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Mississippi Man Who Killed Two Cops Found Dead in His Jail Cell

Marvin Banks, REUTERS/Hattiesburg Police Dept/Handout via Reuters

A Mississippi man charged with shooting and killing two police officers in May was found unresponsive in his jail cell and later was pronounced dead, a sheriff’s office official said on Saturday, Reuters Reports.

Marvin Banks, 30, faced two counts of capital murder in the shooting deaths of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, who were gunned down in during a routine traffic stop on May 9. It was the first killing of a police officer in the city for more than 30 years.

Deputies found Banks unconscious and alone in a jail cell on Friday, Forrest County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Nick Calico said.

Paramedics attempted to revive Banks before taking him to a hospital where he pronounced dead at 7:40 p.m., according to Calico.

Calico said the cause of death was unknown. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation will handle the case and an autopsy will be performed, he said.

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Major News Outlets Apparently Boycotting Bernie Sanders’ Campaign

Bernie Sanders is one of the Democratic Presidential candidate running alongside Hillary Clinton. He gets the bigger crowd at campaign events and the Democratic base is energized about his campaign. But you will never know that if you watch the major news where Sanders’ name is not even mention. It’s as if he’s not even running.

MediaMatters looked into this and confirmed that a Bernie Blockout is in effect.

Does that ratio seem out of whack? That’s the ratio of TV airtime that ABC World News Tonight has devoted to Donald Trump’s campaign (81 minutes) versus the amount of TV time World News Tonight has devoted to Bernie Sanders’ campaign this year. And even that one minute for Sanders is misleading because the actual number is closer to 20 seconds.

For the entire year.

That’s the rather stunning revelation from the Tyndall Report, which tracks the various flagship nightly news programs on NBC, CBS and ABC. The Report’s campaign findings cover the network evening newscasts from January 1 through the end of November.

The results confirm two media extremes in play this year, and not just at ABC News. The network newscasts are wildly overplaying Trump, who regularly attracts between 20-30 percent of primary voter support, while at the same time wildly underplaying Sanders, who regularly attracts between 20-30 percent of primary voter support. (Sanders’ supporters have longcomplained about the candidate’s lack of coverage.)

Obviously, Trump is the GOP frontrunner and its reasonable that he would get more attention than Sanders, who’s running second for the Democrats. But 234 total network minutes for Trump compared to just 10 network minutes for Sanders, as the Tyndall Report found?

Andrew Tyndall provided the breakdown by network of Sanders’ 10 minutes of coverage, via email [emphasis added]:

CBS Evening News: 6.4 minutes

NBC Nightly News: 2.9 minutes

ABC World News: 0.3

But how can they be? ABC News, for instance, clearly devoted more than 20 seconds to covering the Democratic debates, which featured news of Sanders, right?

As Tyndall explained to me, the number “counts stories filed about the Sanders campaign or from the Sanders campaign. Obviously he is mentioned in passing in other coverage of the Democratic field overall, specifically his performance in the debates.”

So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it’s been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. And at ABC World News Tonight, it’s been 81 minutes for Trump and less than one minute for Sanders.

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Danbury Man Arrested, Accused of Sexually Abusing 8 Year Old Girl

A man from Danbury Connecticut is accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl was arrested on Friday, according to a police report

According to police, the Special Victims Unit started an investigation into the alleged abuse on Dec. 6. As a result of the investigation, police obtained an arrest warrant for Carl Alcala, 58, of Danbury.

Alcala was taken into custody at his residence and charged with three counts of first-degree sexual assault of a victim under 13-years-old and three counts of risk of injury to a minor.

He was given a court set cash bond of $75,000.

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Charles Barkley Slams Trump, his “Loser” Supporters and CNN – Video

It was just a matter of time before NBA Great, Charles Barkley, makes his feelings known on the upcoming presidential election and the cast of characters involved. In his regular commentary routine for NBA games on TNT, Charles Barkley unloaded on Donald Trump, his supporters and CNN!

“This Donald Trump thing has been fascinating, sad, funny … it’s all over the place,” Barkley said. It’s been sad to watch him insult people and then see his numbers go up. He started out by insulting Hispanics … now to lump all the Muslims together, that’s even more insulting.”

“Then you have these losers who love that because they’re afraid to look in the mirror and see why their life sucks. So they have to blame other people. Your life sucks for reasons because of you, not because of Hispanics. … It’s been said to watch every time he insults people, his poll numbers go out … (Trump) and (fellow GOP condtender) Ben Carson, to be honest with you.”

And he had a thing or two to say about CNN, sister-station to TNT

“To be honest with you, CNN has done an awful job this election,” Barkley said. “They have followed ratings and sound bites this entire cycle. Think about it. I love CNN. They’re part of our company, but they’ve been kissing butt chasing ratings. They’ve become like Fox News for the Republicans, to be honest for you. They follow every single sound bite just to get ratings for these debates. And it’s been sad and frustrating that our company has sold its soul for ratings.”

Barkley says he’s always voted Democrat, but he’s a supporter of GOP candidate John Kasich.

“For the first time i was thinking … i made a final decision to vote for a Republican,” Barkley said. “But (Kasich) has not been able to get any traction whatsoever, so to be honest, at this point I have no idea who I’m gong to vote for. I’m going to support (Ohio) Governor Kasich, but he’s got to be relevant and unfortunately he hasn’t been able to gain any ground.’

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Billionaire Mark Cuban – Donald Trump is “trying to F*ck the Country” – Video

On an appearance on Larry Wilmore’s “Nightly Show,” Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, likened Donald Trump to a guy who “will say whatever it’ll take to get laid.” but in Trump’s case, Cuban said Trump is trying to do more than just getting laid. He’s trying to “F*ck” to country!”

“He’s like that guy who walks into the bar, and will say whatever it’ll take to get laid. Only in this case he’s not trying to f*ck some girl. He’s trying to f*ck the country,” he said.

Cuban said he actually like Trump and admitted they are friends. But like most people, Cuban said Trump is that “stupid” friend who say “stupid sh*t” every once in a while.

“Everybody’s got that friend that they pick on, that one guy that you know has a good heart and wants to do the right thing but does some of the stupidest shit all the time,” he said. “I actually like him and get along with him, but he’s kinda gone off.”

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Donald Trump’s Goons Violently Push Woman to Ground – Video

She was shocked by the assault she received from Trump’s body guards and is heard on the video saying, “Stop it! What is wrong with you? That is not appropriate!”

RawStory reports the incident happened at a $1.000 a head fundraiser for Trump in Pennsylvania. The woman was not identified.

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Ben Carson Threatens to Leave the Republican Party If…

Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson is once again siding with for Donald Trump. In recent news, the establishment Republican party got together trying to come up with alternatives just in case the establishment candidates [Jeb, Rubio, Cruz etc] don’t get the nomination. Ben Carson took this as “the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters,” and said if that is the case, he will not be a part of such a party!

“If this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters and replace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party,” Carson said in a statement.

Carson responded to a Washington Post report that Republican leaders met this week to discuss what to do if no candidate wins a majority of delegates heading into the party convention next July. GOP leaders also reportedly discussed how to cope with Trump’s rise to the top of most GOP polls.

Said Carson:

“I pray that the report in the Post this morning was incorrect. If it is correct, every voter who is standing for change must know they are being betrayed. I won’t stand for it.”

When asked by ABC News about the potential for a third-party run, Carson said, “I have no intentions of running as an independent. But I certainly don’t want to be a part of corruption.”

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Rush Limbaugh Cooperates with Government to Save his Property from Climate Change

On the radio Rush Limbaugh has a job to do. His job is intentionally designed to keep his listeners ignorant, and he does that job extremely well.

But Rush Limbaugh knows the truth. He knows that something is happening wuth the weather, with climate change.  And Rush Limbaugh is doing everything he can to secure his beachfront home from the effects of Climate change, even if that means working with the Obama administration.

Limbaugh just signed off on a plan to cooperate with the US Army Corp of Engineers to use his property to store sand and then spread it along the beach where he resides. In his easement deal with the Corps obtained through the town of Palm Beach, Limbaugh is allowing the use of his 2.5 acre compound on the extreme north side of the island to “enhance shoreline management” and provide “storm protection in safe guarding coastal properties”.

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Let’s Get This Straight: Donald Trump Will Not Be President

He won’t even be the Republican nominee in 2016.

Yes, I know, the New York Times just published a poll that has Trump high atop the GOP field and gaining strength as the one candidate who will keep us safe. He’s everywhere on cable and network news and is a constant topic of conversation on social media. Even Hillary Clinton has stopped dismissing him as a joke and is responding to his absurd claims. This is necessary for now because Trump will not go away on his own. He has to be shown the door and that will happen. It will be messy, but it will happen.

Why am I so sure about the Donald? Because he’s essentially an excellent salesman but a political fraud who knows how to sell himself, and he’s attached himself to a message and a persona that insulates him from criticism for saying outrageously xenophobic, racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and just plain wrong things on a daily basis. What he has done marvelously well is to tap into the country’s fears about terrorism and he has accused the president of not only not doing enough, but of purposely allowing us to be vulnerable.

Trump doesn’t need to repeat the lie about Obama not being a citizen because he has better ammunition: the president is the problem, the other, the un-American, them. He’s also been able to reduce Jeb Bush to a quivering mass of jello, make fun of Marco Rubio’s youth, calls Ben Carson a know-nothing, and says that of course Chris Christie knew about the GW Bridge lane closings despite the fact that not one shred of evidence has been credibly produced that he did.

My question, then, is this: Is this what we want in a President? The answer is no.

The simple reason is that not even Donald Trump can continue to run his campaign this way. As soon as Trump stops saying vile things, he’s finished, because the truth is that he really has no platform, no singular idea other than hate, no economic plan, no foreign policy, no domestic policy and a lifetime of conflicting views on issues on which most Republicans will not ever compromise.

Right now he gets a pass at the debates because of the sheer number of GOP candidates still in the race. Come January, the real campaign begins and I’m assuming that Trump is not going to be prepared for it. Voters will want real answers for their economic problems and they’ll want details as to how Trump is going to carry out his plan to throw out 11 million people from this country and what it would take to barricade us so that other people can’t come in.

They’ll want to know what he wants to do with taxes, legal issues, health care and business policy. He’s said some things about these, but the media and the people will demand answers.  And he either won’t have them or he’ll give vague answers or he’ll do what he’s doing now about national security–he’ll try to fake it. This isn’t the midterm or the early semester quiz. It’s the final exam and Trump is going to fail.

In addition, as the GOP field narrows, Trump is going to need to say even more because there will be fewer voices to take up precious airtime. This is where he will falter because he will need to become less radical and say fewer provocative things. Trump has built his campaign on those two pillars. Once he stops, his reason for running will be gone. The Republican Party is hoping that this happens in January before he can do real damage. I’m not sure the party will get its wish, but ultimately the balloon will deflate.

I’ve certainly been caught off-guard by Trump’s durability and political stamina. It’s delayed the ascent of a viable candidate and will only hurt the GOP for as long as his campaign lingers.

But rest assured my fellow Americans, Donald Trump will not be elected president in 2016. And for that, we can be thankful.

For more, go to www.facebook.com/WhereDemocracyLives or Twitter @rigrundfest

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Trump Supporter Goes Nuts – Says Obama “Lies”, Trump Tells the Truth – Video

CNN brought on a group of Trump supporters and asked them a few questions based on stuff Trump has said, from his stance on immigration to his most recent remarks that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. It was obvious that these supporters were deep in Trump’s camp, and painfully obvious that they saw nothing wrong with any of Trump’s statements.

But Susan Demelus of New Hampshire, who is a state Republican Representative, needed to express herself about the “liars” in politics. And according to Miss Demelus, President Obama is the biggest liar of them all.

“We’ve got people in positions of power who I KNOW FOR A FACT are liars. Liars!” she said. “I watch the TV — My president comes on the TV and he lies to me! I know he’s lying. He lies all the time. I don’t believe any one of them, not one. I believe Donald.”

She continued;

“I’m telling you, he says what I’m thinking! Never been involved in politics, never had an interest in any of it. Now suddenly, he is resonating. He is resonating with the people and he’s speaking our minds. Our minds!”

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Trump’s “Ban All Muslims” Comment Gives him Bigger Lead in South Carolina

A recently released Fox News poll shows Donald Trump’s “Ban all Muslims” anti-constitution comment has helped him among Republicans in his run for president. The poll shows for example, that Republicans in South Carolina not only stuck with Donald Trump even after his anti-Muslims statement, the poll shows Trump actually getting more Republicans in South Caroling jumping on board.

That poll, released by FOX News on Wednesday night, was taken in a 72-hour period of time when Trump made the comments calling for a ““total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

“It looks like his comments help him in South Carolina,” the FOX News report said. “Support for Trump increased eight points after his statement — from 30 percent the first two nights vs. 38 percent the last two nights. The shift is within the margin of sampling error.”

Trump has 35 percent of total support in the poll with neurosurgeon Ben Carson receiving 15 percent of support and Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio receiving 14 percent of support each.

Bush, Christie and the other jokers somehow managed to rake in a massive 3 percent a piece.

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The First Lady of Rap – Michelle Obama ‘pon de riddim – Music

I don’t think the next First Lady of the United States is going to outdo Michelle Obama. I mean, can bill Clinton even rap?

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