By Doug Stanglin and Marco della Cava. Harris County authorities in Texas have a man in custody in Friday’s shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy, Sheriff Ron Hickman said at a press conference Saturday. The suspect, Shannon J. Miles, has a previous criminal history including resisting arrest and disorderly conduct with a firearm. He is being charged with capital murder.
Hickman says the shooting was “unprovoked” and the department is still looking for a motive for the “cold-blooded assassination” of the officer at a Houston-area gas station.
Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, was fatally shot in the back late Friday while filling his patrol car in northwest Harris County. Hickman said ballistics tests showed a match between the weapon used to kill Goforth and a weapon in Miles’ possession.
Hickman, in discussing the shooting with reporters at an earlier press conference, condemned the “very dangerous national rhetoric” about police officers that he said was out of control.
Officials said Miles is the individual captured on surveillance video. He was apprehended, Hickman said, by locating the red Ford pick-up scene on the surveillance video, which was parked near where Miles resided. (Read more from “Suspect Named in ‘Execution-Style’ Killing of Texas Deputy” HERE)
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Texas Deputy Killed While Fueling Patrol Car, Authorities Say
By Faith Karimi. A man shot a uniformed sheriff’s deputy “execution-style” while he fueled his patrol car in the Houston area, killing him instantly, authorities said.
Deputy Darren H. Goforth, 47, was returning to his car after pumping gas Friday night.
The gunman walked up from behind him and opened fire for no apparent reason, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said.
When Goforth fell to the ground, the gunman stood over him and shot him some more, authorities said. He died at the scene.
“He was literally gunned down in what appears to be an unprovoked, execution-style killing,” Hickman said. “I have been in law enforcement for 45 years, I have never seen anything this cold-blooded.” (Read more from this story HERE)
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President Obama will visit Alaska on Tuesday in the midst of a fight with environmental groups, who argue he is putting his climate legacy at risk by allowing Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic waters off the state’s northern coast . . .
In the final quarter of his presidency, Obama intends to use the dramatic backdrop to highlight his administration’s efforts to combat global warming — an issue he’s looked to address through broad and controversial new regulations and international accords.
It’s a legacy Obama has done much to burnish in his second term, but one green groups argue will be jeopardized by the new Alaska drilling . . .
“President Obama is heading on a trip to Alaska to talk about climate change,” the group says on its website. “There is no clearer symbol of the self-defeating hypocrisy of his policies on energy and climate” . . .
“I know there are Americans who are concerned about oil companies drilling in environmentally sensitive waters. Some are also concerned with my administration’s decision to approve Shell’s application to drill a well off the Alaskan coast, using leases they purchased before I took office,” Obama said in his weekly address. (Read more from “Greens: Obama Climate Legacy at Risk Over Arctic Drilling” HERE)
Polling has been sparse or nonexistent in the states that will hold mid-March caucuses, despite the fact that they hosted some of 2008’s and 2012’s biggest upsets. President Obama’s campaign flooded Western caucuses to gain a delegate advantage that Hillary Clinton never overcame. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum won third place or worse first four contests after Iowa. He only became a threat to Mitt Romney after he took the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses.
Senator Rand Paul, who is currently polling in the low single digits, is hoping that sleepy front-runners and passionate local support will let him repeat history. Interviews with local Republicans suggested only a few campaigns had engaged so far. Only Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has an Alaska chairman. Only Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has also campaigned in Wyoming. . . [But Paul] never drew less than 300 people to a speech [while campaigning in the West this week], and each one put him back in touch with Ron Paul superfans. Many wore shirts from the 2012 campaign, some of it home-made. . .
[Of concern to Senator Paul, many Ron Paul fans remain disgruntled by the last campaign. In 2012,] the RNC changed caucus rules so that the “beauty contests,” the events most people showed up for and covered, would decide the delegate counts. That decision alienated the liberty movement. It wasn’t enough that their party rejected them. The party had decided that Paul’s painstaking, grass-roots organizing was essentially illegitimate, and could never be repeated. . .
In Fairbanks [Senator Paul] was shuttled around in the black H1 Hummer of two-time U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller. . . Miller served as a living embodiment of what the establishment could do. He had won a 2010 Senate nomination, only to watch the GOP endorse a write-in campaign for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. He ran again in 2014, and nearly won a nomination again.
“Apathy is the problem here,” said Miller. “There’s been some structural crumbling of the Ron Paul movement — that’s probably the best way to put it. There’s a high degree of skepticism, about why you should vote at all, that is particularly pronounced in the interior of Alaska. What we need people to understand is that if we lose America, that’s it. We can’t let that happen. We have to participate.” (Read more from “Who is the Only GOP Candidate Working the Western States and Does He Really Have a Chance?” HERE)
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She’s nothing if not provocative — some would say profane. The former teen idol who got her big break on the Disney Channel, pop music sensation Miley Cyrus has just said something that may further roil the already agitated waters of presidential politics. And the candidate about whom Cyrus made the surprising comment is, himself, well known for stirring things up quite a bit.
In an interview with The New York Times, Cyrus reflected on the explosive reaction to her ‘twerking’ performance on the MTV Video Music Awards show a couple of years ago. The singer is getting ready to host the 2015 version of the MTV awards show.
The Times’ description of those few shocking moments on stage in 2013 notes that even MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski slammed Cyrus’ more-than-suggestive gyrations as “raunchy porn that’s disgusting and disturbing.”
“The last time Ms. Cyrus took the stage at the Video Music Awards, two years ago, she performed, tongue unleashed, with giant teddy bears (stepping out of one, into her new reality), a phallic foam finger and a pre-crash Robin Thicke [her partner in the twerking performance] — prompting a thousand think pieces about slut-shaming, racial appropriation for her use of black female dancers and the meaning of twerking,” according to the piece in The New York Times.
Buried in the Times article, as almost a throw-away tidbit, is the claim by Miley Cyrus that she got a surprise phone call the day after her daring display of “talent” on the MTV broadcast — a call from the man whose name was on the hotel where she was staying. Times reporter Joe Coscarelli quotes Cyrus as saying:
I was staying at the Trump Hotel and Donald Trump literally called and said, basically, “I know everyone’s talking about it, but I loved it.”
(Read more from “Miley Cyrus Just Said That Donald Trump Called Her to Tell Her This…Unbelievable” HERE)
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The alleged killer of two WDBJ journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, in Roanoke, Va., contended he was the victim of racism while working at the station. It is now known what he meant by “racism.”
Vester Lee Flanagan, who used the on-air name Bryce Williams, worked at WDBJ from March 2012 through February 2013 before being terminated and escorted out of the station by police. During his tenure, he accused employees of racism. According to The New York Post, the specific phrases used by Flanagan’s colleagues included “swinging” by an address and going out in the “field,” not uncommon terms for reporters to use.
“One was something about ‘swinging’ by some place; the other was out in the ‘field,’” said a Jan. 21 report by WDBJ assistant news director Greg Baldwin, referring to Parker as Alison Bailey (her middle name). No disciplinary action was taken against Parker, but Flanagan was still incensed by the remarks. He filed a discrimination lawsuit against the station in January 2013, one month before he was dismissed from WDBJ.
After allegedly committing the murder, the former journalist tweeted that Ward once reported him to human resources and that Parker reportedly made racist comments:
Adam went to [human resources] on me after working with me one time!!!
Alison made racist comments
(Read more from “IDENTIFIED: The Exact Comments the Slain TV Reporter Used That Her On-Air Killer Found ‘Racist'” HERE)
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By Philip Messing. A uniformed TSA agent lured a college student into a La Guardia Airport men’s room under the pretense she needed more screening — and then he molested the woman, sources told The Post on Friday.
Shortly after the attack, suspect Maxi Oquendo allegedly pretended to pore over surveillance video looking for the perp, but he was identified by witnesses and arrested . . .
The sick attack happened right after the 22-year-old victim, from South Korea, got off a Southwest Airlines flight from Salt Lake City at about 8 p.m. Tuesday in Terminal B and was allegedly approached by Oquendo, 40 . . .
Oquendo was working as a TSA evening supervisor that night. After learning that a sex complaint had been filed, he went through the motions of reviewing video surveillance footage, sources said.
But two female witnesses who work at the airport were able to help provide a description that matched the heavyset Oquendo, sources said. (Read more from “Student Molested by TSA Agent in New Work Airport” HERE)
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TSA Screener Accused of Molesting College Student in LaGuardia Airport Bathroom
By Carolina Leid. A TSA screener is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at LaGuardia Airport in New York City after telling her she needed to be searched in the bathroom.
The suspect did not post $3,000 bail and was moved to jail late Friday night.
Defense attorneys argued two witnesses said they saw another man, but prosecutors say the victim picked Maxie Oquendo out in a lineup.
The TSA screener is accused of using his job to lure a passenger into a bathroom at LaGuardia Airport under the guise that he needed to search her for weapons.
Maxie Oquendo allegedly sexually assaulted a 22-year-old student from South Korea after her Salt Lake City flight landed Tuesday afternoon. (Read more from this story HERE)
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A challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone-call data was dealt a setback Friday when a U.S. appeals court said a judge shouldn’t have moved to block the program, which he called “almost Orwellian.”
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in 2013 granted legal activist Larry Klayman’s request for an order to halt the NSA’s collection of his data. Leon then put that ruling on hold pending a government appeal.
A divided three-judge panel Friday overturned Leon’s order while saying Klayman’s case can still go forward. The judges all agreed Klayman hadn’t shown he is likely to succeed, but two of them said he should have the opportunity.
One of the two, U.S. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown, said it was entirely possible the Obama administration may rightfully refuse to turn over the information Klayman requests.
“Such is the nature of the government’s privileged control over certain classes of information,” she wrote. “Regulations of this sort may frustrate the inquisitive citizen, but that does not make them illegal or illegitimate.” (Read more from “Obama Administration Wins Ruling in NSA Data Collection Case” HERE)
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By Eric Boehm. A rancher is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to federal court, asking a judge to stop the agency from fining him more than $16 million because he built a small pond on his property.
Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger, Wyoming says he made sure to get the proper permits from his state government before building the pond. After all, this is America in the 21st century, and nothing done on your own property — certainly when it involves the use of water — is beyond government concern.
Johnson is facing millions in fines from the federal government after the EPA determined his small pond — technically a “stock pond” to provide better access to water for animals on his ranch — is somehow violating the federal Clean Water Act.
“We went through all the hoops that the state of Wyoming required, and I’m proud of what we built,” Johnson said. “The EPA ignored all that.” (Read more from “Wyoming Man Files Suit Over Massive EPA Fines for Building Pond” HERE)
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Wyoming Man Takes EPA to Court
By Wyoming Tribune Eagle. A southwest Wyoming farmer is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to court for what he says is an illegal overreach of its authority.
Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger has been locked in a battle of wills with the EPA since 2013, when he built a stock pond on his property to provide a watering hole for his cattle.
Not long after the pond was built, however, the EPA informed Johnson that the pond, which is connected to Six Mile Creek south of Fort Bridger, was in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Johnson protested, stating that he had sought and received a permit through the state engineer’s office, which subsequently confirmed that the stock pond met all of the office’s legal requirements.
But that failed to convince the EPA, which sent Johnson a compliance order in January 2014 instructing him to remove the stock pond or face $37,500 in fines for every day he refused to do so. (Read more from this story HERE)
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Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Democratic presidential race is the slimmest it’s been in years, as Donald Trump keeps a stranglehold on the GOP race, a new poll found Friday.
Clinton maintains 45 percent support among Democrats, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is up to 25 percent, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking survey released Friday.
It’s Clinton’s smallest lead since Reuters started polling Democratic voters on her candidacy in 2012, the news service noted.
Vice President Biden, who is rumored to be mulling a White House bid, drew 16 percent. The remaining people polled were undecided or voting for other candidates.
Trump received 33 percent support among Republicans, crushing his closest rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, at 12 percent. (Read more from “Poll: Clinton’s Lead Shrinks as Trump Maintains Dominance” HERE)
If you get your news exclusively from BuzzFeed, then today is the first day you’ve even heard of the Center for Medical Progresses’s Planned Parenthood sting videos. Why? Because Planned Parenthood hired someone to try and prove the sting videos were faked in an attempt to discredit CMP. And that’s what BuzzFeed reported:
First of all, are you sh***ing me?
Secondly, this is pure evil. BuzzFeed has taken sides and is actively defending an organization which butchers babies and sells their parts. And then they’re pretending to be a news organization.
The byline of this “article:”
A new analysis of hidden-camera videos shows deceptive editing was used to portray a Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal tissue procurement. Tapes were spliced to mislead viewers at least 42 times in five tapes, the analysis says.
Really? What, did BuzzFeed finally do their due diligence and take a look at the FULL VIDEOS THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLIC FOR EVERYONE TO SEE with every quote in context? Nope. And yet even in the full videos, Planned Parenthood is butchering children and selling their parts. So…
Thirdly, Planned Parenthood PAID the company to “FIND” the “misleading” edits. That’s like Budweiser funding a group to find that alcoholism is no big deal. Or Starbucks paying a group to find that caffeine is the new cure to cancer (I maintain that it is). Those of us with what is commonly referred to as a “brain” call this a “conflict of interest.”
Hidden-camera videos depicting abortion doctors discussing the use of fetal organs for research were deceptively edited to mislead viewers, a Planned Parenthood-sponsored analysis revealed on Thursday. The reproductive health organization called the tapes a “fraud.”
From the Planned Parenthood-funded report:
While these analysts found no evidence that CMP inserted dialogue not spoken by Planned Parenthood staff, their review did conclude that CMP edited content out of the alleged “full footage” videos, and heavily edited the short videos so as to misrepresent statements made by Planned Parenthood representatives.
CMP released this statement in response to Planned Parenthood:
Planned Parenthood’s desperate, 11th-hour attempt to pay their hand-picked “experts” to distract from the crimes documented on video is a complete failure. The absence of bathroom breaks and waiting periods between meetings does not change the hours of dialogue with top-level Planned Parenthood executives eager to manipulate abortion procedures to get high-quality baby parts for financially profitable sale. While even Planned Parenthood’s “experts” found “no evidence of audio manipulation” in the recordings, it is telling that Planned Parenthood is trying so hard to pretend that their staff did not refer to a dismembered fetus as “a baby” and “another boy.” Planned Parenthood’s abortion providers are far more honest about the brutal reality of their work than the paid political consultants at the national office. If Planned Parenthood really wants to disprove the now-overwhelming body of evidence that their affiliates traffick in baby body parts, they should release their fetal tissue contracts with the for-profit company StemExpress for law enforcement, Congress, and all the world to see.
So what’s really going on here? A giant cover up. BuzzFeed is attempting to cover up abortion. BuzzFeed is trying to defend Planned Parenthood by attacking the Center for Medical Progress. BuzzFeed knows their audience is largely uneducated on current politics, and that if it doesn’t exist on the BuzzFeed homepage, it may as well not exist at all.
So rather than cover the story accurately, or at all (they’ve never posted on the videos as they were released), they decide to try and discredit the entire thing with a “SELECTIVELY EDITED” headline. It’s a glaring bias that often occurs by omission.
As a matter of fact, I have some direct experience with BuzzFeed. When I was working as a freelance writer, I was put in touch with “BuzzFeed Ben” (Ben Smith) to pitch a column. Ben Howe was the one who facilitated the introduction. He heads up their Politics division. He was actually very polite, but the response ended with this:
Don’t. Do. Opinion Columns.
Of course, they have the right to refuse any pitch, and that’s not what this is about. Do me a favor. Go check out BuzzFeed.com and tell me if that’s what you see. Tell me if you see hard-hitting journalism, straight down the middle news, unbiased reporting or hell… even strong, original content.
Or maybe, tell me if you see nothing more than opinion commentary, thinly veiled as borderline plagiaristic “aggregation.”
Of course BuzzFeed does opinion. They only do opinion. The issue here is: they only do FAR-LEFT opinion. They lie to their constituency. The worst part is that their audience will never know. The bias occurs not only when BuzzFeed flat-out lies (as they have today) but by all of the stories they choose not to cover. In this case, all of those innocent babies lives that they opted not to acknowledge, to brush under the rug. But you know…. they don’t “do opinion.”
Evil bastards. (Re-posted with permission, “LEAKED: BuzzFeed Tries to Defend Planned Parenthood and They’re Caught in Blatant Lies…” originally appeared HERE)
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By Doug Stanglin and Marco della Cava. Harris County authorities in Texas have a man in custody in Friday’s shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy, Sheriff Ron Hickman said at a press conference Saturday. The suspect, Shannon J. Miles, has a previous criminal history including resisting arrest and disorderly conduct with a firearm. He is being charged with capital murder.
