AoS Morning Report 1/5/17

Ace of Spades

…Top story is the Chicago cops have arrested four "youths" for abducting and torturing a man with special needs and then posting their actions on Facebook. But the police are hesitant to call this a hate crime. I mean just because the victim was white, the perps were black and were heard shouting racist obscenities at him that doesn't mean anything. And in the end, society is really at fault here.…

JJ's selection of top news headline links, ascerbically arrayed