Berlin - An otherwise quiet block in central Berlin has been rocked in recent months by paint bombs, broken windows and protests.

The cause of the commotion is a clothing store, Tønsberg, that sells a brand linked to Germany’s far right. To those unversed in neo-Nazi symbology, the brand, Thor Steinar, looks like normal urban street wear. But the clothing line is “an identifying mark for right extremists,” according to the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, a domestic intelligence agency. The company’s original logo, a combination of two Scandinavian runes resembling the SS insignia, was banned in 2004 under a German law prohibiting Nazi symbols. Read more »

This latest is not a movie but a play.  It reveals the Jewish obsession with stereotypical ‘nazi skinheads’ in entertainment media.

The neo-Nazi skinhead evokes both fear and fascination in popular culture. While liberally minded folk may reject the racist dogma of the group, they also fetishize the militant youths in films, TV shows, and other entertainment. David Gow’s two-person play Cherry Docs confronts this revulsion and attraction head on by pairing a skinhead named Mike (Maximilian Osinski) with a liberal Jewish lawyer named Danny (Mark Zeisler), who is given the task of defending Mike after he is incarcerated for a violent crime against a Pakistani man. Read more »

ATLANTA –From his first day at Morehouse College - the country’s only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men - Joshua Packwood has been a standout.His popularity got him elected dorm president as a freshman. His looks and physique made him a fashion-show favorite. His intellect made him a Rhodes Scholar finalist. His work ethic landed him a job at the prestigious investment banking firm Goldman Sachs in New York City.

But it’s his skin that has made all of this an anomaly. This month, Packwood is set to take the stage and address his classmates as the first white valedictorian in Morehouse’s 141-year history. Read more »

Two teens were sentenced Tuesday to 23 years to life in prison for stomping a pregnant girl so badly her fetus died.

Alfonso “Lil’ Al” Price, 16, and Jebrell Wright, 17, were convicted of murder, kidnapping and felonious assault in an April trial.

They lured 18-year-old Kerria Anderson, who was 7½ months pregnant, to an Over-the-Rhine apartment July 11, 2007, where they beat and stomped her, resulting in a still birth. Read more »

The Society of Professional Journalists has decided that it is best to leave a suspect’s race out of crime reporting except for “extraordinary” reasons. Of course, to the SPJ, “good reporting” means race info in a story about crime isn’t “useful to people in the community” even if the race of a suspect is part of a police report apparently. Despite their claim that they aren’t toeing the PC line, their explanation is filled with just the sort of reasoning based on PC thinking — one of which is that all whites are racists.Some of you may remember the story in September of 2007 when the Sacramento Bee announced that they were revisiting their policy of including race in their crime stories. A particularly gruesome crime occurred that brought the Bee to revisit their policy when they reported on the suspect leaving out race while Internet reporting as well as the Bee’s own comments section on their internet posting of the story reported the race of the suspect anyway. Read more »

May 9. I read tonight a brief article by Philip Giraldi posted on the American Conservative website: “War with Iran Might Be Closer than You Think.”

“There is considerable speculation,” writes the former CIA officer, “and buzz in Washington today suggesting that the National Security Council has agreed in principle to proceed with plans to attack an Iranian al-Qods [Revolutionary Guards]-run camp that is believed to be training Iraqi militants. The camp that will be targeted is one of several located near Tehran.”

Giraldi provides details. He reports that the meeting came as “the direct result” of Hizbollah advances in Lebanon in recent days. (Recall that the U.S. State Department lists the Shiite organization Hizbollah as “terrorist” and as a tool of both Iran and Baathist Syria. In fact it is probably the country’s largest and most popular political party and has built significant ties with some Christian and Sunni groups. Hizbollah’s rapid seizure of the Muslim sections of Beirut, accomplished with little resistance, may have been deliberately provoked by the U.S.-backed quasi-government of Lebanon when the latter shut down the party’s private communications network.) Read more »

Three small-town eighth-graders in Minnesota were suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge o Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now say may soon be rewarded to protect free speech rights.

The head of the Minnesota American Civil Liberties Union said that the school’s actions against the students are unconstitutional and his office has informed the district of that today in a strongly worded letter. “The school can’t do that; that’s illegal, “said Chuck Samuelson, the civil liberties group executive director. “Wow.”

Samuelson said that numerous U.S. Court rulings dating back to the 1940s say in “well-settled constitutional law” that students who refuse to participate in the pledge cannot be punished for refusing to participate.” STORY>>>

Anna Jarvis was never married and never had a child. But, like all of us, she had a mother. As a child, Anna sat through a Sunday School series where her mother taught on the subject, “Mothers of the Bible.” At The close of the series she heard her mother pray: “I hope someone, sometime will found a memorial day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. She is entitled to it.”

After her mother died in 1905, Anna Channeled her grief in a constructive manner to fulfill her mothers prayer. She launched a nationwide effort to establish an annual day for honoring mothers. In 1908, Mothers Day became a fixture in most states.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are 83 million mothers in the United States. The number of single-mother households has tripled to more than 10 million since 1970. ARTICLE>>>

The 19-year-old son of a convicted murderer is now facing a murder charge himself, accused of beating a Jefferson Township mother of two to death with a dumbbell in her Lake Hopatcong apartment this past January, authorities said today.

Demetrius Diaz-Bridges is charged with murder and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose in the Jan. 30 killing of Elizabeth O’Brien, authorities said. He was arrested Saturday in his mother’s home in Raleigh, N.C., police and a family member said.

Police say Diaz-Bridges, a former neighbor and friend of the victim’s older son, admitted to killing O’Brien and stuffing her body in the first-floor closet where it was found. Read more »

A video posted on YouTube.com is causing a lot of concern among Memphis City School parents.  Now were trying to find solutions.The clip labeled, “Mitchell High School Memphis … Rape Dat Ho,” was posted last month.  It was flagged as offensive then taken down, but not before News Channel 3 recorded the clip on tape.

The images are disturbing.  They are graphic and hard to watch.  It shows young men and women engaging in what one parent described as “sex with clothes on.” Read more »

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown.

Gunman sprayed Juan Antonio Roman Garcia’s car with bullets outside his home in Ciudad Juarez, officials said. The attack came months after his name appeared at the top of a hit list left at a monument for fallen police officers.

Mexico has been shaken by a wave of drug-related violence as gangs battle security forces and each other for control of trafficking routes north. Read more »

An East St. Louis police officer faces charges for keeping officers from another department from doing their jobs.

Belleville police say they were trying to break up a teen fight when Debra Simpkins arrived and identified herself as an officer.

A police report says she then used profanities, accused the Belleville officers of being racist and allegedly agitated the crowd, who then rallied behind her.

Simpkins is due in St. Clair County Court July 10th.  more>>>

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville high school student was recently beaten and battered at school by three students he said he didn’t even know.

Witnesses to the attack told police Forrest High School sophomore Karl Koch Jr. was targeted because of the color of his skin.”They started closing in, and all I remember is getting hit,” Koch said.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration appears set to offer Israel a powerful radar system that could greatly boost Israeli defenses against enemy ballistic missiles while tying it directly into a growing U.S. missile shield.

President George W. Bush is expected to discuss the matter during a visit to Israel on Wednesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state amid mounting U.S. concerns about perceived threats from Iran, people familiar with the matter said.

This is “probably the No. 2 issue” on Bush’s agenda for the visit, second only to the Middle East peace process, said Rep. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican who has spearheaded calls in Congress for tighter U.S. missile-defence ties with Israel. Read more »

Police plan to review surveillance footage of a fatal encounter between two Pittsburgh police officers — one of them a K-9 officer — and a Knoxville man with a history of arrests.Cameras outside a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center facility on the border of Knoxville and Mt. Oliver might have captured the Tuesday evening shooting that left Justin James Jackson, 19, dead.

Jackson died from a gunshot wound in the head and one in the chest, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said. The K-9 officer’s dog, a 6-year-old German shepherd named Aulf, died of chest wounds at a veterinary hospital. Read more »

Shortly after moving into their new home, an African American family was welcomed by someone burning “KKK” in their yard.

In a bustling neighborhood off Bonnabel Boulevard – near Lake Pontchartrain – one that was everything that this couple was looking for.  Last Saturday, they moved in.  They were proud to be on the block. Read more »

Moments before her ex-boyfriend was arraigned Friday on murder charges, 21-year-old Laci Green of Westland was described by family friends as a church-going, ambitious young woman who had ended a bad relationship and immersed herself in her nursing studies at Schoolcraft College.

“She went to church all the time,” said Sheila Noon, who worked with Green’s mother, Barbara, at the MotorCity Casino buffet.  [Her church probably recommended inter-racial relationships.]

Green, who worked at the casino hotel while attending school, had broken off a six-year relationship weeks ago with a 25-year-old Dearborn Heights defendant identified by police as Robert James-The-First Howard, accused of strangling Green to death early Wednesday morning near her home on Westland’s southwest side. Read more »

The San Diego Minutemen asked a federal judge yesterday to allow the group to reclaim a piece of Interstate 5 as its assigned spot in Caltrans’ Adopt-A-Highway litter cleanup program and to restore the state road sign with the group’s name.The anti-illegal immigration activists were granted a northbound stretch of the highway near the Border Patrol’s San Clemente checkpoint in November. They were reassigned to state Route 52 near Santee in January after complaints to the agency about the group’s controversial nature and the location near the checkpoint.

The agency cited safety concerns; the group, alleging free-speech discrimination, sued Caltrans the following month. Read more »

LOS ANGELES - A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted.

Mike Gilbert also claims he helped his former friend wiggle out of the murder charges by suggesting how to bloat his hands so they wouldn’t fit the notorious bloody gloves.

Gilbert’s book, “How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse”, is due in stores Monday. It was released to The Associated Press in advance. Read more »

Police say it appears the initial cause of a fight involving between 100 and 150 students of teens at a South Los Angeles high school was friction between black and Latino gang members, KNBC’s Doug Kriegel reported.

The Locke High School melee, which began in the cafeteria near the end of the lunch period around 1 p.m., resulted in the arrest of four people.

Three students were arrested on suspicion of fighting and a non-student was arrested for allegedly having a knife, said Susan Cox of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Read more »

Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich has bought the Colorado ranch of surgical-equipment tycoon Leon Hirsch for $36.3 million. Together with another house purchased for $11.8 million in February, this brings Mr. Abramovich’s known real-estate investments in the area to almost $50 million.

The latest purchase is of a 14,300-square-foot, split-level house in Snowmass, near Aspen, set on 200 acres. It has 11 bedrooms, 12 baths, a media room, a climate-controlled wine room with a tasting area, a hot tub and a spa.

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By Patrick J. Buchanan

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on” than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY.

She cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” said Hillary. “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”

The Democratic Party can’t win with just “eggheads and African-Americans,” Paul Begala added helpfully.

What Hillary and Begala are saying is politically incorrect, but it is also patently true. Hillary was describing what may now fairly be called the Hillary Democrats — a.k.a. the ex-Reagan Democrats who did not vote for Obama and may defect to John McCain. Read more »

Kevin MacDonald had just completed the first in a series of books that would come to define him. Awaiting feedback from his publisher 15 years ago, MacDonald sent his manuscript to a colleague in the psychology department at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). The feedback was not encouraging.

“What troubles me most is that your criticism of Jews may be taken seriously by groups and individuals who both fear and hate Jews,” Martin Fiebert wrote in a 12-point reply. “Your manuscript, unintentionally perhaps, reinforces the stereotype that all Jews, be they assimilated or not, are clannish, deceptive, and exploitive. I’m sure you would be dismayed to find that your book has a treasured place in the bookcases of neo-Nazis along with ‘Mein Kampf’ and the ‘Protocols of Zion.’” Read more »

NEW YORK - Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor’s mansion. The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation’s most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan’s major bridges and tunnels.

But he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator: Government records obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties. Read more »

PHOENIX - DMX was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the rapper’s house Friday, authorities said. The 37-year-old rapper, whose given name is Earl Simmons, initially tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged when a SWAT team entered his north Phoenix home during the 3 a.m. raid, sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla said.

The arrest and search warrants stemmed from indictments for felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. He made an initial court appearance Friday where bail was sent at $7,500, said his local attorney, Cameron Morgan. Morgan said he expected bail to be posted quickly. Read more »

BERLIN, GERMANY — A Soviet soldier heroically waves the red flag, the hammer and sickle billow above the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei photographed one of the iconic images of the 20th century. But the legendary image was manipulated to conceal the fact that the Soviet soldiers were looting. An exhibition of Khaldei’s work opens in Berlin this week.

It was early on the morning of May 2, 1945 and Yevgeny Khaldei had gone to the Reichstag, the German parliament building in the center of Berlin. Three hours earlier the last German commander left in the capital had capitulated, but there was still sporadic fighting going on. Khaldei had his Leica camera with him–and a Soviet flag. MORE>>>>>

Long before the first rapper stopped snitching or any Mafiosi swore an oath of omertà, there was the Jewish law of mesira.

The tenet that forbids Jews from informing on fellow Jews is one of the hurdles facing Brooklyn prosecutors probing the April 14 attack on a black man by two Jewish men, sources told the Daily News.

Authorities - invoking a complaint long cited in cases involving rappers - said the initial probe was hindered by the local Hasidim’s refusal to cooperate.

One source suggested the Orthodox community was taking a page from the rap world’s “stop snitching” handbook. But it was actually lifted directly from the Code of Jewish Law. Read more »

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida football player who played his high school ball at Sandalwood High School is accused of identity theft after using the credit card of a fellow UF student after she was killed last year in a motorcycle accident. Jamar Hornsby, 21, turned himself in Friday morning on charges of credit card theft and fraudulent use of a credit card. His attorney, Huntley Johnson, said they learned that a judge had issued a warrant for Hornsby’s arrest on Thursday. Read more »

After four years and a number of embarrassing public-relations gaffes, Seattle Public Schools plans to cut its controversial Office of Equity, Race and Learning Support as part of a central office shake-up.

The move is part of the first phase of a staff reorganization aimed at saving money, helping departments collaborate more and better aligning resources with the goals in Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson’s upcoming strategic plan.

The reorganization will go into effect in July and will merge some departments in the district’s “learning and teaching” division, elevate some positions and combine others. Read more »

WASHINGTON - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.

A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as teens who have not reported being depressed — 25 percent compared with 12 percent, said the report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

“Marijuana is a more consequential substance of abuse than our culture has treated it in the last 20 years,” said John Walters, director of the office. “This is not just youthful experimentation that they’ll get over as we used to think in the past.” Read more »

HOUSTON — A prospective juror in a marijuana possession trial was hauled off to jail Tuesday after police said they caught her smoking a joint outside the courthouse.

Attornies in the case had narrowed the jury pool down to 20 people when they took a 45 minute break.

When the break was over, 49-year-old Cornelia Turner Mayo didn’t return to Judge Sherman Ross’ courtroom.

Turns out she was on a smoking break — but what she was allegedly smoking was illegal. Read more »

If this guy had been black, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been hooting and hollering until he received a multi-million dollar lawsuit. 

MELISSA, Tx — Mark Robinson was driving through downtown Melissa last week when he was pulled over for failing the use his turn signal.

But instead of getting a ticket, the officer took the 24-year-old to jail.

He was booked, strip searched, and sat for 3 hours with criminals. “People talking about using drugs and shooting heroine. They asked me what I was in there for and I said a turn signal violation,” said Robinson. Read more »

Mayor Nutter this morning said the National Rifle Association owed an apology to the family of slain police officer Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski.

Nutter recently signed five local gun bills into law, including one that would outlaw the possession and sale of certain assault weapons. The NRA immediately sued the city on the grounds that the city does not have the authority to enact local gun control. They obtained a temporary restraining order to keep the city from enforcing the new laws. Read more »

Two days before Passover, 17 Valley rabbis spoke out Thursday against sweeps conducted by deputies of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to identify and arrest illegal immigrants for deportation.

The Jewish leaders said they are “deeply troubled by what we see happening in our community as a result of racially targeted actions undertaken” by the sheriff’s office “against the Latino community,” read the five-paragraph statement, followed by an alphabetical list of signing members of the Greater Phoenix Board of Rabbis, whose current president is Rabbi Andrew Straus of Temple Emanuel in Tempe.

“We realize that illegal immigration is a serious problem, and we call upon the federal government and the state of Arizona to employ just and humane tactics and procedures” that would “ensure the security of all who live within the borders,” said the rabbis, who represent primarily Reform, Conservative and Renewal Jewish traditions. Read more »

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