Pelosi Mocks Pence’s Religion, so GOP Rep. Literally Mocks Pelosi’s Face

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined the mockery of Vice President Mike Pence’s religion and found her face mocked in return.

The insults were exchanged at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s annual Congressional Dinner on Tuesday Night, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.

Pelosi was one of the four lawmakers who performed stand-up at the event that brings journalists and lawmakers together.

“Do you think Mike Pence is allowed to dine alone with a man in drag?” the Democrat asked.

Pelosi was recently a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and her comment referenced her cameo and an interview Pence did with the Hill in 2002.

The Indianapolis Star highlighted the interview during the 2016 presidential race saying that in his 12 years in Congress, “Pence had rules to avoid infidelity temptations, or even rumors of impropriety,” following what is known as the Billy Graham Rule, according to the Washington Post.

“Those included requiring that any aide who had to work late to assist him be male, never dining alone with a woman other than his wife, and not attending an event where alcohol is served unless Karen was there.”

During the 2002 interview, Pence called this, “building a zone around your marriage.”

“If there’s alcohol being served and people are being loose, I want to have the best-looking brunette in the room standing next to me,” he reportedly said.

After Pelosi’s comments on Pence, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen turned the mockery around.

“Let’s be serious — it’s tough to win legislation in Congress,” she said, according to the Daily Mail. “Many times, the process is as frozen as Nancy Pelosi’s face.”

She added, “I’m kidding, but sometimes her happy and her angry face, they’re pretty similar.”

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise also took aim at Pelosi.

“Nancy, it’s always great to break bread with you. I promise next time not to leave so many crumbs,” he joked in reference to her comment that the tax cuts were “crumbs” for Americans.

Pelosi was not the first to make fun of Pence and his religious views. Joy Behar took aim at his religion as well on “The View.”

“It’s one thing to talk to Jesus, it’s another thing when Jesus talks to you,” Behar asserted. “That’s called mental illness if I’m not correct.” (For more from the author of “Pelosi Mocks Pence’s Religion, so GOP Rep. Literally Mocks Pelosi’s Face” please click HERE)

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Justice: Dick’s Blindsided by Lawsuit Just Days After Banning AR-15s

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Just days after Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer be selling the AR-15, an Oregon man sued the store and Walmart for refusing to sell him a rifle.

Twenty-year-old Tyler Watson claimed that the stores discriminated against him because of his age, according to the New York Post.

Although Oregon law allows people to purchase shotguns or rifles at the age of 18, Dick’s and Walmart raised the age to purchase firearms from their stores to 21 after the Feb. 14 school shooting.

Watson said that he faced age discrimination when he tried to buy a .22-caliber Ruger rifle from Field & Stream, owned by Dick’s Sporting Goods, on Feb. 24, four days before the sporting goods store’s announcement that it was not going to sell firearms to anyone under 21. Walmart made a similar announcement on the same day.

After he was denied the purchase at Field & Stream, Watson went to Walmart and was also told he couldn’t buy the rifle.

“In light of recent events, we reviewed our policy on firearm sales,” Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove told The Oregonian. “As a result, we raised the age restriction for the purchase of firearms and ammunition to 21 years of age. We stand behind our decision and plan to defend it. While we haven’t seen the complaint, we will respond as appropriate with the court.”

Watson’s attorney, Max Whittington, said that his client didn’t know about the policy when he went to make his purchase.

“He was really just trying to buy a rifle,” Whittington said.

In the lawsuit, Watson says that the new policies violate Oregon laws that protect residents against discrimination based on “race, religion, sexual orientation or age.”

The statutes add that the state can ban alcohol or marijuana sales based on age, but does not mention firearm sales, according to The Oregonian.

Watson wants Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart “to stop unlawfully discriminating against 18, 19, and 20 year-old customers at all Oregon locations.”

During the announcement of their new policy, Dick’s Sporting Goods also revealed that the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had actually purchased a firearm from one of its stores. However, the sporting goods retailer noted that the firearm purchased at one of its locations was not one used in the shooting.

The retailer said in a statement, “Clearly this indicates on so many levels that the systems in place are not effective to protect our kids and our citizens.”

CEO and chairman Edward Stack appeared on “Good Morning America” Wednesday to discuss the company’s freshly implemented policy.

When asked to explain the rationale behind the recent change, Stack responded, assuring viewers that his company “did everything by the book.”

“We did everything that the law required and still he was able to buy a gun,” he continued. “When we looked at that, we said, ‘The systems that are in place across the board just aren’t effective enough to keep us from selling someone a gun like that.’” (For more from the author of “Justice: Dick’s Blindsided by Lawsuit Just Days After Banning AR-15s” please click HERE)

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After Florida Shooting, More Than 600 Copycat Threats Have Targeted Schools

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Breathless and whispering through the phone, a 13-year-old student called for help from her Ohio high school.

“Help,” she said in between whimpers. “He’s got a gun. He’s got the gun in my mouth.” . . .

But it was all a hoax.

It’s a stunt that other teens and kids across the nation have pulled after tragedies, creating fear in communities and bringing costly investigations by police and federal agents who have no choice but to take the threats with deadly seriousness. . .

More than 130 threats were reported and analyzed by the USA TODAY NETWORK in the nine-day span after the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland left 17 dead. Also, non-profits such as the Educator’s School Safety Network have compiled a list of the threats using news media reports. The group found that a jarring 638 threats targeted schools in the two weeks after the Parkland shootings, a number they say is probably on the low side. (Read more from “After Florida Shooting, More Than 600 Copycat Threats Have Targeted Schools” HERE)

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Magazine Inadvertently Exposed Trump Dossier Lie

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A lengthy, glowing New Yorker magazine profile on the anti-Trump “dossier” author, Christopher Steele, reported the former MI6 agent knew that his work was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

That claim conflicts with the FBI’s explicit statement in its October 2016 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance application that Steele was unaware of who financed his work for Fusion GPS, the opposition-research company hired by the Democrats’ law firm Perkins Coie, reports investigative reporter Sara Carter.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has testified to Congress that the dossier was essential to obtaining the warrant to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

New Yorker writer Jane Mayer wrote that several months after Steele was subcontracted by Fusion GPS in the spring of 2016, he learned his research was being jointly subsidized by the Clinton campaign and the DNC.

But in a footnote on the warrant application to the FISA court on Oct. 21, 2016, the FBI stated “Source #1,” meaning Steele, was “never advised” as to “the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1’s (Trump’s) ties to Russia.” (Read more from “Magazine Inadvertently Exposed Trump Dossier Lie” HERE)

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Ex-California State Sen. Leland Yee, Gun Control Champion, Heading to Prison for Weapons Trafficking

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. . .From 2006 onwards, Yee served as a state senator and was plotting a secretary of state campaign when his political visions were curtailed by a federal indictment in March 2014 . . .

It was one thing for the public to learn that Chow, a known convict, may have become embroiled in more objectionable schemes. But it was quite another to hear that Yee, a respected public figure who had supposedly distanced himself from San Francisco’s corrupt past, was being accused through the same undercover FBI investigation.

This Wednesday, Yee received a five-year prison sentence for accepting bribes and trafficking in arms . . .

Breyer was unsympathetic to the calls for leniency. While holding public office, Yee had accepted thousands of dollars in campaign contributions in exchange for political favors. And on the side, he and two associates had been involved in a weapons trafficking plot. (Read more from “Ex-California State Sen. Leland Yee, Gun Control Champion, Heading to Prison for Weapons Trafficking” HERE)

Random, Terrifying Laughter From Amazon’s Alexa Creeps out Its Users

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Amazon’s Alexa apparently has been malfunctioning — and it’s caused quite a shock.

The ecommerce giant’s virtual assistant has been heard laughing in a creepy, maniacal way without being prompted — and it became a trending moment on Twitter Wednesday.

“‘Cameras and software do not have emotions, and it is safe to say that they never will.’ one of my student arguments from their midterm that I put here to ponder in 10 years when my camera laughs at me… what is that?… Alexa already laughs at you randomly…” tweeted Andrew Bell, a “data nerd” in Richmond, Virginia.

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Federal Judge Allows Trump to Withhold Grants to California as Part of Sanctuary City Crackdown

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A federal judge in Northern California has declined a request from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to block the Trump administration’s decision to withhold a law enforcement grant to the state as part of its crackdown on states and jurisdictions that protect illegal immigrants.

Becerra asked for a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s decision, but Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled against taking that step.

“The injury threatened is not irreparable,” Orrick wrote. “The amount of money at stake is small compared to the state’s budget. Payment is delayed, for the moment. The DOJ appears to be using its regular administrative process to decide whether it will follow its initial inclinations.”

The judge said at some point in the future, the case “may help define the contours of the state’s broad constitutional police powers under the Tenth Amendment and the federal government’s ‘broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens.’”

The Trump administration has been cracking down on cities and jurisdictions that offer protections for people in the U.S. illegally. (Read more from “Federal Judge Allows Trump to Withhold Grants to California as Part of Sanctuary City Crackdown” HERE)

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‘There’s No Stopping It,’ Warns Ron Paul: A ‘Calamity’ Could Cut This Market in Half

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And that “calamity,” according to libertarian and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, could very well lead to a 50% drop in the stock market. For the Dow DJIA, -0.33% that would mean about 12,500 or so . . .

“I think we have a greater distortion and a financial danger sitting out there bigger than ever before,” he told CNBC in an interview this week. “Everything is just very burdened with debt, and there’s no stopping it.”

Paul has been calling for a deep selloff for a while now. In fact, in August he made a similar call, saying stocks could get cut in half within a year. So far, not even close, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 index SPX, -0.05% despite some big hits in February, have managed to move markedly higher from there. (Read more from “‘There’s No Stopping It,’ Warns Ron Paul: A ‘Calamity’ Could Cut This Market in Half” HERE)

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Connecticut Governor: The NRA Has Become a ‘Terrorist Organization’

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said that the National Rifle Association has evolved into a “terrorist organization.”

Malloy, a Democrat who declined to make a run at a third term this year, made the remarks on Monday, according to FOX-61.

Malloy said the Fairfax, Va.-based Second Amendment organization is today a “far cry” from what it was even 20 years ago . . .

Malloy said that in 1999 – the same year as the Columbine High School shooting – the NRA declared that teachers should not be armed . . .

“They have in essence become a terrorist organization,” he said. (Read more from “Connecticut Governor: The NRA Has Become a ‘Terrorist Organization'” HERE)

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Nikolas Cruz Indicted on 17 Counts of Murder, Jail Records Reveal Odd Behavior in Days After Florida Massacre

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Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, whose jail records show was unapologetic and behaved oddly in the days following the massacre, was formally charged Wednesday with 17 counts each of premeditated murder and attempted murder.

The Broward County grand jury announced on Wednesday the 34-count indictment for Cruz, who police say opened fire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people. The attempted murder charges were for the 17 other people injured in the mass shooting on Valentine’s Day.

Fox News earlier obtained jail records released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office that detailed officers’ observation of Cruz in solitary confinement. The observations, taken between Feb. 17 and Feb. 24, illustrated the 19-year-old’s seemingly odd behavior in the days after the shooting.

In an entry on Feb. 17 — three days after the Parkland massacre — Cruz was noted as relaxed, cooperative, “logical and coherent” with normal speech, jail records showed. The reports for the following days showed roughly the same details. At times, Cruz is observed “lying on his back staring at the ceiling” and avoiding eye contact. Cruz appeared “restless” and in “deep thought” other times . . .

During a visit from his attorney six days after the deadly shooting, Cruz “appeared to break out in laughter both during and immediately following his professional visit.” Though he appeared engaged with the attorney, Cruz responded in a “calm and slow” manner when speaking to a doctor and nurse, records show. (Read more from “Nikolas Cruz Indicted on 17 Counts of Murder, Jail Records Reveal Odd Behavior in Days After Florida Massacre” HERE)

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