At Amazon, Lauren Southern, Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation.
Finally back in Canada, range day 🔫🔫 pic.twitter.com/xklhJqIK1X— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) June 27, 2016
Commentary and analysis on American politics, culture, and national identity, U.S. foreign policy and international relations, and the state of education - from a neoconservative perspective! - Keeping an eye on the communist-left so you don't have to!
Finally back in Canada, range day 🔫🔫 pic.twitter.com/xklhJqIK1X— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) June 27, 2016
ELTON JOHN’S 70TH BIRTHDAY AND HIS 50-YEAR SONGWRITING PARTNERSHIP WITH BERNIE TAUPIN WILL BE CELEBRATED TOMORROW, MARCH 25, 2017, AT A GALA EVENT IN LOS ANGELES
WATCH A SHORT FILM WITH A SELECTION OF HIGHLIGHTS FROM HIS AMAZING CAREER HERE
ROB LOWE WILL SERVE AS HOST
LADY GAGA AND OTHER SURPRISE GUESTS WILL PERFORM AT THE EVENT
THE CELEBRATION WILL BENEFIT THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION AND THE UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM
LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2017 – Tomorrow, March 25, a gala fundraising event celebrating Elton John’s 70th birthday and his 50-year writing partnership with Bernie Taupin will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) and the Hammer Museum at UCLA. Held at Red Studios in Los Angeles, the evening will be hosted by Rob Lowe and will feature a gala dinner and special musical performances by Lady Gaga and other surprise guests.
Watch a short film with a selection of highlights from Elton’s amazing career here https://youtu.be/ngusy7cvA4A
In keeping with Elton's commitment to philanthropy, he is eager to leverage the celebration of his 70th birthday and his amazing songwriting collaboration with Bernie Taupin in order to support two worthy causes that are the driving passions of his life: ending the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, and art in all its many forms. To that end, this event will raise urgently needed money to help fund the grant-making initiatives of the Elton John AIDS Foundation and exhibitions and programs presented by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
This very special evening will honor the many strands of an unrivalled career and life that still continue to enrich, enthrall, and inspire. Elton John is a true musical and cultural iconoclast, with a record that speaks for itself. He has achieved worldwide sales of over 250 million records and has 58 Billboard Top 40 singles in the United States. He has written the music for the stage and screen successes Billy Elliot: The Musical, Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida, and Disney's cinematic and theatrical sensation The Lion King. A tireless live performer, Elton has played more than 3,500 concerts in over 80 countries. He has collected 12 Ivor Novello Awards, six GRAMMYS®, two Brits, an Oscar®, and a Tony. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and The Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has received a knighthood from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. He is a tireless charitable campaigner and philanthropist, notoriously outspoken for the causes he believes in. Elton John is an undisputed pop culture legend. His knowledge and championing of new music has helped many new artists achieve recognition and success. He is constantly moving forward, never resting on his laurels, never becoming complacent, predictable, or dull.
Of his career with Bernie Taupin, Elton simply says, "It's the same excitement now as when we first started. That this year marks the 50th anniversary of my partnership with Bernie Taupin is mind boggling for me because it seems like only yesterday that I met him. It's an amazing achievement to stay with one person for 50 years on a creative basis, in an industry where that doesn't really happen very much."
On reaching his 70th year, Elton notes, "I'm interested in moving forward all the time, with what I create, my collaborations, and also with discovering the work of other people. I think age is immaterial, provided we keep our minds alive by being open to new things. I can be as excited by a new artist who plays me their demo as I am by a new record of one of my musical heroes. I can be excited by playing a new city I've never played before, or revisiting somewhere I know well and seeing how it's changed. Life is a constant state of flux for us all, and I like to embrace that. I also feel very happy to use my position to bring attention to injustice in the world, and to try to help where I can. At this time in my life I'm the happiest I have ever been."
Bernie Taupin says of Elton, "It's been an unconventional partnership and while we pretty much patented the two-rooms technique I'd venture to say you'd be hard pressed to find a couple of songwriters more in sync with each other and their craft".
See Elton John on tour. Go to www.eltonjohn.com for more information.
80% of CUNY freshman need remedial classes. But now, CUNY is rethinking its remedial programs from end to end https://t.co/yj09o1wxBj— Elizabeth A. Harris (@Liz_A_Harris) March 20, 2017
Twenty-thousand new students arrived at public community colleges in New York City last fall only to be told they were not ready for college-level work. Instead, they were placed in remedial classes to complete the preparation they were supposed to have received in high school.More.
But for a significant portion of these students, remedial courses will not put them any closer to a degree. The courses take time and cost money — or consume a portion of a student’s financial aid — while offering no credits. Many students, frustrated that they are sitting in class without progressing toward a degree, drop out. It is a pattern replicated every year, not just in New York but at community colleges across the country.
Now, the City University of New York, the largest urban public university system in the United States, is moving to fundamentally rework its traditional remedial programs. Administrators hope program changes this year and in 2018 will make necessary catch-up less of a stumbling block, while ensuring that students who are in college-level classes are prepared to do the work.
“The notion is that if you can succeed in college, we want to help you get there,” said Vita C. Rabinowitz, executive vice chancellor and university provost at CUNY. “No artificial barriers or screening devices. It’s a matter of true college readiness.”
Dr. Rabinowitz said that about 80 percent of freshman entering community college in the CUNY system require remediation in reading, writing, math, or some combination of those subjects. Students of color are twice as likely to be assessed as needing remediation as white students. But at the end of one year, only half of all students in remediation have advanced out of those classes. The need for remediation is a chronic problem at community colleges around the country as students graduate from high school without the skills they need for college.
“We had outcomes that were in line with national averages, which is to say very disappointing,” Dr. Rabinowitz said. The system, she said, was not working. “And if that’s not working, then CUNY is not working.”
One fundamental shift CUNY is planning will address how students are assigned to remedial courses. Traditionally, most students entering CUNY community colleges take placement tests in reading, writing and math, which determines who needs help. But researchers and college administrators around the country worry that these tests put people in remedial classes who could have done well without them.
In fact, ACT, the testing company, withdrew its placement test from the market last year over such concerns. Ed Colby, a spokesman for the company said that the test, called Compass, and others like it, were not placing students where they should be. Students who had been out of high school for a few years when they took the exam were particularly likely to be unnecessarily steered toward remediation, Mr. Colby said.
For now, CUNY has switched to a different test — ACCUPLACER, which is a College Board exam — but the plan is to incorporate other measures as well. David Crook, associate university provost for academic affairs at CUNY, said they were considering looking at students’ grades in relevant classes, or perhaps their overall grade point average. They hope to have a new system in place for the fall of 2018.
CUNY has also put in place an automatic retesting policy for those who score just below the passing cutoff on the math and reading placement tests. Since the option was put in place last fall, about 550 students have taken advantage of it on the reading exam, and of those, 49 percent passed on their second try. Three hundred students retook the math test, and of those students, 55 percent passed...
A Canadian woman was travelling to work when she noticed two large black wolves running on the road alongside herhttps://t.co/Uj455v9cGQ
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism - so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed Londonistan. In this ground-breaking book Melanie Phillips pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed as a result of the collapse of traditional English identity and accommodation of a particularly virulent form of multiculturalism. Londonistan has become a country within the country and not only threatens Britain but its special relationship with the U.S. as well.
Obviously, the truth is making career staffers at State uncomfortable. That is not our problem. - @gastonmooney https://t.co/n1uTd9dtfP
— Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) March 22, 2017
Samuel Freeman reviews three new books on the lives and ideas of the Frankfurt School https://t.co/hvQCb6baBl
— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) March 13, 2017
The Guardian understands the initial working theories of the police investigation are the attacker was inspired by Isis and was most likely a “lone actor”. The attacker’s identity was already known to counter-terrorism officials. Rowley said investigators were trying to establish the attacker’s associates and his preparations for the attack.Apparently, "police refuse to name" the suspect, and that's apparently after a number of outlets identified the wrong person.
'ALARMED' AS DETAILS WIDELY DISSEMINATED... https://t.co/Y49xQXb9Ld— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) March 22, 2017
#BREAKING: Man shot by police outside Parliament. More details to follow. pic.twitter.com/aa8IVWpj5k
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
A policeman is understood to have shot an intruder three times at close range outside the Houses of Parliament https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/9f0qNpsg5z
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
Westminster in lockdown: Two people were seen lying within Old Palace Yard, immediately outside Westminster Hall https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/bGimxJPOKR
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
At least a dozen injured people on Westminster Bridge near UK parliament, a Reuters photographer reports https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/CJ86cc6W5a
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
Scotland Yard said it was called to a firearms incident on Westminster Bridge amid reports of several people injured https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/u9tQKvqXfj
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
An Air Ambulance outside the Palace of Westminster after an armed man was 'shot dead by police' https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/mmiFRk8bwP
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
Major security alert under way at Palace of Westminster: man reportedly shot by police outside Houses of Parliament https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/h3TCjMMn6v
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
House of Commons Leader David Lidington tells MPs a "police officer has been stabbed" and the "alleged assailant was shot by armed police" pic.twitter.com/dSvn86qdGD
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
The scene on Westminster Bridge. A major security alert is under way at the Houses of Parliament https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq https://t.co/6jtXVsNJat
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
Staff inside Westminster were told to stay in their offices and the PM was reportedly bundled away from parliament https://t.co/oiCGGVWrPq pic.twitter.com/lp44TdIfrY
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2017
Police shoot 'knife wielding man' outside Parliament after car mows down five people on Westminster Bridge https://t.co/H6XQNCZRrs pic.twitter.com/QgEoj8PKs0
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) March 22, 2017
Looks like they have stopped CPR on the intruder at Parliament
— John Stevens (@johnestevens) March 22, 2017
Intruder has been lifted onto stretcher and is being put in ambulance
— John Stevens (@johnestevens) March 22, 2017
A blanket has been put over person down who we think was police officer. First aiders have stopped treating them
— John Stevens (@johnestevens) March 22, 2017
Ambulance carrying intruder has left Parliament. The body of the person we think was police officer is dead, body covered by red blanket
— John Stevens (@johnestevens) March 22, 2017
Commons tannoy: "Due to security incident all buildings have been locked down - please stay in current location until further notice"
— John Stevens (@johnestevens) March 22, 2017
NEW: Metropolitan police say they're treating firearms incident "as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise." https://t.co/6ilOxFEvKs pic.twitter.com/XyEqRPnyRV
— ABC News (@ABC) March 22, 2017
#ParliamentAttack: "Witnesses describe 'Asian guy' in his 40s carrying eight-inch long knife": https://t.co/Z4TZ1k6Y0Q
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) March 22, 2017
#Sears owner says 'substantial doubt' it can stay in business: https://t.co/tJ5nYp8om3
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) March 22, 2017
"What's that crumbling noise?" #FakeNewsMedia @CNN the most Distrusted Name in News.. #BenGarrison #cartoons at https://t.co/x1pNN6ymoT pic.twitter.com/zrDJhZDV7W
— BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) March 21, 2017
There is more than one way to destroy a democracy. @RichardEvans36 on Volker Ullrich's new biography of Hitler https://t.co/f0cxQtlvTH— The Nation Bks_Arts (@BooksandtheArts) March 16, 2017
Ivanka now has an official office in the West Wing next to Powell, getting a security clearance + gov-issued phone: https://t.co/pUvRxreSdC
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) March 20, 2017
I normally hate this genre of tweets, but: imagine if Chelsea Clinton got a West Wing office https://t.co/VJqh2Ouv0Y
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) March 20, 2017
If Hillary had won, she probably would have had one. https://t.co/2DqYvh0G7i
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) March 20, 2017
Democrats still haven't faced their God problem https://t.co/Aivj3h2S3Q via @nypost
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) March 20, 2017
PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic Party has a God problem.Washo and Chism need to get real: The Democrats are a Marxist party. They've doctrinally abandoned God as a matter of ideology and politics. Any outward expression of faith on the part of Democrat office-seekers is artifice. I mean, c'mon. Abortion politics, to mention just one policy item, is predicated on the rejection of moral values and Biblical teaching: Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations..."
And over the last couple of decades, as its base became more educated, less religious and more urban, this problem has only grown.
Some of this has to do with lower church attendance in cities versus rural areas, and the Democratic Party’s increasing reliance on urban voters. Some of it is the divisiveness of social or cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage. And the divide has seemingly sapped Democrats’ ability to communicate to religious Americans.
Especially if those people of faith are white, according to Brad Chism, a longtime and respected Democratic strategist based in Mississippi.
“And that problem extends to the national media, who by and large are mostly Democrats, meaning you have these powerful forces who do not understand more than half of the people in this country,” he said.
Chism makes a crucial point about what this means for American politics: Some of the greatest moral advancements in our country’s history have been accomplished largely through the influence of the church and churchgoing people, especially through the 20th century.
“You look at women’s suffrage, civil rights, the abolition of slavery and all of these massive other changes — religion and religious people have played a role in moving society toward a higher plane,” said Chism.
“We’ve seen that recently as well, but a lot of progressives and liberal Democrats don’t see the role of religion in society, and that is a big mistake,” he said.
And it’s a mistake people like Kevin Washo are trying to rectify, though they feel like they’re swimming against the tide. A day before the Democratic National Convention opened here last July, Washo, a Catholic and prominent national Democrat, organized a private Mass led by a Jesuit priest in the conference room of a prestigious law firm in a shimmering Market Street skyscraper.
That imagery is a far cry from the 2012 Democratic convention, when the hall exploded in turmoil as Democrats voted to amend their party’s platform to include the word “God.” The platform initially had dropped previous platform language that referenced God. After an outcry, convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa returned to the stage to take a floor vote on a motion to reinsert the language.
The floor vote quite clearly failed as Villaraigosa repeated the roll call. Eventually he declared that “the ayes have it,” and loud boos exploded across the arena.
The headlines that came out of that debacle — “Democrats boo God” was a common one — ended up making matters worse for those, like Washo and Chism, who would like to see their party counter the perception of its estrangement from people of faith...
@JeffBezos "Why do I feel so much like #sigourneyweaver ?" @amazon #MARS2017 #openpodbaydoors 😬🤓 pic.twitter.com/HRRzmQtZbh
— Caleb Harper (@calebgrowsfood) March 20, 2017
I am a fan of Dioni Tabbers. I don’t really know all that much about her, other than the fact that she doesn’t really have much of a following, considering she’s been getting naked for photoshoots for at least 4 years…at least according to my documenting of her getting naked -> LINK HERE BUT TOO LAZY TO GO FIND IT.Heh.
A husband stood by his wife after her affair with a middle school kid https://t.co/PFojR41y7T pic.twitter.com/xe5rP3p8P3
— New York Post (@nypost) March 20, 2017
Fmr law student: Neil Gorsuch told ethics class firms should ask female applicants if they plan to have children https://t.co/e3mZtg2HNm
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 20, 2017
former law student of Gorsuch claims he said women manipulate employers by not disclosing plans to become pregnant https://t.co/9EIByGZeAI
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 20, 2017
.@michellemalkin @JammieWF now @NPR trying to walk it back, too late, they published a flimsy hit piece and should be held accountable pic.twitter.com/Z3Z573jcEy
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) March 20, 2017
Minor detail. "Former Female Student Making Allegations Against Gorsuch Has Ties to Obama, Democrats" https://t.co/xp50t0RsTo
— Kelsey Harkness (@kelseyjharkness) March 20, 2017
Chuck Berry was a dynamic force on the frenzied rock 'n' roll tours of the 1950s. He died at age 90. https://t.co/VfHehF0JOT pic.twitter.com/hKIqo7bXsJ— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 18, 2017
RIP Chuck Berry. The 1st song that @thebeatles performed at their 1st US concert was "Roll Over Beethoven."— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) March 19, 2017
Watch: https://t.co/rFyPCranEw pic.twitter.com/8JSgALNjDY
It's Showtime: Leonard A. Leo Previews the Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing https://t.co/1uCK4TJnvD— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) March 20, 2017
Senate battle over Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has been relatively mild, but that's about to change https://t.co/hNHOf7ShRo pic.twitter.com/i2BBSPtnt5— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 19, 2017
Mariah Carey puts on a VERY busty display while celebrating St Patrick's Day https://t.co/s0WX7T28uw pic.twitter.com/1hUn4TEPZM— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) March 18, 2017
Britney Spears models two thigh-skimming dresses and asks Instagram to choose the winner https://t.co/KZjcQl8DXO pic.twitter.com/aaRo419coP— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) March 18, 2017
‘Big Bang Star’ Mayim Bialik takes on Linda Sarsour’s anti-Zionist slur https://t.co/UdQuX3IU50— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) March 18, 2017
#LindaSarsour Highjacking #Feminist Movement, push Anti #Israel, #BDS Movement: wants women to attack Israel. #Islamic Left must be stopped pic.twitter.com/ORkBllpv4S— Ben (@benghand) March 18, 2017
#MayimBialik Contradicts Anti-#Israel #LindaSarsour: #Zionism, #Feminism Don’t Mix. Sarsour using feminism for #Islamic #Palestinian agenda pic.twitter.com/AjJpywaDxv— Ben (@benghand) March 18, 2017
This West Virginia newspaper front page should scare Republicans https://t.co/rSockUQ8aG pic.twitter.com/u7xwy5Fat9— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) March 17, 2017
.@TomiLahren explains why she's pro-choice: "Stay out of my guns and you can stay out of my body, as well." pic.twitter.com/0kFXJ7oL9L
— The View (@TheView) March 17, 2017
Dynamic freshman duo again carry the Bruins to victory https://t.co/6u34OwoxWj
— L.A. Times Sports (@latimessports) March 18, 2017
FINAL score presented by Sanyo: UCLA 97, Kent State 80.#KSUvsUCLA l #GoBruins pic.twitter.com/K8DWKeUm0Z
— UCLA Basketball (@UCLAMBB) March 18, 2017
TJ Leaf (23 pts), Lonzo Ball (15 pts) & Aaron Holiday (15 pts) powered UCLA past Kent State, 97-80.
— UCLA Basketball (@UCLAMBB) March 18, 2017
MORE: https://t.co/94W2Flb68i pic.twitter.com/r0XrFThWIV
— Mind-Numbed Robot (@mnrobot) March 18, 2017
A football kit has never looked so appealing... https://t.co/ubXX57eF8P pic.twitter.com/oQf9FC7rjg— Page 3 (@Page3) March 18, 2017
Geert Wilders and the Real Story of the Election https://t.co/Jx82X5jiwG— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 16, 2017
Has the “Patriotic Spring” sprung? What’s next for #Netherlands after elections, now @monkeycageblog https://t.co/KC0Cpre7Qg
— Joshua Tucker (@j_a_tucker) March 16, 2017
What does a coalition look like?
In multiparty countries, the absence of a clear majority winner means parties bargain over policy and government positions until a coalition emerges that can earn the support of a majority in parliament. In the Netherlands, once that bargaining is done, a more formal coalition agreement then names the prime minister and cabinet, which then draws up the Government’s Statement of policy priorities.
This coalition bargaining process in the Netherlands generally takes about three months. Large parties hold a bargaining advantage because they require fewer partners to form a majority.
Since World War II, the largest Dutch party has been either the centrist Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), the social democratic Labor Party (PvdA), or the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Coalitions form around the leader of one of these three to be the prime minister.
As noted in Figure 1, the Labor Party (PvdA) suffered a loss of 26 seats. There are numerous parties of the left and center, along with smaller parties. But adding together the seats claimed by the PvdA, Green Left (GL), Socialist (SP), Christian Union (CU), Party for the Animals (PvdD), pensioners’ (50 Plus) and multiculturalism (DENK) parties falls far short of the necessary majority.
All the major parties during the campaign pledged not to work with Wilders, even though the PPV holds a sizable number of seats. In 2012, Wilders backed out of his governing arrangement with the VVD and CDA. That episode and his further radicalization and controversial statements may leave PPV out of the final coalition.
President Trump released a spending plan Thursday that would slash programs across government with a machete to pay for sharp increases in the military, veterans’ health and the construction of a wall along the southwest border.More.
On the chopping block: billions of dollars in research aimed at fighting diseases and climate change; job training programs; grants to local communities that pay for public transit and housing, heating oil for the poor; diplomatic efforts across the globe; and libraries.
Proposed for elimination: at least 19 independent agencies including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Trump argued that many of the programs he wants to slash are ineffective, outdated or duplicative. Beyond that, he says the budget is sending a message to reorder $1.1 trillion in the federal government’s discretionary spending around his “America First” agenda, putting defense and border security at the center while curtailing other government functions.
“We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good,” said Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a conservative former congressman from South Carolina.
In addition to proposing cuts across the spectrum, Trump would increase funding for school choice, counter-terrorism and the hiring of more border agents and immigration judges and prosecutors. But the biggest increase, by far, would go to the military in the form of an additional $54 billion in annual spending.
The budget, which lacks many details Trump and his agency leaders will add in the coming months, will not become law in its current form...
Harvard-educated man sentenced to 40 years for bizarre Vallejo kidnapping police had called hoax https://t.co/cVmFeM9NYn @brittny_mejia— Hailey Branson-Potts (@haileybranson) March 17, 2017
It had been nearly two years since Denise Huskins had been in the same room as the man who kidnapped her in the early morning darkness.Keep reading.
Standing at a podium in a Sacramento courthouse, she faced him. Then she turned her words against the man — a Harvard-educated former attorney — who had bound, drugged and raped her twice.
“Now we meet face to face, eye to eye,” Huskins told Matthew Muller. “I’m Denise Huskins, the woman behind the blindfold.”
Huskins’ family and friends grew teary eyed as she described her pain after Muller kidnapped her on March 23, 2015, and after the Vallejo Police Department, at one point, publicly portrayed the case as a hoax.
In an emotional scene, Huskins asked that Muller be sentenced to life in prison.
“I know, without doubt or hesitation, that as long as he walks free, there will be more victims,” she said.
At the sentencing, Muller’s defense attorney argued for a 30-year sentence, citing his client’s struggles with mental illness.
“I’m sick with shame,” Muller said, adding that he would accept whatever sentence was imposed.
His parents sat with their younger son and their family and friends, as they waited in silence for U.S. District Court Judge Troy L. Nunley to hand down his sentence:
Forty years in prison.
The kidnapping took place before dawn as Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, slept in the master bedroom of his home on Mare Island. The couple awoke to find a stranger standing in the room.
Using a stun gun and a water pistol made to look like a gun, Muller ordered the couple to lie still while he bound and blindfolded them and gave them a sleep-inducing liquid, prosecutors said. A recorded message played over headsets, threatening electric shock if the couple did not comply with his orders.
Muller placed Huskins in the trunk of Quinn’s 2000 Toyota Camry and moved her to the trunk of another car before driving her to his family’s South Lake Tahoe home...
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