A Warrant Was Signed

They opened the door with a warrant.

Glenn Beck posted this Monday afternoon, hours after the first reports. [VIDEO]

Alive After the Needle

This got my attention on Wednesday.

I am not for the death penalty. I also do not need a sermon to see what Christa Pike did in Knoxville in 1995. Those two things can sit in the same paragraph.

Tennessee tried to execute her at Riverbend. Courts spent the day opening and closing the door. The Sixth Circuit paused the warrant about an hour before the 10 a.m. time. The Supreme Court lifted that stay around 5:50 p.m. The state then ran the protocol late. Two syringes of pentobarbital. Witnesses heard her snoring with her mouth open. The curtains closed, opened, closed again. An ambulance left the prison. Governor Bill Lee froze the rest of the 2026 calendar and ordered a review. As I write this, she is alive.

If you never heard of the case, here is the short version. I asked Grok to summarize the crime.

Even Hostin Said Wait

This showed up on Steve Bartin’s Newsalert Tuesday afternoon. Sunny Hostin, on the liberal morning show The View, talking about the Cornell case. Journalist Glenn Greenwald posted the same clip on X: if even she is saying wait, the point should not be hard.

Watch that segment here: [VIDEO]

Last week a former student filed a civil suit. She says that in October 2024, at Chi Phi, she was drugged and assaulted by seven fraternity members. A group chat from that night is out. A site went up naming the seven. None of them has been criminally charged.

Clancy Holdout On the Record

I already posted that the holdout juror finally responded. That was The Clancy Holdout Answered. Fugitive TV had him off camera. Ray Marcel called him Michael. I held the last name there.

This Fugitive TV cut is the follow-up. Michael called Marcel again. He hired a defamation lawyer. [VIDEO]

Over the weekend it became news that the holdout was Black. That was already in the last post. Paula Devlin told Gayle King that on CBS Mornings. King had to sit with it for a second. Some people tried to make the race the story.

Megyn Kelly got to that clip before the NY Post printed the rest.

Watch her here: [VIDEO]

The Clancy Holdout Answered

I just found this Jason Whitlock video. He shares clips from Fugitive TV, where Ray Marcel says he got the Black holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy case on the phone.

Watch Whitlock here: [VIDEO]

The original call is on Fugitive TV. Marcel says the juror would not sit on camera. Watch that clip itself here: Fugitive TV.

There was another post on this case in the works. It has yet to be published. It may be shared at a later time.

This juror has been taking a beating since the Clancy mistrial. Over the weekend it became news that the holdout was Black.

Whitlock and Marcel both call him Michael. A last name was identified on X/Twitter before either video. The Boston Globe later printed his full name. The jury list remains impounded by order of the trial judge.

We hear things about him lying to the court on his own criminal charges. We hear attacks on his logic. Clancy’s defense attorney tried to kick him off the jury before the mistrial.

I already used Walsh for the hang. Sympathy is not a verdict. I am not walking that ground again.

Well, this juror has spoken. Whitlock is the analysis. Marcel is the call. He says he checked the box. He says he stayed on the children. A dismissed charge is not a verdict. Neither is the beating.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Sympathy Is Not a Verdict

Matt Walsh posted an instant reaction Friday afternoon to a hung jury in the Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

The clip is not a tour of five weeks of testimony. Walsh’s argument is narrower. The only reason the case did not end in an acquittal, he says, is one holdout juror — a man, on a panel of nine women and three men — who would not join the others in finding Clancy not criminally responsible. Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, asked the judge to remove him, told a single justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the juror was biased against people with mental illness, and invoked the Americans with Disabilities Act. The court said no. Outside, Reddington said the other eleven had been “robbed by one man.”

Walsh puts that next to the Derek Chauvin jury. In Minneapolis, he says, jurors ignored the law and convicted Chauvin of murder because he did not inspire sympathy — even after, in Walsh’s telling, they understood George Floyd had overdosed. Deliberations are treated as closed, so the verdict stood. In Plymouth the pressure ran the other way: eleven ready to excuse the killings, and a public effort to pry out the one who would not. Walsh’s larger claim is the Massachusetts rule itself. The killings are not in dispute. The Commonwealth still has to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that she was criminally responsible. He thinks no one can prove another person’s mind that way. A mistrial, to him, is only a relative win. His close is that the insanity defense should not exist.

The case underneath the clip is simpler than the argument about it.

Mark Dice: FOX News just lost $787 million. Will they survive after this?

 

[VIDEO] This was shocking news I heard about via twitter. Of course I have to find a article about this to see what happened.

I didn't really follow the Dominion lawsuit against FOX News Channel. They had to give up some money in this lawsuit. As you see Mark Dice takes a look at this news and shows hows FOX's competitors reported this news.

Whoever that CNN guy is - Jake Tapper aka Tapeworm - he was a d!ck for snickering over this. What an unprofessional fool!

Trump pleads not guilty

 

If only Andy Warhol was still alive!

Yesterday was an historic day, the first time a former President has been brought up on criminal charges.

These charges brought up against Donald J. Trump regarding whatever hush money payments offered to former adult actress - well I mean she did the skin flix - Stormy Daniels when Trump ran his successful 2016 campaign for President. The controversy was the fact that Alvin Bragg - who is currently the Manhattan District Attorney who presides over a high crime rate in the NYC borough of Manhattan - brought up what is described as federal charges against Trump.

So many on the right will describe this as a politically charged prosecution. So this happened during at least 2015 and 2016. Why didn't the FEC do anything? Certainly why didn't even the NY US Attorney do anything?

Another thing to look at is coverage. My perception is that there were some networks who were playing up yesterday's events. Trump was expected to surrender for his arraignment. Other headlines state that he was arrested. I suppose my comprehension is more or less did he have to be arrested in order to appear in court to hear criminal charges?

Is there a lawyer in the house who can answer this? Wait from FOX 5 NY:

Technically, while Trump went through the booking process ahead of the arraignment, he was considered to be "under arrest" and in custody.

But he wasn't handcuffed and he didn't sit in a jail cell, in part because parts of the courthouse were cleared out for his arraignment — and because Trump is a former president with Secret Service protection.

Trump only faced "getting arrested" – like how it's portrayed in the movies – if he didn’t voluntarily turn himself into the court ahead of his arraignment, which he did.

The logistics and security of Trump’s surrender were worked on for several days, according to sources, and included collaboration from the U.S. Secret Service, New York Police Department, FBI, New York State court officers and the DA's office.

And again Bragg or anyone else who was pursuing any legal action against Pres. Trump are only causing themselves to be open to this:

Trump then flew back to his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, and appeared in front of several hundred supporters on Tuesday night. He repeated ongoing claims that the investigation was politically motivated, attacking Bragg and the judge in the New York case, the judge's family, and other prosecutors investigating him in other cases.

"The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it," Trump said.

Since I'm an NPC Trump isn't going to listen to me. Trump isn't wrong to go after Bragg and the judge in this - although I don't know exactly what the judge did in this situation. However, stay away from family big man I'm not sure there was any good reason for it.

Here's another thing from CBS News:

"The payment records, kept and maintained by the Trump Organization, were false New York business records. In truth, there was no retainer agreement, and Lawyer A was not being paid for legal services rendered in 2017," the statement of facts said, referring to Cohen. "The Defendant caused his entities' business records to be falsified to disguise his and others' criminal conduct."

Falsifying business records is typically a misdemeanor under New York law, but can be charged as a felony if done with an "intent to defraud [that] includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof." Prosecutors said Trump's conduct was intended to violate election laws.

Well, now the right wingers who support Trump will begin to ask the question as far as whether or not this could be proven in a court of law? And hopefully honest and fair lawyers are looking at whether or not this case could even go to trail.

The next time the former President will be in court is later this year December 4th. And by that point its time to campaign for the Presidency as he will be. When is the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses? 

O'Reilly: Exposing media lies about the Trump raid

 

[VIDEO] Well before the defeat of Liz Cheney to represent Wyoming we had the Mar-A-Lago raid recently. A lot of things being said about it and how it wasn't justified. Bill O'Reilly discusses...

O'Reilly: The pitiful AG's DISMAL performance

 

[VIDEO] The Attorney General of the U.S. made a statement with regards to the raid on Trump's Florida property earlier this week. A sealed warrant, an affidavit, and no real indication as far as why they are doing this and what exactly are they looking for. All most of us may know is that former President Trump took some documents that allegedly he wasn't supposed to.

I've also heard that his people got a heads up about this search warrant. So he knew the FBI were coming. We also know that whatever was being looked at by federal authorities that Trump was actually cooperating. It could be said there was no need for this raid, for this show of force by federal authorities.

So the comments by Merrick Garland - Joe Biden's Attorney General - were not useful as nothing was said. And O'Reilly characterized Garlan's comments as being someone who was "scared" just not in charge by any means. 

Gov. DeSantis is a true leader

 

[VIDEO] This video was published today. Down there is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is suspending Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren. 

As I post this I'm going through the video and see Gov. DeSantis cite the issues in Los Angeles and San Francisco for their prosecutors failing to adequate prosecute criminals. Even cite that in S.F. - reminder they recalled their prosecutor as crime rose there - you can steal a certain amount of merchandise and you won't be arrested nor prosecuted.

Here's why:

DeSantis said Warren put himself above the law by signing letters saying he would not enforce any prohibitions on sex change operations for minors and would not prosecute abortion cases. He made the latter statement after Roe v. Wade was struck down by the Supreme Court.

"It's not for (Warren) to put himself above that, and say that he is not going to enforce the law," DeSantis said at the news conference. "We don't elect people in one part of the state, to have veto power over what the entire state decides on these important issues.

"The constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor, not in individual state attorneys. And so when you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty, and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties. So today we are suspending State Attorney Andrew Warren effective immediately."

I know some states have the ability to remove - independent of recall - of prosecutors. Particularly elected prosecutors like Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx who got a second term in 2020. In this state, I'm not aware of such a process and voters can't recall her. So we get to recall her in 2024 when voters choose the next POTUS because it definitely won't be Joe Biden running again.

Either way he doesn't mention the issues of Manhattan where a prosecutor there District Attorney Alvin Bragg is engaging in the practice that got Mr. Warren suspended and ultimately to be removed from office. Crime is rising in NYC especially in Manhattan. The Governor of NY is Kathy Hochul, she's running for re-election and hopefully crime is important to voters there. She's not taken any action yet from what I can tell.

Here in Illinois - Chicago area especially crime is an issue. Our Gov. J.B. Pritzker seems to run ads about making Illinois a haven for abortions. How about making this state safer for your citizens? What are we going to do about rising crime in an important urban center such as Chicago?

So anyway, the above video shows how Gov. DeSantis right now is my favorite Republican right now. I do hope he becomes POTUS one day, even as soon as 2024. Sorry Trump you were great too, however, DeSantis is the future!  

"He might have broken the law, but he did all the correct, trendy things"

 A PJ Media article discussing a ruling in Minnesota regarding the staffing of sworn police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The city charter there requires the city to have a certain level of staffing according to the population so the staffing should be at 731 police officers.

Of course as you know perhaps a year after the devastating riots in the wake of George Floyd's death there was an attempt to change the Minneapolis city charter which was thankfully denied by voters. Bear in mind many activists there wanted to abolish the police department and create a dept. of public safety. They wanted to reimagine policing. It's only mentioned in this article that Minneapolis fell in for the defund police craze.

They also mention the mayor Jacob Frey kneeling and weeping at the casket of George Floyd described as "a drug-addled drifter who was stopped by police outside a store where the owner claimed he and his cohorts were passing fake $20 bills. Floyd was under the influence of fentanyl and meth, a heart-slowing cocktail of drugs, which was exacerbated by Officer Derek Chauvin holding Floyd down with his knee." And he was effectively rejected in his efforts to curry favor with defund police and BLM activists in a humiliating scene recorded by anything from a news camera to smartphone cameras.

Minneapolis mayor @Jacob_Frey just got his struggle session pic.twitter.com/WpreLrpWMN

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2020

Of course when you place greater scrutiny on police or you keep police from doing their jobs in serving and protecting the police (though in fact insuring that for criminals there are immediate consequences for their actions), then what happens, more crime. Which brought about this lawsuit in Minneapolis which ruled that the City of Minneapolis must insure the appropriate staffing of police or explain why they are unable to do so.

Sadly we are still suffering the consequences of the disruption of over two years ago. Following the trend of "wokeness" from that period of time. Buying into the new trendy terms of "systemic racism" or even "evil whiteness". To be honest no one can define these two things, in my opinion.

h/t Instapundit

CBS Chicago: Jussie Smollett released from Cook County Jail on bond

 

[VIDEO] Shocking development for the moment Smollett's defense team is appealing the sentence handed down in a Cook County court more than six days ago. Remember his outburst after his sentencing about him not being suicidal claiming if anything happened he didn't do it.

It was also in the news however that he was in a mental health ward of Cook County Jail and that he wasn't eating at all during his brief stay in jail. The mental health thing I'm not surprised about based on his outburst, being in jail I think is a very difficult state. I can't credibly sit here in front of you and say I'm hardened criminal and can get used to jail. I know for sure that's not the place for me, no more than it might be for Smollett.

Regardless he has an appeal and he's out on bond and from here we shall see what's next. Will his appeal fail and he might have to further serve his 150 day sentence? I read that for good behavior he could've been out in 75 days. Anyway what's next for this amazing saga?

However the judge's takedown at Smolletts sentence is priceless. I hate to see someone's reputation destroyed, however, how spectacular was this and all it took was staging this rather incredulous hoax.

Attorneys want out of R. Kelly's federal case

 

[VIDEO] I haven't really been following this on a consistent basis but I do have my thoughts on this.

In about 2002 when I first went away to college the students I met at Morehouse were talking about a video - which I never saw - of R. Kelly engaging in sex acts with a minor. My defense of R. Kelly was usually perhaps it just looks like him, most would say "No it's HIM". Well I don't know I never saw it to say whether or not it was or wasn't him.

Regardless I hold strictly to the idea of innocent until proven guilty. He was charged and put on trial in Illinois with regards to that very video. He was found not guilty and certainly expected that this would be the end of it until fairly recent. 

As noted in the short story above from my local CBS affiliate here in Chicago, he was convicted last year on sex crimes charges in New York. He's under the gun for similar charges in federal court here in Chicago. So whatever is going on in the bedroom with R. Kelly well it exploded more.

Plenty have expressed their opinion of him and may condemn him as a pedophile because it seems he just loves underaged girls. Many probably have been affected by such individuals and our society certainly condemns pedophiles in the worst way. Children are vulnerable, and certainly teenaged young people are vulnerable although certainly they're at an age where they can take care of themselves. At the same time to get the attention of a famous entertainer as R. Kelly that could lead to some issues that no one wants to think about.

Yes I know I'm putting this simply, there's a lot going on here that I have no idea how to address them. One thing to be said is that it seems to me R. Kelly has self-destructed. Even I no longer believe he's innocent and it didn't have to take that one guilty verdict for me to recognize this. Once the public kept finding out things about his private life even I had to say something is wrong here.

I could compare it to O.J. Simpson although he was found not guilty in the murders of his ex-wife and her companion, I accepted that he was acquitted although so many believed he did it. He was even found liable in a civil trial determining wrongful death. And worse still he was sent to prison for many years on unrelated charges. For me it just showed many years after he beat the rap in 1995 that he was affected by this murder trial in some way. It causes me to wonder if he actually did the murder.

Well Simpson won't be charged with it now, and R. Kelly currently is undergoing the same legal issues. He already got convicted in New York. And we see his responses to the latest scrutinies especially blowing up at Gayle King. At this point because of what's come up I just have some issues even believing that he hasn't done at least some of the things he's being accused of.

Tim Pool was 'swatted'

 

[VIDEO] I occasionally watch the Cast Castle videoblogs which features the inner circle of Tim Pool's operation. While Pool is from Chicago I do know that he's living in New York and New Jersey and now living in rural West Virginia. Pool has often stated that after the unrest in 2020 he felt compelled to move as far away from any city or suburbs as possible

I got wind of this last nite when Pool noted on twitter that he was "swatted" during a livestream. You hear some I presume dispatch noting some form of political broadcast going on.

Former mobster talks about the Jussie Smollett case

 

[VIDEO] As you know the case was tried last week and the actor Smollett who is well known for his role on the FOX TV series Empire was convicted in a Cook County court. Michael Franzese is formerly a made member of the Columbo crime family out of New York City who advises Smollett that he just needs to be honest and fess up. Show some contrition if this is really a hoax, there is no need to double down.

As a bonus I'm linking to a Liberal Hivemind vid about a juror in this case. I may have heard some comments from this juror on the radio recently and it sounds as if he and a lot of people on that jury just didn't buy that he was a victim of a hate crime in the wee hours of the morning near downtown Chicago on a frigid winter day

Mark Dice on Jussie Smollett

 

[VIDEO] Mark Dice talks about the Jussie Smollett trial. To be honest I haven't been following this closely it was the hot trial going on through the Chicago area.

Noted in this video was that a special prosecutor was appointed in this case as well this was in fact a hoax perpetrated by the actor Smollett and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx didn't press any charges. He in fact hired two Nigerian (Black) men to pose as Trump supporters wearing red MAGA hats. I heard snippets from the trial where Smollett admitting doing drugs with one of those brothers and even engaged in sexual activities.

However, yesterday the jury in the trail reach a verdict and found Smollett known for his role on the TV series Empire which was filmed in the Chicago area had been found guilty on five of six counts.

Dice following the media noted how a number of liberal or leftist minded celebrities and politicians came to support Smollett. Then mayor Rahm Emanuel still tried to blame then President Donald Trump claiming that he created this toxic environment where this hoax could take off. You Rahm I still need you to come back to Chicago and run it right, I don't think you were a joke as a mayor anymore we have one now...

Anyway, how many have shut up and quieted down because the truth came out. There aren't many Trump supporters in Chicago willing to do something so stupid in the middle of the night on a cold day day near downtown Chicago. I hardly have ever seen a red MAGA hat in the city and if I did I'd shake their hand because what do I care they stand for something and it's not necessarily what the mainstream fake news media wants you to believe they stand for.

Oh yeah as far as Kim Foxx she's derided by Dice as a Soros backed puppet. That's probably verifiable if one looks at the records for her campaign financial disclosures. However at a later time I want to explore this George Soros deal. 

So if he is a helping hand in electing very soft on crime prosecutors in a number of urban areas around the nation, the one question I have that there is hardly an answer for is what are his motives?

Timcast IRL: SCOTUS Prepares To Possibly OVERTURN Roe V. Wade, Leftists PANIC

 

[VIDEO] This is related to the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. You can read up a bit more about this over at the SCOTUS blog:

It has been nearly 30 years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion that the court first recognized in Roe v. Wade. Only one justice who participated in Casey is still on the court now: Clarence Thomas, who joined a dissent in Casey arguing that “Roe was wrongly decided, and that it can and should be overruled.” After nearly two hours of oral argument on Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Thomas and the other members of the court’s six-justice conservative majority seemed poised to uphold a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. That decision would further curtail the right to abortion and undermine a key component of Roe and Casey. But the justices were once again deeply divided over whether to formally overturn those precedents.

Enacted by the Mississippi legislature in 2018, the law – known as the Gestational Age Act – has never gone into effect. Both a federal district court and the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit blocked the law, explaining that Roe and Casey bar states from banning abortions before fetal viability – the point around 24 weeks of pregnancy when the fetus can survive outside the womb. Mississippi asked the justices to weigh in and, after the court agreed to take up the case, the state began urging the court to overturn those landmark decisions.

Arguing for the state on Wednesday, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart told the justices that Roe and Casey “haunt our country,” have “poisoned the law,” and have “choked off compromise.” “Abortion is a hard issue,” he said, and it is a question that should be left up to the people to decide.

Meanwhile you can check out the almost 30 minute discussion on Tim Pool's recent IRL podcast discussing this pending US Supreme Court case.

Timcast IRL: Lawyer Says Ahmaud Arbery Cases' Judge Ruled INCORRECTLY, All Three Defendants Were Charged

 

[VIDEO] Not to end Thanksgiving on a less than high note but I failed to note the end of another court case that a few people are watching. Especially for the situation of a Black person killed by if you will White vigilantes who were trying to engage in a citizen's arrest.

There were three defendants in this case and they were found guilty. You can read about this from the AP.

In the above Timcast IRL segment you see Tim Pool and his panel discuss this case with attorney Andrew Branca who noted that there were some mistakes made in this case. Mistakes that might enable the defendants in this case to appeal.

Sadly this is yet another case that was turned very political and very racial. It wasn't a clear cut case if I believe Attorney Branca and the judge in this case was willing to make the jury decide if there was probably cause for this citizen's arrest or that these three defendants had absolute certainty that the late Arbury was engaged in the act of burglary.

Rittenhouse ACQUITTED on all counts...

 Of all places we see react to yesterday's verdict in the trial of 18-yr-old Kyle Rittenhouse on a TV program I used to enjoy titled Entertainment Tonight. I used to like to watch because they would report on Star Trek and perhaps some other things. And now it's waded into the political and the real-world topical because well it's not enough to talk about the world of entertainment right....

[VIDEO] As you know yesterday after about three days of jury deliberation Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts. It seems this is the right call and for me affirms the right of self-defense of anyone in this country.