Beatings and Sexual Assaults Making a Comeback to New York Subways

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Whenever you travel to the Big Apple, just remember not to take the subway. The extra cost of a cab is worth your life, even as state and city officials sacrifice the value of your life to street thugs in order to empty the prisons.

Even before the full enactment of New York’s criminal justice reform, the predictable consequence of undeterred violent crime is already rearing its ugly head. Last Thursday, two female tourists were savagely beaten at a Brooklyn subway stop and robbed while nobody did anything to help. Surveillance video shows two suspects repeatedly beating them on the platform stairs and threatening them with a knife and taser before running off with their belongings. Welcome to New York City; enjoy your stay in America!

In a separate incident on a Manhattan subway platform a few days earlier, surveillance video shows convicted rapist George Shaw, 54, sexually assaulting an unsuspecting 18-year-old female. Shaw was convicted in 1996 of raping and sodomizing four females, including three underage girls. He was released from prison last year, and now he is accused of forcibly grabbing this subway passenger from behind. Frankly, we should be thankful Shaw was behind bars even for 22 years. 1996 was at the height of the incarceration era. Today, even someone convicted of four rapes would likely serve much less time in New York before being paroled.

As I’ve reported before, this is part of a broader trend of returning violence to subways in New York and elsewhere. According to NYPD data, there were 1,185 transit misdemeanor assaults citywide from Jan. 1 to Nov. 17, which reflects a 10.9 percent increase from the same time last year. This is largely due to Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s refusal to enforce public order laws and fare jumping, which often reveal perpetrators of even greater crimes. That’s why the number of sex crimes on NY’s subways has increased for four years in a row. The number of subway “hate crimes” is also up 50 percent this year over last year.

This is all before New York’s new “criminal justice reform” law take effect, and anyone accused of transit assault will be out on bail pending trial. Then again, the girl who was sexually assaulted at the subway should be thankful it was there and not in her home, because this same law will now grant the defense the opportunity to return to the scene of the crime during the trial. For a rape victim in her home, that means returning the suspect to the victim’s bedroom.

The breakdown of public order and the escalation of violence in public transit is happening everywhere criminal justice deform has been tried. In San Francisco, where theft and street vagrancy have essentially become a way of life, crime is skyrocketing. The San Francisco Chronicle reports, “Homicide, rape, assault and robbery have doubled on BART [the Bay Area Rapid Transit system] in the last four years — from 234 incidents in 2015 to 481 incidents last year — after six years of relative stability.”

As California empties its prisons, the streets are the scenes of criminal behavior. The L.A. Times reports that car thefts in some California cities are at “crisis levels,” as prosecutors say their “hands are tied” thanks to new pro-criminal policies in place. Car burglaries spiked in San Francisco by 24 percent from 2016 to 2017 and by 20 percent in San Jose from 2016 to 2018. So if you want to avoid the crime in the subways by using your own car to get around the city, just remember that the one-sided justice system has given the criminals a long reach into your private vehicle as well.

Subway violence has also increased in Seattle and Minneapolis, two bastions of criminal justice “reform.” The number of serious crimes on Minneapolis’ green line is up 34 percent this year. The Twin Cities have become a stronghold for criminal justice “reform” as crime spikes across most categories, with St. Paul on pace for a record year of homicides. Transit crimes are up 6 percent this year in Chicago, despite the deployment of thousands of new cameras. After all, cameras only serve as a deterrent if those caught committing crimes on the footage are actually punished.

Republicans have a golden opportunity to discuss safe communities and neighborhoods and run against Blue America’s culture of pro-criminal laws and the ensuing consequences of violent crime, burglary, theft, and homelessness. Yet instead of making this a top agenda item, top Republicans continue to support the Soros agenda on crime just as rigorously as Democrats. Bill Lee, the Republican governor of Tennessee, has promised to “empty our jails.” He claimed, “We have to be creative and innovative and disruptive and challenge the way we’ve been doing things forever.”

Actually, Governor Lee, there is nothing creative or innovative about implementing the Soros agenda on crime. We are seeing the innovation in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis. Yes, it certainly is disruptive, and perhaps innovative from the criminals’ standpoint. But where does that leave us law-abiding citizens? (For more from the author of “Beatings and Sexual Assaults Making a Comeback to New York Subways” please click HERE)

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Epstein Posed with Weinstein and Dressed as Navy SEAL for Prince Andrew’s Daughter’s Birthday Bash

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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was photographed dressed as a Navy SEAL next to disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein during Prince Andrew’s daughter’s 18th birthday soiree.

Epstein, who was found dead in his prison cell this year while awaiting sex trafficking charges, was reportedly close friends with Weinstein, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual abuse and is slated to go on trial in January. Epstein’s then-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was also part of the grinning trio and can be seen wearing a gold masquerade mask in the photo released by the Sun.

Andrew, who has spent considerable time with Epstein, was accused of rape by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and, although he has denied the allegations, he has been relieved of his duties in light of the public backlash. A second woman has also come forward and accused Andrew of having sex with her.

The picture of the three was snapped just about a week before Epstein was arrested for the first time and charged with one count of soliciting prostitution. Epstein was under investigation by authorities while he attended the exclusive party, which included the likes of celebrities such as Demi Moore, Kelly Osbourne, and Sir David Frost. . .

An undisclosed source said that the photo “sums up just why the Epstein affair has been so disastrous for Andrew. He brought these people into the royal fold, to Windsor Castle no less, where they could rub shoulders with the great and good. It is an astounding lack of judgment at the very least.” (Read more from “Epstein Posed with Weinstein and Dressed as Navy SEAL for Prince Andrew’s Daughter’s Birthday Bash” HERE)

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New Report Reveals the Afghanistan War Was Always Based on Lies

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. . .The war in Afghanistan, now in its 19th year, is about as protracted and bloody as it has ever been. Throughout the entire conflict, hawks have told skeptical voters to sit down, be quiet, and leave it up to the professionals. For years they’ve said victory is supposedly just around the corner and that we’re making progress. And yet all the while, the situation on the ground tells a vastly different story. Still, those of us on the outside have never truly been able to witness the full gravity of Washington’s extravagantly expensive misadventure in Afghanistan — because the national security bureaucracy has a knack of keeping bad information hidden away in a vault.

No longer. After a three-year court battle, the Washington Post was able to get its hands on classified government documents that demonstrate the catastrophic nature of the war. The paper reports that “senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.”

Based on 2,000 pages and 428 interviews with American officials, the documents expose two disturbing key themes: For one, the United States had no clue what it was doing in Afghanistan, and even worse, government officials lied to voters every step of the way.

The picture that emerges is one of three successive administrations stubbornly resistant to confronting the depth of their mistakes, all too proud or scared to admit their failure. As Gen. Douglas Lute, the Afghanistan war czar in the Bush and Obama White Houses, summarized: “If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction … 2,400 lives lost … Who will say this was in vain?”

What Lute worries about has already come to pass. A majority of the public and a majority of veterans don’t believe the war in Afghanistan was worth fighting. It’s not hard to see why the numbers are so high: There have been too many mistakes to count. (Read more from “New Report Reveals the Afghanistan War Was Always Based on Lies” HERE)

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First Person Charged Under Florida ‘Red Flag’ Law Found Guilty

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The first person to have his guns confiscated under Florida’s 2018 “red flag” law has been found guilty over his refusal to voluntarily surrender the weapons.

Jerron Smith, 33, now faces up to five years in prison after a jury in Broward County rejected his argument that he did not fully understand the new law. The jury returned the verdict Friday after a short trial.

Smith, of Deerfield Beach, was the subject of a risk protection order soon after the law was enacted in response to the Parkland high school mass shooting in February 2018.

Smith owned an AR-15 rifle and a .22-caliber rifle which Broward deputies seized after his arrest in March 2018 on charges of firing six shots at a vehicle being driven by his best friend, according to reports.

Smith is facing trial on an attempted murder charge in connection with that incident. He was accused of firing at his friend with a Glock handgun that deputies also took, according to reports. (Read more from “First Person Charged Under Florida ‘Red Flag’ Law Found Guilty” HERE)

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SCOTUS Denies First Amendment Challenge to Ultrasound Abortion Law

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The Supreme Court has opted to leave in place a pro-life Kentucky law that requires women seeking an abortion to see an ultrasound of their unborn children before making the decision to abort.

In a lengthy list of court orders put out Monday morning, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case of EMW Women’s Surgical Center v. Meier — a challenge to a Kentucky law that requires women seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound of their unborn children before making a final decision.

Earlier this year, the law was upheld by a ruling of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Opponents of the law — such as the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky — argue that by compelling abortionists to show women ultrasounds of their children, the law violates the free speech rights of abortion providers. The appeals court, however, found the statute’s ultrasound requirements to be within the parameters of the First Amendment as it applies to speech required in professional settings.

“We hold that [the law] provides relevant information,” the 6th Circuit opinion reads. “The information conveyed by an ultrasound image, its description, and the audible beating fetal heart gives a patient greater knowledge of the unborn life inside her. This also inherently provides the patient with more knowledge about the effect of an abortion procedure: it shows her what, or whom, she is consenting to terminate. That this information might persuade a woman to change her mind does not render it suspect under the First Amendment. It just means that it is pertinent to her decision-making.” (Read more from “SCOTUS Denies First Amendment Challenge to Ultrasound Abortion Law” HERE)

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Devin Nunes Reveals Alarming Fact About His Phone Records (VIDEO)

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) revealed over the weekend that his personal phone records do not match those that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) publicized last week.

Prior to the House Judiciary Committee holding its first public impeachment hearings, Schiff’s committee released its 300-page report on impeachment. Included in the document were the personal phone records of Nunes — the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking member — Rudy Giuliani, journalist John Solomon, among others. Schiff did not say how he obtained the records or why he publicized them.

But according to Nunes, who spoke with Fox News on Saturday, the records of his that Schiff publicized are not accurate.

“Finally, yesterday, I had a chance to go through all of my phone records, and I can tell you — my phone records do not match what Schiff and the Democrats put in that report,” Nunes said.

In response to a follow up question from Fox News’ Ed Henry, Nunes added, “Let me tell you what I have. What I have doesn’t match [what Schiff released].” (Read more from “Devin Nunes Reveals Alarming Fact About His Phone Records” HERE)

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Trump Holds Nothing Back After IG Report Is Released

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By Townhall. President Trump lashed out after being briefed about the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on FISA abuses that was finally released on Monday, saying the abuses were an “attempted overthrow of the government.”

The report stated that while the Inspector General’s office found no evidence of political bias concerning the FBI’s operation to infiltrate the Trump campaign and that the investigation was justified, they did find 17 errors and incidents of omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications. . .

Speaking at the White House, Trump said the FBI “fabricated evidence” and “lied” to the courts.

“This was something that we can never allow to happen again,” Trump said. “The report actually and especially when you look in to it and the details of the report are far worse than anything I would have even imagined. What they were doing and what they would’ve done if I didn’t make a certain move, a certain move that was a very important move because it would have been even worse if that’s possible.”

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FISA Report Drops: 7 Takeaways from DOJ Watchdog’s Russia Probe Review

By Fox News. Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz on Monday released the highly anticipated findings from his nearly two-year review concerning the origins of the Russia investigation and the issuance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants for a Trump campaign official. . .

The report said investigators found no intentional misconduct or political bias surrounding either the launch of the Trump-Russia investigation or as efforts to seek the controversial FISA warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in the early stages of that probe. . .

Despite the inspector general’s finding that there was no evidence of political bias or improper motivation, Horowitz’s report revealed there were at least 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the Page FISA applications. . .

Steele’s now-infamous dossier and research surrounding the 2016 presidential election provided much of the information used in the FISA application and renewals, but the inspector general found that the FBI did not have any specific information corroborating allegations against Page from Steele’s reporting.

“We determined that prior to and during the pendency of the FISAs the FBI was unable to corroborate any of the specific substantive allegations against Carter Page contained in the election reporting and relied on in the FISA applications, and was only able to confirm the accuracy of a limited number of circumstantial facts, most of which were in the public domain,” the report said, noting that the information confirmed was only timing of events and dates when Page traveled to Russia. (Read more from “FISA Report Drops: 7 Takeaways from DOJ Watchdog’s Russia Probe Review” HERE)

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House Judiciary Report BOMBSHELL: Dems Trying to Change the Constitution

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The jig is up. The Democrats have now actually admitted—in writing—that their sad little attempt at impeachment is entirely baseless. The House Judiciary Committee Report was released Saturday and admitted two very critical points:

First, the Democrats are trying to change the standard of impeachment. They are literally changing the rules to fit their theatrical story. Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote in the preface that the previous reports on grounds for impeachable offenses in the Nixon and Clinton eras “remain useful points of reference, but no longer reflect the best available learning on questioning relating to presidential impeachment.”

Why, Jerry? Because you have no evidence for legitimate grounds of impeachment? This only proves that President Trump indeed does not belong in the ranks of Nixon and Clinton, where there was actually evidence of impeachable offenses.

Second, the Democrats are proceeding with impeachment against President Trump not because of any past wrongdoing which they have no proof of, but to “save the Nation” from Trump remaining in office. That is not a constitutionally permissible reason to impeach. That’s why we have elections. The American people get to decide who remains in office, absent clear evidence of impeachable offenses actually committed. We don’t impeach or convict based on a vague fear for democracy from the opposition party. (Read more from “House Judiciary Report BOMBSHELL: Dems Trying to Change the Constitution” HERE)

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FBI Partners with the Postal Service to Get Your Fingerprints

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It wasn’t all that long ago that the public was made aware of the huge privacy concerns with sharing your DNA with consumer genetic testing companies to find out your origins. One such concern was the ability of the federal government and law enforcement agencies to gain access to your DNA. As the public has become more aware of such privacy concerns, it seems strange that on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a new partnership with the United States Postal Service where customers like you can voluntarily provide them with their fingerprints while you’re at the post office.

Isn’t that nice and convenient? The government is making it that much easier for you to give them your fingerprints! Gotta buy some stamps or mail a package, why not help the government build up a national database of fingerprints. That sounds great for your privacy. . .

According to the FBI website, “Only you may request a copy of your own Identity History Summary (or proof that one does not exist). You would typically make this request for personal review, to challenge information on record, to meet a requirement for adopting a child, or to meet a requirement to live, work, or travel in a foreign country.”

Of course, there are plenty of ways to obtain a criminal background check without providing the federal government your fingerprint. Most of the information is a part of the public record. If you’ve forgotten that you’ve been arrested in the past and want to check, you can start with local records before you give Big Brother your fingerprints. There are also some websites that can pull up records for a fee as well, without giving up your fingerprints. (Read more from “FBI Partners with the Postal Service to Get Your Fingerprints” HERE)

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Joe Biden Says Son Hunter Will Not Engage in Foreign Business If He Wins 2020 Race; Biden Still Can’t Explain What Son Was Doing ‘Working’ for Ukraine Company

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By Washington Examiner. Joe Biden said that his family members, including Hunter Biden, would not engage in any foreign business if he wins the presidency in 2020.

That’s not because Hunter did anything wrong as a board member of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, the former vice president said, but due to questionable business activities of President Trump’s children.

“They will not be engaged in any foreign business because of what’s happened in this administration,” Biden said of Hunter Biden and brother James Biden, in an Axios on HBO interview that aired Sunday. “No one’s going to be seeking patents for things from China. No one’s going to be engaged in that kind of thing.”

Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma while Joe Biden, 77, worked on Ukrainian policy while vice president. House Democrats launched impeachment proceedings against Trump after revelations of a phone call in which Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens, which Democrats argue Trump did for personal political interests rather than legitimate policy reasons.

Trump and his allies suggest that Joe Biden acted in Hunter’s interest when he conditioned $1 billion in aid to Ukraine on firing an official who was investing Burisma, but many international organizations at the time wanted the prosecutor removed for other reasons, and there is no evidence that Biden acted with the intention of helping his son. (Read more from “Joe Biden Says Son Hunter Will Not Engage in Foreign Business If He Wins 2020 Race” HERE)

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Biden Still Can’t Explain What Son Was Doing ‘Working’ for Ukraine Company

By Townhall. During an interview with Axios, former Vice President and Democratic candidate Joe Biden still couldn’t explain why his son Hunter was hired by Ukraine’s largest energy company. Hunter, who had recently been discharged from the Navy for drug use, was hired by Burisma and paid more than $80,000 a month despite the fact that Hunter had no relevant experience whatsoever. When Hunter was hired by Burisma, the company was mired in a corruption scandal and Hunter’s father just so happened to be the point man on Ukraine for the United States. Hmmm.

It gets worse. Biden forced Ukraine into firing the prosecutor investigating the company that was paying his son’s lucrative salary by threatening to cancel a billion-dollar loan guarantee from the United States. Basically, all the accusations of “bribery,” “quid pro quo” and “abuse of office for personal enrichment” that you hear Democrats accusing Donald Trump of doing, Joe Biden actually did. It’s a problem.

“There’s one thing that a lot of Democrats even do wonder about, and that is Hunter Biden, your son, was getting paid a lot of money to serve on the board of a Ukrainian energy company facing serious corruption charges,” the interviewer began. “You were the vice president running point on Ukraine. The average joe hears that and says ‘that sounds fishy.’ What’s your understanding of what your son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money?”

“I don’t know what he was doing,” Biden responded indignantly. “I know he was on the board. I found out he was on the board after he was on the board. And that was it.” (Read more from “Biden Still Can’t Explain What Son Was Doing ‘Working’ for Ukraine Company” HERE)

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