(Miami Herald – Written by Jay Weaver)  The parents of Trayvon Martin and their lawyer met with Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents at the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami Wednesday to discuss the status of a criminal civil-rights investigation into the fatal shooting of their teen-age son last year.
The federal investigation, which was opened while George Zimmerman faced prosecution for the death of the 17-year-old, gained renewed interest last month after Zimmerman was acquitted in state court of Martin’s killing in a Sanford gated community.
Prosecutors with the Justice Department’s criminal civil-rights section and FBI agents from Central Florida met with the late teen’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, and their attorney, Benjamin Crump, to bring the family up to speed, according to sources familiar with the meeting. (more…)

The discussions around the internet are quite extensive around the latest article from the “Snowden files” (my name). XKeyscore is the research/cyber search tool recently disclosed by The Guardian newspaper who have access to the Snowden whistleblower information.
The primary discussions around the article are framed around how the NSA can essentially, without warrant, snoop on any Facebook, email, or cyber chat room, based on a general sub-set of query data. In essence, data strip-mining.
We are still fully digesting the information and working out the “what if’s” that follow from such details being revealed. However, the immediate question pops to mind about “who” actually owns, or controls, such sleuthing cyber software. Is it only the NSA, or is it also used domestically by the FBI?
One can really, really, see how the dynamic of the entire conversation would immediately change if it were discovered the FBI also had use and access of this type of data search capability…. I wonder if anyone is looking into that?
(Here’s The Guardian Story) A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its “widest-reaching” system for developing intelligence from the internet. (more…)

(Via NewsBusters) It seems that when there’s a good liberal narrative to be advanced, facts and  actual history don’t matter.
That was apparently the case when Oprah Winfrey claimed that the “n-word” was  the last thing heard by “millions” who were lynched. The implication is clear —  millions of blacks have been lynched because of their race.  Worse yet, Parade Magazine let Winfrey get away with her “fact”  unchallenged.
Winfrey  made her comments in an interview discussing Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” a movie  that chronicles one black man’s years of service in the White House. Winfrey  plays the role of Gloria Gaines, the wife of Cecil Gaines, who served from  Eisenhower through Reagan. (more…)

No, we will not be writing discussion threads around the latest George Zimmerman sighting in Missouri and North Dakota.  Think about it.
Instead focus on the bigger picture.   Yesterday President Obama met with Eric Holder and Al Sharpton in the White House.

Gee, do you wonder why?  

Do you wonder why the Urban League summit in Philadelphia was filled with talk of eliminating punishment for school behavior, or criminal behavior, or violent behavior?
Did you wonder why, last year in July/August 2012 President Obama signed an executive order to assist “Blacks Only” in getting rid of school punishments, suspensions, et al.

Do you wonder why criminal background checks for employment are now considered racist?   ….And the EEO labor department is facilitating changes to EEO regulations?
Do you wonder why Tom Perez, former DOJ-CRS, Community Relations Service, (Black rights only) head is now in the president’s cabinet as Labor Secretary?
Do you wonder why black former CRS head Ondray Harris quit working for the Administration in DC after he was told to specifically punish white people, and to only hire black people.
Do you wonder why the Obama/DOJ planted, and yes they are planted, left-wing student Marxists are making noise in Tallahassee Florida to get rid of self-defense laws like Stand Your Ground?
Do you wonder why?
Really?
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Looks like 2J’s is climbing back aboard the race-baiting express.   The comparison to former Alabama Governor, George Wallace, had to come with full DOJ/Eric Holder approval.   Vivian Malone-Jones (the young black lady who was the center of the George Wallace issue) is Eric Holder’s sister-in-law.
The entire fiasco set up in Tallahassee Florida is race-baiting ridiculous in the extreme.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday demanded an apology from longtime civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for comparing the state’s struggle with the Trayvon Martin case to the civil rights clashes with police during the 1960s in Selma, Ala.

Jackson spent the night with protesters upset that George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Martin. They’ve refused to leave the Capitol until Scott calls a special session to have legislators overhaul the state’s self-defense laws.
Jackson called Florida the “Selma of our time” and even compared Scott to former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. While he was governor, Wallace famously stood in the door at the University of Alabama to try to block the entry of two black students. (more…)

Man-o-man, Morgan is really trying his level best to instigate this poor Hanson fellow.  Big pat on the back to Mr. Hanson who retains a laser-like focus on reality and refuses to wander off into Crazyville with Piers Morgan.    Sheeesh….

When reality is in direct conflict with your ideology or beliefs, just do what the progs do – ignore it.
CNS NEWS – According to the Daily Treasury Statement for July 26, which the Treasury released this afternoon, the federal debt has been stuck at exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00 for 70 straight days.
That is approximately $25 million below the legal limit of $16,699,421,095,673.60 that Congress has imposed on the debt.
The portion of the federal debt subject to the legal limit set by Congress first hit $16,699,396,000,000.00 at the close of business on May 17. At the close of every business day since then, it has also been $16,699,396,000,000.00, according to the official accounting published by the Treasury Department.
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Many people are framing the difference between the “libertarian wing” of the GOP against the “Decepticon wing” of the GOP establishment, as a point where libertarians meet left-wing progressives on the political spectrum. (Looking at you Brit Hume)
This is ideologically and fundamentally wrong, and leading to confusion. So let me interject after the Hannity video and reset the framework so that a larger understanding is intellectually absorbed. First the video:

The current U.S. Administration stands solidly behind the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamist President Morsi.   However, the Egyptian people, the average citizen, want nothing to do with the freedom restricting brotherhood.
The liberal media in the U.S. will frame the current conditions as precursory to an outright civil war.   Mainly to undermine the populous movement and to deflect attention of the average American away from the Obama administration, assisting them in hiding their previous vocal advocacy.
CAIRO – Egypt’s criminal investigation against the ousted president, announced Friday, is likely just the start of wider legal moves against Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood – ominous prospects for a country seething with violent divisions.
During Morsi’s three weeks in secret detention, military intelligence agents have extensively questioned him on the inner workings of his presidency and of the Brotherhood, seeking to prove he committed crimes including handing state secrets to the Islamist group, military officials told The Associated Press.
Military intelligence has had sole access to him and has questioned him at least once a day, sometimes for up to five hours, the officials said. At times they have presented him voice recordings of his conversations to question him on them, they said. (more…)