BROOKLYN, NY–James E. Jordan, 48, died of complications from diabetes back in 2006. The NYPD apparently didn’t get the memo, and have been knocking on his door for the past eight years searching for him for an unidentified offense. Jordan’s widow, Karen Fennell, has filed a federal lawsuit over the repeated disturbances. Police have come…
COLUMBIA, SC–Bill H4791 was passed in the South Carlina House with overwhelming support last week, with 89 votes for and only 17 against. The bipartisan bill states in part that, “A governmental entity may not obtain geolocation information revealing the past, present, or future location of an electronic device” without a warrant, permission from the…
City will not pay for crosswalks. Concerned citizens paint crosswalks for free. City then pays to remove crosswalks. Tired of waiting for the city of Tacoma, Wash. to paint crosswalks on its reputedly hazardous streets, a group of anonymous Tacoma residents – including some city employees – has taken to painting crosswalks themselves. The…
MILWAUKEE, WI–Police are in the business of protecting and serving…their own interests. Last February, Robert Jackson‘s car was sideswiped by police, who then arrested him to cover up their ineptitude. Jackson was vindicated thanks to surveillance video, as was Tanya Weyker in Wisconsin. Last Year, Weyker, 25, broke her neck in four places after Sheriff’s…
“Never would have supported it” if I had known. “I can say that if Congress knew what the NSA had in mind in the future immediately after 9/11, the Patriot Act never would have passed, and I never would have supported it,” says Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the architect of the Patriot Act. “We have…
“You will soon be rolling in dough” HOUSTON, TX–A 26-year-old man who lost his life while working at a fortune cookie plant has been identified. Elmer Oscar Barrera was operating an industrial dough mixer when he somehow fell inside. Another employee discovered him in the mixer, where he had died from multiple blunt force injuries….
“Insubordination.” While students purportedly have the option to opt out of Common Core’s standardized tests, some schools are hesitant to let students take advantage of it. 13-year-old Seirra Olivero was suspended from New York’s Orange-Ulster BOCES last month for telling her classmates that they could opt out of an upcoming test. Olivero says she…
Are bitcoin users potential terrorists? The Department of Defense had begun scrutinizing bitcoin as a possible terrorist threat. A memo from the Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, obtained by Bitcoin Magazine, says that “The introduction of virtual currency will likely shape threat finance by increasing the opaqueness, transactional velocity, and overall efficiencies of terrorist attacks.”…
What Makes a Government Legitimate? Keith Farrell The “People’s Government of Dengzhou” was shut down this past Tuesday and its founders charged with forging government documents. Founded in 2013, the fraudulent entity had bogus city seals which they used to issue fabricated documents after they had announced the annulment of the existing city government. Soon…
By Greg Campbell Colorado Republican lawmakers are willing to consider a bill that would give cities and counties more control over oil and gas operations in order to avert a November ballot initiative that would open the door to fracking bans. Republican state Rep. Frank McNulty told Denver’s Fox 31 that a legislative compromise…