University of California president Janet Napolitano speaks while giving a briefing on the progress she and Gov. Jerry Brown have made in ironing out their differences over UC's budget during a UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.Sputnik

Former US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who now presides over one of the country’s largest and most prestigious state university systems, told a fellow regent they “didn’t have to listen to this crap,” referring to students protesting another round of proposed tuition hikes.

During a meeting in San Francisco Wednesday, around two dozen students dressed only in their underwear loudly expressed their discontent with a potential 5% increase in fees at the University of California campuses every year over the next five years, when Napolitano leaned over to UC regent Chairman Bruce Varner and said, “Let’s just break. Let’s go, let’s go. We don’t have to listen to this crap.”   Continue reading “Napolitano on Protesting Students: We Don’t Have to Listen to This Crap”

James Boyd, Keith SandyThe Fifth Column – by Alex Freeman

Albuquerque, NM (TFC) –Lawyers for two Albuquerque police officers are citing the failure of non-lethal weapons as a legitimate defense in the murder of a homeless man camping in the mountains outside the city.  In January, the Albuquerque District Attorney charged Dominique Perez and Keith Sandy with “open murder” in the death of James Boyd, as the DA is still unsure of which degree of murder to assess.  The incident went viral and sparked massive protests against the Albuquerque Police Department because of the overwhelming use of force by members of the department.  Now that they are facing trial, the officers are blaming the results of the day on the failure of equipment discontinued by the manufacturer.   Continue reading “APD Officers Blame Taser Failure in Defense of Boyd Murder”

A self-designed T-Shirt reads The Telegraph – by Justin Huggler

A woman in Germany could face up to five years in prison for inciting hatred after she was filmed at an anti-Islam rally wearing a T-shirt that compared the Auschwitz concentration camp to a university.

The woman, who has not been named under German privacy laws, was filmed at a demonstration last October wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “University Auschwitz, est. 1941”.

Continue reading “German protester who wore ‘University of Auschwitz, 1941’ T-shirt faces prison”