*The Top 20% of Households Pay 88% of Federal Income Taxes:

According to the Congressional Budget Office:

-The top one percent of households pay 39.4 percent of federal income taxes and 26.2 percent of total federal taxes.

– The top 20 percent of households pay 88.1 percent of federal income taxes and 69.5 percent of total federal taxes.

– The top one percent of households pay an average income tax rate of 24 percent while the middle quintile pays an average income tax rate of 3 percent.

– The top one percent of households pay an average total tax rate of 33.3 percent while the middle quintile pays an average total tax rate of over 14 percent. 

– The top 20 percent of households pay an average total tax rate of 26.7 percent while the middle quintile pays an average total tax rate of 14 percent.

*Green New Deal Could Cost in Excess of $90T – 4 Times Nat’l Debt:

How much will the Green New Deal backed by leading Democratic candidates for President cost? Up to $90 trillion, says a Washington think-tank. As Reason Magazine notes, the estimated cost of the Green New Deal is at “least $50 trillion and possibly in excess of $90 trillion, according to a report released today by the American Action Forum (AAF). The AAF, a center-right think tank that focuses on economic issues, projected costs for six aspects of the Green New Deal,” such as its “reworking the electricity grid,” “revamping the nation’s transportation network,” and “affordable housing.”

$90 trillion is more than four times the size of America’s entire national debt, and more than four times the size of the entire U.S. economy.

AAF’s cost estimate does not appear to be an exaggeration: For example, Reason’s Ron Bailey came up with a higher cost estimate than AAF for redoing the electricity grid. Bailey’s own estimate of the cost for reworking the power grid is $1.6 trillion to $7.6 trillion higher than AAF’s. Thus, AAF’s estimate is “not an outlier.”

The Green New Deal would pay for a vast array of new construction projects, many of them pointless white elephants. As Joel Pollak notes, the Green New Deal proposes “‘upgrading all existing buildings in the United States.’” In many cases (such as where buildings are approaching the end of their lifespan), that would consume more energy than it would save.

 *Survey: 27% of Americans Prefer to Live in the Country, 12% Prefer
the Big City:

A new survey shows that, if given the choice, 27% of Americans would prefer to live in a rural, country area and only 12% would prefer to live in a big city. The remainder of the respondents were divided in their answers, with some preferring a small city or town and some preferring the suburbs thereof.

In the survey, Gallup asked, “Thinking about something else, if you could live anywhere you wished, where would you prefer to live — in a big city, small city, suburb of a big city, suburb of a small city, town or rural area?”

Twenty-seven percent said rural area and 12% said big city. Seventeen percent said a small city and 12% said a town.

 *Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Not Enough Minorities and Women
Run Dope Shops:

During a House hearing about “banking services for cannabis-related businesses,” socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.) discussed what she called the “racial wealth gap” and noted that white males dominate in the legal pot shop business while “80% of the people kept in federal prison are Black orLatino.”

“So, my question is, are we compounding the racial wealth gap right now based on who is getting the first mover advantage?” she said. “According to an industry trade publication, 73% of cannabis executives in Colorado and Washington are male, 81% are white,” said the congresswoman.  “In the state of Massachusetts, just 3.1% of the marijuana businesses in the state were owned by minorities and just 2.2% were owned by women.”

Rep.Ocasio-Cortez then explained that, in her estimation, although minorities and women were deeply affected by anti-marijuana laws, they are now benefiting the least from new laws that allow the operation of cannabis stores. “Is this [legal pot] industry representative of the communities that have historically bared the greatest brunt of injustice based on the prohibition of marijuana?” she asked.  She then added, “it doesn’t look like any of the people reaping the profits of this are the people who were directly impacted.”

*Lara Logan Says Media Standards Have Led to ‘Horses–t’ Reporting:

Reporters have become “political activists” and even “propagandists,” CBS News’ foreign correspondent Lara Logan said during a recent podcast. The war correspondent was speaking to Navy SEAL Mike Ritland on Friday when she delivered the broadside against the media.

“The media everywhere is mostly liberal,” Logan said. “Most journalists are left or liberal or Democrat or whatever word you want to give it.”

She added that journalistic standards have been lowered, resulting in “horses–t” reporting.“I mean, you read one story or another and hear it and it’s all based on one anonymous administration official, former administration official,” she said. “That’s not journalism. That’s horses–t. Sorry. That is absolute horses–t.”  The journalist highlighted how former New York Times editor Jill Abramson wrote in her new book that most of that paper’s coverage of President Trump was negative.

*Ilhan Omar’s District Is ‘Terrorist Recruitment Capital Of The US,’ Report Says:

Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D), is the terrorist recruitment capitol of the United States, according to FBI statistics.

According to FBI statistics “more men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.” “FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq– and Syria-based ISIS combined,” Fox News continued. “And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled.”

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Dr. Srini Pillay, Best-Selling Author & Neuroscientist, Poses Questions on the Mental Well-Being of “El Chapo” Jurors

Dr. Srini Pillay is a Harvard psychiatrist, former brain researcher and author of “Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind.”  He is also an entrepreneur and an assistant professor at Harvard University, where he has spent a large chunk of his career subverting ideas on creativity and the processes behind human thinking. Now, he poses questions on the mental well-being of jurors in the infamous “El Chapo” case. 

“The psychological challenges that jurors face are well-known. They range from depression to anxiety and even post-traumatic stress disorder,” explains Dr. Pillay, “After hearing testimony about live burials and other horrendous acts, (many of them sexual) who could expect otherwise?” 

The facts check out. For trials as long and intense as the “El Chapo” trial, 86-96 percent of people have reported feeling stressed, “numb and detached” and “tense.” The stress comes from worrying, having to concentrate, tolerating monotony, and making decisions.

While many of these symptoms may strike one as “all in a day’s work”, when the jury makes decisions in the ‘El Chapo’ case, there is one big concern that will impact decision-making: the ego-depletion effect. Formally known as self-regulation depletion (SRD), this phenomenon refers to brains that “switch off” when there is too much emotion to process or when a situation demands too much attention. After hearing 200 hours of testimony, emotional fatigue and distorted thinking is to be expected.

“We live in a world obsessed by focus. And we erroneously believe that continuous focus will help us gather more data and interpret that data more effectively too,” concludes Dr. Pillay, “Yet, after three months of deliberation on the case, it would be inhuman to expect jurors to think clearly. As frivolous as brain breaks may sound, they will significantly ameliorate the disastrous consequences of SRD.  And a fair and just trial for ‘El Chapo’ will be much more likely too.”

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*EXAMINER–COMMENTARY by Kevin Miller:
I have to praise President Donald Trump. I mean, don’t get me wrong. As a die hard liberal I oppose pretty much everything he stands for and I personally think he’s a poor excuse for a human being. But no-one can deny that ever since he began his campaign for the Presidency Donald Trump, for better or for worse has single handedly made the entire country pay attention to their government and politics. Whether you love him or hate him, President Trump has you glued to your own personal news source to see what he’s going to do next.

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Re: David Brooks commentary on the MAGA-hat-wearing students:  

It’s been shown over and over again (on video) that the students DIDN’T surround the Native American, that he came up to them and played his drum under their noses.  They were being harangued by the Black Israelite group.  If Brooks is going to comment, at least get his facts right.

*EXAMINER–COMMENTARY by Thomas L. Friedman:
A few years ago, the leaders of the College Board, the folks who administer the SAT college entrance exam, asked themselves a radical question: Of all the skills and knowledge that we test young people for that we know are correlated with success in college and in life, which is the most important? Their answer: the ability to master “two codes” — computer science and the U.S. Constitution.

Since then they’ve been adapting the SATs and the College Board’s Advanced Placement program to inspire and measure knowledge of both. Since the two people who led this move — David Coleman, president of the College Board, and Stefanie Sanford, its chief of global policy — happen to be people I’ve long enjoyed batting around ideas with, and since I thought a lot of students, parents and employers would be interested in their answer, I asked them to please show their work: “Why these two codes?”

Their short answer was that if you want to be an empowered citizen in our democracy — able to not only navigate society and its institutions but also to improve and shape them, and not just be shaped by them — you need to know how the code of the U.S. Constitution works. And if you want to be an empowered and adaptive worker or artist or writer or scientist or teacher — and be able to shape the world around you, and not just be shaped by it — you need to know how computers work and how to shape them.

With computing, the internet, big data and artificial intelligence now the essential building blocks of almost every industry, any young person who can master the principles and basic coding techniques that drive computers and other devices “will be more prepared for nearly every job,” Coleman and Sanford said in a joint statement explaining their initiative. “At the same time, the Constitution forms the foundational code that gives shape to America and defines our essential liberties — it is the indispensable guide to our lives as productive citizens.”

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*Facebook Decided Which Users are Interested in Nazis — and Let Advertisers Target Them Directly:

Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message — even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of the Holocaust or explicitly neo-Nazi music. Despite promises of greater oversight following past advertising scandals, a Times review shows that Facebook has continued to allow advertisers to target hundreds of thousands of users the social media firm believes are curious about topics such as “Joseph Goebbels,” “Josef Mengele,” “Heinrich Himmler,” the neo-nazi punk band Skrewdriver and Benito Mussolini’s long-defunct National Fascist Party.

Experts say that this practice runs counter to the company’s stated principles and can help fuel radicalization online.

*Michael Jackson Estate Sues HBO for $100 Million Over Leaving Neverland:

The Michael Jackson-focused documentary Leaving Neverland has already caused a mountain of controversy, even before its official debut. The film reportedly attracted direct threats ahead of its Sundance Film Festival screening last month—and now the Jackson estate is suing HBO for planning to air the doc in the first place, saying that the network has violated an alleged non-disparagement clause from 1992.

According to Variety, the suit claims HBO entered into an agreement in 1992 to air Michael Jackson in Concert in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour—a pact that included a non-disparagement agreement. A copy of the suit published by Deadline estimates that damages could exceed $100 million.

“As you must know, contrary to all norms of documentary filmmaking, the Estate was never contacted by the supposed ‘documentarian,’ Dan Reed (or anyone else associated with the program) to provide the Estate’s views on, and responses to, the absolutely false claims that are the subject matter of the program,” the suit states. “Likewise, no one else who might offer evidence to contradict the program’s premise was consulted either, as Dan Reed has publicly admitted.”

 *Top Vatican Cardinal Admits Church Destroyed Abuse Records:

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told Pope Francis and nearly 200 church officials meeting in Rome to discuss clerical sex abuse that church officials destroyed evidence or failed to even document accusations in the clerical sex abuse crisis. “Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,” he said during the morning working session in Rome. “Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them.

The stipulated procedures and processes for the prosecution of offenses were deliberately not complied with, but instead cancelled or overridden.” The admission comes on the last working day of the four-day conference which has focused on transparency and accountability of those accused in the cover up of decades of abuse against children, nuns and vulnerable adults at the hands of predator priests. Victim survivor groups have accused the church of destroying evidence and demanded that they open secret archives chronicling abuse accusations. The crisis summit ends with a penance mass on Saturday. Pope Francis will close the summit with final remarks after mass on Sunday morning in Rome.

 *FATAL ERROR – Illinois Cops Confirm They Wrongly Gave Gun License to Aurora Shooter Gary Martin:

Illinois State Police have admitted wrongly issuing a gun license to Gary Martin, the man who officials say shot five people dead in his former workplace in Aurora on Friday before being killed by cops. In a statement issued Monday, the state police acknowledged a screening process failed to detect Martin’s 1990s felony conviction for aggravated assault in Mississippi for which he served five years in prison, the Chicago Tribune reports.

He received a gun license on Jan. 31, 2014, and purchased a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson from an Aurora gun dealer five weeks later—that was the gun used in the deadly attack. The agency said it revoked Martin’s license on April 17, 2014, and suggested the Aurora Police Department may have failed to do its part to ensure the man no longer owned a weapon. State police said the agency is reviewing Illinois, Mississippi, and federal records to determine how the conviction slipped through two criminal background checks.

 *CBO: Feds Will Borrow Another $13 Trillion Over Next 11 Years:

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the federal government will not only fail to balance its budget in any year over the next eleven years (fiscal 2019 through 2029), but that during those eleven years it will increase the federal debt held by the public by $13 trillion.

“Under the assumptions that govern the CBO’s baseline, the federal government is projected to borrow another $13.0 trillion from the end of 2018 through 2029,” said the CBO’s “Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029” released on Jan. 28.

The CBO outlook said that one of the “consequences of growing debt” is: “The likelihood of a fiscal crisis would increase.”

 *Poll: 56% Say FBI, DOJ Officials Likely Broke Law by Plotting to Remove Trump from Office:

A majority of likely U.S. voters want a Special Counsel to investigate whether senior FBI and Justice Department officials broke the law – as a majority believe they did – when they met and discussed ways to remove President Donald Trump from office in May of 2017, a new Rasmussen surveyreveals.

Fifty-six (56%) say it’s likely the officials broke the law, 20 points higher than the 36% who believe it’s unlikely. What’s more, 37% of voters deem it “Very Likely” that the FBI and Justice officials broke the law, about double the 19% who call it “Not at All Likely.”

Question: How likely is it that senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in their discussions to remove President Trump from office – very likely, somewhat likely, not very likely or not at all likely?

•    Likely: 56% (including 37% who say it’s Very Likely)

•    Unlikely: 36% (including 19% who call it Not at All Likely)

Slightly more than half (51%) say a special prosecutor should be appointed to look into the matter, while 38% call it unnecessary.

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Between 2001 and 2006 in the U.S., over 85,000 people a year were “injured and treated in emergency departments in falls associated with dogs and cats,” with 31 percent of those tripping over their dogs. Pets can cause more traditional aggravation as well.

“Dogs bite more than 4.5 million people in the United Statesand send 800,000 people to the doctor’s office every year,” research confirms. While rabies from dog bites has been virtually eliminated in the U.S., the disease “kills more than 59,000 people worldwide each year, with 99 percent caused by dog bites.”

But cat owners shouldn’t be feline any better. “Cats are responsible for 10-15 percent of emergency-room visits due to animal bites, and 30 percent of people who visited a doctor for a cat bite have to be hospitalized.” A lick or scratch can transmit a bacterium called Bartonella henselae which causes cat-scratch disease. CSD affects 12,500 people a year in the US, and can cause fever, headache, blisters and even pneumonia and brain damage.

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‘Eighty percent of adults say political correctness is a problem.

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In the midst of his multi-million-dollar lawsuit against Amazon,Woody Allen has picked up and started working on a new film in Spain. According to The New York Times, the divisive director has received backing from Mediapro, a Barcelona-based conglomerate that has previously worked with Allen on films like Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris. “We have a 10-year relationship with Mr. Allen and, like all projects we produce, we judge the creator by its work,” Mediapro said in a statement to the Times. “All of our projects have a unique personality, and we support all types of artistic voices and ideas and remain committed to producing well-defined films.

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Brett Vance, Host of Jet Jockeys, Examines the Possibility of New HyperSonic Aircraft

Future flight times from New Delhi to New York City could take as little as 2 hours, states a report from Boeing and NASA. 

The companies have partnered to develop supersonic and hypersonic planes, which will be expected to be unveiled over the coming years. “In about two decades, we are expected to use technology which will have ramjets, and fliers will be able to reach New York in as little as 2 hours from New Delhi,” explains Dinesh Keskar, Senior Vice-President of Boeing, “Boeing is currently working on the research and development for the required technology and is studying the engine propulsion requirements.”

“Hypersonic passenger air travel—what a fantastic goal. So easy to say… so hard to do!” exclaims Jet Jockey Host Brett Vance. “Note that there are several designers with supersonic transports in development.  First test flights—in fact—are planned for prototypes in a couple of years.  This article predicts first flights for the hypersonic vehicle in around 5-10 years, with fleet fielding in twenty.  That should give you a huge clue that there are significant technical challenges.”

Jet Jockeys is a docu-reality series, where pilot and host Brett Vance does for aviation enthusiasts what Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs has done for the dignity of the trades; what Neil de Grasse Tyson of Cosmos has done for our sense of wonder about our universe; and what The Robertson Family of Duck Dynasty has done for family. 

“Our major challenges are in materials needed to withstand the high dynamic pressures encountered in a passenger-plane shaped vehicle, as well as major advances in engine technology.” concludes Vance. “Can we go fast?  You bet!  Can we go fast and go cheap?  Not yet.  Watch the developments in military hypersonics, and keep your eye on civilian hypersonic transport news.  We are about to be astounded.”

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Jeff Bezos understands survival instincts.

As a hedge fund refugee, he conjured Amazon, the world’s biggest store, by tapping into our hunter-gatherer instincts, the compulsion to collect more stuff with less effort.

Amazon became “the Prince of Darkness for retail,” Scott Galloway writes in “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google,” by exploiting our “serious mojo for stuff, as survival went to the cave man who had the most twigs, had the right rocks to crack stuff open with, and got the most colorful mud to draw images on walls so his descendants knew when to plant crops, or what dangerous animals to avoid.”

So, of course, Bezos has finely honed survival instincts himself. This is a season when socialism is chic and billionaires are reviled as lame, immoral, greedy, lying and an Orange Menace(if he’s actually a billionaire). Yet the richest dude on earth has managed to come through a traumatic week inspiring admiration.

*EXAMINER–COMMENTARY by David Brooks:
Over the past generation, global capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in human poverty in history. Over the past 10 years, American capitalism has produced 20 million new jobs. The productive dynamism of capitalism is truly a wonder to behold. But economic growth alone is not enough. Growth alone does not translate into economic security for the middle class and the less skilled. Growth alone does nothing to reverse the social decay afflicting communities across America.

This reality is transforming the political debate — and shifting everything leftward. Among conservatives there are now a bevy of thinkers who are trying to find ways to use government to reduce inequality, promote work and restore community. For example, in the lead essay of the conservative journal National Affairs, Abby M. McCloskey notes that the family you are born into and the neighborhood you live in have a much stronger influence on your socioeconomic outcome than any other factors. Her essay is an outstanding compendium of proposals designed to strengthen family and neighborhood.

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*If You’ve Been Harassed Online, You’re Not Alone. More than Half of Americans Say They’ve Experienced Toxic Hate:

Harassment. Physical threats. Bigotry. Hate has become an almost unavoidable fact of life on the internet.

More than half of Americans – 53 percent – say they were subjected to hateful speech and harassment in 2018. And 37 percent reported severe attacks, including sexual harassment and stalking, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit which tracks and fights anti-Semitism. For a third of Americans, online abuse was in response to their sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, gender identity or disability, the survey found.

“This is an epidemic and it has been far too silent,” said Adam Neufeld, ADL‘s vice president of innovation and strategy. “We wanted to understand the extent of it and the impact of it.”

 *Toasters May Expose You to More Pollution than a Busy Intersection:

What has the greatest influence on air pollution since sliced bread? Toast. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin warns that toasters, candles, and other household smoke makers expose people to more air pollution than standing in a busy intersection does, the Times of Londonreported.

The most dangerous of these is toasters, which immediately send toxic particles into the air once they’re turned on, researcher Marina Vance told the Times. Burnt toast is particularly harmful. If you can’t quit the buttered bread, researchers suggest only heating it to light crisp. Other culprits include house cleaners, air purifiers and sprays.

Cooking activities like roasting and frying can also pollute the air in your home.

 *At the Peak of the Holocaust, Nazis Murdered more than 14,000 Jews
a Day, Scholar Says:

In the ledger of evils perpetrated by humans, Operation Reinhard holds a special place. Over the course of 21 months starting in March 1942, Nazi forces and their collaborators rounded up 1.7 million Jews from 393 Polish towns and ghettos and dispatched them in tightly packed rail cars to three camps in German-occupied Poland — Sobibor, Treblinkaand Belzec. At these three killing centers, members of Poland’s once-thriving Jewish community were murdered with such efficiency and ruthlessness that, of roughly 1.5 million Jews who passed through their gates, a mere 102 would survive to bear witness. By November 1943, when Operation Reinhard ended, essentially no Polish Jews were left for the Germans to kill.

In a bid to capture the scope and intensity of genocidal killing sprees, a Tel Aviv University researcher has dissected Operation Reinhard and found its dark heart. Biomathematician Lewi Stone drew upon a painstaking accounting of Nazi train schedules to analyze the “kill rate” of Jews between February 1942 and December 1944. Within Operation Reinhard’s 21-month campaign of extermination, he discovered a 92-day period that stands out for its ferocity.

In August, September and October of 1942, he calculated, German forces and their allies in Poland killed at least 1.32 million Jews. That averages out to 14,348 per day, every day. Virtually all of the victims were from Poland and its immediate neighbors.

 *BALLOONING – Americans Are Getting Fatter and Fatter, Say Feds:

Americans are getting fatter and fatter—and not just because it’s the holidays. A new federal report released Thursday says American men and women of all ages have gotten heavier and thicker during the 21st century so far. Women’s average waists grew over 2 inches—from 36.3 in 1999-2000 to 38.6 inches in 2015-16—while men’s have stretched just over an inch, from 39.0 to 40.2 inches during the same 17-year period. The report was based on data gathered through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which looked at weight, height, waist circumference, and body-mass index in about 45,000 Americans over 20 years old.

“It’s what your grandma would have told you, and hearing it from a professor now is no less important,” said Shailendra Patel from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. “You need a varied diet, a balanced diet, with smaller portions. Your plate should look colorful, and you need to be exercising at least three times a week.”

 *GROSS – Manhattan ATMs are Absolutely Riddled with Bacteria:

Talk about dirty money. According to a recent report, the typical ManhattanATM is more bacteria-ridden than a wide range of other heavily used objects, including a subway pole, an NYC Wi-Fi hub and the handle of a public toilet at Penn Station.

Mike Brown of financial product marketplace LendEDU left the comfort of his Hoboken office on Jan. 4 armed with a Hygiena System SURE Plus — a handheld testing device that measures bacteria on a given surface — to test 20 different ATMs (split between Times Square and the West Village). The keypad, touch screen and card-reader of each cash machine was tested. He also tested nine other objects and surfaces in the city to see how they compared with ATMs.

Predictably, the more heavily trafficked Midtown machines were also the dirtiest, with one Times Square ATM measuring an overall 513 RLU (relative light units), compared to a reading of 68 RLU for a subway pole, 163 RLU for the Penn Station public toilet handle and 370 RLU at a Father Demo Squarepark bench, with the highest numbers indicating the most bacteria. The pass limit for food-service establishments and operating rooms is 10 RLU. The dirtiest part of an ATM is almost always the card-reader. Card-readers at high-traffic ATMs averaged a 427 RLU reading, about twice the levels recorded for keypads and touch screens.

*Charlotte Democrats Want Cops to ‘Cut Back’ on DUI Enforcement in Illegal Immigrant Neighborhoods:

Democrats on the Charlotte, North Carolina City Councilhave asked the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department(CMPD) to “cut back” on enforcement of drunk-driving laws in neighborhoods with large illegal immigrant populations, because illegal immigrants apparently are “nervous to see the cops.” “We start tonight with pressure on Charlotte police to cut illegal immigrants a break when it comes to speeding and drunk driving,” reported Mike Garrison of WBT Radio on Feb. 12.

“Democrats on city council are asking the cops to cut back on traffic checkpoints and drunk-driving enforcement in neighborhoods where illegals live,” said Garrison. “The reason? It makes illegal immigrants nervous to see the cops.”

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