NEW YORK – The battle over New York’s carriage horses just got hunkier.

Hollywood badass Liam Neeson went one-on-one with killjoy Mayor de Blasio, slamming Hizzoner for vowing to ban the city’s 220-plus clip-clopping, carriage-pulling equines from city streets and Central Park.

“They’ll die, you know, darlin,’ ” Liam, who at 6-foot-4 can pretty much look the 6-foot-5 mayor in the eye, told me in his gorgeous Northern Irish brogue.

The 61-year-old heartthrob interrupted his hectic A-list acting schedule to call me Thursday night, alarmed by de Blasio’s treachery.

“It’s criminal!’’ cried Liam. “This is an iconic, historic part of New York. (more…)

Update details at bottom –  Facing increased scrutiny the Charlottesville Virginia Police apologize for not investigating and dragging their feet for over three weeks.  

Why the reversal?…. 

….Because facing increasing pressure from social media discoveries, the two thugs, Richard Bernard Spears and Malcom James Stevenson, walk into a police station and turn themselves in.   The police didn’t really have a choice after that happened. (more…)

For over three years we have been tracking this new federal protocol of qualifying school punishment for misbehavior around the race of the offender.    The origin of the approach actually stems from Miami-Dade, Florida, and a diversionary tolerance program initiated by School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

Carvalho is a close ally, and political affiliate, of both Barack and Michelle Obama.   Carvalho also turned down a position inside the Dept of Education which would have placed him second only to Education Secretary Arnie Duncan.

Carvalho’s program within the Miami-Dade school district actually preceded the Executive Order given by Barack Obama which initiated the new DOJ directives around “Disparate Impact”, establishing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans.  Effectively placing “quotas” on school discipline based on race.

It  was also Carvalho’s widely heralded program which led to the Miami-Dade School Police Department putting Trayvon Martin into diversionary programs using School Discipline to replace Criminal Justice in an effort to avoid a criminal record. (more…)

A blogger in New York -Davy V-  first outlined the attack.   Then we posted the assault, then Chuck Ross posted it via The Daily Caller, then WHAMMO !  Fox News picked up the story and it just ran on Megyn Kelly show and Sean Hannity has picked it up.

Sunlight is indeed the BEST disinfectant.   Previously the Rochester Police Department stated:

“Rochester Police Department Sgt. Elena Correia  told Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper that she DOES NOT consider the incident an assault, but rather a “simple case of harassment”!  (link)

The Daily Caller News Foundation followed up with Correia. “At this time  there are no updates,” she said.

“Based on the video itself and on New York penal law, it constitutes  harassment.”

The DCNF asked Correia if investigators saw that “True Goon” had hit the woman  with his fist.

“Yes, we saw that,” she said, but clarified that an assault charge would  require the victim to suffer “substantial pain”.  (link)

What a difference a few days of sunlight and increasing publicity makes.   Today: (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – In a brief speech on the House floor about safety nets that touches on all manner of government assistance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee suggested that the term “welfare” is no longer politically correct, and like all masters of doublespeak, wants Congress to change its name to a “transitional living fund.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the “safety net has to be something for all of us.”

“Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, ‘a transitional living fund.’ For that is what it is — for people to be able to live,” she said.  (link)

The Story Here

It’s not stealing – it’s just redistributing the cheetos

(CNN) — A Nebraska toddler who repeated a slew of profanities in an online video has been taken into child protective custody, Omaha police said Wednesday.

While authorities found nothing criminal in the video, officials from the Omaha police’s Child Victim Unit and the Nebraska Child Protective Services took the infant and three other children into custody on Wednesday, the police department said on its Facebook page.

The joint investigation found safety concerns, the statement said. (more…)

To actually understand what Jesse Jackson’s primary point was – we turn to the South African Interpreter Guy (more…)

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE PROPAGANDA – PERIOD

The U.S. State Department, and the water-carrying U.S. media are working diligently to separate CORE al-Qaeda from Ansar al-Sharia (al-Qaeda in Libya).

The State Department is claiming there is ABSOLUTELY no connection between CORE al-Qaeda, which operates out of Afghanistan and is headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Ansar al-Sharia (17th Feb Brigade) which operates out of Libya and is well referenced as the group which attacked the U.S. compound in Benghazi.

(left) al-Qaeda #1 Ayman al-Zawahiri – – – (right) His brother Mohammed al-Zawahiri 

However, this is a fundamental misnomer and pure obfuscation.

CORE al-Qaeda is headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri (he became #1 when Bin Laden was killed).    Ayman’s brother is Mohammed al-Zawahiri.

Ayman’s brother, Mohammed al-Zawahiri, was released from Egyptian prison during the turmoil which resulted in the legalization of The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (early March 2011). (more…)

It appears the strategy to deflect away from the brutal outlines in Robert Gates’ book is to frame Gates as an angry man with an axe to grind.   Top Ten Takeaways from “Duty” (Via WallStreetJournal)

1. Contempt for Congress Mr. Gates expresses open disdain for Congress and the way lawmakers treated him when he testified at hearings. “I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.” Mr. Gates said he fantasized about storming out of hearings and quitting. “There is no son of a bitch in the world who can talk to me like that,” he writes of his fantasy.

2. Contempt for Vice President Biden Mr. Gates expresses particular dissatisfaction with Vice President Joe Biden. He describes Mr. Biden as a “man of integrity” who “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Specifically, Mr. Gates said he opposed Mr. Biden’s proposed limited strategy in Afghanistan to focus on counter-terrorism: “Whac-A-Mole hits on Taliban leaders weren’t a long term strategy,” he writes. (more…)