Virginia held two elections for U.S. House, 7th district, on November 4, 2014. One was for the regular two-year term and the other was for the short term running from November 2014 to early January 2015. The need for the short term special election was because the seat was vacant, because Congressman Eric Cantor had(More)… …read more
New York is a city on the brink, ready to explode. Citizens are fed up with being continually abused by law enforcement and citizens nationwide are angry at the lack of accountability officers often face for their actions.
New York City, N.Y. – In a perhaps telling and ominous sign, Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan has called on the public to be patient and peaceful after the grand jury announces whether it will indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner, which was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.
A grand jury is currently deliberating …read more
Bakersfield, CA– In a tale we have heard repeated far too many times, 22-year-old Ramiro James Villegas, who went by the name James De La Rosa, was killed by jumpy police in Bakersfield after allegedly “reaching for his waistband” on November 13. Just like Dillon Taylor who was executed in August by Salt Lake City Police, Villegas was unarmed.
Villegas had just crashed his car after a high speed chase when three officers opened fire and a fourth engaged a Taser.
“The cop got out and just shot him in the head like three times,” one witness, 23 year old …read more
On December 2, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by some voters in Arizona’s 2nd U.S. House district, claiming that state law requires that the recount that is about to start must use different vote-counting equipment than the equipment used for the first count. See this story. …read more
According to this Deseret article, some Utah Republicans are so upset over a plan by the Republican Party to file a lawsuit over how the party nominates, they will raise money to fight the lawsuit in court. In 2014 the Utah legislature passed a bill that makes it possible for members of a party to(More)… …read more
Even when police officers are held accountable, it can be eventually negated by the power of their unions and the level of collective bargaining leverage they possess.
Owasso, OK — Owasso police officer, Mike Denton, was fired after body cam and surveillance footage showed him stomping on a handcuffed man’s face and then repeatedly elbowing him in the face.
Denton and two other Owasso police officers responded to a call on June 30, 2011 about an intoxicated man creating a disturbance at an apartment complex.
The officers arrested Bryan Spradlin for public intoxication.
The arrest was caught on all of the officer’s lapel cams …read more
Tabor City, North Carolina – David Lawrence Wallace, Jr., a prison guard who worked at the Tabor Correctional Institution, was recently arrested for plotting to burglarize a facility that housed armored trucks.
He had also reportedly planned to behead the owner of the business and his wife, so the robbery would look like an act of terrorism.
The plot was uncovered in September, when Wallace began asking fellow Army reservists to get involved in the heist. Wallace told the other Army recruits during training drills that he was a former employee of the armored truck facility Garda Cash and Logistics, and …read more
Today we’re excited to launch USD Wallets, a new feature which allows users to store U.S. Dollar balances on Coinbase.
Instant buying and selling
Once you deposit USD into your new wallet, you no longer have to wait for traditional bank transfers to clear before your orders complete. Coinbase can process bitcoin purchases on-demand using funds from your USD Wallet.
No credit card required
Previously, the only way to instantly acquire bitcoin on Coinbase was to enable instant buy, which required adding a credit card. USD Wallets let you transfer U.S. Dollars to your Coinbase Account at your convenience. You can then use those …read more
On June 26, 2014, Douglas Campbell, state chair of the Colorado Constitution Party, died. This is somewhat old news but it has just now come to the attention of B.A.N. Campbell won one of the most significant lawsuits in the nation’s history over Article One and the constitutional qualifications to run for Congress in 1999,(More)… …read more
