Court is Likely to Resume for Zimmerman

By James Hirsen

Although George Zimmerman is now a free man following his recent acquittal, it is highly likely that in the near future he will once again find himself in a courtroom. Zimmerman may be facing a lawsuit that could lead to a civil trial or a federal prosecution that could result in a civil rights trial. There is even a distinct possibility that he may have to face both.

Trayvon Martin’s parents are most likely looking at a number of legal alternatives that are available to them, which includes the consideration of whether or not to file a wrongful death suit against Zimmerman in civil court.

Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Martin family, actually told ABC’s "This Week" that the Martins "are certainly going to look at that [a civil lawsuit] as an option."

Trayvon’s mother and father have already sought redress in the civil courts. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the parents settled a wrongful death claim against the homeowners association of the subdivision where their son lost his life. [more...]

7-11-13 EAGNews.org Updates

By Kyle Olson

Citing 'hungry, frustrated' kids, another school district drops First Lady’s lunch menu

If the goal of the federal school lunch overhaul is to improve outcomes for children, somebody should tell its chief cheerleader - First Lady Michelle Obama - that it's actually backfiring. Officials in New York’s Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district have become the latest to opt out of the National School Lunch Program, citing "hungry, frustrated children plus lost income."

"[Food service manager Nicky] Boehm and her staff worked hard to implement the new regulations, but there were just too many problems and too many foods that students did not like and would not purchase. Students complained of being hungry with these lunches and the district lost money. I’m confident we can do better on our own next year," assistant superintendent Chris Abdoo said. The lunch program lost about $100,000 for the school year, which is roughly the cost of one teaching position. [more...]

NEA convention delegates filmed dancing to a misogynistic rap song

At a kickoff event for yet another public relations campaign at its national convention last week, the National Education Association played "Wobble" by V.I.C., a lewd, sexually-oriented recording that includes the highly offensive racial word "nigga" and the rapper discussing the "tool in his pants." Called "Raise Your Hand," the event was billed as one that would assist with "empowering educators to lead." Watch the video to see all the geriatric education "leaders" dancing to a song that says, "when it’s over you ain't gon need ya vibrator." [more...]

Cost of complying with Michelle Obama's school lunch overhaul? $3.2 BILLION!

As schools continue to grapple with the school lunch menu overhaul pushed by First Lady Michelle Obama, some are realizing their headache isn't just from a lack of food. The program involves way too much green - and we’re not talking lettuce and brussel sprouts. We mean the estimated $3.2 billion schools will have to find to implement the new federal regulations. Many schools are also losing money due the unpopular Obama menu. [more...]

Ice-T Carries on the Charlton Heston Tradition

By James Hirsen

Ice-T initially secured fame by being one of the early practitioners of a form of rap music known as gangsta’ rap. After co-founding the band Body Count, the urban music artist became even more famous for a public controversy that eventually ensued over his “Cop Killer” track, which glamorized the murder of police officers.

The storm surrounding “Cop Killer” reached its zenith in July of 1992, at an annual shareholders’ meeting for Time-Warner, the parent company of Ice-T’s record label. It would be here that Hollywood giant Charlton Heston would take to a stage of a different sort.

Heston had been given the opportunity to address the Time-Warner group because he himself owned shares in the media company. During his presentation, the legendary actor recited in dramatic fashion the lyrics from the “Cop Killer” tune, leaving the owners of the company in a stupefied state. The publicity that would follow would ultimately cause Time Warner Music to cancel the release of Ice-T’s then-upcoming album.

Ice-T, the very same rap artist that Heston had so vociferously opposed, would undergo a professional conversion of his own that would transform him into the current TV and film A-list star that he is today. He, like his former adversary, has become a persuasive voice for the Second Amendment in helping to move forward Heston’s legacy issue. [more...]

7-9-13 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Wayne Allyn Root: How to Solve the IRS Scandal in Two Weeks  

2. Rabbi D.B. Ganz: An Immigration Policy that is Way More Effective, Simpler, and Less Expensive

3. Ryan Mauro: FBI's Most-Wanted Ads Blocked by Muslim Brotherhood Group

4. John LeBoutillier: Is President Obama Weakening American Influence and Prestige?

5. Dave Bego: The Senate Immigration Law Hurts All Americans

6. Joseph Klein: Senator McCain's Arab Spring Syndrome

How to Solve the IRS Scandal in Two Weeks  

By Wayne Allyn Root

According to the latest Rasmussen poll, the IRS scandal is still very much on the minds of Americans and still considered to be the worst scandal of the Obama administration. I am one of the IRS scandal's victims. Based on the details of my case, I believe I was targeted for persecution on direct orders of the Obama White House. I don’t think that’s much of a stretch considering the IRS Chief visited the White House 157 times in Obama's first term, and Obama himself met with the head of the IRS employees union the day before the targeting started. But, there’s no reason to debate and argue anymore. This can be easily settled. The solution is simple: All we have to do is pull the file of every taxpayer audited by the IRS in the first 4 years of Barack Obama's Presidency. Then simply match the audits with publicly available political registration information. Wanna bet that Republicans were audited at a far higher rate than those registered Democrat? [more...]

An Immigration Policy that is Way More Effective, Simpler, and Less Expensive

By Rabbi D.B. Ganz

The House of Representatives is now considering the Senate's recently passed "Gang of 8" 1,200-page immigration bill. It offers amnesty to the U.S.'s 11.5 million illegal immigrants and clears their path to citizenship and entitlement eligibility. My recently released volume, Uncommon Sense, proposes solutions to modern political conundrums based on ancient Jewish wisdom, and it contains a chapter on immigration. It makes the point that immigrants can be very good for the U.S. economy. These people tend to be hard-working and entrepreneurial and they take many jobs that Americans are unwilling to do. It also advocates bending over backwards to attract highly educated immigrants such as foreigners studying in American universities who are here on temporary student visas. Here is a synopsis of the book’s main positions on illegal immigrants.

FBI's Most-Wanted Ads Blocked by Muslim Brotherhood Group

By Ryan Mauro

The U.S. government has long offered rewards for its most wanted terrorists as a way of incentivizing people to be on the lookout. Its success obviously relies upon widespread knowledge of the award and what the terrorists look like. For the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, the fact that Americans would become aware that a majority of the most-wanted terrorists are Islamic extremists compelled it to take action. As usual, CAIR cried "Islamophobia," deployed its interfaith partners and was successful in having the most-wanted terrorist ads taken down. [more...]

Is President Obama Weakening American Influence and Prestige?

By John LeBoutillier

Is Egypt yet another sign of the decline of American power during the Obama Presidency? Is President Obama’s lack of leadership weakening American influence and prestige? And what are the political effects of the sudden one-year delay in the ObamaCare employer mandate? What should the GOP response to this be? [more...]

The Senate Immigration Law Hurts All Americans

By Dave Bego

Recently, I had the opportunity to view Dennis Michael Lynch’s documentaries They Come to America.  In part, the documentaries explore the pending immigration legislation proposed by the "Gang of Eight," and finds that the legislation fails to fix the most basic problem - securing the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Despite claims by the current administration that the border is secure, the documentary shows the continuing consequences to national security, the American economy, our out of control debt, and desperately needed jobs for the American people. [more...]

Senator McCain's Arab Spring Syndrome

By Joseph Klein

Senator John McCain is suffering from the Arab Spring Syndrome. He remains convinced that democracy will flower in places like Syria and Egypt if given a chance.  He evidently believes that Islamists can be persuaded to fully participate in the electoral process and accept the will of the people. In the words of Bruce S. Thornton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, "McCain has a naive faith in the magic powers of 'democracy' to change a culture steeped in 14 centuries of religious intolerance, supremacism, and violence." [more...]

7-3-13 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Rob Olive: How "Independent" Are We?

2. Joseph Klein: Showdown in Egypt

3. Ryan Mauro: Iranian Front Group Funded 30 Universities in U.S. & Canada

4. John LeBoutillier: Why is Obama Still Sinking? Will the Immigration Bill Pass in the House? What Can we Learn from the Mass. Special Senate Race?

How "Independent" Are We?

By Rob Olive

This Independence Day, it occurs to me that we Americans may not be that "independent" after all. By that I mean independence from our own government. A recent Rasmussen poll indicated that 70% of Americans believe we have more freedom than people in other countries. It's a shame that the number is anything less than 100%. We should be the freest country on Earth and one could assert that we still are, despite what many of us view as a steady erosion of liberty. Though the Rasmussen poll doesn't go into specifics as to the reasons for such doubt, I believe it comes down to two words: dependency and control. [more...]

Rob Olive is the author of Essential Liberty, a novel that presents a disturbing scenario in which firearm confiscation has become a reality in present-day America.

Showdown in Egypt

By Joseph Klein

Millions of Egyptians participated in protests all over the country on the first anniversary of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's inauguration this past weekend, including in areas where his Muslim Brotherhood has traditionally had strong support. Morsi's increasingly authoritarian style of government, worsening economic conditions since he assumed office and Islamist power grabs, and rising fears of an Iran-type Egyptian theocracy have fueled the historic protests. In fact, more demonstrators have poured into the streets demanding Morsi's resignation than came out during the final days of the uprising that led to former President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in 2011. [more...]

Iranian Front Group Funded 30 Universities in U.S. & Canada

By Ryan Mauro

The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood isn't the only Islamist group funding American universities. The Iranian regime has done the same thing on a massive scale through its New York-based front, the Alavi Foundation. The Foundation's Web site openly lists 30 "academic institutions" in the U.S. and Canada it has awarded grants to. The Alavi Foundation is accused of funneling money to an Iranian bank linked to the nuclear program. The president of the Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, pled guilty to destroying evidence before it could be submitted to the grand jury. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigations chief, Adam Kaufmann, said "We found evidence that the government of Iran really controlled everything about the foundation." [more...]

Why is Obama Still Sinking? Will the Immigration Bill Pass in the House? What Can we Learn from the Mass. Special Senate Race?

By John LeBoutillier

This week the Political Insiders explored why the President's approval rating continues to decline. They also addressed the politics of the Immigration Bill: will it even come up for a vote in the House? And what can we take from last week's Special Senate election in Massachusetts? Here are our shows: Sunday: Part 1 - Part 2 - Monday [more...]

The Obama Jobs Plan: Hire Criminals?

By Wayne Allyn Root

If there was any doubt that Obama is hostile to business and out to damage capitalism, this story should settle it. On April 15th during an interview on Fox News, I reported that President Obama had put 6,118 new regulations in place in just the first 90 days of 2013. Well guess what? It’s gotten worse.

Since then, Obama has cracked the whip at his government-run lawyer sweatshops. The productivity of his job killing lawyers and bureaucrats is up from 68 to 72 new regulations per day. That’s very bad news for the productivity of the rest of us. Because history proves that government + lawyers + more regulations = death of the economy.

Why are there no jobs? Why does the economy only move sideways? Why are American workers' wages stuck in quicksand? Why did one of America’s largest law firms just yesterday announce massive layoffs and salary reductions? The answer is Obama. His rules and regulations are killing the spirit of American business. But this was all child’s play compared to Obama’s newest directive. [more...]

The Underlying Agenda of "White House Down"

By James Hirsen

A humbling $26 million take has landed the recently released Sony film, "White House Down," in fourth place for the weekend's box office. The movie's underachieving status is perhaps an indication that the public is not currently in sync with those in Hollywood who subscribe to a liberal agenda and who tangentially pledge allegiance to the current administration.

With a $150 million budget and A-list cast, rather than being the enjoyable Fourth of July blockbuster that the studio had intended, "White House Down" turns out to be an infantile far-left fantasy dressed up as a string of "Die Hard"-style action sequences. Sony Pictures and director Roland Emmerich have put together a film with a story line that could easily have been penned by any number of the left-leaning hosts that occupy the MSNBC cable television studios. [more...]