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Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton, whose campaign was funded by George Soros, charged protesters with a hate crime and is seeking to put them in prison for a year for painting over a city-approved mural on the street that reads 'Black Lives Matter'.

Gaetz questioned whether his criticisms of senior officials at the FBI led to a double standard for justice that discriminates against conservatives and creates a two-tier justice system.

What does "from a good family" mean? White and well-off? Religious? And what does it mean to say a politicians is "too old?" And what does it mean when you put those things together. New Jersey Superior Court Judge James Troiano, a 70 year old Republican hack politician, became a judge in 1992 and retired in 2011 but started serving again the following year to help alleviate the crowded system.

Protesters opposed to murder by cop (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusThe real answer to the headline question requires a look at literally hundreds of cases of unjustified, unpunished police shootings, just a few of which have been in our faces and on our TV screens lately.

Remember that horrific story-- about a decade back-- about cops in New Orleans shooting unarmed civilians running for their lives from the Hurricane Katrina flood waters? In 2007 5 white police officers were indicted for opening up with shotguns and AK-47s on two families of black people on the Danziger Bridge looking for shelter from the deadly storm.

"Killer Mike" interviews Bernie Sanders. Could this dynamic be a game-changer in southern Democratic primaries?by Gaius PubliusIn the most recent underwatched Democratic debate, there was a lot of ISIS-this and terror-that thrown around — and not one climate word, as near as I could tell.

The stories coming out of India and Pakistan about the murders of women last week have been gut-wrenching. Both were primitive and barbaric acts within the context of conservative and patriarchal culture that deem women less than human.