Sidewalk Memorial Honors New Jersey Cop Killer

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A day after a rookie police officer was gunned down in an ambush, mourners came to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial with candles, balloons, empty liquor bottles and messages of love from friends scrawled on T-shirts taped to a brick wall.

Instead of honoring the officer, the memorial was for his killer. "Rest easy," ''Thug in peace" and "See u on the other side" friends wrote about Lawrence Campbell, who police say ambushed Officer Melvin Santiago early Sunday as he responded to an armed robbery call at a 24/7 pharmacy. Officers returned fire, killing Campbell.

Visitors to the memorial would not give their names to The Associated Press. But Barbara Jones, Campbell's neighbor, told The Jersey Journey that the Campbell she knew was nothing like the man city officials say was lying in wait for officers to arrive before opening fire.

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Jersey City mayor slams sidewalk memorial honoring cop killer

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – A day after a rookie police officer was gunned down in an ambush, mourners came to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial with candles, balloons, empty liquor bottles and messages of love from friends scrawled on T-shirts taped to a brick wall.

Instead of honoring the officer, the memorial was for his killer. "Rest easy," "Thug in peace" and "See u on the other side" friends wrote about Lawrence Campbell, who police say ambushed Officer Melvin Santiago early Sunday as he responded to an armed robbery call at a 24/7 pharmacy. Officers returned fire, killing Campbell.

Visitors to the memorial would not give their names to The Associated Press. But Barbara Jones, Campbell's neighbor, told The Jersey Journal that the Campbell she knew was nothing like the man city officials say was lying in wait for officers to arrive before opening fire.

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Mexicans storm U.S. border – and document it [VIDEO]

Fellow Liberty Alliance member Kevin Jackson of The Black Sphere tipped us off to this perplexing organized assault on the southern border near San Diego by hundreds of Mexicans.

Border officials say it was the first organized assault in this area. Participants grew combative, throwing rocks and bottles, and flashing gang signs. And oddly, documented all of it themselves on video for a blog site.
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Gary Johnson: ‘Abolish the IRS’

For 2012 Libertarian Party presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the ongoing controversy at the Internal Revenue Service is further proof the agency should be eliminated.

“Imagine life without having to deal with the IRS,” Johnson told New Mexico Watchdog in an interview just two days after a new development in the IRS story, in which former IRS official Lois Lerner warned colleagues to be careful about what they write in emails amid congressional inquiries.

“None of it surprises me,” Johnson said. “To a higher degree or a lesser degree this is what happens when you have bureaucrats in charge that can manipulate the system any way they so choose.”

A federal judge on Thursday ordered IRS officials to explain under oath how Lerner’s emails disappeared and how they might be recovered.

“Come on, loss of emails? Give me a break,” Johnson said. “If that doesn’t outrage anybody who looks at this, then you’re out to lunch.”

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‘I,’ ‘Me,’ ‘My’—Obama Uses First Person Singular 199 Times in Speech Vowing Unilateral Action

Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular--including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"--199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.

“It is lonely, me just doing stuff,” Obama said at the speech in Austin, Texas,according to the official transcript and video posted on the White House website.

“I’m just telling the truth now,” Obama told the crowd. “I don't have to run for office again, so I can just let her rip. And I want to assure you, I’m really not that partisan of a guy.”

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Arab American Group Urges Boycott Of White House Iftar Dinner

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urged all Arab and Muslims in the United States to boycott the Obama administration's celebration of the holy month of Ramadan on Monday, arguing the president has condoned the killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the spying on some Americans based on their Muslim identities.

Like George W. Bush before him, Obama has hosted an Iftar dinner -- the meal after sunset that breaks the day of fasting -- each year he's been in office. Other federal agencies, including the State Department, also hold iftar dinners to commemorate the holiday.

The ADC, the nation's largest Arab American group, issued a statement citing both the administration's support for Israel's bombing campaign in response to airstrikes by the militant group Hamas as reasons not to participate in the administration's celebrations.

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Black Protesters in Chicago Slam Obama as “Worst President Ever Elected”

President Obama assumed that he’d always have the support of the black community for his ridiculous progressive policies, but it appears he didn’t have things pegged as solidly as he originally believed.

Obama’s approval ratingshave been shrinking across the country for some time now, and they continue to fall steadily every day as more evidence comes to light demonstrating his ineptness as a leader, and the illegal activity he uses as a tool kit to help patch through executive orders to implement his agenda.

With a massive amount of resources being poured into caring for illegal immigrantscrossing the southern border at an alarming rate, black residents in Chicago, Obama’s home town, aren’t too happy with the president.

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"Maryland Can't Afford to Promote Anthony Brown"

Poultry Inspection Modernization

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been exploring the modernization of its poultry inspection system for two decades – a system that was originally developed in the 1950s. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 1997 reported that studies by the National Academy of Sciences, the General Accounting Office and USDA “have established the need for fundamental change in the USDA meat and poultry inspection program.”

A pilot program was then put in place in 1999 in 20 chicken plants, called the HACCP-Based Inspection Models Project, or HIMP. It has since been studied, debated and reviewed in depth for more than a decade to assure its effectiveness as to how best modernize chicken inspection while improving food safety and protecting workers.

Because of the success of the pilot program over a 13 year period, USDA in 2012 proposed to give more chicken plants the option of operating under the modernized poultry inspection system.

Whether chicken plants operate under traditional poultry inspection or choose to opt in to this voluntary, modernized poultry inspection system, the end result is the same - rigorous food safety standards are applied to all chicken products and these products must meet or exceed these safety standards set forth by USDA in order to reach consumers.

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The faux farmer in the Senate race in Iowa

Democrats reveal an identity crisis by pretending to be what they’re not

Several of the left’s favorite candidates this year have been caught getting creative with campaign biographies. Wendy Davis, running for governor in Texas, tried to stoke sympathy by telling of the hard times she faced as a teenage single mother. (She wasn’t one.) Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tried to pass as a Cherokee Indian. (She isn’t one.)

Rep. Bruce Braley of Iowa, a Democrat, has taken this strategy to heart in his run for the state’s open Senate seat. While walking in 4th of July parade, Mr. Braley claimed to be a farmer — a useful addition to the resume of someone running for the U.S. Senate in the state of the tall corn.

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Passers-by drag a carjacker out of the vehicle

A would-be carjacker got a taste of street justice when he tried to steal a vehicle with a woman and child inside, after a group of passers-by rushed to her aid, dragging him away and holding him down until the police arrived.

Ismael Hernandez, 21, is accused of getting into the car in a San Diego shoppers car park and attempting to drive off with the owner and her child still inside before crashing into a pole.

Video of the incident shows a group of men standing around the car hauling Hernandez out of the driver's seat and grabbing hold of the keys.

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Military Fiancee Says She Found Vile Letter on Car Windshield Over Her ‘I Love My Soldier’ Bumper Sticker

A Georgia woman says she returned to her car earlier this month to find a vile letter on her windshield, targeting her over an “I love my soldier” bumper sticker that she had placed on her car to support her fiancé.

“I got in my car and noticed the paper on the windshield,” Ellen Wilson told WTVM-TV. “I drove off in case someone was watching, and then I grabbed it and read it and saw this lovely letter from this person.”

The unsigned letter criticized Wilson’s portrayal of her soon-to-be husband as a hero.

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Little girl comes out of nowhere with legendary sign: “Honk if I’m paying…”

Our future is saddled with so much debt it’s redonkulous. Hopefully her sign made some people think twice.

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Despite billiards w/ Obama, Col. guv won't host illegal immigrant kids

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors Sunday as the Obama administration tried to get support from the leaders of states that will host thousands of the Central American children who have crossed the Mexican border on their own since Oct. 1.

Governors of both parties expressed concerns about the cost to states, including providing public education for the children, according to those who attended the meeting. Burwell left the meeting through a side door without talking to reporters.

'Our citizens already feel burdened by all kinds of challenges. They don't want to see another burden come into their state,' said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. 'However we deal with the humanitarian aspects of this, we've got to do it in the most cost-effective way possible.'

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad were among the most vocal Republican critics. They seized on the administration's plans to place the children with friends or family members without checking on their immigration status.

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Eric Holder’s Animus towards His Critics

Were you aware that your opposition to Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama is due at least in part because of your “racial animus,” and not because you disagree with their policies and abuse of their constitutional authority?

That, anyway, is Holder’s latest claim, which shows how disconnected the attorney general is from reality. It is also more evidence of something John Fund and I outline in our book, Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department, that Holder views the world through a racial prism that distorts his judgment.

Holder on Sunday also repeated the false claims he has made before about voter-ID laws preventing “[y]oung people, African Americans, Hispanics, [and] older people” from voting despite the years of evidence from states like Georgia and Indiana that turnout — including of minority and other voters — has gone up, not down, after they implemented their voter-ID laws.

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16 People On Things They Couldn’t Believe About America Until They Moved Here

A lot of people around the world have ideas of what America is like, possibly thanks to Hollywood, or their local news channels, and maybe from what they’ve heard from families and friends. But then, they came here, to the grand old United States and their minds exploded. 

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Dems double down on ‘monster of all abortion bills’

'They're trying to go back to the old 'war on women''

Only months before a pivotal national election in which Democrats are widely predicted to lose power in the Senate, they are attempting to pass a sweeping law that could nullify abortion restrictions in every state across the country.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings Tuesday on S. 1696, a bill called the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which contains broad stipulations prohibiting any governments from restricting women’s access to abortions. The legislation was introduced on Nov. 13, 2013, is sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and now has 35 co-sponsors.

On Monday, the National Right to Life called the legislation as the “most radical pro-abortion bill ever considered by Congress.”

“It’s a big deal,” said David French, senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a pro-life legal organization that focuses on constitutional law. “This is very similar to the Hobby Lobby legislation that the Senate Democrats are pushing. They’re trying to go back to the old ‘war on women,’ and drive single women, predominately, to the polls. Right now, what else are they running on?”

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