Category: Uncategorized

Chandler, AZ — In March, Esmeralda Rossi was in the shower when two cops came to the door.
“I was in the shower,” Rossi said. “My daughter came to the shower and said there are two officers at the door. So I just grabbed a towel.”
Rossi had committed no crime, the police had no warrant, and they were only responding to a call about an argument between her and her estranged husband. However, these cops acted like they were raiding the home of a mass murderer.
Upon answering the door, Rossi was met by two police officers as she stood there in …read more

The Maine Libertarian Party is attempting to qualify as a party. It will succeed if it has at least 5,000 registered members by December 1, 2015. The party now has approximately 1,000 registered members.
The only other time the Libertarian Party was a qualified party in Maine was during 1991 and 1992. It had 1,048 registered members just before the November 1992 election, but then it went off the ballot and all its registrants were converted to independents. …read more

Years ago, it was one of the very first questions that had been sent into me to my science and tech show–Sovryn Tech–and it was a simple asking for a recommendation, but it was about a very important accessory: for mobile devices, what is the best keyboard I can get?
At the time, the choices were pretty slim, with the standard Apple Keyboard surprisingly being about the best one out there (for Android and iOS). Companies like Perixx and others had some interesting offerings, but nothing that I would consider really portable and well designed. Point being, when asked this question, …read more

A sweeping coalition of 43 organizations, including DownsizeDC.org, sent a letter to the leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee opposing the creation of H.R. 2899, the Countering Violent Extremism Act.

The bill falsely assumes that radical ideas lead to violence, and authorizes a government propaganda campaign against them.

You can read the letter here. …read more

(RT) — A leaked document shows nearly one-third of the 847,000 veterans in the Department of Veteran Affairs’ backlog died while waiting for treatment, amounting to more than 238,000 patients, according to documents obtained by the Huffington Post.
The VA maintains that the number is so large because it has no mechanism to purge the list of dead applicants, and that some of the veterans may have died years ago. VA spokeswoman Walinda West told the Huffington Post that some people on the list may never have completed an application, or could be using other insurance.
She said 81 percent of the …read more

The violence and sexual abuse faced by young girls is a tragic page in the checkered book of American history. However, even more tragic is the way the “justice” system deals with these victims.
A new study put together by the Human Rights Project for Girls, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, and the Ms. Foundation for Women blasts the American criminal justice system for the gross incompetence in the treatment of abused girls.
According to the report, sexual abuse among girls is a “crisis of national proportions that cuts across every divide of race, class, and ethnicity. The facts …read more

Recently, supporters of Instant Runoff Voting for Duluth, Minnesota city elections submitted approximately 2,200 signatures on a city initiative petition. If the petition is valid, either the Duluth City Council will again consider whether the city should study Instant Runoff Voting, or the voters will decide that question.
Last month, the Duluth City Council voted 5-4 not to study IRV. Thanks to Bob Richard for this news. …read more

On June 30, the Washington state legislature passed the budget bill, SB 6052. The Governor lined out a few appropriations but he did not line out funding for the presidential primary, so it will be held.
However, the date still is not determined. The existing law says it should be May 24 unless the Secretary of State and the two qualified parties agree to another date. It is likely the Republican Party will ask for an earlier presidential primary. The Democratic Party probably won’t want to use its presidential primary, but the Democratic Party is not likely …read more

Meet the billionaire casino mogul who wants to cheat his competition #tlot ReTweet As we told you July 1, casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson is pressuring Congress to ban Internet gambling. His lobbyists are gunning for a vote this month!
The bill is the “Restoration of America’s Wire Act” (RAWA).It has powerful sponsors…

Presidential candidates Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio in the Senate
Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz in the House

The bill might pass! It almost did last year.
That’s why DownsizeDC.org has a NEW CAMPAIGN: Stop the Online Gambling Ban.
Tell Congress to oppose RAWA. You may borrow from or copy …read more

The nanny state has encountered a setback in Arizona. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Media Coalition have managed to stop a particularly bad “revenge porn” law from taking effect in that state.
After lawmakers failed to fix the law’s overly broad language, US District Judge Susan Bolton issued a final decree that the state’s attorneys cannot enforce the law in its current form.
Arizona Attoney Genera Mark Brnovich did not fight the ACLU lawsuit and agreed that lawmakers included “ambiguities that raise legitimate constitutional concerns.” They’re even going to pay the plaintiff’s legal costs.
The ACLU lawsuit, filed in September …read more