By MIKE SCHNEIDERAssociated PressORLANDO, Fla.Spike Lee has asked a federal judge to throw out lawsuit filed by a Florida couple who say the movie director mistakenly retweeted their address as the home of George Zimmerman. Lee’s attorneys filed a motion
An attempted repeal of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law was voted down in that state’s house judiciary committee on November 7. The bill offered to repeal it was HB-4003. And according to LegalInsurrection.com, HB-4003 would not only have repealed stand
The apology wasn’t enough, apparently. Spike Lee is being sued by the Sanford, FL couple whose address the filmmaker tweeted thinking it was where George Zimmerman lived. Lee was livid at Zimmerman, the Florida man eventually acquitted of second degree
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Police in the Florida city where George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin have backed off a plan to explicitly ban neighborhood watch volunteers from carrying guns while on duty. Earlier this month, police in Sanford,
On November 5, Sanford, Florida Police Chief Cecil Smith told a crowd gathered at City Hall that the police department recommends that no neighborhood watch volunteers be armed from this point forward. The change is in response to the February
Despite the complete failure of both local and federal law enforcement to find any evidence whatsoever of George Zimmerman’s supposed racism ending in the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012 in Florida, the Obama administration continues to
Conservatives applaud Comedy Central’s South Park for daring to mock both the left and the right. This week, it was the left’s turn to see some of its favorite targets shredded by those foul-mouthed pre-teens. This week’s new episode gave
A recent episode of Law & Order: SVU typified the “ripped from the headlines” niche that show creator Dick Wolf famously embraced so long ago. The problem is the episode, titled American Tragedy, seemed to be informed merely by celebrity
NBC has once again used its flagship morning show to insinuate that George Zimmerman, a man who has already been acquitted by a jury, may have gotten away with murder. Recall that NBC did more than any other network to
The White House just issued a statement that there will be no negotiations on the upcoming debt ceiling hike. But by a 2-to-1 margin, the American people disagree. A new Bloomberg poll shows that 61% of voters say that it
The minds behind the CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls thought it might be clever to catch viewers up on what they missed during the summer hiatus. They also figured they could hammer home a pair of false liberal memes at
Watching CNN after the House voted to defund ObamaCare and keep the government running was like watching “Democrat TV: Live.” As though they had agreed to every possible Democrat talking point, The Least Trustworthy Name In News immediately savaged Republicans
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz took aim at video games Tuesday night by holding up the latest release of “Grand Theft Auto” as an example of “violent” video games that theoretically contribute to mass shootings like the Navy Yard rampage on Monday.
(AP) Fla. police called on George ZimmermanBy MIKE SCHNEIDERAssociated PressORLANDO, Fla.George Zimmerman’s wife has called police to her father’s house, saying the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder threatened her with a gun.Lake Mary Police Chief Steve
By KYLE HIGHTOWERAssociated PressORLANDO, Fla.George Zimmerman’s wife filed for divorce Thursday, less than two months after her husband was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin and a week after she pleaded guilty to perjury in his case. Shellie Zimmerman made the
In an article published this week at UN News Centre, Mutuma Ruteere, a “special reporter on racism,” wrote that a group of UN experts is calling on the Obama administration to finish a review that will decide whether or not
Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy, is a friend of Florida A&M’s football coach, Earl Holmes, and thus was chosen to lead the University’s football team onto the field before its season-opening game against Mississippi Valley State on Sunday at the Citrus
On Thursday, ESPN columnist Scoop Jackson announced that he plans to “stand his ground” and boycott all Florida sports. Jackson, reacting to the Florida jury’s acquittal of charges against George Zimmerman over the death of Trayvon Martin, wrote that he
Only 10% of Americans think race relations have improved since the election of Barack Obama, according to a new Rasmussen poll. 43% think race relations have deteriorated and 44% say there’s been no change. Only 30% of those polled think
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released soon after the George Zimmerman verdict showed that while a majority of Americans feel that their fellow citizens are judged by their character, black Americans felt strongly that race was a decisive factor.
This week, we’ve had to watch a string of liberals appropriate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to push the Left’s agenda of the moment. Sadly, one of the most egregious offenders is Martin Luther King III, who penned
George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty on murder charges related to the death of Trayvon Martin, will reportedly ask the state of Florida to cover $200,000 to $300,000 of his legal expenses. Mark O’Mara, his attorney, told the Orlando
The left has never had much use for the facts in the Martin case. These days it seems all the same left-wing media types who were outraged by the Trayvon Martin story are now outraged that the right would raise
In response to How The Racialist Narrative Messes With Peoples’ Heads: I think you’ve put your finger on one of the essential differences between the media narratives we’ve been discussing: the imperative that Something Must Be Done, coupled with politically
In response to RE Hate Crime Hypocrisy : I should clarify that if the sort of “tit for tat” reporting we’re discussing consists of quickie blog posts with a photo of the perps in the Lane and Belton murders, accompanied
