FINALLY – Good Legal Advice – Officer Michael Slager did not waive his right to a speedy trial, he invoked it.

However, the Judge denied the request.  Judge Clifton Newman and Lead Prosecutor, Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, have just opened themselves up for increased scrutiny.  Smartly, Officer Michael Slager, through his attorney, requested his constitutional and legal right to a speedy trial be invoked.

According to a local media report Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson filed a 10 page motion to request the defendants’ right to a speedy trial be denied.  As many of you are familiar, when facing malicious and political prosecution the (almost guaranteed) tendency of the State is to delay the trial.  (more…)

The media are focused on the “Bundy Militia” angle to the standoff in Burns Oregon, where Aamon Bundy and brothers have taken over a Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters to draw attention to the plight of the Hammond family (Full Complex Back Story Here).

However, a little research (HatTip NeverTooLate) into the original legal battle reveals a rather startling update.

Aamon Bundy (left) – Hammond Family (right)

The initial, and regarded by many as overreaching, federal prosecution resulted in a federal court judge Michael Hogan assigning a 3-month sentence and 1-year sentence for Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr (73) and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond (46) respectively.

Even federal Judge Hogan stated the prosecution under “terrorism statutes” itself was an overreach and he refused to assign ridiculously high sentences for behavior that almost every rancher has conducted for generations.

Those sentences were fulfilled by the father an son duo in 2013 with Steven Hammond exiting prison in January 2014.   However, it was a decision by the U.S Attorney for the State of Oregon, Amanda Marshall, who called for an appeal to the original sentencing: (more…)

“All your liberties are belong to us”…. it’s for your own good comrade citizen!

(NEW YORK) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Sunday requiring homeless people throughout the state to be removed from the streets and brought to shelters when the temperature is below freezing.

In his executive order Sunday, Gov. Cuomo directed state agencies to take “all necessary steps to identify individuals reasonably believed to be homeless and unwilling or unable to find the shelter necessary for safety and health in inclement winter weather, and move such individuals to the appropriate sheltered facilities.” (more…)

Many newly engaged voters might not be aware of the Purple Orcs, the SEIU goons or the modern campaign tactics of Liberal Democrats.  Most often the campaign shenanigans are personified by rabid left-wing moonbats, however sometimes they are reverse antagonism tactics, ie. highly Rovian….

♦  A nutter appears in the middle of a Donald Trump rally proclaiming to be a supporter while simultaneously making odd statements during a Q&A about the President being Muslim?  The entire MSM apparatus is on-scene with hundreds of reporters, yet they have no idea who the guy is, nor are they interesting in following it up?

Uh, huh.

♦  A Fem-nutter appears at a Donald Trump rally and begins spouting Democrat talking points as questions to candidate Trump about women’s rights and women’s equality issues.   Again, with script in hand and ready to rock-n-roll, the media (CNN) apparently disinterested in talking to, or identifying the ideology of the provocateur. (more…)

Just when you think the insanity of the moonbats has reached its peak, the professionally aggrieved find a new level of humorless anxiety to push political correctness ever higher.

(Via Daily Caller) The tweet caused a social media uproar, now it’s cost someone their job.

The official Twitter account for the Times Square Ball angered a lot of people with one simple hashtag: #BallLivesMatter.

The tweet was up for about half an hour before being deleted, but the damage was done.

Black Lives Matter activists directed their anger at the account, calling for the head of the person who sent the tweet. The next day they got it. (more…)

Sheesh, you just can’t make this stuff up….  A rally to promote non-violence, ends up in fist-a-cuffs between rival factions.

New Jersey – A skirmish broke out between rival activists on the steps of City Hall Wednesday during what had been intended as a demonstration against violence in Newark.

Police were called to the scene after a small crowd began arguing over escalating violence and the city’s attempts to curb it.

The noon press conference was called by a group of activists led by Salaam Ismial, co-chair of the New Jersey Study Commission on Violence, and Abdul Muhammad, a longtime Newark anti-violence activist. In a release announcing the event, the two said they planned to ask Mayor Ras Baraka to “unleash his quality of life plan in addressing ongoing violence facing Newark residents.” (more…)

The Baltimore prosecution team did not turn over an investigative memo to defense attorneys outlining knowledge of a prior back injury claimed by Freddie Gray.  Defense attorneys now want to explore the previously undisclosed information.

BALTIMORE – Attorneys for Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr. have filed in court an internal police document in which officers wrote that Freddie Gray once complained of a back problem, as part of the defense’s effort to gain access to Gray’s medical records.

The document had been previously sealed, after Judge Barry Williams ruled that prosecutors failed to disclose it to defense attorneys for Officer William G. Porter until his trial was underway last month. Porter’s case ended in a mistrial when jurors failed to reach a verdict. (more…)

The full criminal complaint is included below the article EXCERPT.

NEW YORK NBC – Federal officials in Rochester, New York, have arrested and charged a local man who was allegedly plotting a New Year’s Eve machete attack on diners at a local restaurant in the name of ISIS.

Emanuel Lutchman, 25, an ex-con Muslim convert with mental issues, was charged with attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group, federal prosecutors said.

The FBI says he had pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wanted to leave to U.S. to live in the caliphate, and was in contact with a reputed ISIS member in Syria — who urged him to kill non-Muslims on the holiday.

“New years [sic] is here soon. Do operations and kill some kuffar,” the overseas contact told him, the court papers allege.

The mayor of Rochester cancelled the city’s New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration Thursday so that more police could be deployed to patrol, but officials said there is no information of a credible threat. (more…)

The UniParty, Democrats and Republicans in legislative agreement, was most recently evidenced within the construct of the 2015/2016 Omnibus spending and Tax Bill.

Frustrated fiscal conservatives once again gnashing teeth as the insufferable DC Politburo highlight their intentional disconnect from the electorate;  Pelosi -> Boehner -> Ryan? It matters not a lick of difference who holds the gavel when the bell is rung for chow-time at the taxpayer trough.

It’s as if the GOPe really don’t care how angered you get.  Why is that?…

…. Mark Levin isn’t talking about it. Sean Hannity isn’t talking about it. Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are not talking about it, yet it remains one of the biggest structural benefits to Team Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary presidential race:

Frustrated Conservatives Leaving The Republican Party

Independent political registration is the fastest growing base of electoral voters, and that plays nicely into the hands of the GOPe who are working diligently to avoid accountability for their progressive agenda. (more…)

Evidence of the political pendulum swinging back to favor nationalists can be found amid the panic of globalists like George Soros.  The godfather, and primary financier, of current global liberalism has penned an op-ed in the Guardian trying to convince Americans to vote against our own best interests.

Soros is the most famous totalitarian globalist in the last two decades.  Darth Soros despises freedom, hates individual liberty, and absolutely abhors the U.S. Constitution.

Soros views candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as members of a nationalist rebel alliance who must be stopped at all costs.

… […] As 2016 gets underway, we must reaffirm our commitment to the principles of open society and resist the siren song of the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, however hard that may be.  ~ George Soros