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He states that lawmakers should demand Holder’s resignation.
Cruz raises the issue of Fast and Furious, and laments that it is no longer in the public eye.
He also insists that Obama take responsibility and tell the truth.
Cruz singles out the White House’s press secretary for making “an objectively false statement,” made on behalf of the President of the United States:
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A poll worker from 1998 until being fired this year, Richardson admitted she voted illegally in the 2008, 2011 and 2012 elections.
Richardson, who was in court last week but asked to speak to her pastor before she agreed to be convicted rather than take the case to trial, was quiet during the hearing.
Her penmanship and familiarity led to her conviction.
“They noticed a bunch of absentee ballots coming from the same place with the same handwriting,” Assistant Prosecutor Bill Anderson said. Other Board of Elections workers then recognized Richardson’s handwriting.
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“I believe our privacy has been invaded,” said a parent Connie Turlington. “I don’t think it was right and it was done unlawfully.”
Rob Davis, senior director of support services for Polk County Schools, says the district was going to try a pilot program that used iris scanners on 17 buses at three schools: Bethune Academy, Daniel Jenkins Academy, and the Davenport School of the Arts.
“It was for an extra-layer of safety for the students and the parents and guardians of students riding the bus,” Davis said.
The program would notify parents via text message or e-mail that their student made it to the destination.
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The district caught the attention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which sent a letter to school officials listing multiple places in the play’s script where speaking parts had students declaring God and Jesus as being Saviors and faith as a foundation of the United States of America.
The district responded by allowing the children to perform a modified version of the play, but local church groups and community members rallied behind the production to have it play in its entirety Wednesday night.
The First Baptist Church of Lindale rented the Lindale performing Arts Center on the high school campus so the show could go on.
“He said I’ll have this back to you in two hours ready to go,” Cox said. “I got it back in 45 minutes and attached to it, just like our Lord says for us, it said, ‘paid in full.’”
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) been closely following the EPA’s misuse of private communication to conduct public business, and fees the agency has placed on conservative groups seeking information that they usual waive for media and watchdog groups. After successfully gaining access to former EPA Chief Lisa Jackson’s emails, CEI is now suing to gain access to the text messages of Gina McCarthy, the senior EPA official the President has nominated to now run the agency.
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By Kyle Hightower. A court employee who retrieved photos and deleted text messages from Trayvon Martin’s cellphone has been placed on administrative leave after an attorney testified that prosecutors didn’t properly turn over the evidence to the defense, an attorney said Wednesday.
Former prosecutor Wesley White said he was ethically obligated to reveal that Fourth Judicial Circuit Information Technology Director Ben Kruidbos retrieved the data that weren’t turned over.
Kruidbos was placed on leave shortly after White testified during a hearing in George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder case on Tuesday. White said Kruidbos was interviewed by state attorney investigators twice before the action was taken.
White said he wasn’t surprised of possible evidence violations by Zimmerman prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda.
“I was saddened by it, but I’m not surprised,” he said. Read more from this story HERE.
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Heavy protection for jurors in Zimmerman case… as judge REJECTS request to allow Trayvon Martin’s text messages to be included as evidence
By AP and Daily Mail Reporter. Attorneys won’t be able to mention Trayvon Martin’s drug use, suspension from school and past fighting during opening statements in the trial for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot the teen, a judge ruled today.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson also refused to allow jurors to travel to the shooting scene during trial, and rejected a defense request to delay the trial set to begin June 10…
The judge also ruled that some of the Martin’s texts and other social media statements won’t be allowed in opening statements, though some of the teen’s personal history could be allowed later with a ruling from the judge depending on how the case progresses.
Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, had argued that text messages sent by the 17-year-old – in which he describes being ‘angry’ following a fight with another teen on the night he was fatally shot by Zimmerman – should be heard by a potential jury because it’s ‘relevant to [Martin’s] emotional state,’ and would strengthen the defense’s claim that Martin was the aggressor in the struggle that ultimately took his life.
‘He got mo hits cause in da 1st round,’ Martin says in a November 2011 text message, apparently in reference to a fight he’d been in prior to his run-in with Zimmerman. Read more from this story HERE.
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Zimmerman attorneys: Texts show Trayvon Martin ‘hostile’ day of shooting
By Steve Almasy. Text messages sent from Trayvon Martin’s cell phone the day he was killed show he had been arguing with someone on the phone and was “hostile,” attorneys for George Zimmerman wrote in a recent court filing.
Zimmerman’s lawyers argue the texts are relevant to the case, in which the unarmed teenager was fatally shot by the neighborhood watch volunteer during a confrontation in a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood in February 2012.
The texts speak to Martin’s demeanor and emotional state, the Thursday filing said, and “may assist the jury in understanding why Trayvon Martin chose to hide then confront George Zimmerman rather than simply going home.”
The filing said the texts were mostly with “Witness 8,” and the messages showed Martin and the friend were “hostile and angry with each other at various points throughout the day.”
Martin, 17, was talking on the phone with Witness 8 when he and Zimmerman met as Martin walked to the house of his father’s fiancee after a trip to a nearby convenience store. Read more from this story HERE.
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The death of 72-year-old Jerry Waller, shocked the quiet Fort Worth community, where six shots rang out just before 1am.
Mr Waller was reportedly awoke after a burglar alarm had gone off at a home across the street. He grabbed his .38 caliber handgun and went outside to investigate.
Police responding to the alarm instead went to Mr Waller’s home, where they encountered him in his driveway and near the garage.
Fort Worth Police Cpl Tracey Knight told reporters that the officers – both rookies who have been with the department for less than a year – ‘felt threatened’ by the elderly grandfather – and shot him.
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Photo Credit: YouTube On Tuesday, Michele Bachmann shocked many in the political establishment with her announcement that she will not run for reelection again from her house district.
Stating that the President is constitutionally limited to a total of eight years in office, the congresswoman said four house terms was an appropriate length of service for her.
Rep. Bachmann assured her supporters that this decision had nothing to do with fears of reelection in 2014 or any concern about FEC issues surrounding her 2012 presidential campaign.
Please watch her classy, well-done video announcement below:
The Republican criticism of Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department — first, over the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation and now, the subpoena of reporters’ phone and email records — is growing to include outcry from liberal media outlets and Democrats.
“It seems to me clear that the actions of the department have in fact impaired the First Amendment,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said earlier this month. “Reporters who might have previously believed that a confidential source would speak to them would no longer have that level of confidence.”
The congresswoman has been joined in her concerns by Democratic commentators and the liberal-leaning Huffington Post, which recently ran a giant headline saying it’s time for Holder to go.
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Photo Credit: Richard Masoner / CycleliciousCalifornia is on the verge of a new gold rush. Expanded hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking” — at the Monterey Shale formation is sparking estimates that 15 billion barrels of oil could be accessed, along with millions of jobs and huge contributions to the domestic energy supply.
Even the state’s green-friendly Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, says “the potential is extraordinary.”
But standing in the way is a flurry of anti-fracking bills. At last count, 10 were on the table, all introduced by Democrats seeking tighter controls over the controversial technology.
Some of the measures take aim at how crude is extracted from rock layers beyond the reach of conventional drilling.
Others call for full disclosure of what chemicals are used in the high-pressure process, how they’re removed, and where they’re stored.
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