MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.

IT’S “FAUXCAHONTAS,” MR. PRESIDENT: Trump Digs at Warren as ‘Pocahontas’ During Navajo Ceremony Under Jackson Portrait.

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: The View’s Host Joy Behar: “I am being told by God to save this country.”

—Right Wing News, Saturday.

● Chaser:

While Behar was raised Catholic, she now identifies as agnostic. She jokingly said she lost her faith when she “went to the Commie school Queens College.” She told Father Edward Beck on an ABC News “Focus on Faith” interview: “I’m sustained by my family, my life, my brain. But I don’t believe there’s an afterlife.” (March 17, 2011). In the same interview, she said: “I never gave her [my daughter] any religion, because I felt that I was brainwashed. . . . This is what I didn’t want my daughter to have. So that’s why I didn’t want her to go to Catholic school or learn any of that.”

“I’m pathetically pragmatic. . . . I don’t believe that there’s a higher power that created human beings.”

—Joy Behar in an interview with Father Edward Beck on ABC News, “Focus on Faith,” March 17, 2011.

As found at the Freedom from Religion Foundation Website.

ACTORS FROM THE WEST WING SEEM TO THINK THEY HAVE ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE EXPERIENCE, OR SOMETHING.

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RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: IU Health nurse no longer an employee after investigation into controversial tweet.

IU Health said Taiyesha Baker faced an internal investigation by HR after allegedly posting on Twitter that “Every white woman raises a detriment to society when they raise a son.”

A spokesman confirmed to FOX59 that Baker was a registered nurse but declined to comment on which specific hospital employed her.

In since deleted social media posts, Baker claimed that she worked in pediatrics.

If so, IU Health might want to conduct a thorough review of her record.

AL FRANKEN: I CAN’T SAY THAT MY HAND HASN’T BEEN ON ANY ASSES. “If he accuses the women of lying he’s essentially deploying the ‘nuts and sluts’ defense to misconduct, a cardinal sin of the #MeToo moment. He’s trapped so he’s forced to resort to some inane third possibility in which his hand accidentally made contact with women’s asses, possibly due to him being jostled by a third party out of frame, and all three women misinterpreted incidental contact as him having his hand ‘wrapped tightly around my butt cheek.’ An actual quote from the clip below: ‘I take thousands and thousands of pictures, sometimes in crowded and chaotic situations.’ That’s as feeble and unconvincing a defense as Anthony Weiner ever offered but this is the progressive needle Franken is forced to thread. Admitting wrongdoing is a nonstarter, blaming the women is a nonstarter, ergo it must have been an innocent mistake.”

AMY PEIKOFF: The Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Legalize Privacy.

Enduring, reliable protection for the data we share with third parties must come from the Fourth Amendment. This is precisely the opportunity presented by Carpenter v. United States, soon to be heard by The Supreme Court.

Carpenter concerns the application of the third-party doctrine to Cell Site Location Information (CSLI) collected by service providers. Petitioner Carpenter argues that, unlike other data shared with a third party, longer-term cell phone location data (here collected for 127 days) is something in which one has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” (“Reasonable expectation of privacy” is the standard the Court uses to determine whether a search has occurred within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.) Accordingly, Carpenter argues that the third-party doctrine should apply neither to longer-term cell phone location data, nor to similarly sensitive data: “There is no basis in [the Supreme] Court’s jurisprudence for extending Smith and Miller [cases extending the third-party doctrine to ‘ordinary business records’] to CSLI, both because the information is more sensitive, and because it is not voluntarily shared with a third party in any meaningful way.”

Once you extend the scope of the third-party doctrine to “ordinary business records,” how do you draw even a semi-bright line, particularly one for which there is a principled rationale? How long is the “long-term” over which one’s data is collected, before one’s expectation of privacy becomes “reasonable”? Why shouldn’t digital information be subsumed if analog is? How sensitive is sensitive? And so on.

The Court should overturn Smith and Miller, and return the third-party doctrine to its original scope: sharing information with government agents in the course of criminal activity.

Read the whole thing.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.

FAITH MOORE: Why I Won’t Be Sharing #MeToo.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. John Conyers Is the Furthest Thing from an ‘Icon,’ Roger Simon writes.

BREAKING: Marine Colonel Announces He’s Running Against Roy Moore.

When retired Marine Col. Lee Busby read it was too late for a write-in candidate for the Alabama senate race, he said, “Hold my beer, we will just see about that.”

Busby told The Daily Beast on Monday he is launching his long-shot bid to stop Republican nominee Roy Moore from reaching the Senate.

“I have no idea if the allegations against him true or not, but I don’t see anything within his experience as a judge that qualifies him for the job.”

Busby said his state needs a choice other than Moore or Democrat Doug Jones.

“Alabama is not happy with the two choices we have down here. They are not appealing.”

Busby said he spent 31 years in the Marine Corps and on his last tour of duty was vice chief of staff to then-Gen. John Kelly, who is now White House chief of staff.

Since retiring, Busby has been the CEO of his own business and worked as a defense consultant and investment banker.

You think he ran this past Kelly before announcing?

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