Via Journal Gazette:

A decades-old rape conviction didn’t stop Donald Trump from boasting about an endorsement from Mike Tyson this week.

Standing in the city where the boxer in 1991 raped an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant in his hotel room, Trump reveled in Tyson’s Twitter endorsement Wednesday at an Indianapolis rally.

Those comments have drawn scorn online and in various media reports, and drew a rebuke from Carly Fiorina.

Campaigning beside Ted Cruz on Friday in Indianapolis, she said, “Sorry, I don’t consider a convicted rapist a tough guy.”

But Fort Wayne GOP Rep. Bob Morris defended Trump’s views on CNN Friday morning.

“If Mr. Trump believes Mr. Tyson did his time and he’s a good person today we’ve got to recognize that,” Morris said when asked about Fiorina’s comment. “We need to stop beating up on people and look at the good qualities of people.”

At the rally, Trump was talking about a prizefighter and segued into telling the crowd Tyson endorsed him months ago. “I love it. He sent out a tweet. Mike. Iron Mike. You know, all the tough guys endorse me. I like that, OK?” he said.

“But Mike said, ‘I love Trump. I endorse Trump.’ And that’s the end. I’m sure he doesn’t know about your economic situation in Indiana and that’s OK. But when I get endorsed by the tough ones, I like it, because you know what? We need toughness now. We need toughness.”

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B52s standing by.

Via Fox News:

The Pentagon has ordered the USS Harry Truman to remain in the Persian Gulf for an extra 30 days to continue strikes against the Islamic State, the Navy announced late Friday.

Aircraft from the Truman carrier have dropped more than 1,000 bombs on the terror group’s targets since arriving in the Gulf late last year, according to a statement announcing the extension.

The entire Truman strike group consists of the aircraft carrier, the cruiser USS Anzio and three destroyers – the USS Bulkeley, the USS Gonzalez and USS Gravely.

Adm. John Richardson, chief of Naval Operations said late Friday, the decision was essential to the effort to “dismantle and roll back terrorist networks in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.”

He also called accelerating the fight against the Islamic the president’s “No. 1 priority” and said the U.S. military is still trying to finish off the al Qaeda terror group.

Multiple defense officials tell Fox News that the Navy extended the Truman group’s stay because there is not another aircraft carrier ready to take its place, in part because of China’s continued militarization of the South China Sea and Russia’s military resurgence.

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Iraq clearly doing well.

Via Washington Post:

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday ordered that protesters who attacked parliamentarians and security forces and damaged property as they stormed the parliament building on Saturday be brought to justice.

The embattled premier called on Iraq’s ministry of interior to “chase” the troublemakers a day after they penetrated the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone demanding reform, sending Iraqi politicians fleeing.

Hundreds of demonstrators, many of whom are the followers of Iraq’s powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, were still camped out Sunday in the Green Zone. They had moved their demonstration to a parade ground next to the capital’s Hands of Victory monument, an arch of crossed swords constructed to commemorate the Iran-Iraq war.

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Charge downgraded from a ‘hate crime’.

Via MRC:

A transsexual student at the University of British Columbiais being charged with “mischief” for burning a gay pride flag in protest of political correctness and transgender identity politics.

CBC News reports Brooklyn Marie Fink is being charged with “mischief under $5,000″ for burning a gay pride flag during UBC Pride Collective’s OUTweek in February. The event is billed as “a celebration of gender and sexual diversity.”

The incident was first considered a potential hate crime. In a statement condemning the incident, UBC wrote, “UBC condemns this incident as an act of hate and in contravention of the values of equity, inclusion and respect deeply held by the university community.”

During her court hearing, Fink tried to have the mischief charge dismissed. Fink said the incident should be handled by the university rather than the criminal justice system.

In a statement to the gay news site the Daily Xtra, Fink said the incident happened after a professor referred to her by the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” a “preferred pronoun” by many who consider themselves transgender, non-binary, or genderqueer.

Fink said she felt like that was a case of discrimination against transsexuals in favor of transgender politics. Fink allegedly told the Daily Extra political correctness has gone too far.

The Daily Xtra notes Fink “objects to the term ‘transgender,’ which she considers so overly broad as to be meaningless. As a result, she says, ‘transsexual patients get lumped in with transgender politics.’”

Fink said she wants the lesbian, gay, and transgender community to “stop assuming I’m in on their political movement,” adding that “LGBT politics have ruined my life.”

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HT: BCF

And Obama is helping.

Via Daily Caller:

President Barack Obama greets Cuban President Raul Castro before giving his speech at the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at the First National Bank soccer stadium, also known as Soccer City, in Johannesburg Dec. 10, 2013.

President Barack Obama greets Cuban President Raul Castro before giving his speech at the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at the First National Bank soccer stadium, also known as Soccer City, in Johannesburg Dec. 10, 2013. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach) ∧

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Lighten up special snowflakes.

Via ABC News:

Officials removed a controversial poster from the Desert Ridge High School library in Mesa, Arizona, Thursday after some students took offense at its message that appears to be a humorous attempt to highlight the school’s dress code.

“I don’t get offended easily, but this definitely crossed the line for me,” senior Alissa Adams, 18, told ABC News.

The poster, which had a photo and cartoons attached, claimed that girls who came to school “looking pretty cute” made boys see them as “meat, and it’s distracting.” It went on to say that boys would “make lousy grades” as a result, but the girls “end up with one of them anyways because he thought you looked HOT!”

It suggested that the distractions posed by a girl left a boy “underemployed because he learned nothing in school,” leaving the girl to support him.

When Adams first saw the poster a couple days ago, she took a pen and wrote on the bottom, “So it’s the girls fault, right? #feminism,” she said.

Adams said she approached the librarian who put up the poster, but she declined to remove it, saying that Adams was the only person who took offense. Later that day, she said, another student alerted the principal, who directed the librarian to remove it.

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Nerd fight at nerd prom. Awesome!

Via Washington Post:

For an event held at the soaring U.S. Institute of Peace building in Foggy Bottom, the swanky afterparty hosted by MSNBC following the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner sure saw some conflict.

In the early-morning hours of Sunday, a scuffle broke out between Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters and Ryan Grim, the Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief. The fight — unusual among a tuxedo-clad crowd more used to venting their differences with Twitter snarks — briefly caused ripples in the party, where political staffers and journalists were grooving to tunes spun by DJ Biz Markie and noshing on mini servings of chili cheese fries.

Here’s how it went down, per several witness: Grim and Watters were among a group located in a heated tent just outside the main party area. The two apparently don’t have a personal relationship, but Grim realized who Watters was and recalled a beef he had with the “O’Reilly Factor” correspondent that dated back to 2009, when Watters, known as an “ambush journalist,” had engineered an on-camera confrontation of writer Amanda Terkel, now a HuffPo colleague of Grim. Terkel’s account of the incident was headlined “I Was Followed, Harassed, And Ambushed By Bill O’Reilly’s Producer.”

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Social justice warrior in training.

Via The Daily Caller:

A mother in small-town South Carolina claims a high school science teacher urged her son, a freshman, to “go back to Africa” after he refused to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance because, the student told the teacher, “Donald Trump is going to send us back to Africa.”

The kerfuffle occurred on Tuesday at Battery Creek High School in Beaufort, S.C. (pop.: 12,361), reports The Beaufort Gazette, a local newspaper.

The unidentified 14-year-old boy’s mother, Nicole Whitmore, said about half the students in the — also unidentified — science teacher’s Tuesday morning class at Battery Creek High refused to stand for the Pledge or recite it.

Whitmore told the Gazette her son announced to a friend that the patriotic, 31-word oath is irrelevant to him because “Donald Trump is going to send us back to Africa.”

According to the mad mom, the science teacher then shot back that the student should “go back to Africa.”

Whitmore describes herself as black and Puerto Rican.

The science teacher is white, she said.

“I didn’t take kindly to it, and my son didn’t take kindly to it,” Whitmore told the Gazette. “You don’t tell my son to go back to Africa knowing you’re a different color than he is. I’m Puerto Rican and black, I know what I went through. I don’t want my son going through anything discriminative.”

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Mr science.

Via ABC:

Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich said Friday that he thinks gay people are “probably” born that way, and he sees no reason to discriminate against homosexuals.

The remarks came during an intense exchange between the Ohio governor and a 62-year-old gay man at a town-hall style meeting. San Francisco resident Kelly Bryan repeatedly asked Kasich if he believed gay people were born gay.

“Do I think that people are, you know, born gay?” Kasich said, after Bryan pressed him several times. “Probably. I’ve never studied the issue, but I don’t see any reason to hurt you or discriminate [against] you or make you feel bad or make you feel like a second-class citizen.”

Later in the day Kasich said that some of his fellow party members are alienating Hispanic voters with scare tactics that could hurt the GOP in November’s general election.

“Do the Republicans actually think that they can win an election by scaring every Hispanic in this country to death?” Kasich told reporters at the California GOP convention in San Francisco, being held ahead of the state’s June 7 primary. “Scaring them to the point that they are afraid that their families are going to be torn apart and disrupted? Do you have any idea what those folks are going to do in a general election?”

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PHOENIX (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz pulled out a strategic victory at the Arizona Republican Party convention, nailing down a large majority of delegates to the national convention amid cheating accusations from backers of businessman Donald Trump.

The Cruz slate won virtually all of the 28 at-large national delegates and roughly split the 27 delegates selected by congressional district.

Former Gov. Jan Brewer, losing her first election in 35 years, angrily yelled “I got cheated — I got cheated,” as the results became known.

But Cruz’s Arizona campaign organizer says simple math led to the at-large victory Saturday. Cruz offered a nearly identical slate of candidates as John Kasich backers, and the combined votes led to a win.

The victory was mainly strategic for Cruz since all 58 Arizona delegates are required to vote for Trump on the first national ballot because he won the state’s primary. There are three automatic delegates, including state party Chairman Robert Graham.

With Trump at nearly 1,000 national delegates out of 1,237 he needs to win the presidential nomination outright after recent sweeps of five eastern states, even Cruz’s Arizona backers believe Saturday’s effort is likely to be for naught.

“It’s most likely that Trump will be the next president, but I’m trying my hardest for it to be Cruz,” said state Rep. David Livingston, who is unabashedly backing Cruz.

State Treasurer Jeff DeWit, who chairs Trump’s Arizona campaign, said a challenge is possible after calls for a revote were rejected by the party.

“The Trump campaign is very unhappy with the results,” DeWit told reporters. “We don’t feel that this was a fair process. The Trump button got checked more than any other, so why do we have so few delegates?”

Constantin Querard, Cruz’s Arizona campaign chair, countered: “They lost because of math, not because of malfeasance. If you take the people that want Cruz, and you add to them the people who don’t want Trump, that’s a majority in just about any room in America.”

Graham, the state party chairman, said the election was run fairly, and the Kasich-Cruz slates just combined to get the win.

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Via AOL:

A new poll shows Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz having a significant lead over front-runner Donald Trump in Indiana’s primary.

The poll, obtained from the Mike Downs Center For Indiana Politics by several outlets, found 45 percent of voters polled support Cruz –– a 16-point lead over Trump.

Indiana’s Republican primary could still end up being extremely tight, though. Thirteen percent of people surveyed said they didn’t know who they’d support, and the poll has a 5 percent margin of error.

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Another random act in crime free Chicago. (Sarcasm)

Via WGNTV:

Police are seeking two suspects in the brutal beating of a woman who was riding the CTA Blue Line yesterday morning.

The beating happened around 10 a.m Thursday on a CTA Blue Line train headed west, approaching the Kedzie-Homan stop.

19-year-old DePaul student Jessica Hughes was on her way home to Berwyn from a morning class and says after a large group of people got off the train at the UIC Halstead stop, a man moved to the seat in front of her, turned around and attacked.

“He grabs me, pushes me to the floor and starts beating on my head repeatedly,” Jessica said.

The man wanted Jessica’s phone. It was in her pocket. A woman who was with the attacker jumped in and punched Jessica in the nose, breaking it.

All the while, two male passengers stood by and watched.

“He kept beating on me. I’m yelling help to the other people and no one came “

The suspects did not get Jessica’s phone. They ran off the train.

The attackers were captured on surveillance video.

“I’m just hoping everything they need is on that video,” Jessica said. “And they’re able to get those people that did this to me.”She described the attacker as an African American man in his mid-20’s. She says he had facial hair, was wearing a blue Ralph Lauren polo hat, a grey hoodie and baggy pants that were sagging below his waist.

She says the woman, also African American in her mid-20’s was extremely thin, with long black hair.

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The perp ended up as the ‘easy’ target.

Via Independent Sentinel:

An intruder who appeared to be looking for prescription drugs stabbed a 75-year old man in the abdomen in Western Washington. His 80-year old wife, trained in firearms, went for her gun emptied it into the stranger, saving her husband, herself and her 45-year old son who was in the house at the time.

The elderly man is listed in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and is in a lot of pain according to his wife.

“It could have been a very bad situation,” said neighbor Richard Cross. “It could have been three homicides over there instead of one intruder biting the dust.”

Police said the 75-year-old husband watched the stranger break into the house through the back door and then hit him on his head before stabbing him after rifling through a medicine cabinet. That’s when his 80-year-old wife grabbed a gun and killed the intruder.

“She didn’t think a second about it,” said Cross. “I mean it was just automatic. She emptied the gun.”

No one in the family recognized the stranger who was identified by the medical examiner as 25-year-old Steven Sheppard from Gold Bar. Sheppard, a felon who was imprisoned for robbery in 2013.

The county prosecutor will determine if any criminal charges will be filed against the 80-year old woman.

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Wow.

Via CNN:

CNN ranked #1 in cable news in prime time in April. CNN beat Fox News for the fifth time in the last eight months in M-Su prime time (four of the past eight in M-F prime) among adults 25-54. The last time CNN had this many prime time wins in an eight-month period versus Fox News was over 14 years ago (Nov. 2001).

CNN also handily topped MSNBC this month in all dayparts, with CNN besting MSNBC for the 22nd straight month in Total Day (among both total viewers and among adults 25-54) and in prime time (among 25-54). In total viewers, CNN has now beaten MSNBC for the fifth straight month (or seven out of eight months) in prime time.

CNN continued to top MSNBC by wide margins during the day (9am-4pm) – posting a +36% advantage in total viewers (630k vs. MSNBC’s 464k) and +58% more among adults 25-54 (161k vs. 102k).

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Those flying the Mexican flag don’t want to live in Mexico.

Via BPR:

CNN isn’t even trying to hide their liberal bias these days.

Following the violent riots and anti-Donald Trump protesters throwing rocks at cars, smashing police cars, and bloodying Trump supporters, CNN’s Chris Cuomo simply labeled the crowd as “dissatisfied citizens.”

Commentator Matt Lewis called the crowd a group of “leftist agitators,” but Cuomo was quick to correct him, deeming that term too harsh for the violent rioters.

“Juana, now Matt is using the term “leftist agitator” to keep it in the political sphere, but, as we know, a lot of those people on that street were just dissatisfied citizens who were taking out their dissatisfaction the wrong way in anger and destroying a lot of property there,” Cuomo said. “But what does it speak to there in terms of the climate in which this general election will take place?”

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Sigh ….Liberals

The cat fighting would be epic.

Via Politico:

Elizabeth Warren would be the dream vice presidential pick for millions of forlorn Bernie Sanders supporters, an instant antidote to the charge that Hillary Clinton is too close to Wall Street.

But in interviews with more than a dozen prominent Democrats and campaign allies, most viewed a Clinton-Warren ticket as an unlikely scenario — despite the appeal of a two-woman ticket to Clinton campaign officials and also to Clinton, who sources said is intrigued by the idea.

Clinton and the senior senator from Massachusetts don’t have a close, personal relationship — in fact, there’s no evidence to show they even particularly like each other — and Clinton insiders worry Warren could upstage the likely Democratic nominee during the general election. While there’s confidence in the energy she could bring to the ticket, questions loom about the anti-Big Bank crusader’s appeal among white working class voters, as well as her lack of experience.

“Warren speaks to the left of the party, but not the working class left,” said a super delegate backing Clinton. “She speaks more to the progressive elite, not white, working class males.” As for the idea of a two-woman ticket, “if you do two women to energize the women’s vote, if that’s what she’s worried about, then we’ve got a real problem.”

“A progressive fits the bill,” said former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Clinton surrogate. “The problem with Warren is that she has very little experience. She was a law professor and she’s been in the Senate for a few years. What executive experience does this person have?”

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Celebrate diversity!

Via Free Beacon:

Not a single member of the White House press corps is a registered Republican, according to survey results recently published by Politico.

Those results are buried in a story this week on President Barack Obama’s relationship with the press. An infographic posted in the story reveals that not a single one of the 72 members of the White House press corps surveyed by the Virginia-based trade publication identifies with the GO

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Moonbats cry foul!

Via The Daily Mail:

Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail and private bodyguards had the last laugh on Friday as hundreds of protesters swarmed at the front of a San Francisco airport hotel trying to block him from coming in for a speech at the state Republican Party’s annual convention.

Instead of partnering with uniformed police in riot shields trying to push the hordes back, they did a law-enforcement head fake – leading the billionaire across a grass highway median and in a back-door loading dock at the Hyatt Regency hotel in the suburb of Burlingame.

The move left Trump feeling ‘like I was crossing the border, actually,’ he said.

Led by his regular protective detail and Trump’s private bodyguard Keith Schiller, the Republican front-runner’s arrival became a full-blown media spectacle, with cable news channels interrupting their broadcasts for helicopter live-shots.

Their audiences were treated to the sight of the 69-year-old Trump hopping nearly three feet down from a cement barrier to the grass below, skirting between two chain-link fences, and then climbing uphill in his expensive suit and shoes while local police and California Highway Patrol kept liberal activists at bay on the other side of the hotel.

‘That was not the easiest entrance I’ve ever made,’ Trump joked when he eventually took the stage. ‘My wife calls – she says, “There are helicopters following you”‘

‘And then we went under a fence, and through a fence. Oh boy, I felt like I was crossing the border actually, you know? I was crossing the border but I got here.’

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