The illegal immigrant who pled guilty to murdering 25-year-old Ruby Garcia of Grand Rapids, Michigan, earlier this year was sentenced to 39 years behind bars on Thursday. Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 26, was deported under the Trump administration in 2020, but illegally re-entered the U.S. “at an unknown date,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Ortiz-Vite, who is from Durango and Puebla, Mexico, shot and killed Garcia on March 22 and dumped her body beside the road. The two, who were friends, had gotten into an argument before the illegal immigrant murdered the 25-year-old Michigan woman. Ortiz-Vite accepted a plea deal with prosecutors who agreed to drop a first-degree murder charge for a second-degree murder charge. Kent County, Michigan, Circuit Court Judge Mark A. Trusock sentenced him to 39 years in prison on Thursday, News Channel 3 reported. “You, sir, are a cold blooded murderer,” Trusock told the killer. “This was intentional, and you are a danger to society.” In court, Ortiz-Vite told the Garcia family that he is “full of guilt and shame.” “I know right now my words hold little, if any, value to the Garcia family, which is understandable,” he said. “As a man, I stand before you humbly full of guilt and shame.” The murder added to the nationwide outrage over the Biden administration’s porous southern border. Garcia was murdered just a month after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was brutally killed by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant while she was on a run. Last month, President-elect Donald Trump, who made immigration a central part of his campaign, called for the death penalty “for any migrant who kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.” A Michigan State Police sergeant testified in court that Ortiz-Vite and Garcia got into a heated argument before Ortiz-Vite reached for his gun. Forensic pathologist David Start said that the illegal immigrant shot the young woman four times, including twice in the head. “You started shooting when you were in the car, then took her out of the car, put the gun to her head and pulled the trigger and shot her again,” Judge Trusock said. Two days after murdering Garcia, Ortiz-Vite called 911 to turn himself over to police. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “I could have easily blown my brains out, but I wanted to accept my responsibility for my actions,” he said at his sentencing. After serving his sentence in prison, Ortiz-Vite will likely be deported back to Mexico, Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker said. Ortiz-Vite will be 65 at the time of his release.

Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment this week against several Mississippi Democrats over an alleged bribery scheme to enrich themselves. The indictment, unsealed on Thursday in the Southern District of Mississippi, charged Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens II, 43; Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 41; and former President and current member of the Jackson City Council Aaron Banks, 47, of allegedly participating in the bribery scheme. Prosecutors said in a statement: As alleged in the indictment, between approximately October 2023 and May 2024, Owens facilitated bribe payments to public officials in Jackson on behalf of two FBI undercover employees posing as real estate developers (the Developers) in exchange for at least $115,000 and the promise of future financial benefit. Owens instructed the Developers that, for their project to succeed, they needed to secure the support of certain public officials in Jackson through bribery. Those public officials included Mayor Lumumba, Councilman Banks, and former Jackson City Councilwoman Angelique Lee. Owens instructed the Developers how much, where, and when to bribe those officials. They said that the mayor accepted a $50,000 bribe from the developers in exchange for official actions that he took to advance their project. Prosecutors alleged that the money was then laundered through Lumumba’s campaign before he cashed out his account. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ They alleged that Councilman Banks solicited a $50,000 bribe in exchange for his support for the project. Jackson City Councilwoman Angelique Lee pled guilty in the scheme several months ago for allegedly accepting “a $10,000 debt repayment, $3,000 in cash, and a shopping trip worth approximately $6,000 in luxury goods in exchange for her votes in support of the Developers’ proposed development project in downtown Jackson.” The news comes after the FBI raided a cigar business owned by Owens in May. Owens is backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros. Owens was charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, and money laundering; three counts of federal program bribery; using a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity; honest services wire fraud, money laundering; and lying to federal officers. “The indictment alleges that Jackson’s mayor, the district attorney in Jackson, and members of Jackson’s city council conspired to accept bribes in exchange for official acts benefiting purported real estate developers,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Officials who abuse their positions of authority to enrich themselves undermine public confidence in government. The Justice Department is committed to restoring that confidence by working with its law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute public corruption.” Lumumba was charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, and money laundering; federal program bribery; using a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity; honest services wire fraud, and money laundering. Banks was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, and money laundering; and one count of federal program bribery.

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Led Zeppelin was not a band that recorded a great deal of material that they left unreleased. There are multiple reasons for this. First and foremost was the simple fact that they did not have a long recording career due to the tragic passing of John Bonham in 1980. Led Zeppelin released their first studio album in 1969 entitled Led Zeppelin and their last in 1979 entitled In Through The Out Door. Over a ten year period, the band released ten albums. Ten freaking magical albums that defined the career of the greatest rock band of all time. One of The post Best Led Zeppelin Outtakes appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Good ideas and inventions are what help us to progress as a society because, without them, we could still be living in caves. However, some inventions are less useful than others, so take a look at these bizarre concepts from the past! When the innovative Roomba hit the market, people were enamored with the concept of a small robotic vacuum. Yet, as it turns out, the concept is pretty old news. Source

Four years ago, President-to-be Joe Biden narrowly won the swing states of Arizona and Georgia by about 11,000 votes each. This time around, Heritage Action for America was determined to ensure residents of both states were registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election.  This year, the conservative grassroots organization kicked its voter registration efforts into high gear.  As a result of Heritage Action’s nonstop effort to boost voter turnout on Nov. 5, the registration rolls in Arizona and Georgia alone saw an increase of more than 80,000 voters this cycle.   Former President Donald Trump won Georgia on Tuesday, and while The Associated Press still has not called Arizona for him, as of midafternoon Friday, he holds a 52.6% to 46.5% lead over Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2020, it was a different story. After years of Republican victories, Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes and he took Arizona by 10,457 votes. Biden’s winning margin was 20,682 in another swing state, Wisconsin.  “Nationwide, Biden’s Electoral College victory was secured by only 44,000 votes in three states, underscoring the potential outcome-changing power of Heritage Action’s targeted voter registration and turnout effort in those states,” said a press release from Heritage Action, an independent partner of The Heritage Foundation.  Heritage Action announced in early July that it would continue in its “strategic effort to register enough voters in key swing states to give conservative candidates the electoral edge ahead of the election in November.”  Heritage Action hired 14 people to do full-time door-knocking in the state of Arizona and 36 people in Georgia. They door-knocked on 250,000 homes, sent 5.2 million text messages to those people, and conducted 90,000 live calls back to those homes. As a result, Heritage Action registered 81,000 people across those two states.  “We were having conversations, listening, importantly, to the people and the concerns that they had,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker told The Daily Signal.   One of the key issues that affected the suburban women’s vote was energy-efficiency requirements for home appliances, according to Walker. Most people don’t know that the federal government sets energy-efficiency standards for those appliances.  “This is a really important point, because Trump ended up winning suburban women 51% to 47%, and so we were able to connect the dots between [what] … certainly was put on steroids under the Biden-Harris regime to effectively do away with the efficiency of your home appliances,” Walker said.  Heritage Action has equipped more than 2 million activists positioned nationwide to fight for key conservative policy issues. The organization’s Sentinels program trains more than 20,000 everyday citizens to go out into the political battlefields of their communities, local institutions, and state governments to uphold right-leaning principles.  This election cycle alone, six Heritage Action “Sentinels” won races across their states. Here is a list of them:  In Georgia, Noelle Kahaian won a state House race for District 81.  In Missouri, Cathy Jo Loy won a state House for District 163.  In Oklahoma, Mark Chapman won a state House for District 12.   In Texas, Hillary Hickland won a state House race for District 55.   In Utah, Lisa Shepherd won a state House race for District 61.  Randy Hough won reelection to his Board of Education seat in the Fayette County Public Schools to represent District 1 in Georgia.   “Our work has only just begun,” Walker said in a statement. “Over the next four years, we will continue the fight to reverse the Left’s disastrous immigration policies and secure the border, cut taxes for hardworking Americans, and reduce the skyrocketing inflation that has crippled the economy.   . “Over the next four years, we will continue the fight to reverse the Left’s disastrous immigration policies and secure the border, cut taxes for hardworking Americans, and reduce the skyrocketing inflation that has crippled the economy.    Heritage Action was proud to be part of “one of the best ground games that the conservative movement has ever put together,” Walker said.  “I think that we’re in the golden era of conservative politics and Republican control of all aspects of government,” he said. “And for that, I think that we should be really excited.”  The post How a Conservative Group’s Door-to-Door Push Added 80,000+ Voters in Key Swing States  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Thursday, scenes of Europe’s ugly past seemed to have returned with a full-scale pogrom by pro-Palestinian thugs chasing and beating fans of an Israeli soccer team through the streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, ABC’s Good Morning America saw no reason to cover these horrifying acts of violence that resulted in rescue planes being dispatched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rescue them. The Israelis were in the Dutch capital to support Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., a team in the Israeli Premier League facing off against AFC Ajax Amsterdam in UEFA Europa League competition. NBC’s Today had a different idea by leading each of their two hours with this. Co-host Savannah Guthrie didn’t mince words in the first tease, calling it “a shocking wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe” and “ambush” of “Israeli soccer fans,” who were “attacked and beaten in a disturbing night of anti-Semitic violence.” NBC's 'Today' led both hours with full reports on the anti-Semitic violence against Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam last night. A pogrom in modern-day Europe. ABC's 'Good Morning America'? Silent. pic.twitter.com/OgVbJwYKuZ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 8, 2024 Guthrie later set-up the report from Tel Aviv by foreign correspondent Raf Sanchez: But let’s start with breaking news overseas. Israel now sending at least two rescue planes to Amsterdam to evacuate its citizens after several were injured in violent, anti-Semitic attacks, happened after a soccer match. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators defying a ban on protests near the stadium and clashing with supporters of an Israeli team. Sanchez painted a dire picture: “Several evacuation aircrafts took off from here in Tel Aviv earlier to bring stranded Israelis home after what the government is calling a widespread, anti-Semitic attack in a major European capital.” Unfortunately, he seemed to make an attempt at false equivalency by citing the “tension on the streets around the time that the violence erupted,” saying “[s]ome of those Israeli soccer fans chanting ‘death to Arabs.’”  Sanchez went onto denounce the “anti-Semitic violence” with videos and a soundbite from one eyewitness (click “expand”): SANCHEZ: This morning, Israel says it’s responding to widespread anti-Semitic violence on the streets of Amsterdam. Fans of a Tel Aviv soccer club chased through the canals and alleys of the Dutch capitol by a pro-Palestinian crowd, according to the government. The Israeli embassy in Washington posting this footage, not verified by NBC News. The man surrounded. ARAB THUG: This is for the children — for the children, mother-[expletive]. ISRAELI: I’ll give you my money. Leave me. Please go. IDDO GOLD: They started to stab, attack, go into the rivers, throw on us flash bombs. [SCREEN WIPE] We are frightened to go on the streets. We were frightened. You know, it’s pure anti-Semitism. Sanchez again tried to bothsides this, playing clips of “[s]ome Israeli fans chanting racist, anti-Arab slurs” and said “[o]thers seen ripping down a Palestinian flag.” Sanchez dropped the act, sharing statements from Israeli officials, the fact that this came so close to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, and apologies from the Dutch king (click “expand”): But later, Amsterdam police saying attackers actively sought out Israeli supporters and insulted them. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office saying he “views the horrifying incident with the utmost gravity and demands the Dutch government and security forces take vigorous and swift action against the rioters.” Israeli sending several aircraft to evacuate the wounded and dispatching its new foreign minister to Amsterdam. President Biden’s Special Envoy on Anti-Semitism tweeting: “Horrified by the attacks tonight in Amsterdam, which are terribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom,” and noting that this weekend is the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the 1938 attack that marked a turning point in the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. A dark chapter some fear has not been confined to history. Now, this is being taken extremely seriously by the Dutch government. The king of the Netherlands spoke to the President Israel this morning and told him, “we failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II and last night, we failed again.” Guthrie and Sanchez reracked things for the second hour. Guthrie framed it in the tease as a “rescue mission” by the Israeli government o save their own citizens and later tossed to Sanchez by reiterating what happened was “a shocking wave of anti-Semitic attacks[.]” Sanchez hit all of his main points from the first hour, including his attempt at equivalency by implying Jews started it with the “death to Arabs” chant. Meanwhile, it was somewhat surprising to see CBS Mornings be allowed to cover this given their groveling defenses of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Co-host Gayle King began: Some alarming scenes unfolding in the Netherlands overnight as Israeli soccer fans were attacked at multiple locations in Amsterdam. At least 62 people have been arrested, and five people hospitalized. As Ramy Inocencio reports, this comes amid anger over the war in Gaza. We have to warn you here, a heads-up, this report contains some pretty graphic images. Foreign correspondent Remy Inocencio first showed videos from the Amsterdam streets before explaining it was a “night of violence marked by multiple attacks, groups of men beating other men after a football game between a visiting Israeli team and a local club. Called anti-Semitic by Dutch leaders and Israeli officials. Police told fans to hide.” He too played both sides by citing the “death to Arabs” chant and lamented “[a]nger rose as Israeli supporters in yellow disrespected a moment of silence.” “[S]ince October 7 of last year and the tens of thousands killed, anti-Semitism has reportedly surged across the continent. This has the added layers of historic hate across religions, cultures, and a war still raging in the Middle East,” he later concluded. ABC did acknowledge it with a 29-second brief on Good Morning America First Look (formerly known as America This Morning) by co-host Andrew Dymburt, but that overnight show is the proverbial tree falling in a woods with no one around to hear it. Good Morning America had time for plenty of fluff, including segments on bra fittings and last-minute travel deals for Thanksgiving. To see the relevant transcripts from November 8, click here (for CBS) and here (for NBC).