California NAACP Wants to Remove ‘Racist’ Star-Spangled Banner

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The California NAACP is coming after a new symbol of American heritage for its “racism.”

The Star-Spangled Banner.

According to SFGate.com, the national anthem is a “racist song” and the NAACP wants to push state lawmakers to change it.

Alice Huffman, the president of the California chapter of the NAACP, said the song is “racist” and that it “doesn’t represent our community. It’s anti-black people.”

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Border Patrol Losing Agents Faster Than It Can Hire Them

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By Stephen Dinan. The U.S. Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can hire them, according to a new audit released Wednesday that said competition with other federal law enforcement and the difficulty of passing a polygraph test have sapped the agency of nearly 2,000 agents it’s supposed to have.

More than 900 agents leave each year on average but the Border Patrol only hires an average of 523 a year, the Government Accountability Office said in a broad survey of staffing and deployment challenges at the key border law enforcement agency.

The law requires the agency to have a minimum of 21,370 agents on board, but it had just 19,500 agents as of May.

That’s an even bigger problem when stacked up against President Trump’s call for hiring 5,000 more agents, to reach a workforce of 26,370.

Managers blamed everything from remote working conditions to competition with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the interior immigration agency that’s also staffing up, for difficulty in filling out ranks. (Read more from “Border Patrol Losing Agents Faster Than It Can Hire Them” HERE)

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Border Patrol Losing Agents Because of Lie Detector Test Issues

David Kirk was a career Marine pilot with a top-secret security clearance and a record of flying classified missions. He was in the cockpit when President George W. Bush and Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joe Biden traveled around the nation’s capital by helicopter. With credentials like that, Kirk was stunned that he failed a lie detector test when he applied for a pilot’s job with U.S. Customs and Border Protection [CBP.]

Two out of three applicants to CBP fail its polygraph test, according to the agency. That’s more than double the average rate of eight law enforcement agencies that provided data to the Associated Press under open-records requests.

[L]awmakers, union leaders and polygraph experts, contend that the use of lie detectors has gone awry and that many applicants are being subjected to unusually long and hostile interrogations, which some say can make people look deceptive even when they are telling the truth. . .

Interviews with six of the applicants who failed to clear the polygraph test fit a pattern: The examiner abruptly changes tone, leveling accusations of lying or holding something back. The job-seeker denies it and the questioning goes in circles for hours. Some are invited for a second visit, which ends no differently. . .

“If there’s an exam that lasts four to eight hours, your polygrapher is either incompetent or a fool or both,” said Capt. Alan Hamilton, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s recruitment and employment division. His department’s exams last no longer than 90 minutes. (Read more from “Border Patrol Losing Agents Because of Lie Detector Tests” HERE)

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Chilling ISIS Vow to Kill Children

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A pro-ISIS group that threatened “more bitter and greater” Manhattan attacks after last week’s deadly ramming on the West Side bike path urged more attacks on the West today with a propaganda poster showing the Eiffel Tower extending upward as a rifle.

Monday is the two-year anniversary of coordinated attacks on Paris in which nine terrorists killed 130 people.

The Wafa’ Media Foundation titled the PR poster “The Specter of Terrorism,” stating in English, “You will pay very expensive price for your war on Islam.”

The message adds: “We will take revenge for the blood of Muslims on your land, we will kill the young before the older watch this.”

Wafa’ issued a justification for the bombing of British teens at a May concert in Manchester, UK. As ISIS has placed a heavy focus on training youths, they’ve also encouraged targeting them: the first issue of their Rumiyah magazine justified killing civilians including “the young adults (post-pubescent ‘children’) engaged in sports activities in the park.” (Read more from “Chilling ISIS Vow to Kill Children” HERE)

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North Korea Warns of ‘Abyss of Doom’ If ‘Lunatic’ Trump Remains President

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The United States will continue to stare into the “abyss of doom” until “lunatic old” President Trump is removed from office, according to a North Korean missive Wednesday, released just hours after Trump warned the rogue regime not to “try” America.

The Hermit Kingdom demanded the U.S. “withdraw the hostile policy toward” Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship and said a “decisive choice” needed to be made, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday.

“The U.S. must oust the lunatic old man from power and withdraw the hostile policy towards [North Korea] at once in order to get rid of the abyss of doom,” the statement read. “The U.S. had better make a decisive choice…if it does not want a horrible nuclear disaster and tragic doom.”

Kim’s warning about the impending “abyss of doom” heading toward the U.S. — and every country joining in America’s aim to dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear program — comes after Trump issued a stark warning to Kim Jong Un during a speech in South Korea during Trump’s five-country Asia tour.

“Do not underestimate us. And do not try us,” Trump said, directly addressing North Korea as Trump stood in a room full of South Korean lawmakers. “The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger.” (Read more from “North Korea Warns of ‘Abyss of Doom’ If ‘Lunatic’ Trump Remains President” HERE)

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Former News Anchor Claims Actor Sexually Abused Her Son

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A former Boston news anchor claimed Wednesday that disgraced actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her 19-year-old son last year.

Heather Unruh, who used to work for Channel 5 Boston, appeared before reporters Wednesday with her daughter and lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, who famously represented victims abused by Catholic priests, Boston.com reported.

Unruh said her son, who was 18 years old at the time of the alleged incident in July 2016, was “starstruck” when he met the “House of Cards” actor at a bar/restaurant in Nantucket. The mother said her son told Spacey he was 21 years old before he was supplied with multiple drinks by the actor . . .

Unruh alleged Spacey “made his move” after her son was intoxicated.

“Spacey stuck his hand inside my son’s pants and grabbed his genitals,” she said. “This was completely unexpected. My son’s efforts to shift his body to remove Spacey’s hands were only momentarily successful.”

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Florida Woman Tried to Set off Explosive During Traffic Stop

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Authorities in Jacksonville say a woman was arrested Tuesday night after she tried to ignite an explosive device during a traffic stop.

Charlaya Moore, 23, was being held in the Duval County jail on charges of possession of a destructive device, aggravated assault on police and resisting police with violence.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Moore was pulled over at around 11:15 p.m. in the Grove Park area of the city. They said Moore refused multiple requests to get out of the car and began reaching under her seat. As one of the officers tried to pull Moore out of the car, she produced out the explosive device and attempted to ignite it. Another police officer got in the passenger’s side of the vehicle and took the device away from Moore. (Read more from “Florida Woman Tried to Set off Explosive During Traffic Stop” HERE)

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Doctor’s Final Fix for Mother’s Depression: Death

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An oncologist in Belgium delivered to a woman his final solution for depression over a lost relationship with a partner and distant relationships with her children: death.

And since the government approves, the European Court of Human Rights is being asked to review the facts of the case, which include a 2,500 euro donation from the woman to the doctor’s nonprofit Life End Information Forum the day before she was killed.

At issue is the euthanasia law in Belgium and whether the death of Godelieva De Troyer, who was not terminally ill, at the hands of oncologist Wim Distelmans was legal.

Distelmans facilitated De Troyer’s death under Belgium’s euthanasia law after determining she had “untreatable depression” in April 2012 . . .

Mortier argues the right to life and the right to family life are protected under the European Convention on Human Rights. Belgian law allows assisted suicide to be carried out if physicians have determined the person is experiencing “constant and unbearable physical or mental suffering that cannot be alleviated.” (Read more from “Doctor’s Final Fix for Mother’s Depression: Death” HERE)

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Fired up Dems Smell Blood as They Eye 2018

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Amid a record-high Dow, low unemployment, a rise in job creation, a housing boom and overall consumer optimism, the party in charge took a thumping Tuesday night.

It’s now the Republicans turn to figure out “What Happened,” the title of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election post-mortem, after Democrats took the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, regained control of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Washington State Senate, won mayoral races in Charlotte and St. Petersburg, and celebrated the passage of a referendum on Medicaid expansion in Maine.

President Trump blamed Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, who lost by 9 points, for the setback in Virginia.

“Ed Gillespie worked hard did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!” Trump tweeted. (Read more from “Fired up Dems Smell Blood as They Eye 2018” HERE)

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Target Closing a Dozen Stores Permanently

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Target has revealed that the company will be closing 12 of its stores indefinitely.

The chain said the 12 stores will remain open through the holidays and will finally shut their doors on February 3.

In Minnesota, two Target stores will be closing along with two in Illinois and two in Michigan.

Maryland, Florda, Kansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas are among the other states that will be losing Target stores in February.

Target closed five stores in its last fiscal year and 13 the year before that. (Read more from “Target Closing a Dozen Stores Permanently” HERE)

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Just Got a Traffic Ticket but Didn’t See a Cop?

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In what many are perceiving as a “Big-Brother” move, officers of the Wichita Police Department no longer need to catch your improper left turn or rolling, incomplete stop in person.

If you are caught making a violation on camera by a staffer who is monitoring Old Town from an office in City Hall, that staffer will call and alert a nearby officer of your violation.

The staffer will provide the officer with your location, a description of your vehicle and what violation you made.

That officer can then pull you over.

“I hope people don’t perceive this as ‘Big Brother,’ ” Wichita police Sgt. Kelly O’Brien said. “Officers are monitoring public places where you see it from public viewing. It’s just a way for officers to enhance their abilities to protect the community and improve traffic safety and also improve officer safety.” (Read more from “Just Got a Traffic Ticket but Didn’t See a Cop?” HERE)

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