UPDATE: Annapolis, Md. 5 dead, other serious injuries, suspect ID'd

Gov. Larry Hogan

Annapolis, MD -- Shots were fired and earliest reports say there are "multiple deaths," outside the Capital Gazette newsroom, located about 5 miles from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Initial reports believe that four people are dead.

This is a breaking story and much information is not confirmed.

What is confirmed is that the suspect is in custody and was apprehended by a deputy according to the Anne Arundel Sheriff Ron Bateman.

The shooting started around 2:30 p.m. on Bestgate Road. At this moment, police are concerned and warn of the possibility of more shooters, but it seems as if only one person is responsible for the carnage.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore responded to the incident and will be there for investigative purposes.

At this time, the situation has been neutralized and the subject is in custody and victims are being attended to.

Since this has occurred at a news outlet, let me be the first to say that this will probably be blamed on President Trump.

UPDATE:  (4:40 p.m. ET) --"several people have been killed" and "several people have been hospitalized." But the suspect is still being interviewed by detectives and officials do not want to give out too much information as the investigation continues.

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4:48 p.m.: Five fatalities confirmed and several people have been injured.

Injuries are deemed serious and people are being interviewed. The building remains secure but it is believed there are no other shooters in the building.

5:00 p.m.: the suspect is not cooperating with police and refuses to give his name. He is a male in his 20s.

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FBI: Clinton official arrested on child rape charges

The irony is palpable and extremely disgusting. The head of a charity against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet children as young as two FOR SEX!

Joel "Scumcrumpet" Davis, 22, is accused of attempting to arrange sexual encounters between himself and young children, [even younger than those that Anthony Weiner tried to hook up with], along with soliciting an undercover FBI agent to send sexually explicit videos of minors.

The dirtbag New Yorker was arrested Tuesday on child sex abuse and child pornography charges.

Davis is the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict--an organization devoted to ending sexual violence and a perfect cover for this sick POS.

Davis had also worked for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

According to the FBI, Davis allegedly told agents he was sexually interested in children of all ages, not to protect them from sexual predators, but to have sex with them. He is accused of sending the agents sexually explicit photos of infants and toddlers, including some of the children engaged in sex acts with adults.

Davis allegedly arranged to meet the 9-year-old daughter of one of the undercover agents and with the purported 2-year-old daughter of the officer's girlfriend. He allegedly detailed in text messages about specific sexual activities he intended to engage in with the little ones.

Enough detail--I just hope his carnal desires is made public in the confines of prison.

After he was arrested, he allegedly admitted to have abused a 13-year-old boy in the past and that he kept child porn images on his phone.

"Having started an organization that pushed for the end of sexual violence, Davis displayed the highest degree of hypocrisy by his alleged attempts to sexually exploit multiple minors," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said.

"As if this wasn't repulsive enough, Davis allegedly possessed and distributed utterly explicit images of innocent infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults."

Davis was in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday charged with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of child pornography and receipt and distribution of child pornography.


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If you can't beat 'em, steal their campaign signs

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, and the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet, and a Dem steals signs for your campaign. [Sung to the tune of "Oklahoma" by Rogers and Hammerstein, I believe.]

Yes, an Oklahoma congressional candidate got nabbed when he took his opponent's campaign signs from a street corner--right before the state's primary election, proving once again that most politicians are crooks.

Tom Guild, a self-proclaimed progressive Democrat, is trying to finagle a seat on Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. He was accused on a Facebook post of taking down the signs of Kendra Horn, another Democratic candidate. The post was shared over 100 times and some photos showed Guild allegedly caught in the act.

But the excuse Guild came up with in his defense would make any progressive Democrat proud: "Sometimes in the heat and rush of the campaign, mistakes are made," he said. "On reflection, removing some of my opponent's signs--for any reason--was a mistake on my part for which I sincerely apologize."

No! It wasn't a mistake. It was a disgusting, anemic attempt at trying to win an election by any means necessary. Mistakes are choices you have that don't involve compromising your ethical standards. What Guild said was a lie.

The Oklahoman published security camera footage showing Guild walking along the street and pulling up his opponent's bright turquoise signs. A mistake would have occurred if he pulled up his own signs.

Horn told her supporters not to focus on signs, but made sure to mention the lack of ethics displayed by Guild.

"This election isn't about yard signs, it's about education and making health care affordable, but voters should hold candidates accountable when it comes to values and ethics as well," she tweeted. "I'm calling on my supporters to focus on talking to their friends and family about our campaign and the issues that matter most to them."

Also running in Tueday's Democratic primary and ethics bonanza is Elysabeth Britt, Leona Kelley-Leonard and Eddie Porter. In the GOP primary, incumbent Rep. Steve Russell is running against Gregory Dunson and DeJuan Edwards.

In the 2016 presidential election, President Trump won Oklahoma with more than 65 percent of the vote.

Perhaps Hillary Clinton should have tried stealing Trump's signs. Or maybe she did.



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2nd Amendment is a good thing: Mom shoots knife-wielding man

Fool can't even grow a decent mustache

A man traveled from New Zealand to Virginia to meet a teen he'd communicated with online. But when Troy George Skinner, 25, got to the girl's house, he allegedly smashed through a glass door and tried to enter the Goochland home uninvited.

Thankfully, the girl's mother is a Second Amendment advocate.

The mom shot Skinner in the neck as he tried to break in, and he is currently in the hospital, Goochland County Sheriff James Agnew said.

It was discovered that Skinner had purchased duct tape and a knife after he arrived in the U.S., evidently thinking that there was nothing to worry about with such a deadly weapon. But being from New Zealand, he probably never read the U.S. Constitution, and even if he did, there's no way a woman would have possession of a gun.

"All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him--the only inference is that he had very bad intent," Sheriff Agnew said.

Agnew also said that Skinner's arrival to the U.S. was totally unexpected, as was the fact that the mother of the teen was carrying.

She warned the intruder that she had a weapon but either he didn't believe her, or didn't believe she would use it, or is as dumb as Maxine Waters.

Skinner will be charged with breaking and entering with a deadly weapon with intent to commit a serious crime, Agnew said.

New Zealand police offered their assistance to help U.S. authorities.

Skinner is eating through a straw but is expected to remain as stupid as he was upon entering the country.

Guns aren't the bad guys.

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GOP lawmaker introduces motion asking for Maxine Waters' resignation

Rep. Andrew Biggs (R-AZ) has introduced a motion Monday to censure Rep. Maxine "Low IQ" Waters (D-CA) and ask for her resignation.

This comes after "Aunty Maxine" called on crowds to confront Trump administration officials using tactics historically favored by Nazi Germany.

Biggs introduced the measure calling on Waters to apologize to the White House for "endangering their lives and sowing seeds of discord," resign from her position, and release a public statement saying harassment or violence isn't an example of actual protest.

This measure comes after Waters, who is a big fan of Louis Farrakhan, encouraged harassment of Trump officials at a Los Angeles rally.

"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," she shouted, evidently meaning that if it were up to her, all of the Trump administration would be kicked out of the country. She also told MSNBC that protesters are "going to absolutely harass them."

Biggs' claim is that Waters' harsh words could "directly and unnecessarily lead to public unrest, physical violence, and physical injury" and mentions that some in the administration have already been harassed publicly.

Biggs' motion has thus far attracted the support of 5 members of Congress.

Waters doubled-down on her comments at a rally, and insisted she did not suggest harming anyone because she is clearly too stupid to understand what could happen when mobs get emotionally worked up and in the faces of their opposition.

"Trump is the one who is creating lies," she began. "Trying to have people believe that I talked about harming people. There's nowhere in my statement, anytime, anyplace that we talked about harm."

No, she just called for crowd harassment in public. This is the same moron who called the Los Angeles riots a "movement."


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SCOTUS goes with POTUS on travel ban ruling

"But not next door to me"

In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday has ruled to uphold President Trump's temporary travel ban from several countries that import terrorists to the West and are state sponsors of that mental derangement.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion which was apparently agreed with by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Anthony Kennedy. This gave Trump a much needed win on the immigration issue.

Roberts noted that the President "lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under Section 1182(f) to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States."

Also noted by the Court is that Trump's interest in preserving national security, particularly regarding terrorism concerns, overrides concerns pertaining to the free exercise of religion as codified in the First Amendment Establishment Clause.

Liberal opponents to the ban have tried to argue that because the ban affected Muslim countries, Islam itself was being targeted. And while a theological case can be made to justify targeting those who follow some aspects of the religion, the Court ruled in favor of POTUS.

In other words, the Court stuck to the traditional "strict scrutiny" standard, stating the President must have a compelling reason to override guarantees of religious freedom, and in the case of the travel ban, it's absolutely possible the danger of importing known terrorists or their supporters outweigh potential First Amendment concerns.

Liberal officials protected by armed guards and living in protected dwellings don't see the problem the same way as the average person and have asked the Court to apply a more lenient "rational basis" standard.

The Court disagreed on the matter in spite of Trump's hair-trigger tweets about Islam.

Since this was a decision merely on an injunction, prohibiting the travel ban from being fully enacted, the decision will return to the lower courts, who granted the injunction pending the outcome of travel ban challenges.

This is a relatively big victory for Trump and an even bigger one to the U.S.

Now if we can only legislate on the immigration situation, the Democrats will self-combust.


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Dems worry that they've gone too far

"Look Aunty Maxine--a dead bird"

Some Democrats are worried about the Nazi tactics those in their party are employing [read the history on those tactics if you don't believe it] in spite of their claim that it's the GOP who are the Nazis. These worried liberals are afraid that they will have their collective butts handed to them in the midterm elections in November.

Specifically, Trump officials have been publicly harassed and shamed by the left using the same Josef Goebbels tactics the Nazis used against the Jews in Germany before and during the Second World War.

For example, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was verbally attacked at a Mexican restaurant and White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders [and her family] was asked to leave the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia by the owner.

On Monday night, demonstrators gathered at the home of Stephen Miller, a Trump adviser, but they didn't realize he wasn't home.

The left-leaning Washington Post wrote an editorial titled, "Let the Trump team eat in peace." They called the Nazi tactics their fellow leftists are using a heightened state of "passions" and saw no benefit in the interrupting of dinners.

In fact, they're probably worried that it will actually serve the Republican Party come November and create sympathy for the Trump administration.

Possibly the dumbest person on the far left, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), called for her fellow fascists to confront members of the Trump administration wherever and whenever they are seen in public--gas stations, restaurants, etc.

"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant," Waters shouted Saturday to a crowd of cretins, "in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.

Later that day on MSNBC she said that protesters are "going to absolutely harass them."

Waters' call for potential violence was in response to President Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy in which the law is being followed to the letter.

As predicted, she later claimed her comments have been misunderstood. She wasn't calling for protesters to literally "harm" Cabinet members--just get all worked up and scream at them.

"Trump is the one who is creating lies," Waters said at a Monday news conference. "Trying to have people believe that I talked about harming people. There's nowhere in my statement, anytime, anyplace that we talked about harm."

 If she believes that harassment under intense emotions would not eventually lead to physical violence, she is merely proving her lack of intelligence.

Trump would love to make Waters the Democratic Party's spokesperson. He tweeted on Monday:

"Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!"

Even David Axelrod tried to urge calm suggesting people organize, donate [of course], volunteer and vote. He said "ultimately, counter-productive gestures . . . won't change a thing."

It looks like the Democratic Party is going crazy with Trump Derangement Syndrome. They see his policies are working and have no platform to stand on so they have to resort to classless, adolescent behavior.


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White ex-NAACP head pleads not guilty to fraud

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Fraud should be her middle name, but then again, she'd probably change it. Former NAACP chief Rachel Dolezal, who changed her name to sound as if she is black, to Nkechi Diallo, was charged with welfare fraud.

Dolezal [I prefer to use her given name rather than her self-acquired name just as I prefer to say she is white rather than her self-acquired race] was charged with welfare fraud and false verification for public assistance related to income obtained from a book and other sources while receiving welfare benefits.

She made a brief appearance in Spokane County Superior Court where she  pleaded not guilty on Wednesday--big surprise.

Superior Court Judge James Triplet (aka "Jimmy Three") ordered that she remain free on her own recognizance and a trial date was set for September 10.

Dolezal and her lawyers did not speak to reporters after the hearing.

You may remember that Dolezal tried to change her outward appearance to look black when working as head of Spokane's NAACP chapter, but was outed in 2015 when it was revealed she was born to white parents and raised in rural Montana.

Her welfare fraud case began in March 2017 when a state investigator obtained information that Dolezal/Diallo had written a book and discovered she had been reporting her income as usually less than $500 per month, court documents said.

Being true to her fraudulent past, she seemed to be merely identifying as being welfare eligible, because records show she deposited almost $84,000 into her account from 2015-2017, and didn't tell the state Department of Social and Health Services.

The money was generated from her delusional memoir "In Full Color," as well as speaking engagements, soap making, doll making and the sale of her art, according to the case record.

In an apparent attempt to sound legitimate, she reported one change of circumstance saying she did a one-time job in October 2017 and was paid $20,000.

The charges accuse her of improperly receiving about $8,800 in welfare money.

Dolezal grew up near Troy, Montana. Her religious parents adopted four black children and she later decided that she would call herself black too, and used the ruse that this was how she "identified."

That ruse worked until her parents, with whom she had long feuded, told the media in 2015 that Rachel was white but telling the public she was black and was an activist.

She left her position at the NAACP and was kicked off a police oversight commission. She also lost her job as a freelance columnist for a weekly newspaper in Spokane and lost her job teaching African studies at Eastern Washington University.

It is probable that Rachel Dolezal is mentally ill and has been able to conceal this for years.


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