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Tea Partier Calls For Killing Obama and His ‘Monkey’ Kids

California Tea Party activist Jules Manson unleashed a racist Facebook rant against President Obama and the First Family.

The Tea Party politician in California called for the assassination of President Obama and his “monkey children” in a recent Facebook rant – and then defended his right to do so Monday.

Jules Manson, who failed miserably in his 2011 bid for a City Council seat in Carson, Calif., urged the sickening reprisal, saying Obama’s support of a revised military authorization bill last week was an act of “treason” that “eroded” constitutional protections.

“It must be countered with assassinations onto them and their children,” he wrote in the original posting that has since been scrubbed from his Facebook profile.

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Pres. Obama: GOP Wanted To Take Me Down, Not Fix Country’s Problems

Pres. Obama: GOP Wanted To Take Me Down, Not Fix Country’s Problems

In what may have been one of his most candid  interviews to-date, President Barack Obama levied highly contentious charges against his Republicans rivals, accusing them of willingly allowing the economy to tank in order to regain the White House.

Speaking with 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft in an interview that aired Sunday night, the president said Republicans chose to stand on the sidelines while the economy worsened so that they could capitalize on blaming him.

“When I came into office in 2008, it was my firm belief that at such an important moment in our history, there was no reason why Democrats and Republicans couldn’t put some of the old ideological baggage aside and focus on common sense, what works, practical solutions to the tough problems we were facing,” Pres. Obama told “60 Minutes”.

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Air Force Dumped Dead Soldiers In Landfill

Air Force Dumped Dead Soldiers In Landfill

VIRGINIA – Hundreds of American soldiers were cremated and dumped into a Virginia landfill without notifying a majority of the families.

At least 976 body parts of 274 U.S. soldiers recovered from war zones abroad were ditched in a Kings County, Va., dump after arriving at Dover Air Base between 2004 and 2008.

The Air Force came clean about the practice last month after whistleblowers complained about sloppy work at Dover, the main entry for fallen soldiers coming from battlefields overseas.

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‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas Charged With SS Theft

‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas Charged With SS Theft

NEWARK- Frank Lucas, the former heroin kingpin of New York City and the man who’s life is told in “American Gangster,” starring Denzel Washington is charged with theft by deception for deceiving the U.S. Treasury.

Authorities claim that Lucas claimed he lost a Social Security check and received a new one and then cashed them both.

Frank Lucas, who once ran a billion-dollar business smuggling heroin before going straight, could go to jail for bilking the U.S. government out of $17,300.

Now 81 and ailing, Lucas was charged with theft by deception after he allegedly told the U.S. Treasury he lost a Social Security check with funds earmarked for his 15-year-old son and asked for a duplicate, prosecutors said.

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Ex-Cop Kills Wife Over Christmas Money Woes

Ex-Cop Kills Wife Over Christmas Money Woes

NEW YORK – Clarence Cash, a retired New York cop confessed to authorities that he shot his wife to death because he was stressed over holiday expenses and money woes.

Clarence Cash, 49, turned himself into police after he allegedly shot his wife 10 times.

The former cop told NYPD that his wife, Tracey Young, threatened to leave him after a fight over money, putting him over the edge.

Cash was charged with first-degree murder. He was remanded without bail, and his lawyer asked that he be placed in protective custody at Rikers.

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Wife Of ‘House Of Horrors’ Doctor Admits To Abortions

Wife Of ‘House Of Horrors’ Doctor Admits To Abortions

PHILADELPHIA — The wife of a Philadelphia doctor has admitted performing illegal abortions at a filthy clinic that authorities describe as a “house of horrors.”

Court documents indicate Pearl Gosnell pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges including performing two late-term abortions.

Gosnell is the wife of Kermit Gosnell, who is charged in the deaths of seven babies and a woman who died of a painkiller overdose.

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Candy Hustler Pulls 55K A Year Slangin’ M&Ms On Train

Candy Hustler Pulls 55K A Year Slangin’ M&Ms On Train

NEW YORK – Alex “Tracks” McFarland says he doesn’t want to hang in the hood and be perceived as a thug. So he hustles M&Ms and cookies in the New York City train system instead.

And he makes $55,000 dollars a year doing it.

McFarland says it’s the M&Ms that keeps the cash flow rolling. “I got M&M peanuts which is my number one seller,” McFarland says. “Number one seller. Without these, none of my candy would sell.”

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Oakland Toddler Dies After Shooting

Oakland Toddler Dies After Shooting

OAKLAND, CA — A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland was taken off life support Friday. Hiram Lawrence, would have turned 2 on Dec. 28.

The boy’s family had held out hope that he would show some brain activity, but doctors at Children’s Hospital Oakland concluded after multiple tests that he was brain dead from the injuries he suffered in the shooting last month.

Outside the hospital, the boy’s mother, Brittany Houston called for an end to the city’s violence.

“The shootings need to end. I shouldn’t have to lose my baby to a gunshot.”

Hiram was being held by his father, also named Hiram Lawrence, when gunfire erupted as about 20 people gathered outside a west Oakland liquor store Nov. 28, police said. Six other people were wounded, including Hiram’s father, who was shot in the hand.

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1 Cop Guilty Of Lying About Post-Katrina Shooting

1 Cop Guilty Of Lying About Post-Katrina Shooting

NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans police officer was convicted Friday of lying about the aftermath of a deadly shooting outside the city’s convention center following Hurricane Katrina, but a jury acquitted the officer’s partner of related charges.

Officer Ronald Mitchell, who shot and killed 45-year-old Danny Brumfield with a single shotgun blast in September 2005, was found guilty of one count of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury for lying when he said he left his patrol car after the shooting and checked for Brumfield’s pulse.

The jury cleared Mitchell, 33, of two counts that charged him with lying about the shooting itself.

Pictured: Officer Ray Jones, left, was acquitted of all charges in the Danny Brumfield Sr. shooting case Friday morning. Officer Ronald Mitchell, right, was convicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

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