On February 26, Ireland held an election for the lower house of its national legislature, using proportional representation. See the wikipedia page about that election. Ten parties appear to have won at least one seat, along with some independent candidates. …read more
Here is a link to the second half of the Libertarian presidential debate held in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the evening of February 27. It lasts 40 minutes. There is only about one minute of dead time at the beginning.
The link goes to the second half of the event, which had five participants: Marc Allen Feldman, Gary Johnson, John McAfee, Darryl Perry, and Austin Petersen. Earlier there had been a preliminary round with additional candidates. The audience for the first half determined that these five candidates should be in the final round. Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport …read more
After the First in the Nation New Hampshire Primary in early February, many people learned the term superdelegates, even though it’s not a new term or idea. The Democratic Party’s …
Current registration data shows that 29.9% of voters in states that have partisan registration are Republicans. This is slightly higher than the October 2014 percentage, when Republicans had 29.8% This is the first time the Republican share nationwide has risen since 2004, when it was slightly better than it had been in 2002.
Democratic registration nationwide is at 40.6%, the lowest it has been in at least 35 years. The share of registered independents and minor parties is 29.5%, the highest it has ever been since I have been collecting data starting in 1980.
However, these figures are still …read more
DUI law “punishes people for exercising their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.” …read more
An uncontrollable radioactive flow from the Indian Point nuclear power plant continues leaking into groundwater 25 miles from NYC …read more
As noted earlier, on February 3 a Connecticut voter who was expelled from the Republican Party then filed a federal lawsuit, demanding to be restored to the registration rolls as a Republican so that she can vote in the April Republican presidential primary. On February 26, the judge in her case set up a settlement conference, which will probably resolve the problem. The case is Miller v Dunkerton, 3:16cv-174.
The party expelled her because last year, without joining the Democratic Party, she accepted a Democratic nomination for a local special election. …read more
I used to do news round-ups for the Dark Android Blog in the past, but for the past few months, each story has had so much to cover that it has been a while since there were stories that could all come together and be short enough for a joint write-up, but today…well…today is a very different day, as Londo Molari would say. Let’s break right into this latest Dark Android Round-Up…
Telegram Updated to v3.6
The Telegram app just keeps on adding more and more features. It’s mind-boggling the pace at which they are added, too. Version 3.6 of the app …read more
The idea for the Dark Android Project was started in 2013, not longer after the world-changing “Snowden Revelations”, and certainly the idea of having a mobile device that allows for security, anonymity, and privacy (what I call “DAPS“), is a direct response to what Ed Snowden had revealed.
And that’s the whole goal of the Dark Android Project: Give people the baseline recommendations for how individuals can have an actual secure and private mobile device (phone or tablet). But you’d be surprised at how much pushback and insults have come my way because of my recommendations. While most people recognize that …read more
15 Principles in response to Trump, Obama, and the Fearful Retweet
by Jim Babka
Terrorism is a political tool. Politicians and other statists use it to their benefit. They cry, “That group, over there, is to blame for your troubles.”
Group demonization is discrimination. Partisans divide-and-conquer by suggesting that people can be judged in broad groups.
If you accept their division, their political power expands.
Willing accomplices in the regime media run “fear propaganda,” hour after hour. They bring on guests and ask…
Politicians, “What are you going to do so solve our hyped-up problem?”
Experts, “Can we really afford liberty?”
It’s been about three months since the …read more
