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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 20, 2013 86 Comments

Those of us who have been following Andrew Branca's excellent coverage of the Zimmerman trial here on LI weren't at all surprised by the verdict.  Indeed, we'd have been surprised by anything else; however, leftists are busy little bees, working their race-baiting denial-of-facts-and-law nonsense with...

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Posted by New Neo on July 19, 2013 111 Comments

Either President Obama identifies pretty strongly with Trayvon Martin, or he's pretending to do so for political purposes. First we had Obama's statement that, if he'd had a son, he'd have looked like Martin. That was fairly early in the game. But now, post-verdict, we have...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 19, 2013 54 Comments

Now that the Zimmerman criminal trial has concluded, much attention has focused on the prospects for Zimmerman seeking protection under Florida's self-defense immunity statute from any possible civil action against him. Florida's statute 776.032, is among the broader self-defense immunity statutes, in that it possesses all...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 166 Comments
President Obama surprised reporters by showing up to today's White House press briefing, where he made remarks about the Zimmerman case and on the Stand Your Ground law. National Journal was able to capture some of the key quotes:
While the president began by commending the judge in the case as "professional" and the jurors as "properly instructed," he brought the case into the much broader context of race in America. "When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said this could've been my son. Another way of saying that is, a Trayvon Martin could've been me 35 years ago. When you think about why in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away." He also said that "there are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping at a department store. That includes me." The same goes for African American men who have heard "locks click on the doors of cars," or seen a "woman clutching her purse nervously" in an elevator. The president also said that "there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws" -- from the death penalty to drug laws. He continued (with our emphasis): "Folks understand the challenges that exist for African American boys. But they get frustrated that they feel that there's no context for them, that that context is being denied. And that all contributes to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that from top to bottom both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different."

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 10 Comments

NSA head General Keith Alexander said at a forum earlier this week that the agency is taking steps to insure that a breach of its systems like the one committed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor employed through Booz Allen Hamilton, cannot occur again. ...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 17 Comments

Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace in 2008 after a prostitution scandal, is now running for the position of NYC Comptroller.  As Business Insider points out, he's since begun a huge national media tour and Thursday wasn't an especially good day for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2013 65 Comments

I was a guest on Crane Durham"s Nothing But The Truth show on July 15. We covered a variety of topics related to the George Zimmerman verdict and the aftermath, including threats of federal prosecution and civil lawsuits. One of the issues we discussed was the false racial narrative of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2013 31 Comments

Off to Israel late tonight. My itinerary is something along the lines of Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Tiberias-Golan Heights/TheNorth. I'm scheduled to meet some really interesting people, so there likely will be some posts from me while I'm away.  (In addition to some prescheduled posts, and well, I do have...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 20 Comments

One Massachusetts State Police officer is speaking out in angry opposition to Rolling Stone's glamorization of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. And he's doing so through photos. [caption id="attachment_59370" align="alignnone" width="575"] Photo credit: Sean Murphy. Published at http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/07/18/tsarnaev/[/caption] From Boston Magazine: Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the...

Posted by A.F. Branco on July 19, 2013 16 Comments

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 18, 2013 56 Comments

In case you missed it, WOFL, the local FOX affiliate station (FOX35) in Orlando, Florida did an exclusive interview with alternate juror E54 from the George Zimmerman trial.  Sean Hannity aired segments on his Wednesday evening program. Anonymous juror E54 told WOFL's Valerie Boey that he agrees with the...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 18, 2013 15 Comments

Bradley Manning will face the charge of "aiding the enemy," after a military judge ruled today that the charge will not be dropped.  Defense attorneys for Manning had earlier filed a motion for this and other charges to be dismissed, while human rights groups also...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2013 104 Comments
Flashing across the wires:
The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal court Thursday, laying the groundwork for a historic effort to bail out a city that is sinking under billions of dollars in debt and decades of mismanagement, population flight and loss of tax revenue. The bankruptcy filing makes Detroit the largest city in U.S. history to do so.
No one could have seen this coming, except Dewey: detroit_01_thumb10 Hmmm ... this can't be coincidence: https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/357971369935372288 Most clueless Detroit bankruptcy tweet of the day: https://twitter.com/JoelleMackey7/status/357970741838352384 Elsewhere: https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/357960657339023361 https://twitter.com/JoeCilio/status/357969877643952129 https://twitter.com/BlaiseInKC/status/357969971923529728

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 18, 2013 11 Comments

In the wake of revelations about the scope of the NSA's surveillance activities, Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald will soon be writing a book that is expected to reveal new information on the matter.  Some of the book's focus will also be on the alleged cooperation...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2013 29 Comments

Good thing John Kerry is in Israel pressuring Israel to accept as a precondition to negotiations a return to the 1949 armistice lines with minor modifications. That precondition is being held firmly by Mahmoud Abbas, who weekly receives encouragement, including the recent decision by the EU...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 18, 2013 112 Comments

In 2005 the Florida legislator enacted statute 776.032. "Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force." This immunity statute is often erroneously referred to as Florida's Stand-Your-Ground (SYG) law, even by lawyers, judges, and law professors who ought to know better...

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