If you enjoyed the Ferguson DOJ report, you'll love the Baltimore DOJ report. It reads like it was written by Marxist grad students, it spreads conspiracy theories about lead poisoning and is filled with ridiculous absurdities.

Like its complaint that officers actually chase criminals on foot.

"BPD officers frequently engage in foot pursuits of individuals, even where the fleeing individuals are not suspected of violent crimes."

The DOJ would prefer that if someone steals your wallet, the Baltimore cops should let him go.

Also, outrageously, the police responded to crime by busting criminals.

"These tensions hardened during the 1990s and 2000s as the City responded to increasing violent crime rates by emphasizing an aggressive, “zero tolerance” policing strategy that prioritized making large numbers of stops, searches, and arrests"

You can practically see the disgusted looks on the pro-crime advocates who now populate the DOJ.

"Our investigation recognizes that, as Commissioner Davis aptly noted, Baltimore officers “have the burden to address racism and poverty and education and homelessness.”

Wasn't it quite a nostalgic time when the police arrested criminals instead of addressing racism and homelessness and global warming.

BPD’s law enforcement practices at times exacerbate the longstanding structural inequalities in the City by encouraging officers to have unnecessary, adversarial interactions with community members that increase exposure to the criminal justice system"

Thank you Marxist grad students currently running our Justice Department. Let's free more of these justice involved persons so they can kill, rob and rape their way to fighting structural inequalities.

"BPD’s use of force against individuals with mental health disabilities or experiencing crisis violates the Americans with Disabilities Act"

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. When the police tackle a psycho about to stab you, they're violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This was America. This is America under the insane vicious ideological tyranny of the left which finds every excuse for criminals while punishing their victims.

This reads like a parody, but it's really just the absurd state of the culture war today.

Hey remember Star Trek? It wasn't diverse enough before. So we're going to bring it back. And we're going to focus more on diversity. Because that was apparently its really big draw.

The showrunner behind the new Star Trek TV series just revealed alot of fresh information about the new series, including that the upcoming series will focus on a female lead character — likely played by an actor with a “level of diversity” — who will be a lieutenant commander on a starship.

Because the real priority for most people when choosing to watch is the level of the show's diversity.

"On selecting a diverse cast: “Star Trek started with a wonderful expression of diversity in its cast … our lead of the show is going to be subject of that same level of who’s the best actor and also what can we say about diversity on the show. We haven’t cast her yet, so we don’t know what level of diversity she will be, but that’s forefront in our minds."

We're going to pick the best actor... based on their level of diversity. Diversity will be at the forefront of our diverse minds as we diversely look for ways to make a transgender lesbian Pakistani into the show's new lead.

Gay characters? “Absolutely we’re having a gay character,” Fuller said. 

No word on anything else about the show except that there will be lots of diversity. And a gay character. Because that is what people find most compelling when choosing what to watch.

Pro-crime policies really do work. You free criminals, cripple police and decriminalize quality of life policing and you get crime. It might take a little longer to show up in some places than others. But there will be sudden bursts of ugly activity in places that once seemed safe.

Because pro-crime policies work. 

A shocking new report has revealed that a number of major crimes, including murders and rapes, have increased specifically within city parks even as it declines overall in New York City.

The number of murders, rapes, robberies and assaults went up 23% in the nine months through March, in comparison to the same period the year before, according to a report just released by a park watchdog group.

“More than a person a day is the victim of a violent crime in a city park,” Geoffrey Croft, founder of NYC Park Advocates – which performed the analysis using data provided by the New York Police Department – disclosed to the Wall Street Journal. “It’s a bad omen. It shows a lack of priority in dealing with this.”

Don't worry. The city and whatever hack is willing to take Bratton's old job will massage the numbers some more. Crime will continue "going down" because it will be underreported and undercharged. Except in places where it can't be and then there will be sudden spikes that will have to be statistically massaged for a bit until the public stops paying attention. And then once the real crime wave hits the public will wonder where it came from.

The LA Times has a splashy op-ed titled, "I was a Minuteman III nuclear launch officer. Take it from me: We can't let Trump become president".

The Times only identifies the author as "a Republican national security expert and former Minuteman III nuclear launch officer". John Noonan, among those other things, works for Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard. Kristol has sought to recruit a third party alternative to Trump.

In some alternative universe in which the Los Angeles Times practiced ethical journalism, that minor fact would have been mentioned. But we live in this universe instead.

Noonan claims that Trump is unfit based on, what he admits, is an anonymous rumor. 

"Donald Trump, who also had some deep thoughts on nuclear weapons. That is, “if we have them, why can’t we use them?”

MSNBC reported recently that Trump asked that dreadful question three times in a recent foreign policy briefing. The Trump campaign denies the story. And to be fair, it came from an anonymous source."

And was reported by MSNBC. Which is to the left of even the rest of the media. But why let that stop us.

But consider Trump’s words in a town hall event during the primaries: “Somebody hits us within ISIS, you wouldn’t fight back with a nuke?”

Which of course we can't do because nuclear weapons exist to never be used.

" The very point of nuclear weapons is that they are never used. We have them to dissuade hostile powers from attacking us, and vice versa."

Harry Truman would beg to differ. I'm not a Minuteman III launch officer, but I am aware that WW2 happened. It ended with the use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear power.

The concept of weapons that are never used as a deterrence is a contradiction in terms. For them to be able to act as a deterrent, there has to be some potential for them to be used. That was the point that Trump was making. 

When a weapon can never be used, then it might as well not exist.

The Black Nationalist hate group Black Lives Matter released its agenda. Among its demands for reparations and a tax on air, not to mention an end to automation, it demands freedom for cop killers.

The "political power" part of the agenda demands, "We are calling for the release of all political prisoners held in the U.S. and the removal of legitimate freedom fighters from the International Terrorists list."

These "freedom fighters" are black nationalist terrorists who include Assata Shakur. And the racist hate group's demands explicitly call for her release and the release of other racist black nationalist cop killers.

Removal of Assata Shakur from international terrorist lists.

Rescind the bounty on the head of Assata Shakur

​Shakur helped murder New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. Black Lives Matter is advocating for this cop killer as well as other members of the racist Black Liberation Army terror group.

The Black Liberation Army was a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.

And Black Lives Matter is just a hipster version of the BLA. The BLM platform advocates for a number of black racist cop killers.

Cease all current investigations and cold cases into former activists. Some cities like NYC, have ongoing “unsolved.” We know of the recent indictments of activists and freedom fighters from the civil and human rights era of the 60s and 70s like;

Imam Jamil Al Amin (formerly known as H Rap Brown), captured in 2000
Kamau Sadiki, captured in 2002 for a case from 1971
San Francisco 8, indicted in 2007 for a case from 1971

H. Rap Brown murdered Deputy Ricky Kinchen. Ricky was black. So was his partner whom Brown shot. Black Lives don't matter to Black Lives Matter. Only terrorism does.

A Georgia sheriff's deputy broke down in tears several times in court yesterday as he testified that the 1960s black militant H Rap Brown shot him and killed his partner two years ago.

Mr al-Amin is accused of killing deputy Ricky Kinchen, and wounding his partner, Aldranon English, both African Americans, in March 2000. Both men had come to his Atlanta home with an arrest warrant on charges of theft and impersonating an officer.

The prosecution contends that Mr al-Amin had opened fire with a rifle when the officers approached. The officers returned fire. When Mr al-Amin ran out of ammunition for his rifle, the jury was told, he took a pistol from his Mercedes car, stood over Kinchen and fired three more bullets into him.

Yesterday, the deputy identified Mr al-Amin in court as the man who had fired at him.

"The truth of the matter is that the defendant was the one who was standing on the sidewalk that night and shot me and my partner with the assault rifle," said deputy English, the first witness. "He is the only one I saw that night."

Prosecutor Kellie Stevens told the jury, which includes nine black people, that Mr al-Amin had deliberately fired into Mr Kinchen's groin when he was lying wounded on the ground. She said that scientific tests showed that the weapons found near Mr al-Amin in Alabama were the same as those used in the murder.

This is what Black Lives Matter supports. Never forget that.

As H Rap Brown, the president of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Mr al-Amin was the first person charged under the 1968 Civil Rights Act for inciting a riot during a famous speech in Maryland. He became infamous for saying that violence is "as American as cherry pie" and for his call to resist racism "by any means necessary".

He was put on the FBI's most-wanted list and arrested in New York in 1972, eventually serving four years for an attempted bar robbery. He was also in the Black Panther party, serving as its justice minister.

During his sentence, he converted to Islam, and after his his release he established the mosque, which is now a community centre.

Then the justice minister faced justice.

Meanwhile Kamau Sadiki aka Freddie Hilton murdered Officer James Green.

In November 1971, Hilton and several other people were members of a cell of the Black Liberation Army ("BLA") that came to Atlanta. Ronald Anderson, a cell member, testified that John Thomas was the leader of the group and that the cell did not engage in any criminal activity without his approval. Thomas was about 35 years old and the rest of the members were 17 to 20 years old. Anderson testified that, early one morning around November 3, 1971, Hilton woke him up and told him that Hilton and Twymon Myers, another cell member, had "shot a cop." Hilton gave Anderson a bag containing a .38 caliber revolver and a police officer's badge and asked him to dispose of the items. Anderson drove around Atlanta looking for a place to dispose of the items, but did not do so, because he was "petrified." He returned to the cell's house and returned the gun and badge to Hilton. The next day, when Hilton, Thomas, and Myers were not at the house, Anderson, along with other cell members who were concerned about the killing, attempted to leave Atlanta, but they were arrested by DeKalb County authorities before they could do so and charged with some armed robberies. Anderson testified that he volunteered information about Officer Green's killing to DeKalb officials while awaiting trial. However, Anderson and the other cell members escaped from jail shortly after that statement.

Malik Abdur-Razzaq, a cell member known as Bobby Brown in the early 1970s, testified that he was in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the day Officer Green was murdered, but he left there and came back to Atlanta. He added that, when he arrived, Hilton told him that he had "taken care of business." Hilton explained that he and Myers had killed a police officer, and Hilton showed Abdur-Razzaq a badge and a .38 caliber revolver that Hilton said he had used to shoot Officer Green. Hilton also told Abdur-Razzaq that he and Myers had patrolled the streets of Atlanta looking for a police officer to kill before they found Officer Green. Abdur-Razzaq added that, after the shooting, everyone in the cell was packing up to leave Atlanta.

Hilton was also the father of Shakur's daughter and a child molester.

Finally BLM advocates for the San Francisco 8 who murdered  Sgt. John V. Young. The BLA terrorists had walked into the police station and opened fire with a shotgun.

In the summer of 1971, Sergeant John V. Young was senselessly gunned down at the public service counter inside of the Ingleside Police Station. The murderers were members of a group of career criminals, most of whom had ties to the Black Panther Party and/or the Black Liberation Army. During the late 60s and early 70s, these two groups believed the best way to fight what they saw as " racial oppression" was to kill as many authority figures as possible.  Of course then as now, the most accessible authority figures in our society happened to be uniformed police officers. We became their prey!

For many years it was believed in law enforcement circles that the actual triggermen in the Ingleside attack were Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom. It was also common knowledge that Richard Brown, Ray Boudreaux, Henry Jones, Francisco Torres, and Albert Washington were also present that fateful evening and had varying roles in the attack. These pillars of society had committed or conspired to commit hundreds of felonies in the San Francisco Bay Area during that time, including the attempted murder of seven other police officers. Among those attacks was the August 28, 1971 attempted ambush our own Sergeant George Kowalski, now retired. The crime spree also included the bombing of St. Brendan's Church on October 22, 1970, and the attempted bombing of Mission Police Station on March 30, 1971. Their other crimes ranged from armed robbery to aggravated assault, all within the city limits of San Francisco.

You can see why BLM supports this.

Donald Trump has said of Obama, "he’s the founder of ISIS". He stated that Hillary is a co-founder of ISIS. The remarks have touched off anger from certain media outlets, but is it true or not?

The organization we currently know as ISIS had earlier incarnations, but it adopted its current name in response to its growing successes in the Arab Spring which was heavily backed and championed by Obama and Hillary. The expansion of ISIS in the Arab Spring functionally turned it into a very different organization. It not only temporarily succeeded in creating its Caliphate, but it went from a marginal terror group to a microstate controlling cities, large populations and winning the allegiance of Islamic terror groups around the world. And it was able to carry out terror attacks in America.

This was a fundamental change in its structure and its identity. It is therefore accurate to peg the transformation of ISIS as the starting point of the group we know today rather than its earlier far more weaker incarnations.

There is no escaping the fact that ISIS is intertwined with the Arab Spring and that the organization as we know it today would not have become the threat that it did without it.

There is also no denying the fact that Obama and Hillary's backing for the Arab Spring, along with that of the media, proved crucial in overturning friendly regimes and bringing Islamists to power across the region leading to chaos and terror. 

We might quibble over what the term "founder" exactly means, but there is no denying that ISIS, as we know it today, rose as a direct consequence of Obama and Hillary's support for Islamists.

ISIS is the consequence of their pro-Islamic policies brought to life. And that too cannot be denied. From Benghazi to Baghdad, the wages of the left's support for Islamic theocracy has been terror and death.

Hillary Clinton is promising to get serious on trade. In her "economic plan" which was light on economics and heavy on childish attacks on Trump, she promised action on trade to try and win back the white working class vote.

"It's also true that China and other countries have gamed the system for too long. Enforcement — especially during the Bush administration — has been too lax. Investments at home that would make us more competitive have been blocked. And American workers and communities have paid the price."

Remind me who was in the White House before Bush? It was a game named Clinton. And he also flip-flopped on trade policies, telling blue collar workers what they wanted to hear before pandering to the liberal technocracy.

Hillary Clinton is doing the same thing and she's barely even hiding it.

So my message to every worker in Michigan and across America is this: I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages – including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

I oppose it now, I'll oppose it after the election, and I'll oppose it as President.

Hillary is a lawyer and she speaks in lawyerly technicalities. See if you can spot what she very carefully left out. Hillary opposes TPP now. At least she claims to. Just not in the past.

The Republican National Committee recently obtained video of Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on an overseas trip in 2012 praising the TPP, a deal she said she could not support this past October. It appears that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will pounce on her reversal when he delivers a speech on trade policy Tuesday afternoon.

"This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field," Clinton said in 2012. "And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment."

And if she's elected, she'll claim that she improved TPP and therefore there is no contradiction. In fact we know it will happen because that's what one of her closest allies already told us.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, longtime best friend to the Clintons, said Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton will support the TPP trade deal if elected president, with some tweaks.

“I worry that if we don’t do TPP, at some point China’s going to break the rules -- but Hillary understands this,” he said in an interview after his speech on the main stage at the Democratic National Convention. “Once the election’s over, and we sit down on trade, people understand a couple things we want to fix on it but going forward we got to build a global economy.”

Pressed on whether Clinton would turn around and support the trade deal she opposed during the heat of the primary fight against Bernie Sanders, McAuliffe said: “Yes. Listen, she was in support of it. There were specific things in it she wants fixed.”

Hillary will oppose it during the election. If she wins, she'll support it. What politicians say during elections matters far less than when in office. As Secretary of State she supported it. We''re told that she would support it if she wins.

So what is Hillary doing now? What she always does. She's lying.

"The internet is outraged".

"The internet is watching."

"The internet is a manufactured construct whose tastes are shaped and invented by social media CEOs"

Case in point.

Twitter's CEO in 2015 reportedly asked its media team to censor abusive tweets directed toward President Obama during a question-and-answer session, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.

Dick Costolo, who was chief executive at the time, reportedly told the team running the Q&A — which took place under the hashtag #AskPOTUS — to use an algorithm to filter out abusive comments. The team is also said to have censored messages manually.

The revelation came in a larger investigation into Twitter's difficult history with handling abuse.

Don't worry.  Twitter's CEO rebutted the claims on his private censored platform.

Costolo, though, denied the report Thursday as "sensationalist nonsense."

"Total nonsense and laughably false as anybody who would speak on the record would tell you," he said on Twitter. "Absurd."

Translation: Nobody who works for me or used to work for me and signed a NDA will say.

Even after the wave of Muslim migrant violence, including over a thousand New Year's Eve sexual assaults and multiple plots and acts of terror, Merkel madly insisted on maintaining the migrant crisis. And now her government tried to put on a little show.

The German government is planning a host of new security measures in the wake of a few violent incidents in Würzburg, Ansbach and Munich. The measures include an increase in police personnel, a central crime unit for pursuing crime on the internet, easier deportation for migrants who have committed crimes, and depriving Germans who join foreign "terror militias" of their citizenship.

"I am convinced that these proposals will increase security quickly," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in a special press conference in Berlin on Thursday, before adding that all the proposals could be implemented in this legislative period, which ends next fall.

It's of course the deportations that matter and leave it to the Greens to explain why that's an empty production playing to a full house.

Volker Beck said de Maiziere's plans would do little to increase security. In a statement, the Green party's migration spokesman dismissed threatening jihadists with losing their German citizenship as "despairing politicking."

And Beck added that speeding up deportations was not as easy as de Maiziere suggested, not least because many refugees do not have valid papers. "The fact is that not a few embassies simply refuse to issue passports for those affected," he said. "Accusations and tightening residency laws makes precious little difference. We'd be better advised to give all people whose deportations are impossible for actual reasons the prospect of staying."

Sure. Let's give the terrorists a reason to stay. But Beck isn't wrong about the facts. Until Germany, and for that matter America, cease relying on mutual cooperation for deportations, such measures are a joke. Try deporting a Syrian. Or for that matter, in the US, a Haitian. 

De Maiziere resisted calls from state interior ministers - and also members of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - to ban the face-covering Islamic dress the burqa in Germany. He called the idea "constitutionally problematic" and added: "You can't ban everything you oppose, and I oppose the wearing of a burqa."

But they can ban criticism of Islam.

Ethics and Hillary don't go together. But this is still an absurd new low as the State Department is forced to defend Hillary by basically calling calling her a weasel, as John Sexton at HotAir notes.

Spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau was asked about recently revealed emails that showed top members of Hillary Clinton’s staff doing favors for Clinton Foundation associates. “I’m not going to speak to specific emails, but I think you guys know State Department officials are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations including businesses, nonprofits, NGOs, think tanks,” Trudeau replied.

“You don’t feel like there was impropriety in the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department at the time?” the reporter asked. But Trudeau simply repeated her statement about the Department talking to a wide range of people.

At this point another reporter interjected, “Importantly, in this case, Secretary Clinton made a pledge that she would not personally or substantially, in any way, involve herself with the Clinton Foundation.” He continued, “So it’s not just any outside organization, it’s the specific organization that she said ahead of time she wouldn’t have contact with.” “Doesn’t this then seem to violate that pledge?” he asked.

“So, again, to reiterate, you know, Department officials are in touch with a wide range of individuals,” Trudeau replied. She added, “I’d note that former Secretary Clinton’s ethics agreement did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with Clinton Foundation staff.”

Since these officials were actually Hillary's inner circle and close aides, that would make her pledge utterly worthless and meaningless. It's like an Obama pledge that would only apply to him, but not to his chief of staff. It's a really obvious dodge and it's telling that State has been reduced to defending Hillary from accusations of corruption by calling her a lying weasel.

The media's outrage over the latest thing Trump said is not just bias, it's ridiculous hypocrisy. After all much of the time Democrats have said the same things that Trump did. Including Dems like Hillary.

Trump called Obama and Hillary the founders of ISIS. The media swarmed. It's apparently inappropriate to use such a figure of speech. Except that they had no problem with it when Hillary Clinton called Trump an ISIS recruiter.

 "We have seen how Donald Trump is being used to essentially be a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism," Hillary insisted on CNN.

Her campaign and the media blamed Trump for ISIS terror attacks.

Then in an interview with Business Insider, she quoted Hayden's claim that Trump was a recruiting sergeant for ISIS.

 "I think it was said just this week that the way Donald Trump talks about terrorism and his very insulting language towards Muslims is making him the 'recruiting sergeant' for ISIS."

The media had no problem with this. Its problem with Trump's founder comments has nothing to do with anything objective, but is entirely a function of their bias.

For months experts and the media insisted that it was inconceivable and impossible for Muslim terrorists to enter Europe or America by pretending to be Syrian refugees. Now it's just a fact of life. That's the way it usually is with the left. The disastrous outcomes of their policies are denied and then they're just a reality that we're expected to cope with.

German intelligence services have evidence that “hit squads” from the Islamic State terror group have infiltrated the country disguised as refugees, the deputy head of Bavaria’s spy agency told the BBC Thursday.

“We have to accept that we have hit squads and sleeper cells in Germany,” Manfred Hauser, the vice president of the Bavaria region’s intelligence gathering agency, BayLfV, told the Today program.

“We have substantial reports that among the refugees there are hit squads. There are hundreds of these reports, some from refugees themselves. We are still following up on these, and we haven’t investigated all of them fully,” said Hauser.

Why do we have to accept them? Because we keep accepting Muslim migrants who claim to be refugees. We have to keep eating the whole bowl of candy wondering which of the pieces is poisoned.

A ransom? If you ask the media, Obama's pallets of cash shipped by unmarked cargo plane to Iran was innocent. If you asked top US officials, it was a ransom payment.

The head of the national security division at the Justice Department was among the agency’s senior officials who objected to paying Iran hundreds of millions of dollars in cash at the same time that Tehran was releasing American prisoners, according to people familiar with the discussions.

John Carlin, a Senate-confirmed administration appointee, raised concerns when the State Department notified Justice officials of its plan to deliver to Iran a planeful of cash, saying it would be viewed as a ransom payment, these people said. A number of other high-ranking Justice officials voiced similar concerns as the negotiations proceeded, they said.

Mr. Carlin, as head of the division in charge of counterterrorism and intelligence, is one of the highest-profile figures at the department. That he and other senior figures raised alarms underscores how much pushback the State Department proposal provoked.

Since The Wall Street Journal earlier this month reported details of the cash shipment—stacks of euros, Swiss francs and other currencies stacked on wooden pallets—and the Justice Department officials’ objections, administration officials have defended the payment.

But of course they didn't get their way. Obama's pals at the NSC and State did. The White House deep state got its way. And the law and national security did not matter.

Obama became notorious for such gimmicks for avoiding the media and Hillary Clinton is slowly deploying them too. Considering how awkward she is in interviews, this is the perfect solution for her. Just get interviewed by one of your own employees on your own branded podcast. 

One of Hillary Clinton’s first sitdown interviews since the Democratic National Convention was conducted by a self-described supporter who has been hired by the campaign to host the Democratic nominee’s official campaign podcast.

“With Her,” which launched on iTunes Friday morning, promises an inside account “straight from Hillary [of] what life is like on the campaign trail.” The series is being produced by the campaign and hosted by Max Linsky, a founding editor of Longform.org and a co-host of the well-respected Longform podcast. The debut episode features Linsky’s 15-minute interview with the nominee.

So Linsky sold whatever credibility he had in order to get this gig. And the Clinton campaign cheerfully bought the style without the substance. This is just an infomercial for Hillary.

The result is a casual conversation that steers clear of politics -- and it's the latest example of how Clinton is trying to control her storyline. She has been criticized for limiting press access by not participating in press conferences and being slow to grant reporters the level of access that has become common and expected of candidates vying for the Oval Office.

Now, she has gone a step further, creating a safe space from which to present the image of herself that she wants voters to see.

Safe spaces. They're for social justice warriors of all ages.

In the past few weeks, the media has desperately struggled to construct Trump outrages out of thin air. The media hit a new low with its phony outrage over Trump calling Obama and Hillary the founders of ISIS. There was no similar outrage when Hillary Clinton called Trump an ISIS recruiter.

But then there are moments like this when the media makes it really obvious that it's not just biased, it's just trolling for one political campaign.

"Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim," is the Politico headline. "Hours after stating his claim of Obama as the founder of ISIL was "sarcasm," Trump says maybe it wasn't" is the subheader.

A. This reads like it was written by an obnoxious robot incapable of understanding colloquial human language

B. Politico and the rest of the press are very obviously manufacturing fake scandals and reaching new lows to do it.

Trump had eased off the claim Friday morning, blasting the media for seriously reporting what he suggested was a sarcastic comment. “Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump tweeted. “THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?”

But during an afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said his initial remark wasn’t “that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”

“So I said the founder of ISIS,” Trump recalled to the crowd, after accusing the president of being “so weak and so bad” that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. “Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Then — but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”

Actual human beings don't find this confusing. Trump's reference was sarcastic. Obama and Hillary obviously did not literally found ISIS. They did however help ISIS come into being through their policies. The statement is sarcastic, but it's also true. 

The silliness of media advocacy has reached the point where Politico pretends that it doesn't understand how to process any of that.

Are you feeling enriched by our newfound diversity yet?

Somali Ilhan Omar defeated 22-term incumbent Phyllis Kahn for the nomination of the DFL to serve as the representative of House District 60B in the state legislature. Omar came in first in a three-way primary race for the nomination in Tuesday’s primary. When elected, Omar will be the first Somali to serve in the Minnesota legislature.

As Scott Johnson at Powerline notes though, Omar has a very interesting background.

A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information last week suggesting Omar’s involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. Hirsi is the father of Omar’s three children. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar’s campaign website here.

The post further notes that Omar married her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, implying that the latter marriage assisted his entry into the United States. Her brother was a British citizen. “As soon as Ilhan Omar married him,” the post continues, “he started university at her [a]lma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. He then returned to the United Kingdom where he now lives.”

Don't worry. The campaign has a great Hillaryesque response.

"“There are people who do not want an East African, Muslim woman elected to office and who will follow Donald Trump’s playbook to prevent it. Ilhan Omar’s campaign sees your superfluous contentions as one more in a series of attempts to discredit her candidacy"

And that's not a "No, I never married my brother."

Hamas has a bold new campaign strategy. Khaled Abu-Toameh at Gatestone titles it, Hamas: Vote for us or go to hell." I really feel like this should have been more of an"and" than an "or" considering the moral implications of voting for Hamas and how well Hamas runs things.

The first sign of Hamas's frightening platform emerged when one of its top muftis, Yunis Al-Astal, issued a fatwa banning Palestinians from voting for any other party other than Hamas. "Any person, male or female, who votes for a party other than Hamas will be considered an infidel and apostate and his or her repentance will not be accepted even if they fasted or prayed or performed the hajj [pilgrimage] to Mecca," the mufti ruled.

I thought that declaring other Muslims to be infidels was the sort of radical thing that ISIS did, not the moderate Hamas Muslim Brotherhood. 

The Hamas fatwa sparked a wave of anger from many Palestinians, who were quick to accuse the Islamist movement and its leaders of waging a campaign of intimidation and terror against voters.

"This is the policy of the Muslim Brotherhood [of which Hamas is an offshoot]," commented Hisham Sawalhi, a Palestinian from the West Bank. "Those who support Muslim Brotherhood are believers, while those who oppose them are infidels."

Tell it to Obama and McCain.

A Hamas-affiliated cartoonist from the Gaza Strip, Baha Yasin, published a cartoon that carries the same message as the fatwa. "A Palestinian Muslim does not vote for secular infidels," he captioned a cartoon that depicts supporters of Fatah as unbelievers who smoke nargilas and cigarettes. The caption accompanying the cartoon also denounces the Fatah supporters for "insulting Allah" and Islam.

"A vote for Hamas is a vote for the resistance and a vote in support of Allah and Islam," reads one of Hamas's election banners. Other banners posted on social media highlight the fact that most of the Fatah representatives are not faithful Muslims and do not pray or practice any of the other pillars of Islam.

But they all practice Jihad. Isn't that what counts?

You have to pass the Iran nuke deal to find out how badly it will irradiate you.

As Adam Kredo at Free Beacon reports, the endless concessions to Iran in this deal that was supposed to stop its nuclear program, never seem to end.

Iran is permitted to pursue the construction of two newly announced nuclear plants under the parameters of last summer’s nuclear agreement, Obama administration officials informed the Washington Free Beacon, setting the stage for Tehran to move forward with construction following orders from President Hassan Rouhani.

Ali Salehi, Iran’s top nuclear official, announced on Thursday that Iran has invested $10 billion into the construction of two new nuclear plants after receiving orders from Rouhani, according to reports in Iran’s state-controlled media.

Americans can feel proud that Obama invested $1.7 billion of our taxes into payments to the Islamic terror state to help make this happen. 

The Clintons are nothing if not charitable folk. Sometimes they can't give as much as they would like on account of being flat broke, but they try their best. Even if 96% of their charity goes to themselves.

Hillary and Bill Clinton funneled 96 percent of their charitable donations to their own family foundation, according to the Democratic nominee’s 2015 tax returns.

Charity does begin in the home. It sure does for Bill and Hill.

Last year, $1 million of the total $1,042,000 that the Clintons deducted in charitable contributions went to the Clinton Family Foundation, the Daily Caller reported Friday.

The Clinton Foundation is not an actual charity. It's a platform for the Clintons to promote themselves and meet donors. Also it's a pay for play scheme. But at least they gave $42K out of their $1 million to an actual charity with no thought for themselves...

The tax return showed that the other $42,000 in contributions went to Desert Classic Charities, a nonprofit that organizes an annual charity golf tournament. The organization then in turn contributed $700,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A foundation adviser and longtime Bill Clinton assistant, Doug Band, was on the organization’s board of directors through 2014, according to IRS filings.

Of course. Because that is how the Clinton crime family does things.

The uselessness of UN peacekeepers is one of the worst kept secrets in international affairs. Like the rest of the UN, the one thing you can usually count on Peacekeepers to do is to keep the peace by letting whatever horrors are happening go on happening. Politicians love talking about dispatching UN peacekeepers. Here's how much good they actually do.

 The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.

"Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head," she remembers him saying.

She didn't really have a choice. By the end of the evening, she had been raped by 15 South Sudanese soldiers.

This was part of a series of assaults.

They shot dead a local journalist while forcing the foreigners to watch, raped several foreign women, singled out Americans, beat and robbed people and carried out mock executions, several witnesses told The Associated Press.

Luckily there were UN peacekeepers nearby.

For hours throughout the assault, the U.N. peacekeeping force stationed less than a mile away refused to respond to desperate calls for help.

And under Obama, the US Embassy proved equally useless.

Neither did embassies, including the U.S. Embassy.

Smart power. It really, really does not work. And this is what non-intervention looks like now.

The accounts highlight, in raw detail, the failure of the U.N. peacekeeping force to uphold its core mandate of protecting civilians, notably those just a few minutes' drive away. U.N. peacekeepers in Juba have already been accused of not acting to stop the rapes of local women by soldiers outside the U.N.'s main camp and within their sight last month.

Of course they didn't. They're peacekeepers and Obama already has the answer. Send more peacekeepers.

The U.N. recently passed a U.S. resolution to send more peacekeeping troops to protect civilians.

If sending more useless people doesn't solve this, nothing will.

For about an hour, soldiers beat the American with belts and the butts of their guns and accused him of hiding rebels. They fired bullets at his feet and close to his head. Eventually, one soldier who appeared to be in charge told him to leave the compound. Soldiers at the gate looked at his U.S. passport and handed it back, with instructions.

"You tell your embassy how we treated you," they said. He made his way to the nearby U.N. compound and appealed for help.

Even the South Sudanese think that Obama is a worthless joke.

From the start of the attack, those inside the Terrain compound sent messages pleading for help by text and Facebook messages and emails.

"All of us were contacting whoever we could contact. The U.N., the U.S. embassy, contacting the specific battalions in the U.N., contacting specific departments," said the woman raped by 15 men.

The actual response though was the same bureaucratic comedy of inaction as Benghazi.

Five minutes after that, the U.N. mission's Department of Safety and Security and its military command wing were alerted. At 4:33 p.m., a Quick Reaction Force, meant to intervene in emergencies, was informed. One minute later, the timeline notes the last contact on Monday from someone trapped inside Terrain.

For the next hour and a half the timeline is blank. At 6:52, shortly before sunset, the timeline states that "DSS would not send a team."

About 20 minutes later, a Quick Reaction Force of Ethiopians from the multinational U.N. mission was tasked to intervene, coordinating with South Sudan's army chief of staff, Paul Malong, who was also sending soldiers. But the Ethiopian battalion stood down, according to the timeline. Malong's troops eventually abandoned their intervention too because it took too long for the Quick Reaction Force to act.

And so nothing happened. Because it's the UN. And the attackers knew that nothing would happen because they were dealing with Obama and the UN.

The U.S. Embassy, which also received requests for help during the attack, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Don't worry. Obama will find out about it from the media.