The Zimmerman case: A touch of sanity

Charles Krauthammer  " “No justice, no peace,” chants the telegenic mob. In a civilized society, however, where the mob doesn’t rule, justice is defined by the verdict that follows a fair trial. It’s the best that humans can do.

"And in the case of George Zimmerman, we have a verdict. It followed a trial every minute of which was seen by the world. Nothing secret, nothing hidden. Where in the trial was there racial bias? What evidence of the case being tilted toward the defendant because the victim was black? What sign of any racial animus in the jury?"

"Those undeniable realities have not prevented Benjamin Crump, attorney to the victim’s family, from placing Trayvon Martin in the tradition of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers.

"This is a disgrace. Those were race crimes of the most savage and undeniable kind."....
Krauthammer gives Obama credit for wise words, which he pointedly has never done in five years.
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Afterward, the president acted responsibly. “A jury has spoken,” he said, and then used the moment to reflect on other things, such as care for one’s neighbors and concern for one’s community, thus helping de-racialize the case.

Bloodied and bruised at the moment of surrender: Dramatic new pictures emerge of the moment 'Boston bomber' climbed from the boat where he had been hiding, as a sniper took aim at his head

UK Daily Mail

Sobering pictures were taken by Sergeant Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts state police

Murphy released the pictures to the Boston Magazine without permission in response to Rolling Stone's cover image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

"Cornered by police, the photos show the 19-year-old in a blood-splattered black jumper, with hands stained red and a sniper's laser aimed directly at his forehead.
"The sobering pictures were released by Sergeant Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts state police, in a bid to show the real face of terrorism in reaction to the 'glamorized' image of Tsarnaev that graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine's controversial new issue.
"The officer has now been suspended over his decision to leak the photos, and will find out next week whether or not he will be allowed to keep his job."

This would make a better Rolling Stone cover:

Obama paints himself into a corner over Trayvon Martin

Washington Examiner  "The president's own words more than a year ago — "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon" — are fueling the push for his Justice Department to bring federal charges against Zimmerman, the Hispanic neighborhood watch coordinator who has become a symbol of a broken justice system in the eyes of civil rights groups.
"When Obama waded into the controversy in March 2012, his words seemed to carry limited consequences. His statement of support for the Martin family played well with supporters and was more than a year away from the polarizing trial.
"It's not that simple anymore."
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"I wouldn't go there," said a Justice Department official who served in President George W. Bush's administration, cautioning against a civil rights case against Zimmerman. "It's an incredibly high standard to meet, and it's turned into such an explosive political situation. I would be stunned if they pursued a case."

Via Lucianne
 

IRS scandal is unraveling

Thomas Lifson  "We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was tied to a political appointee of President Obama. Step-by-step the chain is being followed upward by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa."

Toonpool

IRS Hearings: Republicans Ask Questions, Democrats Attack Issa  "Rep. Gerry Connolly, a liberal from Virginia, spent his entire question period upbraiding Issa and launching pre-emptive strikes against the Inspector General, who will testify later.  He did not ask a single question of the witnesses.  Democrats also launched broadsides against Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio over statements those Senators have made about the IRS."

Federal Study: Fracking Process To Drill For Oil and Gas Does NOT Pollute

Yid With Lid   "CBS is reporting that a landmark federal study on  fracking conducted by the Department of Energy, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process,  seeped its way up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site."
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"The federal government gave hydraulic fracturing a clean bill of health in 2004 and there has never been a documented case of ground water contamination owing to hydraulic fracturing. However, bowing to the environmentalists, president Obama has insisted that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy to conduct new tests on the process.  This study is part of those tests."

So treat those anti-fracking TV shows and movies as what they are: propaganda.

 Hat tip to Jeffrey Dunetz at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

The gun-fighter

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Grievance, inc.

Chris Matthews: ‘I’m speaking now for all white people’ 

Via Weasel Zippers  "Tingles Apologizes To Black Guests On “Behalf Of All White People” For Being Racists…"

 

'Let’s Go Mess Up Hollywood for Trayvon'   "On Tuesday night, a flash mob of some 40 to 50 teenagers invaded the busiest and most tourist-centric part of Hollywood, smashing windows, stealing cellphones, and assaulting passersby."

Charles Barkley ‘Agrees’ With Zimmerman Verdict, Hits Media For Giving ‘Racists’ A ‘Platform To Vent Ignorance’

Courage

"He also called out the media for not having a “pure heart” when it comes to race. “Racism is wrong in any, shape or form,” Barkley said. “A lot of black people are racist too. I think sometimes when people talk about racism, they say only white people are racist, but I think black people are too. I don’t think the media has clean hands.” "

Video; Jesse Jackson blasts Florida as ‘apartheid state’  " “No doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state” if the DOJ does not act, Jackson said."

Twitter Explodes With Racial Epithets Towards Larry Elder: 'Coon A-- House N--ger' " As NewsBusters reported, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder had a heated exchange Wednesday with CNN's Piers Morgan concerning the George Zimmerman trial and prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel.

Will Chris Matthews apologize for these people also? Will anyone in the Obama administration condemn this racism?

Stay tuned....well, never mind.

Race-Industry Leeches  ...."But all these dimensions of the race-industry narrative are very useful for black professors, activists, and politicians. Better-educated and more well-off than millions of whites, they can rationalize their privilege by leeching off the suffering and dysfunction of the black underclass, and then leverage white guilt for their own advancement. Meanwhile millions of blacks remain underemployed and uneducated, victims of crime, drugs, sexual carelessness, and the liberal racist plantation of dependency and victimhood."

Weasel Zippers reports; "Race Pimp Al Sharpton Scores His Very Own Gold Digger…"

Weasel Zippers

Quoting the NYDN: 
"Al Sharpton has a new, decades-younger, attractive main squeeze.
The civil rights activist and MSNBC star, 58, is dating 35-year-old Aisha McShaw, a Westchester “personal stylist” who has been seen on Sharpton’s arm at several recent black-tie affairs, including the White House Correspondents Dinner in April and President Obama’s holiday party in December.
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" “I’m his girlfriend,” McShaw said before Sharpton intervened to shepherd her away from a reporter.

""She told The News that she works as a “personal stylist,” but Sharpton quickly shuffled her off without letting her elaborate on her profession."....

Bombshell at IRS hearings today? Watch LIVE

Legal Insurrection  "The House Oversight Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today at 11:00am ET on “The IRS’ Systematic Delay and Scrutiny of Tea Party Applications.” (Livestream also at the bottom of this post).

"FOX News’ Carl Cameron reported Wednesday evening on the O’Reilly Factor that major evidence is expected to be revealed at Thursday’s hearing that proves, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, that the IRS targeting scandal goes “way higher up in the government” and that the IRS in DC “was ultimately calling the shots.” " 

Politics shouldn't force federal case vs. Zimmerman

Andrew C. McCarthy   Editor's note: Andrew C. McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney, is author of "Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy," "Willful Blindness" and "The Grand Jihad." He is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor at National Review.

"We have a Department of Justice, not a Department of Social Justice. That is an essential distinction. It is brought into sharp relief by politicized demands that George Zimmerman, having just been acquitted of murder by the state of Florida, be subjected to a second prosecution -- a federal civil rights indictment -- over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
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"Yet, though Attorney General Eric Holder never tires of reminding us about the due process owed even to foreign terrorists who've confessed to mass murder, the principle does not seem to apply to Zimmerman, an American now acquitted of murder."

Ignore Trayvon? Move on? Old News? THINK AGAIN!!!   "I would like to take a moment and address all of this Trayvon and Zimmerman nonsense.

 

"I am seeing it all over social media and frankly, enough is enough.

 

"I’m talking about all those who say there should be nothing more said regarding Trayvon and Zimmerman. They say we need to focus and while I agree, I am still at something of a loss.

 

"Focus on what, exactly?"

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Causes of Black deaths in the US

The Old Jarhead  

 

Boston mayor blasts Rolling Stone for glamorizing Boston Marathon; The Atlantic Monthly says not so fast...

Jihad Watch  "Pamela Geller brilliantly imagines Rolling Stone's next issue..."

"Meanwhile, many stores are refusing to carry the magazine with Tsarnaev on the cover. The Leftist media, of course, has been glamorizing jihad and demonizing those who oppose it for quite some time. The Rolling Stone cover was just another step down a long road that they've been on for years. "Mayor, top cop blast Rolling Stone over Tsarnaev cover," by Marie Szaniszlo and John Zaremba
 for the Boston Herald, July 17 (thanks to all who sent this in):" More.

 

Lycium tweeted: "....Is he the Justin Bieber of terrorism?"

 

Go Ahead and Read Rolling Stone's Profile of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

"But the brouhaha over the cover photo ignores the main reason Rolling Stone used that selfie in the first place; the piece is excellent. Seriously, read it. The author, Janet Reitman, wrote a fantastic, well-researched and thorough report on the evolution of "Jahar," or as his friends called him, "Jizz," from a National Honor Society student to an accused terrorist."

.... The writer of the Atlantic article concludes with this:

"In addition to talking to a wide array of his personal friend network, Reitman meticulously goes through seemingly all of Jahar's 1,088 tweets from his Twitter account. That's one of the many signs that she has done her duty as a reporter. So while you may not love the cover, do read what's inside."