Rob Horowitz, adjunct professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, writes here that if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, it is plausible that a strong candidate will run outside the two major parties. …read more
Kootenai County, ID — Newly-released dashcam video shows a frightening scene unfold for a Washington woman as she’s pulled over on a dark highway in the middle of the night.
Kay Pruczinski, 53, was on her way home from work on April 30, 2010 when an Idaho State Trooper began to follow her. Trooper Allen Ashby followed Pruczinski all the way across the state line, into Washington state, before he decided to pull her over.
After being stopped, Pruczinski became afraid of Ashby and requested that a female officer come to the scene. However, this would not happen.
Ashby noticed that Pruczinski was …read more
Palm Beach County, FL – A video uploaded to Facebook yesterday is garnering a massive amount of attention, for good reason. In a horrifying example of police brutality, the video shows multiple officers subduing an unarmed suspect. However, what takes place after the suspect is handcuffed can only be described as an unconscionable and completely unnecessary act of police torture.
According to the video uploader; Nick Palermo.
“I was at work when I saw 5 cop cars stop across the street from my job in Del Ray Beach. They all ran out of their cars and I started filming. Now I don’t …read more
This article summarizes the lack of activity so far in the North Carolina legislature, over when the presidential primary should be and when the primary for other office should be. The legislature still hasn’t passed a budget, which distracts it from issues like the primary date. If nothing is done, the presidential primary will be in February but if the national party rules are followed, North Carolina will lost most of its delegates to both major party conventions.
The only ballot-qualified party in North Carolina other than the two major parties is the Libertarian Party. It nominates by …read more
Chicago, IL (RT) — A heartwarming picture of a Chicago police officer who decided to pay for homeless man’s meal has become hugely popular on social media, with users branding his gesture “kindhearted” and saying the cop has a “heart of gold.”
District Town Hall Sergeant B. Hagarty was finishing his lunch in a fast-food restaurant in Chicago when he noticed a homeless man digging through the trash outside.
“The cop [Hagarty] knocked on the window, getting the homeless man’s attention,” witness Rachel Mitchell wrote on Facebook, as cited by Chicago Police.
Hagarty, who’s served 35 years on the job and is planning …read more
Coral Gables, FL – Warren Redlich, the Florida attorney who pioneered a method of silently asserting constitutional rights at DUI checkpoints, called the “Fair DUI,” has been arrested at a checkpoint in Coral Gables, Florida.
However, the attorney didn’t end up at the Coral Gables DUI checkpoint by chance. Redlich intentionally targeted the municipality after they enacted new policies for DUI stops, threatening to arrest motorists for simply refusing to roll down the window.
“I deliberately went there. It was to make an example out of Coral Gables,” Redlich told CBS 4. “They adopted a policy that was more extreme than anything …read more
For the 2016 presidential election, only six states require more than 25,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot, if one looks at the easiest method to get on the ballot for an independent presidential candidate or the nominee of an unqualified party.
Those six states are California, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Texas. Illinois requires exactly 25,000.
No one knows exactly what the Pennsylvania 2016 requirement will be, but in both 2008 and 2012 it was less than 25,000. The 2016 number will be determined by the turnout in the November 2015 statewide judicial election. It is …read more
Professor Lawrence Lessig has met his goal of receiving at least $1,000,000 in contributions and pledges, and will now seek the Democratic presidential nomination. See his web page here. He is campaigning on election law issues, mostly campaign finance, but he also talks about alternative voting systems. His first goal is to establish public funding for congressional candidates.See this news story. …read more
The New York Times reports “When President Obama declared that the American combat mission in Afghanistan would end on Dec. 31, 2014, becoming a training mission instead, exceptions were made …
Police, Gov’t Insist They Had ‘Probable Cause’ to Arrest, Strip Search & Detain A Disabled Man in Psych Ward Based on His Slurred Speech, Unsteady Gait
RICHMOND, Va. (Rutherford Institute)— In response to a Fourth Amendment lawsuit filed by attorneys for The Rutherford Institute, government officials insist they had “probable cause” to arrest a 37-year-old disabled man, allegedly because of his slurred speech and unsteady gait. Gordon Goines, a resident of Waynesboro, Va., who suffers from a neurological condition similar to multiple sclerosis, was then strip searched by police, handcuffed to a table, diagnosed as having “mental health issues,” and subsequently …read more
