To f*** up, if we learned anything from 2012.

With Schweitzer out, Montana Democrats are scrambling to find a means of holding a seat they have held since 1913. That's right: the Class 2 Senate seat being vacated by Max Baucus has been held by Democrats for a hundred years.

With other salivating pick-up opportunities in South Dakota and West Virginia, along with vulnerable Democrat incumbents in Alaska, Arkansas, and North Carolina, Republicans have their third chance in three straight elections to win back control of the Senate. So that means only one thing: more...

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FoxNews is carrying his speech in front of some lefty organization -- I imagine everyone is covering it. I think this link should give you FoxNews' livestream.

He mentions the DoJ's ongoing investigation into the matter without stating whether or not a legal decision has been made. He goes on to say that whatever the DoJ's decision, we must not let this latest opportunity to speak "honestly about race" pass, as we, the nation of cowards, have done so many times before.

Meanwhile, check out a story appearing on FoxNews, with some reporting by the AP, stating that the mostly peaceful protesters peacefully rioting in Oakland are mostly peaceful.

Though most of the peaceful protesters will protest peacefully, they do allow that it is possible some of the more hot-headed among them might also engage in some "dissent."

This appeared on Fox, for crying out loud. But the dirty little secret is that lots of liberals, who couldn't get jobs at places they'd prefer to work, work at FoxNews.

So: Be wary of angry protesters. There might be some dissent.

Communities nationwide braced for a day of demonstration, and possibly even dissent, as the public awoke Sunday to learn a six-person Florida jury had acquitted George Zimmerman of second-degree murder, overnight, in the February 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Protesters on the West Coast massed, and in some cases marched, in four California cities, beneath the lingering sunshine that had already yielded to twilight and nightfall by the time the decision had been rendered shortly before 10 p.m. on the mostly quiescent East Coast.

Mostly, the California demonstrations proved peaceful, although matters were marred by sporadic reports of stray violence and vandalism, including the halt of a passenger train, the burning of American and California flags, the lighting of small fires in city roadways, shattered storefront windows and the spray painting of a courthouse, as well as the damaging of a police squad car.

Apparently some protesters dissented with shop windows and cop cars:

This just in: Trayvon Martin engaged in some light dissent against George Zimmerman's head.

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If that law was at play, they sure kept it a secret at the murder trial. You'd think they might have mentioned it once or twice.

This is all part and parcel of the left's and the media's (but I repeat myself) pathological need to weaponize the news for political purposes.

News is never viewed as simply news; it is always viewed as an angle for agitprop. And thus we continue to hear chatter over Stand Your Ground laws -- a political hot-button -- in connection with the Zimmerman case despite the fact (if we still even care about such stupid things as facts) that the case simply had nothing to do with Stand Your Ground at all.

And we'll continue hearing about it, because what we call "The News" is just a flag of convenience for leftist ships smuggling weaponized memes to their partisans in the American Cold Civil War.

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We were discussing this in the comments, the idea of what right Trayvon Martin may have had to punch and beat George Zimmerman. There seems to be bubbling beneath the surface talking points of many on the political and racial left that if Martin was beating Zimmerman, he had a right to do so, a right which Zimmerman violated by shooting him.

Was George Zimmerman acting as a racial vigilate that night? Everyone asks that question.

Here's the question no one asks: Was Trayvon Martin acting as a racial vigilante that night? Was he administering his own form of Street Justice in response to Zimmerman's alleged racial profiling?

And is it seriously being contended that the first form of vigilantism is a crime worthy of prison while the second is, what? Understandable? Defensible? Laudatory?

@rbpundit has some similar thoughts over at the Right Sphere.

Oh, and while it's cheery news that Zimmerman might sue Florida or that monstrous hag Angela Corey, Allah's skeptical about the chances for such a suit.

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This will complicate any ideas Eric Holder has about a race-based prosecution.

The Justice Department has responded to appeals to probe whether George Zimmerman committed any civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin -- but previously filed FBI documents are already challenging the narrative that the shooting was racially motivated.

Sanford police detective Chris Serino told FBI agents last year that after examining the case, it appeared Zimmerman was suspicious of Martin because of his "attire, the total circumstances of the encounter and the previous burglary suspects in the community."

According to the document, Serino considered Zimmerman as having "a little hero complex, but not as a racist."

Here's a little context the media never reported:

Serino told the FBI that there had been several burglaries in the area, and that gang members in the community "typically dressed in black and wore hoodies."

Captain Ed points out another problem with the idea of federal charges:

The only basis for federal charges would have to rely on a hate-crime charge. Unlike the Rodney King case, where the DoJ pressed charges after a state court acquitted defendants, Zimmerman didn’t act under color of authority. He acted as a private citizen. Whether one believes he “profiled” Martin or not is irrelevant, because “profiling” is actionable by the DoJ only when police forces do it. And in this case, the DoJ’s own investigators concluded that racism didn’t play a significant role in the incident.

Oh -- and this is real retarded, sir.

And one more delicious bit -- Zimmerman's suit against NBC is now going forward "ASAP."

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