoy Fleeing Fallujah

A huge convoy of Islamic State fighters found themselves on the business end of an assault from Iraqi helicopters as they attempted to flee Fallujah.

The video allegedly shows the assault from the perspective of an attack helicopter gun camera. It shows a convoy of what are said to be dozens of ISIS vehicles fleeing the Iraqi city of Fallujah as Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) closed in.

As the vehicles drove down the long, narrow road, they made themselves easy pickings for the attack helicopters, which peppered them with rocket, missile and cannon fire. The latter portion of the video shows ISF soldiers examining the mangled remains of the convoy after the attack.

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Whitewashing Hillary

The 800-plus-page report of the House Select Committee on Benghazi was released earlier this week. It slams former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her willful indifference to her obligation to repel military-style attacks on American interests and personnel at the U.S. Consulate and a nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. She particularly failed to save the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his colleagues, all under her care and control while she was secretary of state.

The report also slams Clinton for her repeated lies about the cause of the attacks. After she told her daughter in an email that the Benghazi consulate had been attacked by an organized terrorist group using heavy military hardware, she told her colleagues at the State Department that the attacks were a spontaneous overreaction by locals to an American-made internet video about the Prophet Muhammad.

After telling that lie, she sent another email, this one to the Egyptian foreign minister, repeating what she had truthfully told her daughter.

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Migrants Bring Multi-Drug Resistant TB to Wisconsin

Two refugees and a foreign student on a visa brought multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2009 and 2011, according to a 2014 article in an epidemiology publication written with the cooperation of the doctors who treated them.

The introduction of MDR TB to the United States represents a serious public health threat, since its successful treatment is uncertain and very expensive. Active TB can usually be treated successfully in six to nine months at a cost of $17,000 per patient, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but MDR TB treatment costs more than $150,000 per patient and can take between 20 and 26 months.

The six to nine month treatment regimen for active TB, which has been standard practice in the United States for some 50 years, involves a combination of four drugs: rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol.

Over the past several decades, new strains of TB have developed around the world which are resistant to at least two of these four drugs, hence the term MDR TB. Treatment for MDR TB begins only after the patient is observed to be resistant to the standard four drug protocol. Subsequent to diagnosis, a number of expensive “second level” drugs are added to the patient’s treatment regimen.

Twenty cases of MDR TB, all foreign-born, were diagnosed in Wisconsin over the eight year period between 2005 and 2012, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Twelve of these cases were from the Hmong people in Laos (though Case 2 in the 2014 article was categorized as “drug resistant,” not formally MDR-TB, it was probably included among these 12, as well as Case 2’s “close household contact”), four were from India (including Case 3 from the 2014 article), one was from Burma (including Case 1 from the 2014 article), and one each were from China, Ethiopia, and Nepal.

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Gunman Opens Fire Into Crowd at Another Nightclub — This Might Be Why the Incident Isn’t Leading the News

Police said Jody Ray Thompson pulled out a gun during an argument in front of the Playoffz nightclub in Lyman, South Carolina, early Sunday morning and fired at a gathered crowd, hitting three people.

Spartanburg County Sheriff’s deputies told WHNS-TV Thompson almost hit a fourth person — who just so happens to be a concealed carry permit holder.

Lt. Kevin Bobo said that the man pulled out his own gun in self defense and fired back at Thompson, hitting him in the leg.

The concealed carry permit holder, who hasn’t been named, cooperated with investigators and won’t be facing any charges stemming from the 3:30 a.m. incident, WHNS reported.

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Sticks and Stones: Trump Supporters Xenophobic, Misogynystic, Homophobic, and Islamophobic

Hillary Clinton says she feels sympathy for Donald Trump supporters who are taken in by the New Yorker, but warned voters that she thinks his message is offensive.

“I am sympathetic to a lot of the people attracted by Trump’s message, who are feeling really left out and left behind,” she said during a YouTube Creators summit in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday.

Some Trump supporters, she argued, were “frustrated” and “fearful” and therefore susceptible to what she described as Trump’s “misleading promises.”

But she accused many Trump supporters of falling prey to his controversial message.

“I’m not sympathetic to the xenophobia, the misogyny, the homophobia, the Islamophobia, and all of the other sort of dog whistles that Trump uses to create that fervor among a lot of his supporters,” she said.

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Feds to return $30K seized from Maryland dairy farmer

A Frederick County farmer who became central in the fight to reform federal seizure laws will get a check from the IRS.

Randy Sowers, owner of South Mountain Creamery, said he has vocally supported the end of civil asset forfeiture after his Middletown farm was unwittingly caught up in a federal case in 2012.

Under civil forfeiture, the government can seize and then keep or sell property, including cash and real estate, that may be associated with a crime, even though the owner may not ever be arrested, convicted or directly involved.

In Sowers’ case, he and his wife, Karen, were investigated for the financial practice of “structuring” after banking records showed they regularly made cash deposits in amounts just short of a $10,000 limit that triggers special paperwork by banks. Such deposits can indicate criminal activity such as drug dealing or money laundering.

But the Sowers family said they were depositing cash from their farm business and it was a bank teller who suggested they make smaller deposits, which would spare the teller the extra work, said Paul Kamenar, a lawyer who represents the Sowerses.

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From The County Executive's Office

The work continues on Pemberton Drive.

Gray Cases Lead To Threats, Hate Mail Against Mosby

Hate mail and threats against Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has led to an increase in her security detail, the 11 News I-Team has learned.

"Our office has received, and she has personally received, a number of offensive and extremely disturbing, racist, sexist hate mail, and even death threats," Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie said.

The 11 News I-Team obtained a sample of the threatening e-mails through a Public Information Act request to the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office. One e-mailer submitted two fake news accounts detailing the demise of Mosby and her husband, Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby.

The first fake story says: "Marilyn Mosby was gunned down in cold blood walking into the courthouse. Not one officer came to assist. A police statement simply read, 'Sucks to be her.' Nobody will miss that (expletive)."

The second fake story goes into morbid detail of the torture and dismemberment of Nick Mosby, saying: "Police issued a statement, 'The death of Mr. Mosby does not appear to be suspicious. Several family members related to Mr. and Ms. Mosby have been reported missing. Police feel none of the missing are significant. Hope you've enjoyed reading.'"

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Dick Morris on Lynch-Bill Clinton Meeting: 'I Want to Know What She Got'

Attorney Gen. Loretta Lynch's meeting with former President Bill Clinton on Monday before the Benghazi report was released was "clearly … was inappropriate" — but political analyst Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Thursday that "I want to know what she got."

"Her job ends in five months — and even a warm handshake and routine words of praise from the husband of her possible boss could mean the world to Loretta Lynch," Morris told "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview.

"It could mean she can stay on as attorney general," he said. "It could mean that Hillary would put her on the Supreme Court.

"Clearly this was inappropriate," Morris told Malzberg. "Could you imagine in a criminal proceeding if the husband of the defendant met with the judge?

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OC Jamboree property sold to Sunsations owner Sibony

Though a judge has to sign off on the deal before it can proceed to settlement, Sunsations owner Avi Sibony won they day last Friday when he purchased the former OC Jamboree property for $950,000.

The building and property, as well as the remaining contents, were sold off during the auction and auctioneer Bill Hudson said all of the lots — 13 in all — sold that day.

Dozens of potential bidders attended the auction held within the former theater, which was closed more than a year and a half ago following the arrest of the former owner.

Bidding on the property, located off Route 611 in West Ocean City, started at $400,000, which is less than what the previous owner paid when it was last on the market in 2004, according to public records. Bids quickly escalated to $800,000, and then inched along until the final sale price was reached.

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Report: Cutting $2.6 Trillion of Waste in Government Would Balance Budget in One Year

If Congress were to cut unnecessary and ineffective spending in the federal government, it could balance the budget in one year by following the recommendations put forth by Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-partisan organization.

The report, titled “Prime Cuts 2016,” outlines 618 recommendations to cut wasteful government spending that would not only balance the budget within one year but would save taxpayers $644.1 billion in the first year and $2.6 trillion over five years.

The group finds wasteful spending in nearly every agency of the federal government including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Labor Department, the Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Justice Department, and the Department of Commerce.

At the Department of Health and Human Services, if Congress were to reduce improper Medicare payments by 50 percent in five years, the department could save taxpayers $4.3 billion in just one year.

“Medicare is plagued with the highest reported amount of improper payments of any federal program,” the report states. “Because of its chronic vulnerability to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, the [Government Accountability Office] has for 20 years designated the Medicare program as ‘high risk.’”

At the Department of Transportation, if Congress were to eliminate federal subsidies for Amtrak, taxpayers could save $1.4 billion in one year and $7.1 billion in five years. Amtrak has been in business for 45 years and has cost taxpayers more than $40 billion.

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This Threat Came In Via Text Message Last Night From 410-920-3428

"You are the scum of the earth...
Leave people alone..
You piece of shit..
If i were one of these people you bash...
I would find you and bash your head in..."

New Clinton Emails Produced by State Department; Clinton Email Shows She Was Concerned About Records

(Washington DC) – Judicial Watch today released 165 pages of new State Department records that include a previously unreleased March 22, 2009, email of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealing that she was concerned about how her records were being handled and had “no idea how my papers are treated at State. Who manages both my personal and official files?” Clinton top aide Huma Abedin responds: “We’ve discussed this” and promises to explain it again. This is the fifth set of records produced to Judicial Watch by the State Department (from the non-“state.gov” email accounts of Huma Abedin) that contain Hillary Clinton emails that were not produced by the State Department as part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Hillary Clinton turned over to the State Department.

These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department even though she turned over no emails dated prior to March 18, 2009. These new records release contain 34 new @clintonemail.com emails that have not been previously produced by to the State Department.

The documents were produced under court order in a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) for “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-“state.gov” email address.”

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Jewish girl, 13, stabbed to death in West Bank bedroom was U.S. citizen

A 13-year-old Jewish girl who was stabbed to death in her bed by a Palestinian attacker on Thursday was an American citizen, the State Department said.

Hallel Yaffa Ariel was asleep in her home in a West Bank settlement when a 17-year-old assailant broke in to the house and killed her before he was shot by security guards.

"The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after an emergency meeting with his defense minister. "The entire nation deeply identifies with the family's pain and declares to the murderers: you will not break us."

In Washington, the U.S. State Department condemned "in the strongest terms the outrageous terrorist attack."

"This brutal act of terrorism is simply unconscionable," spokesperson John Kirby said in the statement. "We extend our deepest condolences to her family. We also understand another individual who was responding to the attack was wounded by the attacker. We extend our hopes for a quick and full recovery."

Kirby confirmed Ariel's U.S. citizenship Thursday afternoon. Israel has a large community of dual American citizens, numbering in the tens of thousands.

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Texas Man Found with Kilo of Heroin

A Texas man faces a trio of felony drug charges after Ohio officers allegedly found a kilogram of heroin in a false compartment in his vehicle.

Felix F. Castro, 21, of Mission, Texas, was found asleep in his vehicle at the Petro Shopping Center in New Paris, Ohio, just over the Ohio/Indiana state line.

When Preble County sheriff's deputies attempted to check on his welfare, Castro was found to be excessively nervous, according to a news release from Preble County Sheriff Mike Simpson.

Castro told the deputies he was from Texas and was traveling through Ohio to find work.

A K-9 unit from the Indiana State Police was called to the scene and alerted to the presence of drugs in the vehicle. A probable cause search found a false compartment in the rocker panel. In there, deputies found about a kilogram of heroin, the release said.

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Thank God Its Friday 7-1-16

What will you be doing this weekend?

New Virginia laws take effect July 1

Starting on Friday, July 1, hundreds of new laws will take effect for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Among the many new laws will be two that impact Virginia concealed handgun permit holders and those engaging in private firearms transactions at Virginia gun shows, as well as many others which we've outlined here.

CONCEALED HANDGUN PERMIT:
As of July 1, 2016, Virginia will recognize all valid concealed handgun or concealed weapon permits and licenses issued by another state, so long as the following requirements are met:
1. The holder of such permit or license is at least 21 years of age
2. The permit or license holder carries a photo identification issued by a government agency of any state or by the U.S. Department of Defense or U.S. Department of State
3. The holder displays the permit or license and such identification upon demand by a law-enforcement officer
4. The permit or license holder has not previously had a Virginia concealed handgun permit revoked.

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Police: Cowboy who rode across bridge abused his 2 horses

NEW YORK (AP) — An 80-year-old man who has been riding around the country on horseback, saying he was trying to call attention to starving children, was arrested Thursday on animal cruelty charges after investigators concluded his horses were malnourished.

In his white hat, Tod “Doc” Mishler had gained national fame galloping into communities, a God-loving cowboy whose home was a horse.

He was arrested three days after riding over the Outerbridge Crossing linking the city’s Staten Island borough with New Jersey. Veterinarians who examined his two horses said they suffered from malnourishment, dehydration and open sores.

On Monday, Mishler stalled bridge traffic as motorists stopped to stare. He was issued court summonses for blocking traffic and trespassing.

On Thursday, police announced more serious charges: two counts of animal cruelty based on examinations of the horses by veterinarians of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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ED ROMMEL JOINS SVN MILLER COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

SALISBURY, MD – Ed Rommel, longtime Certified Public Accountant and partner at Twilley, Rommel & Stephens, P.A has joined SVN | Miller Commercial Real Estate as an Advisor. He is retiring from the accounting industry after more than 44 years and will begin his commercial real estate career with a focus on Business Valuation. Rommel is accredited in Business Valuation by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). He is also a Certified Business Valuator with the National Association of CVA’s and has been a business evaluator for 15+ years. In addition, he has taken the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) courses which represent proven expertise in financial, market and investment analysis.

“As a full service commercial real estate firm we want to assist our clients by adding value at every step of the real estate process,” stated Managing Director Brent Miller, CCIM, CPM. “Business valuation is a service that we do not currently offer, so with the addition of Ed to our team, we will significantly expand our service offerings. Ed has been a staple in our community for decades and we are thrilled to have him on the SVN | Miller team.”

“My vision is to bring true value to SVN,” said Ed Rommel. “I have always enjoyed working in the real estate arena and again my goal is to be of assistance to the Advisors of SVN and to their clients.”

One Week after Brexit, Only UK Stocks Are Higher

Despite all the hysteria from media and political elites that claimed the UK would stagnate if British voters passed Brexit to leave the EU, it turns out that UK stocks are higher a week later while the other stock markets are still down.

In perhaps the most arrogant establishment response on the first day after the Brexit vote, Harvard educated James Traub, wrote in the elite Foreign Policy Magazine: “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses.” Traub demanded that elites use their power to nullify the vote by the “fist shaking” British rabble, because it represented an “utter repudiation of the bankers and economists and Western heads of state who warned voters against the dangers of a split with the European Union.”

But a week after the referendum victory for the “leave” voters, the British stock market index is up +2.6; while the French shares tanking -8.3 percent, German equities tumbling -5.3 percent and U.S. stocks down about 1 percent.

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Troopers Investigate Shooting Southwest of Seaford

Seaford – Troopers are investigating a shooting that sent one victim to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The incident happened around 12:15 a.m., Thursday June 30, 2016, after the Sussex County Emergency Operations Center (9-1-1) received a call in reference to shots being fired in the 5600 block of Byard Ave. Troopers arrived at the residence and found a 38-year-old female with a single gunshot wound to her upper torso. The victim was airlifted to an area hospital where she was being treated for the non-life-threatening injury.

The investigation into this incident is on-going and no suspect information could be provided.

If anyone has any information in reference to this incident they are asked to contact Detective D. Kristunas at 302-752-3856. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, via the internet atwww.delaware.crimestoppersweb.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword "DSP."

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Registration open for Teen/Adult USTA Tennis Lessons

Salisbury, MD – Learn to play tennis as part of a new Wicomico County Recreation program.

During Teen/Adult USTA Tennis Lessons, male and female players ages 13 and up will develop tennis fundamentals, practice match play and learn about sportsmanship, etiquette, game rules and strategies.

The six-week session will be held Saturdays from Aug. 6-Sept. 10 at Billy Gene Jackson Sr. Park. The 9-10 a.m. session, Learn the Game, is for new/novice players and the 10-11 a.m. session, Play the Game, is for intermediate players.

Each student needs to bring a racket and should wear comfortable clothes and athletic shoes. The cost is $54 for the six-week session for those who sign up by July 22, with a $6 late fee added for those who sign up from July 23-29. There can be a maximum of 10 students per class.

Registration is available at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center Box Office (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.) and online atwww.WicomicoRecandParks.org. Contact Allen Swiger at 410-548-4900 x108 or aswiger@wicomicocounty.org.

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Schweizer: American Soil Is Owned by Putin's Government Because of Hillary's Uranium Deal

Tuesday on Fox Business Network, “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Breitbart editor at large and the author of “Clinton Cash,” Peter Schweizer said there needs to be a federal investigation into the Russian uranium deal then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved after the Clinton Foundation receiving $145 million from the shareholders of Uranium One.

Discussing Clinton’s speech on foreign political donations, Schweizer said, “It was a bizarre speech that she gave. I’s as if she was Rip Van Winkle has been asleep since the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative had been functioning. If we are concerned about foreign government money in our politics as Hillary Clinton says she is let’s begin with the Clinton Foundation and begin with a very basic simple premise that is the Clinton Foundation agreed, signed an agreement with Barack Obama that they would disclose all of their donors on an annual basis. Under oath Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the same thing and we know they haven’t done it, that there are at least 1,100 foreign donations that they have any been disclosed to the American public. I was just shaking my head throughout that speech. It was. remarkable for her to say that.”

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Michelle Obama Celebrates Ramadan, Breaks Fast with Iftar Dinner

As part of her summer trip overseas to Morocco, First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated Ramadan byjoining the royal family for an Iftar dinner at the palace in Marrakesh.

She was joined by her daughters Sasha and Malia as well as actress Meryl Streep. The Iftar dinner is a traditional Muslim feast celebrating the end of the Ramadan daily fast.

The members of the First Family were likely familiar with the tradition, as President Barack Obama has hosted an annual Iftar dinner at the White House during his presidency.

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New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Helping Disguise Foreign Contributions during 2012 Presidential Election

A Paramus, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty today to helping to funnel $80,000 in campaign contributions from a foreign source to the joint fundraising committee of the President of the United States during the 2012 presidential election, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey.

Bilal Shehu, 48, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of the District of New Jersey to an information charging him with knowingly and willfully making foreign contributions and donations in connection with the 2012 presidential election and to a fundraising and political campaign committee of the president, aggregating $25,000 or more during a calendar year. Sentencing has been scheduled for Oct. 5, 2016.

Pursuant to his plea agreement, Shehu, a U.S. citizen living in New Jersey, admitted that in September 2012, he received approximately $80,000 from a foreign source and provided it to a joint fundraising committee—including the authorized campaign committee of the president—in an effort to disguise the true origin of the money and so that a foreign national could attend a campaign event on Oct. 8, 2012, in San Francisco. Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions to federal candidates or fundraising committees. In late September 2012, Shehu received an $80,000 wire transfer into his New Jersey-based bank account from a foreign bank account, knowing that he was to provide it to the joint fundraising committee, he admitted. Shehu admitted that in early October 2012, he flew to San Francisco and attempted to gain entry into the San Francisco fundraising event with the foreign national, who was denied entry but was allowed to be photographed with the president.

Hillary Clinton: Drive Less, Reduce Personal Use of Electricity

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged voters to look at their personal habits in order to stop climate change, calling it one of the world’s biggest problems that the next president would have to face.

“On an individual level, you know there are a lot of things that if more people did it, you would see results,” she said.

Clinton shared her thoughts on global warming during a town hall with YouTube creators in Los Angeles, California.

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D3 TEAM BRINGS GOOGLE TO OCEAN CITY

D3Corp and their team of Google experts are bringing Google to Ocean City, MD. On July 17 – 23 the Google Photography Team is going to be in town visiting as many businesses as possible to do Google Tours. Google Tours operate exactly like Google’s Street View; however, feature the inside your hotel, restaurant, or business.

Google Tours are a great way for out of town guests to see inside your business, help your rankings on Google, and can even be embedded in your website.

D3 strongly recommends a Google Tour for every business as this is a great way for potential visitors to see inside a business while they are planning their vacation.

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Hillary Emails Betrayed Whereabouts of Murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens

An email containing the whereabouts and plans of murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens passed through Hillary Clinton’s private server, dispatches released Monday in the final group of messages from Clinton’s emails reveal.

The email was actually first released last May but was contained in Monday’s batch as well, serving as a reminder that numerous emails sent to Clinton’s private address betrayed Stevens’ location while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for an American diplomat.

The email in question was written Sunday, April 10, 2011 by State employee Timmy Davis and sent to the State email addresses of other employees, including Clinton’s then-foreign policy aide, Jacob Sullivan and Clinton’s senior aide.

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‘Move On’ From Benghazi? Republicans Say It’s Unlikely

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says it’s “time to move on” after a congressional report on the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks accused the Obama administration of lethal mistakes, but produced no new evidence pointing to wrongdoing by the former secretary of state.

Not likely, especially in an election year with Clinton’s presidential rival — Donald Trump — lashing out.

An 800-page report by a special House committee makes no direct accusations of wrongdoing by Clinton, who was secretary of state during the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Still, Republicans point to Benghazi as a major failure by the administration and by Clinton during her tenure leading the State Department. The issue is likely to shadow Clinton as she continues her bid for president.

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Rush: 'Wizards of Smart' All Wrong on Financial Fallout From Brexit

The "wizards of smart" on the left and among elites in the establishment and mainstream media got it wrong in predicting permanent doom-and-gloom for the global financial markets in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday.

In his daily radio show, Limbaugh mocked the pundits' depressing long-term view of the historic vote.

"The stock market came back, futures are up 100 points, [the] sky isn't falling," he said, adding, the "wizards of smart said that the world's financial markets were gonna go to hell all because of the Brexit vote."

"Everything happens predictably – except when the doom and gloom sets in, they want you to believe it's permanent and it's all over," Limbaugh said. "And, sadly, it works. It creates cumulatively this overwhelming attitude of doom and gloom that the establishment and the left predicts and creates every time they don't get their way."

Limbaugh decried that "nobody stops to explain to people that panic is the order of the day in each and every day."

"It's generally ginned up, and it's all part of the daily soap opera script that's written by the establishment to keep everybody unsettled and off guard," he said.

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Colt Born Monday On Assateague Island; Fourth Foal of 2016 ‘Expected Soon’

BERLIN – The herd of wild horses at Assateague Island grew by one this week when the third foal expected this year was born.

The mare Gokey Go Bones (identified as N2BHS-A) gave birth to a pinto colt Monday. The foal was born out on the marsh near the curves on Bayberry Drive at Assateague Island National Seashore.

Officials from Assateague Island Alliance (AIA), the friends group that supports the national park, says one more foal is expected in the near future.

“Charmed is still pregnant and a fourth foal is expected soon,” said Ashlie Kozlowski, AIA Outreach Coordinator. “She is in the back country and not encountered as often as the horses in the developed zone so it can be any day now.”

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Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism has “utterly failed,” adding that it was an illusion to think Germans and foreign workers could “live happily side by side.” The failure of multiculturalism is also seen in Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and other European countries. Immigrants coming from Africa and the Middle East refuse to assimilate and instead seek to import the failed cultures they fled.

Leftist diversity advocates and multi-culturalists are right to argue that people of all races, religions and cultures should be equal in the eyes of the law. But their argument borders on idiocy when they argue that one set of cultural values cannot be judged superior to another and that to do so is Euro-centrism.

That’s unbridled nonsense. Ask a diversity/multiculturalism advocate: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in northern Sudan. In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves are punished by having their hand severed. In some African and Middle Eastern countries, homosexuality is a crime, in some cases punishable by death. Are all these cultural values morally equivalent to those of the West?

The vital achievement of the West was the concept of individual rights, which saw its birth with the Magna Carta in 1215. The idea emerged that individuals have certain inalienable rights. Individuals do not exist to serve government; governments exist to protect their rights. But it was not until the 19th century that ideas of liberty received broad recognition. In the West, it was mostly through the works of British philosophers, such as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill.

Personal liberty implies toleration of differences among people, whether those differences are racial, sexual, ideological or political. Liberty also implies a willingness to permit others who disagree with you to go their separate ways.

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Changes Announced In Baltimore Police Use Of Force Policy

Changes are on their way to the Baltimore City Police Department's use of force policy.

The changes include de-escalation of situations and immediate medical attention for anyone who claims they are injured.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the changes on Wednesday.

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Black Pastor: Obama ‘Deceived America,’ Hurt ‘the American Family’

(CNSNews.com) - Speaking at the March for Marriage rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Rev. Bill Owens, president of the Coalition of African American Pastors, said President Obama “deceived America” on the gay marriage issue and hurt America and “the American family.”

“When President Obama was running for president, I had some friends in the gay community who informed me that he was going to say that he was for marriage between a man and a woman in his first term to get elected but he would take the issue up in his second term, and that’s what he did. So first of all, he deceived America,” Owens said.

“And you must fear no man. I fear no man. I got a lot of criticism, a lot of hate mail for opposing Obama. Obama is a black American, but his father is an African, and I think he thinks he can be a king like they have in Africa, but America don’t have kings,” said Owens. “We have a president, and I stand against Mr. Obama very much today. He’s on the wrong track, and he has hurt America and the American family.”

Owens also criticized Obama over transgender bathroom policies..

“Only a sick man - I mean sick in his mind - would promote a program that men can go in women’s restrooms. Only a sick man would promote that,” he said.

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Fmr. student in mac and cheese tirade video arrested in Fla.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A former University of Connecticut student who went on a drunken, obscenity-laced tirade about jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese has been arrested in Florida after an altercation with a police officer.

Luke Gatti was charged May 28 in Boca Raton with battery on an officer and resisting an officer with violence.

A message left at Gatti's home Tuesday wasn't immediately returned.

Last year, the 20-year-old former University of Connecticut student from Bayville, New York, was arrested over his Oct. 4, 2015, outburst in the Student Union. He ranted at and shoved a university food service supervisor for refusing to sell him the macaroni and cheese.

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Fox targeted by FEC Dems in first-ever vote to punish debate sponsorship

Finally making good on long-harbored anger at conservative media, Democrats on the Federal Election Commission voted in secret to punish Fox News' sponsorship of a Republican presidential debate, using an obscure law to charge the network with helping those on stage.

It is the first time in history that members of the FEC voted to punish a media outlet's debate sponsorship, and it follows several years of Democratic threats against conservative media and websites like the Drudge Report.

The punishment, however, was blocked by all three Republicans on the commission, resulting in a 3-3 tie vote and no action.

A Republican FEC commissioner leading that fight, Lee E. Goodman, revealed the vote to Secrets Wednesday and said the official report of the May 26 executive vote will be released Thursday.

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Miss Teen USA Pageant Replaces Swimsuits With Athletic Wear

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Miss Teen USA pageant is dropping the swimsuit portion of its competition.

The Miss Universe organization announced Wednesday that the pageant will replace the bathing suit section with an athletic wear competition. The 2016 Miss Teen USA pageant will be held in Las Vegas on July 30.

“This decision reflects an important cultural shift we’re all celebrating that empowers women who lead active, purposeful lives and encourage those in their communities to do the same,” Paula M. Shugart, president of The Miss Universe Organization, wrote to state directors.

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Donald Trump and the Resurrection of the American Cowboy

2016 might go down in history as the year we realized we were living in a global Wild West – an unforgiving environment where anarchy reigns in many territories, where laws and rules are flaunted by elites, and where danger is constantly lurking on the home front. But we’re at a disadvantage to those intrepid settlers who conquered the Old West in the 19th century. They had something we don’t: they had the cowboy.

There’s a reason cowboys were, for many years, a classic American symbol. They exemplified the best of American ideals: tough, solid, fearless and fair, they helped tame the wild country and make room for an expanding nation. They believed in law and order even out on the frontiers of civilization, and to preserve it, they fought when they had to. Above all, they showed what it meant to be a man.

Cowboys exemplified stoicism, courage, assertiveness, and aggression when the times called for it. Put together, those qualities are summoned up by a single word: “manliness.” Has America produced anyone better at exemplifying manliness than John Wayne, especially in his western roles? Whether he’s doggedly pursuing his niece’s captors in “The Searchers” or mounting a one-man charge against Robert Duvall’s gang of outlaws in “True Grit”, he showed a whole generation of young Americans what it meant to be tough, honest, and true.

Close behind John Wayne is Theodore Roosevelt – who in his day reminded Americans that you didn’t have to be born tough and burly to make yourself into a man. Teddy Roosevelt grew up in a life of wealth and privilege and was often sick as a child. Unsatisfied with his early political career in New York, he struck out for the west and lived among the cowboys. On those plains and around those campfires, he became a man. Some made fun of his spectacles, calling him “four eyes” – and he learned to fight back when he needed to. He tried to replicate that frontier fighting spirit when he recruited cowboys into his Rough Rider cavalry regiment – the same spirit he called upon when he charged up San Juan Hill.

Where is the manly spirit of the American West and San Juan Hill today? On life support, thanks to an endless campaign of feminization led by the political left and fueled by pop culture. “Manliness” is quickly becoming a foreign concept in America.

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McAuliffe: Supreme Court Can’t Stop Restoration of Felon’s Voting Rights

McAuliffe pledges to issue 206,000 felons right to vote individually if he has to Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D., Va.) does not care whether or not the Virginia Supreme Court reverses his executive order that restored voting rights for 206,000 felons because he plans to circumvent the judicial branch if he has to.

The court granted a request made by Republicans to expedite their lawsuit against McAuliffe, which argues that the governor did not have the right to restore rights to the large group in a single executive order. Rights were previously restored in a case-by-case manner, after felons individually petitioned the state and penned a letter to the governor explaining why they deserved to not only have the right to vote, but also have rights such as the ability to serve on a jury or run for office.

McAuliffe said during a Wednesday morning interview with WTOP that it does not matter what the court’s ruling is.

“Lets assume hypothetically that the state Supreme Court knocks it down,” said McAuliffe. “The next day I will sit at my desk—probably with the assistance of my autopen—and I will sign 206,000 orders.”

“They will have their rights back that day,” he said. “This is much ado about nothing.”

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Judicial Watch Uncovers Smoking Gun Clinton Emails

Last week, we learned more about the problems former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff faced in keeping her private email system running. They were, in fact, wrestling with matters of national security.

The revelations came thanks to our prying loose the email records referred to in the May 2016 State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report criticizing former Secretary of State Clinton’s email practices.

The OIG report makes reference to the emails, but they were not released to the public until now. We obtained them under a June 14, 2016, court order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in accordance with an unopposed motion by Judicial Watch to obtain the records. As an explosive Associated Press article makes clear, these new emails raise more questions:

Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

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