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New Zealand Gang: We Won’t Give Up Our Guns To Government

As the New Zealand Parliament works through the details of its new hardline gun control laws, including the banning of all military-style semi-automatic weapons and forced gun confiscation, one of the country’s more notorious gangs remains defiant, saying they will not give up their weapons because "we can’t guarantee our own safety."

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Hawley Introduces Bill to Help Stop Police Suicides

More law enforcement officers die from suicide than in the line of duty, yet federal programs to support their health have gone unfunded in recent years. Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at correcting this often-fatal oversight.

Hawley’s bill, the Supporting and Treating Officers In Crisis Act of 2019, is co-authored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.). It has already garnered support from a bipartisan cadre ranging from Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) to Sen. Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii).

If enacted, the STOICA Act would expand the statutory language of pre-existing family-support grant programs to ensure that they supported suicide-prevention efforts, mental-health screenings, and training to identify officers at risk for suicide. It would also appropriate $7.5 million annually for the next five years to these programs, which have gone without funding since 2000.

Stress, trauma, and suicide are majors issues among law enforcement. According to Hawley’s office, law-enforcement officers report above-average levels of stress, indicating stressors ranging from dealing with family disputes (83 percent of officers) to being compelled to use force (59 percent) to being physically attacked while on duty (23 percent).

These stressors can have lasting physical and mental tolls. Between 25 percent and 30 percent of officers have physical-health problems, like heart disease and gastrointestinal illnesses, related to their job stress. Seven percent of officers in one study were found to meet the criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Sometimes, these heavy burdens lead to tragedy. The number of officers who have committed suicide has risen for the past three years, up to 160 in 2018. By comparison 144 officers died in the line of duty last year, meaning that an officer is more likely to take his own life than to lose it doing his job. The CDC found that the suicide rate among law-enforcement officers and firefighters is 40 percent higher than the national average.

"Every day law enforcement demonstrates tremendous bravery in protecting us from the worst of humanity, but it often takes a toll," Hawley said. "Police work is physically, mentally, and emotionally demanding. This legislation will provide much-needed support to the heroes that keep us safe."

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SHOWDOWN: House Judiciary Authorizes Subpoena For Full, Unredacted Mueller Report


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The Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee authorized a subpoena for Mueller’s full report without redactions on Wednesday in a 24-17 vote.

The resolution also authorized the Judiciary Committee to issue subpoenas and testimony from five current and former Trump aides.

The aides include White House Counsel Don McGahn, former White House strategist Steve Bannon, former communications director Hope Hicks, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former White House aide Ann Donaldson.

“The Constitution charges Congress with holding the president accountable for alleged official misconduct. That job requires us to evaluate the evidence for ourselves, not the attorney general’s summary, not a substantially redacted synopsis, but the full report and the underlying evidence,” House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said in his opening statement Wednesday.

Nadler also said that so far, Bill Barr has “refused” to work with him to help obtain access to materials.

“The Department is wrong to try to withhold that information from this Committee. Congress is entitled to all of the evidence. This isn’t just my opinion. It is also a matter of law,” Nadler added.

Nadler also indicated that he isn’t planning on immediately issuing the subpoena and that he would “give [Bill Barr] time to change his mind.”

“But if we cannot reach an accommodation, then we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials,” Nadler warned. “And if the department still refuses, then it should be up to a judge, not the president or his political appointee to decide whether or not it is appropriate for the committee to review the complete record.”

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Mueller’s team interviewed 500 witnesses and issued 2800 subpoenas in an investigation that spanned over 675 days with a total of 19 high-powered lawyers.

Under special counsel rules, Mueller is to give Attorney General Bill Barr a confidential report.

Barr is redacting people’s names who were not indicted — the law protects people named in the report who have not been indicted — especially if it’s grand jury material.

“It’s a crime to release grand jury material without the approval of the courts and it’s even a crime to release it to Congress without the approval of the courts,” Alan Dershowitz said.

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Hunt For Gang Who Ransacked Knife Amnesty Bin

Who could have guessed that would happen? Via Metro: Police are on the hunt for a group who broke into a bin full of knives that had just been surrendered. The suspects were caught on CCTV hauling the weapons collected by police as part of a knife amnesty. Officers installed the ‘knife surrender bin’ following […]

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Cotton: IRS Needs to Relook at SPLC’s Tax-Exempt Status

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said on Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) needs to relook at the Souther Poverty Law Center’s tax-exempt status.

"They were founded decades ago, and they claim that their role was to fund lawsuits to eliminate the Democrats’ system of Jim Crow and segregation. Now, they’ve turned into just a serial defamer of their political opponents," Cotton said about the SPLC. "That’s why the IRS needs to relook at their tax-exempt status."

Cotton sent a letter to the IRS, urging the agency to investigate whether the SPLC should keep its classification as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization amid news reports of the organization’s turmoil and

"The business model has paid well," Cotton wrote in the letter. "The SPLC has accrued more than $500 million in assets. According to the group’s most recent financial statement, it holds $121 million offshore in non-U.S. equity funds. The SPLC uses these assets to pay its executives lavish salaries far higher than the comparable household average."

The Washington Free Beacon has previously reported about SPLC’s finances. In early March, the Free Beacon reported the group has $518 million in assets, with $120 million now offshore.

"I don’t know many charitable advisors who say it is best practice to send your endowment to overseas accounts in the Caribbean. That’s one of the reasons why Charity Watch gives them an "F" rating. A very well deserved "F" rating," Cotton said.

Cotton added that the organization has become a hate group themselves for defaming political opponents.

"As you said Tucker, they have really become kind of a hate group themselves. They have a so called ‘Hate Map’ and they use it to stigmatize their political opponents. Respectable, center-right organizations like the Family Research Council, or the Alliance Defending Freedom. It’s fine if you don’t agree with those organizations, there are plenty of groups on the left I don’t agree with, but I don’t try to stigmatize them as a hate group and then go pedal that to CNN, New York Times, or try and attack their donors," Cotton said.

The senator also referenced the recent turmoil at the organization. SPLC co-founder, Morris Dees, was recently fired over the turmoil among its treatment of its workers. Some workers have come out and described the work environment being toxic due to racism and sexism. Richard Cohen, the group’s president, has also stepped down.

"Again, a five hundred million dollar so-called charity that has systematic racial and sexist discrimination problems and at the same time it’s simply using that money to target its political opponents," Cotton said. "That’s not what American tax payers are subsidizing when we give people tax-exempt status. We give those things to churches, or adoption shelters, or shelters for battered women, not to defame political opponents, sexually harass every woman that works in your office, and discriminate against minorities."

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Video: Audience Roars at Trump’s Biden ‘Kissing’ Joke

Allegations surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden might be roiling he early stages of the Democratic primary race for 2020, but that didn’t stop President Donald Trump from using it to draw a big laugh this week from a roomful of Republican loyalists.

Speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday in Washington, Trump told the story of a general who helped defeat ISIS.

“I said, ‘General, come here, give me a kiss.’ I felt like Joe Biden,” Trump joked. “But I meant it.”

Trump’s joke resulted in a roar from the audience.

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Trump’s joke is in reference, of course, to the recent allegations of creepy conduct against Biden.

The first woman to come out against Biden was Lucy Flores, a former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Nevada, who detailed her allegation against Biden in a column for New York magazine’s The Cut on Friday.

Flores accused Biden of sniffing her hair and kissing the back of her head without her consent during a campaign event in 2014.

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On Monday, former Democratic congressional aide Amy Lappos said that Biden put his hand around her neck and pulled her toward him to rub noses.

And in a piece published on Tuesday, The New York Times included the stories of two more women who said Biden had touched them in ways that made them feel uncomfortable.

It’s important to keep in mind that Biden isn’t being accused of sexual assault and he hasn’t been found guilty of any crimes. (Sexual crimes are no laughing matter.)

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There’s no way of knowing what Biden’s intentions were with these women, but the left doesn’t generally apply nuance when it comes to issues of misconduct allegations — at least when it comes to men they’re politically motivated to destroy, like now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

If the left were consistent, the “MeToo” movement and insistence of unconditionally believing women should apply to Biden.

Let’s not forget that Trump was accused of kissing women without their consent after the “Access Hollywood” tapes came out in 2016.

If liberals were quick to attack Trump over what he called “locker room talk,” they should be extremely hard on Biden, especially when there is video evidence of Biden behaving exactly how his accusers described.

Again, it’s completely possible that Biden is innocent of bad intentions, even if the number of accusers is growing. But regardless, the far left’s rigid “believe women” dogma will ultimately harm the Democratic politician.

As Trump said on Tuesday, Biden is “being taken care of pretty well by the socialists. They got to him, our former vice president.”

“I was going to call him. I don’t know him well. I was going to say, ‘Welcome to the world, Joe. You having a good time, Joe?’”

The dominoes have fallen — the far left’s witch hunt for sexual predators has finally backfired.

Trump has the right idea by sitting back and cracking a few jokes at the left’s expense.

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Pete Buttigieg: A Woman Cannot be Free Unless She Can Kill Her Baby in a Late Term Abortion — And Men Need to Stay Out of It (VIDEO)

South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democrat darling Pete Buttigieg spoke to an audience in Grenville, South Carolina last weekend.

During his remarks Buttigieg told his audience a women is not truly free unless she can freely kill her baby.

The dark horse candidate spoke about “freedom,” specifically as it relates to abortion.

“You’re not free if your reproductive choices are being dictated by male politicians in Washington,” he stated.

Buttigieg also told Morning Joe that he agrees with the latest New York state abortion laws that allows women to murder their babies up to birth.
This is evil.

Evil.

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President Trump Wades In, Taunts Joe Biden Over ‘Socialists’ Tanking Former Veep’s Campaign

Tuesday night, President Donald Trump waded in to a burgeoning feud between the presidential campaigns of former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, taunting Biden for being attacked by "socialists."
Trump, speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, said his 2020 would be "going to war" with Democratic socialists, and that Joe Biden was getting a taste of how Democratic socialists fight back.

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