A false crime report was made in the probable hopes that police might shoot someone or otherwise cause harm--a caller reported to the Broward County Sherriff's office that there was an armed break-in and hostage situation at the Hogg family home.  The SWAT team responded in full force; fortunately, David and his mother were in Washington, DC, for David's Robert Kennedy Award. No one was hurt.  

Young people appear to be among targets of right wing nut jobs, including conservatives on campus. Niall Ferguson, at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institute, organized and conspired with other students, to discredit a liberal student activist, Michael Ocon (class of 2020).

 The young Ocon was seen as a threat to Ferguson's conservative agenda, and became the subject of "opp research."

Along with some of his students, Ferguson, through subsequently revealed emails, was digging for dirt on the student.  Ferguson is known for his discounting the landmark work of LOrd John Maynard Keynes since he was gay, and for his defense of British colonialism.  

Fifty years! Fifty years since Bobby. Fifty years since MLK. Soon it will be fifty years since the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Also Prague Spring. The Tet offensive. Worldwide student uprisings. And, of course, Nixon.

1968 was one hell of a year. Our country, possibly the world, coming apart at the seams.

I was 16 in 1968. The effect that year had on me , on my politics, my worldview, the lens of skepticism through which I view most things, the sadness that lodged in my heart that year and remains to this day.

Longtime residents here is east Hawaii have told me that this is the largest eruptive phase they've seen from Kilauea since it first sprang back to life in 1983. In terms of lava output, it's the biggest since Mauna Loa last erupted in the spring of 1984.

Here in Hilo, we had a series of earthquakes yesterday, most of them noticeable but relatively minor. They're caused by magma draining from Kilauea's summit and moving down the east rift zone toward the eruption site in Leilani Estates. But one of the jolts was 5.5, which struck just before 4:00 p.m. HST, and it was enough to rouse everyone from their offices and into the halls here at Lagoon Center.

"The President wasn't wrong when he said 'I want loyalty from my Attorney General.' It's the Constitution that's wrong for allowing that kind of division to occur."

While Turner's sentence was clearly within the probation department's recommendations, it was nevertheless an appallingly tone-deaf decision on now-former Judge Persky's part, considering both the circumstances and nature of the offense and the defendant's obvious lack of remorse for his actions.

I'm generally not in favor of judicial recalls myself, but that's neither here nor there. Recall is an available electoral process in California, and Persky's lenient treatment of Turner really struck a raw nerve in the community and state, and particularly with women. The recall effort was led by Stanford law professor Michele Dauber.

And I don't think the recall process will be used to abuse the judiciary; Persky is only the fourth California judge to be recalled from the bench since the state first adopted the recall process early in the 20th century.

A Disney annual pass holder, a Boy Scout driver, and a 16-year-old are also accused of being part of a sick ring that involved images of child victims as young as 3 years old.

a recent study by researchers at Harvard University dispelled that narrative by using a little-known process called the scientific method. The extensive study found that white, Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants to longer prison terms than black justices and judges appointed by Democratic presidents.

Trump has more judicial vacancies to fill than any recent president. In fact, if Trump serves two terms, by the time he finishes, more than half of the 874 federal judges could be Trump appointees, according to the Washington Post.