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Hillary Clinton: Alabama Voter ID Law ‘A Blast from The Jim Crow Past’

On Saturday, taking a page out of the Barack Obama racism playbook, Hillary Clinton accused Alabama Republicans of returning the state to the era of Jim Crow laws, snapping that the state’s closing of 31 driver’s license offices was “discriminatory and demeaning.” She failed to mention that Jim Crow laws were enforced by Democrats from 1877 to 1965.

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Cat Crucified in Upstate New York Park

A black and grey striped cat was nailed to a tree, crucifixion-style, in Upstate New York. According to Schenectady Police Lt. Mark McCracken, “The cat in its entirety was nailed to the tree. … The deceased cat was processed by one of our crime scene guys and taken to a local vet who’s arranging for a necropsy.”

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City Attorneys Advise Kevin Johnson Not to Hug People

Despite the fact that a law firm investigating a sexual harassment claim against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson found it unsubstantiated, the same law firm wrote a memo to the city attorney warning Johnson should “be advised as to how his actions (i.e. hugging and being flirty) are being perceived by some city employees,” and that he should “refrain from hugging or touching anyone in the workplace or at city-related events.”

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Tree Trimmed After 16-lb. Pine Cone Injures Veteran

Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz is taking precautions after noticing a Navy veteran filed a $5 million suit against the U.S. government, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior, and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park after a heavy cone from a bunya pine tree fell, striking him on the head.

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More Swastikas at UC Davis

The “anti-religious” messages carved into several parked cars outside an apartment complex on the University of California Davis campus on Saturday turn out to have been swastikas.

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MLB Commissioner Considers New Rule Addressing Hard Slides

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, ignoring the fact that an MLB rule already addressed collisions between runners and fielders, stated that he ponders a new rule while protesting that such a move received consideration before Chase Utley’s hard slide into Ruben Tejada in Game 2 of the Dodgers-Mets NLDS.

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Report: California to Fall Short One Million Graduates

The leftist Public Policy Institute of California (PPI) cites its own survey to suggest that the state fork over more money to help reduce the cost of a college education for students and dumb down standards for acceptance in the UC and CSU systems, as the number of college graduates is declining considerably.