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Suspect shoots cop, but good Samaritan with concealed carry license is in right place at right time

An unidentified good Samaritan may very well have saved a police officer’s life by being in the right place at the right time with a concealed carry permit and a firearm.

What are the details?

According to WBBM-TV, the incident occurred Thursday when a suspect fired three shots on a Cicero, Illinois, police officer.

A good Samaritan — who wished to remain anonymous — stepped in and was able to return fire at the suspect. According to the Chicago Tribune, the good Samaritan did not hit the suspect. Despite not making contact, the  man likely saved the officer’s life by simply distracting the suspect.

The 42-year-old man spoke with WBBM’s Mai Martinez, to whom he told the harrowing story.

The man said that he was stopped at a red light when he noticed that a police officer was attempting to stop a black Mercedes-Benz sedan. It all unfolded very fast — and the next thing he saw was the suspect exiting the car and firing off several rounds at Cicero Police Officer Luis Duarte.

The suspect reportedly struck Duarte several times. The good Samaritan was moved to act, pulling out his firearm and firing several rounds of his own at the suspect. The suspect continued to shoot at police, but Duarte’s partner was able to stop him by shooting the man multiple times in his ankle and leg.

“I was there in the right time and the right moment,” the good Samaritan explained. “My instincts, you know, told me to do what I did. I didn’t think twice to do what I did.”

He added, “Well, like I’m thinking you know, save that officer’s life you know, and then I tried to help that officer. I take a towel in my car and wrapped it around his arm.”

According to the Tribune, the good Samaritan also pulled his car up to the suspect and blocked traffic. That’s when he began providing medical aid to Duarte.

Cicero Police Department’s Commander Jerry Chlada told the station, “We were lucky enough to have a good citizen on the street who’s a concealed carry holder. And he also engaged in gunfire with the offender, who was struck one time.

How is the injured officer?

The Cicero Police Department tweeted about the officer’s medical status on Friday.

The tweet stated, “Update on Ofc Duarte: he is out of surgery and currently resting comfortably. Thank you to everyone for the Prayers and support!”

What else?

On Saturday, the suspect was identified as Daniel Mageo, a 27-year-old convicted felon on parole from California.

Police charged Mageo with two counts of attempted first-degree murder of an officer, and aggravated battery to a police officer.

Mageo was order to be held without bail in connection with his charges.

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Eric Holder Says America Has Never Been Great


New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just won the democratic primary on his platform that America has never been great, isn’t great, and will never be great. Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder is running for president in 2020 and thinks the “America sucks” thing will propel him to the Democratic Party nomination. At a recent LGBT event, the guy who gave guns to Mexican cartels to use to kill US Border Patrol agents, said that this country has always been terrible.

Holder was speaking at the Human Rights Council dinner over the weekend and of course he went after Trump. He started out by accusing Trump of being a Nazi and incompetent and then said the Republican majority doesn’t represent the will of the people. Then he said that our election process isn’t fair to democrats and talked about how he wants to change the “illegal” process.

After that, is was all MAGA:

He slammed Republican for not working with the democrats because, in his opinion, “Perhaps they are too busy trying to make America great again.”

“Every time I hear that phrase I wonder when exactly do they have in mind? What time period do they want to wind the clock back to? What century? What decade? What year?” Holder asked.

Now here comes the BOOM:

“Certainly it was not when people were enslaved. Certainly, it was not when segregation was the law of the land. Certainly, it was not when women were disenfranchised. Certainly, it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized,” said Holder.

That effectively covers the entire history of the United States of American and in Eric Holder’s estimation, this country has alway been a shithole of intolerance and racism. Of course all of the stuff Holder is talking about are the horrible things democrats have done, but as a democrat himself, he wants you to think the Republicans are responsible for it. In any case, he believes in his heart that America has always sucked.

“This sort of thinking, this ‘Make America Great’ mindset is not only flawed, it’s rooted in fear. And it favors an imagined past over a realistic future,” added Holder.

Holder did concede that there was a brief period of time when America wasn’t terrible:

“[America] was actually at its best just recently,” said Holder.

Let’s assume that he talking about when Obama was president and he was attorney general. The only time this clown thinks this country wasn’t completely shitty was when he and his homeboy were running things.

Holder finished up by attacking President Trump…

“On Nov. 6 we have the opportunity to send a message to the present occupant of the White House — I never call him the President.”

…And his Supporters:

“The present occupant of the White House, to the extremists who surround him, and those who support him,” said Holder.

To sum up: Holder thinks America has always been a terrible country, that President Trump isn’t really the President, and that everyone who supports Trump is an extremist. Putting that with Cuomo’s hatred of this country and it really seems like democrats are charging into the midterms and 2020 on a “F*ck America” platform.

Hey, at least they aren’t pretending that they love this country anymore. I find this newfound honesty both refreshing and horrifying. If they don’t like the country, they should leave, but the last thing anyone should do is put them in charge of this place they hate so much.

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First-grade textbook reads like ‘propaganda’ for pro-gay gubernatorial candidate: conservative group

A California conservative group said a first-grade textbook still in its pilot stage reads like political “propaganda” for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate over his support for gay rights.

“My World Interactive” includes a section about Gavin Newsom — formerly San Francisco’s mayor and now the state’s lieutenant governor — calling him a “champion for people’s rights” and noting he said “people could marry who they choose. Sometimes, Gavin helped marry people. Some marriages were not between a man and a woman. He made sure that people’s rights were respected,” KOVR-TV reported.

Image source: KOVR-TV video screenshot

California Family Council blasts textbook

The president of the California Family Council, a conservative group, blasted the book.

“This lesson is supposed to be for first grade students, but it reads like a piece of political propaganda put together by the Democrat Party,” Jonathan Keller noted on the group’s website. “It is both premature and outrageous to list Gavin Newsom alongside universally loved American heroes like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Millions of Californians who voted twice to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman opposed Newsom’s flagrant defiance of our state’s marriage laws and use of the courts to push his personal views of marriage on the population.”

Keller added that the state’s Department of Education “is promoting the controversial political views of a candidate for governor to six year olds and blatantly smearing the sincerely held religious beliefs of countless families. This political puff piece should be removed from any public textbook.”

Greg Burt, the group’s director of capitol engagement, added to KOVR that the textbook is “way over the top. This looks like it was written by [Newsom’s] campaign staff.”

Image source: KOVR-TV video screenshot

‘Significant contributions to our history’

Elk Grove Unified School District in Sacramento County is among several districts testing new history and social science textbooks for grades K-8, the station said, adding that a letter sent last week from the district to parents noted the following:

The newly amended curriculum aims to accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of our society and includes new references and historical information that portrays the significant contributions to our history by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans, Persons with Disabilities and Members of other Ethnic and Cultural Groups.

Two parents, two views

One Elk Grove parent told KOVR that the Newsom section of the textbook seemed biased to her.

“It’s like he’s promoting himself,” T. Williams added to the station, “and I don’t really think that’s what first-grade learning is about.”

But Michael Hoss, a father of two, told KOVR it seemed factual.

“It’s fine with me,” he added to the station. “It’s history, right? And if he was a champion for people’s rights, great!”

Parents have more time to preview textbooks — the next preview day is Oct. 11 — but the district told KOVR the pilot will end in December and a publisher will be selected in January.

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California Climate Policies Facing Revolt From Civil-Rights Groups


Left eats left.

In April, civil-rights groups sued to stop some of California’s policies designed to address climate change. Then on Monday, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 100, which requires the state’s utilities to obtain all their electricity from carbon-free sources by 2045. Before signing the bill, Brown said the legislation was “sending a message to California and to the world that we’re going to meet the Paris agreement.” In fact, it will only increase the hardships that California’s climate policy imposes on the poor, as detailed in the lawsuit.

High electricity prices should be a concern for California policymakers, since electric rates in the state are already 60 percent higher than those in the rest of the country. According to a recent study by the Berkeley-based think tank Environmental Progress, between 2011 and 2017 California’s electricity rates rose more than five times as fast as those in the rest of the U.S. SB 100 will mean even higher electricity prices for Californians.

In addition to cost, the all-renewable push set forth in SB 100 faces huge challenges with regard to energy storage. Relying solely on renewables will require a battery system large enough to handle massive seasonal fluctuations in wind and solar output. (Wind-energy and solar-energy production in California is roughly three times as great during the summer months as it is in the winter.) According to the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston-based energy-policy think tank, for California to get 80 percent of its electricity from renewables would require about 9.6 terawatt-hours of storage. This would require about 500 million Tesla Powerwalls, or roughly 15 Powerwalls for every resident. A full 100 percent–renewable electricity mandate would require some 36.3 terawatt-hours of storage, or about 60 Powerwalls for every resident of California.[…]

Even before SB 100 passed, though, California’s leaders were already facing a legal backlash from minority leaders over the high cost of the state’s climate policies. On April 27, The Two Hundred, a coalition of civil-rights leaders, filed a lawsuit in state court against the California Air Resources Board, seeking an injunction against some of the state’s carbon dioxide–reduction rules. The 102-page lawsuit declares that California’s “reputation as a global climate leader is built on the state’s dual claims of substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously enjoying a thriving economy. Neither claim is true.”

The gist of the lawsuit is this: California’s high housing, transportation, and energy costs are discriminatory because they are a regressive tax on the poor. The suit claims that the state’s climate laws violate the Fair Employment and Housing Act because CARB’s new greenhouse-gas-emissions rules on housing units in the state “have a disparate negative impact on minority communities and are discriminatory against minority communities and their members.” The suit also claims the state’s climate laws are illegal under the Federal Housing Act, again because their effect is felt predominantly by minority communities. It also makes a constitutional claim that minorities are being denied equal protection under the law because California’s climate regulations are making affordable housing unavailable to them.

The lawsuit, which Michael Shellenberger of Environmental Progress spotlighted in his recent Forbes column, points out that since 2007, “California has had the highest poverty rate in the country, over 8 million people living below the US Census Bureau poverty line when housing costs are taken into account.” The lawsuit claims that CARB has “ignored” the state’s “modest scale of greenhouse gas reductions, as well as the highly regressive costs imposed on current state residents by CARB’s climate programs.”

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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Trashes America During Interview With Sarah Silverman

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) bashed the United States during an interview with Sarah Silverman, saying that the U.S. starves "little children" and "bomb houses."
Silverman, who referred to Sanders as the "voice of the millennial generation," traveled to Washington D.C. to interview the failed presidential candidate who told her that she needed to use her "indoor voice."

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How To Fly To A Climate Change Summit? In A Private, Carbon-Spewing Jet


Commercial air travel is for the little people.

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One of the hottest spots during the just-concluded Global Climate Action Summit was the private runway at San Francisco International Airport, where SFO spokesman Doug Yakel reports corporate jet traffic was up 30 percent over normal.

Airport sources told us that the carbon-spewing corporate jets nearly filled the landing area’s parking slots and that many had flown in for the conference.

The three-day climate confab drew more than 4,000 elected officials, business executives and environmentalists from around the globe and was aimed at addressing how to lower the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

The summit was organized by Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been known to fly private.

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Gillum Wants 40 Percent Increase to Florida Corporate Tax


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The Democratic nominee for governor in Florida who ran a primary campaign claiming he was the only “true progressive” in the race is proposing a 40 percent hike in the state’s corporate taxes, and is selling the idea in-part by comparing his proposed tax rates to California, one of the highest states for corporate taxation in the nation.

“By adjusting our state corporate tax level to a modest 7.75%, which allows our richest corporations to receive a tax cut and keeps our corporate tax rate more than 1% lower than California, we’ll be able to recoup at least $1 billion and put it where we need it most — investing in our future,” the Gillum campaign website says.

Florida’s current top marginal corporate tax rate is 5.5 percent, half-a-point lower than neighboring Georgia, and a full point lower than Alabama, according to data compiled at the Tax Foundation.

Republicans are already highlighting the proposal as a stark difference between Gillum and the Republican nominee, Representative Ron DeSantis.

A recent report from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune produced a long list of civic and business entities as well as former politicians saying the issue was certain to create on of the bigger clashes in the remainder of the campaign.

“National headquarters of companies in this state are focused on this like a laser beam,” Tom Feeney, a former Republican Florida House speaker and president of Associated Industries of Florida, told the paper. Feeney’s industry group represents some of the biggest companies in the state.

“Punishing corporations by taking money out of the pockets of job-creators is going to have a chilling effect on this state’s economy.”

Long-time Republican analyst Mac Stipanovich says the Gillum proposal is one more way in which the policy differences between the two major-party candidates will be more divergent than other Florida races this year or in years past.

“What’s odd about it is, is Gillum is so unapologetic about it.” Stipanovich told the Free Beacon. “He doesn’t try to say, ‘Well, what I really mean, and what this is…’ No. This is what I mean: Let’s increase the corporate income tax from [5.5] to [7.75], it’ll raise a billion dollars, let’s spend it on public education.”

Stipanovich also pointed to Gillum’s proposal to expand Medicaid and to boost the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour as the other major differences between the two campaigns.

The Republican Governors Association is currently running television ads taking aim at the proposed tax increase.

“Gillum wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars—disaster for the economy.” the narrator for the RGA ad says.

The Herald-Tribune also reported that the Florida Chamber of Commerce quickly donated $100,000 to the DeSantis campaign shortly after Gillum produced the upset win in the Aug. 28 primary.

“We definitely don’t see this as just a symbolic move by Gillum,” said DeSantis spokesman Stephen Lawson. “It’s very much in keeping with where he’s going in this campaign.”

 

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HUGE! Judge Kavanaugh Says He Was NOT EVEN AT THE PARTY in Question!


HUGE! Judge Kavanaugh Says He Was Not Even at the Party in Question

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by Cristina Laila
September 17, 2018

The Senate met for the first time Monday afternoon since Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor and far left activist publicly came forward with allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh.

All the facts aren’t even in but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling for a delay in the Kavanaugh confirmation process.

Christine Blasey Ford is a far-left activist who alleged Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her over 35 years ago while she was at a high school party in Maryland.

Now this…

Judge Kavanaugh told Senator Hatch that he was not even at the party in question!

Senator Hatch blasted the Democrats on Monday for the way they handled the accusations thus far, reported Chad Pergram.

Senator Hatch said it seems in bad faith to withhold info from Republicans and from the FBI for over a month.

Furthermore, the only other witness to the alleged attack said it never happened and the allegations are “absolutely nuts.”

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