Consider this a MUST READ if you are concerned about abusive government and the absolute elimination of free speech and personal liberty.

(Reason) For the past two weeks, Reason, a magazine dedicated to “Free Minds and Free Markets,” has been barred by an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from speaking publicly about a grand jury subpoena that court sent to Reason.com.

The subpoena demanded the records of six people who left hyperbolic comments at the website about the federal judge who oversaw the controversial conviction of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. Shortly after the subpoena was issued, the government issued a gag order prohibiting Reason not only from discussing the matter but even acknowledging the existence of the subpoena or the gag order itself. As a wide variety of media outlets have noted, such actions on the part of the government are not only fundamentally misguided and misdirected, they have a tangible chilling effect on free expression by commenters and publications alike.

Yesterday, after preparing an extensive legal brief, Reason asked the US Attorney’s Office to join with it in asking that the gag order – now moot and clearly an unconstitutional prior restraint – be lifted. This morning, the US Attorney’s Office asked the Court to vacate the order, which it did. We are free to tell the story for the first time.  (read more)

(USA TODAY) Brian Williams, in his first public comments since losing his NBC Nightly News anchor chair in a major demotion, apologized for telling inaccurate stories about his experiences and said such misstatements were “clearly ego driven.”

“I am sorry,” a subdued Williams told Today‘s Matt Lauer in interviews carried out over two days this week. “I am sorry for what happened. I am different as a result and I expect to be held to a different standard.”

Excerpts were broadcast Friday morning on Today.

After a six-month internal investigation, NBC announced Thursday that the veteran newsman would not be reinstated as the anchor of the Nightly News and, instead, would be slotted for anchoring breaking news and special reports on NBC’s sister cable network MSNBC, a huge comedown for a highly paid star. (more…)

There may have been a time when a discussion about racial issues was possible, but that window of opportunity quickly passed when the professional left decided to double down on division with a professional community organizer.

The professionally black have a vested ideological and financial interest in the retention of grievance.  No amount of discussion will overcome or quench the institutional need to be perpetually aggrieved.   (Apropos photo-credit Charleston, SC via CBS)

We can agree the shooting in Charleston South Carolina was a hate crime; we can even concede that it might be called terrorism – but that will never change the inherent one-sided nature of the conversation.

Call it whatever you want to call it.  Hate Crimes, domestic racial terrorism, it really doesn’t matter.  If the labels apply for a white person to intentionally kill a black person solely due to the color of their skin.   Then what exactly is this: (more…)

Earlier this week the professionally aggrieved began a campaign against the Louisville Kentucky police department after a deranged man attacked a police officer with a flag pole, and was shot and killed.

The professional agitators began using the same antagonistic activist messaging, “F**k the Police”, as previously used in Ferguson, Saint Louis, Baltimore, Madison, New York, Charlottesville and McKinney, Texas.

The Louisville Kentucky police have had enough.  They pen an open letter to the public:

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Cincinnati Ohio – Videos showing a chaotic scene between guests and police last week at the Fairfield Aquatic Center continue to fuel debate over what happened before and during the confrontation that led to four arrests and allegations of officers exhibiting excessive use of force. (Original report video below)

Police arrested two adults — Krystal Dixon and Maya Dixon — and two children on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a large fight June 9 at the city-owned pool on Augusta Boulevard. They said the four refused to leave.

Attorney Clyde Bennett, who represented both women at their arraignment Wednesday, said his clients did nothing wrong and that charges against them should be dismissed.

Both women have faced charges of disorderly conduct and/or resisting arrest in other courts, according to records obtained by the Journal-News. (more…)

The vote was 218-208. Backing the bill were 190 Republicans and 28 Democrats; 50 Republicans and 158 Democrats voted against it. Eight members did not vote.

Neither Wall Street nor their 24/7/365 lobbying group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, care about U.S. jobs.  Their collective stakes are based on business financial statements which can be improved if expenses are reduced and labor costs are outsourced.

Tom Donohue, CoC President, controls the congressional reelection purse strings.  Both John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are beholden to Tom Donohue; that’s why both are working earnestly to deliver something vital to the CoC and President Obama.

Well written article -> (Via Politico) […]  It’s the second time in two weeks that Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) chamber voted to approve the legislation. The legislation was halted last week by House Democrats, who voted against an aid package for workers in an attempt to scuttle the larger trade agenda. This time, Boehner and McConnell devised a complicated process that could deliver Obama his biggest legislative achievement in years.

The legislative maneuvering, on which Boehner and McConnell consulted with Obama during a conference call this week, could result in Obama approving the trade package before the July 4 recess — and eventually usher in a trade deal that would touch 40 percent of the global economy. The fast-track authority is essential, proponents say, because it would bar Congress from making any changes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership after a deal is reached between the U.S. and other negotiating countries. Lawmakers would get only an up-or-down vote on the pact. (more…)

A man walks into a church and shoots nine people dead; that’s terrorism regardless of race.  If the shooting was based on race, then it’s a racist hate crime and terrorism, period.

The number one objective of everyone in law enforcement should be to catch the mass murder suspect and bring him to trial.  As currently described that suspect is: “A 21-year-old, white male, with sandy blonde hair, clean shaven, wearing Timberland boots, jeans and a grey hoodie“.  Every resource should be deployed to catch that criminal.

“Every resource” includes the principle that this horrific crime should be treated with the same intensity as the Boston Marathon bombing.   Every resource in the arsenal of local, state and federal law enforcement should be immediately dispatched to catch this person, period.

Unfortunately, this horrible event will focus attention in many divergent directions based solely on the current environment permeating the national dialogue; and as a consequence of manipulative activists who relish anxiety to advance their various causes.

For those who have intensely followed the evolution of that manipulation for the past several years, the brutal event in Charleston carries a set of additional aspects which ring immediate alarm bells.   Taken individually none of the aspects seem too controversial; however, when you put them together something else begins to assemble.

WIPING CLEAR THE WHITE BOARD – Just the facts: (more…)

The Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal’s “Death Threats” Exposed !

By now an entire nation is aware of the Spokane Washington NAACP President Ms. Rachel Dolezal; and more specifically the controversy of her self-identification as black despite her ethnicity clearly being white.

Last night Dolezal even when so far as to begin proposing that her white Anglo-parents couldn’t prove she was actually their daughter. She seems so strongly committed to her position as a black woman she is even willing to go so far as to call her parents liars:

[…]  “I haven’t had a DNA test. There’s been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents,” Dolezal said in an appearance on “NBC Nightly News.”

“There’s a birth certificate that has your name on it and their names on it,” interviewer Savannah Guthrie responded.

“I’m not necessarily saying that I can prove they’re not,” Dolezal said. “But I don’t know that I can actually prove they are. I mean, the birth certificate is issued a month and a half after I’m born. And certainly there were no medical witnesses to my birth.”  (link)

However, lost amid all of the black and white cultural discussion of her ethnicity is the more serious issue of Dolezal previously claiming numerous death threats against her while head of the Spokane NAACP chapter.

At the end of February this year, Dolezal claimed to have received packages containing documents outlining death threats against her. It was reported locally in the Spokane media, as KREM2 shared the story early in March. (more…)

If you thought the McKinney pool party fiasco could not get more twisted you’d be wrong.

Veteran Police Officer Eric Casebolt was forced to resign his job, a career in tatters. Craig Ranch resident Tracey Carver is being terrorized, receiving death threats against herself and her kids, and has fled her home; yesterday Carver retained an attorney – Gloria Allred.

Meanwhile, today, the woman who created the entire incident, 20-year-old Tatyana Rhodes, has brazenly announced “a press release” and, according to CBS News, Tatyana is using the publicity she created to launch a modeling career.

[…]  Tatyana Rhodes issued a press release Wednesday announcing that she will turn the “negative attention of the unfortunate McKinney pool party events into a positive jumpstart for her modeling career.”

According to the statement, an Atlanta photographer saw pictures of Tatyana in an online story about the pool party and traveled to Texas to conduct her first professional photoshoot. (link)

Tatyana Rhodes and her mother LaShana Burks planned a promotional party as part of their  business ventures, “Twinzzpromotions”, on private property. The sexually exploitative party was called “Dime Piece Cookout” and was a intended as an free event enterprise to sell tickets to a later event “Make It Clap Part 2“. (more…)

This little snippet shows how The Donald can plow the media field faster than all other candidates.

George Stephanopoulos served in the Clinton White House, and has close ties with Hillary and Bill Clinton. Recently, it was revealed that Stephanopoulos contributes heavily to the Clinton Foundation and works for the foundation on CGI events. The revelation forced George Stephanopoulos to apologize for the non-disclosure.

The Donald slides that right in to his response about Hillary: