Tweet of the Day: Rep. Steve Stockman files resolution to arrest Lois Lerner...

There is no doubt Rep. Steve Stockman has the balls, but Boehner will have to find a pair to make this happen. 

We just filed a resolution directing the Sergeant-At-Arms to arrest Lois Lerner for contempt.  Statement coming in minutes. #IRSscandal
— Rep. Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) July 10, 2014

Boehner fails to find a pair: Rules out House arresting Lois Lerner...

This is the least shocking story of the day. Boehner doesn't have the balls to have the House arrest Lois Lerner for contempt and Eric Holder will never do it. That leaves the contempt vote as a toothless show vote to placate the base. Boehner can go back to working on his tan and golf game now.

Via The Hill:

The House has held Lois Lerner in contempt, but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday.

Under a precedent affirmed by the Supreme Court, each chamber of Congress can authorize its sergeant-at-arms to detain individuals it holds in contempt. But Boehner said on "Fox News Sunday" that he has no interest in doing that with Lerner, whom the House last week voted to hold in contempt over her refusal to testify about her role in the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.

“I’m not sure we want to go down that path,” Boehner said. “It’s never been used,” he said of the provision allowing Congress to arrest individuals and place them in the Capitol jail. The Senate has in fact used that power, but not in the last 80 years. “I’m not sure that it’s an appropriate way to go about this,” Boehner said.

Venezuela’s socialist government starts arresting businessmen...

Barack Obama is most envious...

Nov 14 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government has arrested more than 100 “bourgeois” businessmen in a crackdown on alleged price-gouging at hundreds of shops and companies since the weekend, President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.
“They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!” Maduro thundered in the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. “We have more than 100 of the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment.”
The successor to the late Hugo Chavez also said his government was preparing a law to limit Venezuelan businesses’ profits to between 15 percent and 30 percent.
Officials say unscrupulous companies have been hiking prices of electronics and other goods more than 1,000 percent. Critics say failed socialist economic policies and restricted access to foreign currency are behind Venezuela’s runaway inflation.
“Goodyear has to lower its prices even more, 15 percent is not enough, the inspectors have go there straightaway,” Maduro said in his evening address, sending officials to check local operations of the U.S.-based tire manufacturer.

Ex-Sanford police chief claims he received political pressure to arrest Zimmerman...

The entire arrest and trial of George Zimmerman has been a political effort to appease race-baiters like Al Sharpton.

(CNN) -- The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked "in a number of ways" by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida.

Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, told CNN's George Howell in an exclusive interview that he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimmerman to placate the public rather than as a matter of justice.

"It was (relayed) to me that they just wanted an arrest. They didn't care if it got dismissed later," he said. "You don't do that."

When Sanford police arrived on the scene on February 26, 2012, after Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, they conducted a "sound" investigation, and the evidence provided no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman at the scene, he said.

It had nothing to do with Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, he said; from an investigative standpoint, it was purely a matter of self-defense.

Ex-Sanford police chief Bill Lee actually received a death threat for no arresting Zimmerman. 

Elvis impersonator is free and his taekwondo instructor nemesis is now arrested in connection with ricin-laced letters...

This is one of the most bizarre crimes ever...

Via Weekly Standard:

A Mississippi taekwondo instructor has been arrested in connection with ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and Senator Roger Wicker. It’s not yet clear what role authorities suspect this man played.

“James Everett Dutschke was arrested at 1 a.m. at his home in Tupelo Saturday and turned over to the U.S. Marshal Services without incident, Tupelo Police Chief Tony Carleton, confirmed Saturday morning,” reports Northeast Mississippi News.
“No other information was available about the arrest or any possible charges at this time.

Amusing: Nancy Pelosi got robbed on election day...literally

Police have arrested the alleged perpetrator. It wasn't John Boehner....

Via SFGate:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi won’t be House majority leader in the next Congress, but she did get a bit of consolation Wednesday — police arrested a Wine Country transient who allegedly admitted to burglarizing her Napa County vacation home, once on election eve and again on election day.

Sheriff’s deputies caught Kevin Michael Hagan, 21, during another burglary Wednesday outside St. Helena and found a watch they say was stolen from Pelosi’s home on Zinfandel Lane, authorities said.

Kevin Michael Hagan

Illegal alien arrests plummet to lowest level since 1972

Nobody saw this coming.

Via CNSNews.com:

The Department of Homeland Security’s 2011 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics was released last month, including figures that show that the number of illegal aliens apprehended in the United States was the lowest in 40 years.

The report shows (page 91, table 33) that in fiscal year 2011, the number of illegal aliens apprehended was 641,633 – at that time the lowest total apprehensions since 1972 when the number of illegal aliens apprehended was 505,949.

The report shows that the number of illegal aliens apprehended has steadily decreased over the course of the Obama administration, from 869,857 in fiscal year 2009 to 641,633 in fiscal year 2011.

The table includes the following totals for fiscal years 2008-2011:

2008: 1,043.863
2009: 869,857
2010: 752,329
2011: 641,633

The table also shows that from 1976 to 2008, the number of apprehensions ranged from 910,361 in 1980 to 1,814,729 in 2000.

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Demo Sen. Diane Feinstein: We need to get an international court to arrest Gadaffi

Is she serious? Kill him maybe, but arrest him? How is that going to work?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now under arrest in Britain

Let's hope he rots in jail...

(SKY News)-WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police over sexual assault claims in Sweden.

The 39-year-old Australian was detained by Scotland Yard officers at around 9.30am after he voluntarily went to a police station in central London.

He is expected to appear before City of Westminster magistrates within the next few hours.

WikiLeaks Founder Accused of Rape and Harassment by Two Women (updated)

An arrest warrant has been issued in Sweden for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He has been accused of rape and sexual harassment by two women in Sweden.

The Swedish Prosecution Authority released a statement on Saturday morning in which it revealed that the warrant was based on “one report of rape and one report of harassment. A warrant has been put out for the person's arrest since there is a risk that he could hamper the investigation.”

Assange denies the allegations and blames them on the right-wing. He is still reportedly in Sweden.

Update: Charges dropped?

Hat tip The Jawa Report.

Video: Former ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis Led Away In Handcuffs

It is not the criminal indictment you were hoping to see. Bertha Lewis was arrested at a pro-illegal immigrant rally in NYC Monday. ACORN had no respect for our laws. It is not surprising Bertha Lewis is pro-illegal. The sight of her in handcuffs does stir wishful thinking.

Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera

When you get pulled over by the police, you are likely being recorded on a dashcam. However, if you turn the tables and record the police in Maryland, you may be charged with a felony. Maryland State Police are are charging people with felonies for recording their arrests on camera. The video of one arrest MSP tried to stop from being recorded is embedded below.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera..

A man whose arrest was caught on video faces felony charges from Maryland State Police for recording it on camera.

"We are enforcing the law, and we don't make any apologies for that," said Greg Shipley, MSP. ..

Here is the Preakness video Maryland State police did not want you to see.

New York Times Leaker Arrested?

In the last few years, the New York Times has had many stories attributed to high level leaks. You can see examples here and here. Now, a high level NSA official has been arrested for leaking multiple stories to an unnamed newspaper. Hmm...

Former NSA executive charged with...

A former senior executive with the National Security Agency has been indicted on 10 felony charges...

Thomas A. Drake, 52, headed an office in the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate at Fort Meade between 2001 and 2005, and continued to work with the agency as a high-ranking contractor through 2008, U.S. officials said. The indictment alleges that Drake exchanged hundreds of e-mails with an unidentified reporter[s] for a national newspaper and served as a source for its articles about Bush administration intelligence policies between February 2006 and November 2007, U.S. officials said.

SEIU Thug Who Beat a Man Outside a Town Hall Thought He Was Working?

Elston McGowan (pictured above) is the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000. He was one of two SEIU members arrested for beating a protester outside Russ Carnahan's health care town hall in St. Louis. His shoulder was dislocated in the scuffle. The SEIU is paying his legal bills. 24th State reported his workers compensation claim was denied. He thought he was working?

Oklahoma State Troopers Try To Arrest EMT In Ambulance On Way To Hospital (video)

Unbelievable. Can anyone say, "Storm Troopers?"

Oklahoma Highway Patrol fight with EMT (video)


Hat tip to Hot Air Pundit.