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With about one month left before the mid-term elections, a lot of people are just now beginning to pay attention to the candidates, and the prognosticators are finalizing their predictions …

“Which side are you on my friend? Which side are you on?”
In perhaps one of the most beautifully organized and powerful protests of recent memory, Ferguson activists organized a flashmob and went to St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening to sing a Requiem for Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager murdered by Officer Darren Wilson.
Towards the end of the intermission, a protester stood up and began singing “Which Side are You on?”, a hauntingly perfect civil rights era song, adding “justice for Mike Brown is justice for us all.”
The protestors DID NOT interrupt any part of the symphony. The #RequiemforMikeBrown …read more

“Right here what, baby? I’m on a call.”

Those were the words uttered by 28-year veteran of the Dallas PD, Cpl. Les Richardson as he drove by a mother screaming for his help as her children were being taken at gunpoint.
Richardson was fired this week for his negligent actions in refusing to help Miesha Kilson who was flagging him down as her kids were being kidnapped by a deranged lunatic.
In September, Miesha Kilson was being chased down by a crazed man with a gun, Steven Douglas. During the chase Kilson hit a curb which left her vehicle disabled. Douglas then came …read more

On October 3, the last briefs were filed in U.S. District Court over whether the Ohio Libertarian gubernatorial ticket should be on the November ballot. Here is the Libertarian brief. Here is the brief of the Secretary of State. Here is the brief of the Kasich campaign, which caused the protest to be filed against(More)… …read more

Pete Peterson, the Republican running for California Secretary of State, has now again said that he wants to restore write-in space to the general election ballot for Congress and partisan state office (California still has write-in space for all other offices). See this column by Peterson in Fox & Hounds. Peterson had said this earlier(More)… …read more

Four North Carolina schools were recently placed on lock-down by police, after a “suspicious person” was seen entering Richlands Elementary School on September 19th.
An initial investigation turned up empty handed, but two weeks later the police announced that they solved the mystery behind the suspicious person at the school.
The “suspicious person” that caused the lock down was not actually an intruder, but was one of the school’s teachers, who had decided to celebrate “talk like a pirate day”, by dressing up for their students.
A school representative explained to local reporters that the district has a zero tolerance policy when it …read more

Paramilitary storm troopers raid a vegetable garden in an amazing display of incompetence.
Cartersville, GA — Heroic Georgia police task force, in an effort to keep the citizens of Cartersville safe from a plant, descended onto the house of a man who’d dare grow vegetables in his own yard.
Dwayne Perry was awaken Wednesday night to a helicopter hovering over his house and deputies and a K-9 unit in his front yard.
“They were strapped to the gills,” Perry said. “I was scared actually at first, because I didn’t know what was happening.”
The chopper belonged to the heroic task force created by the …read more

During August 2014, Mitt Romney filled out a new voter registration form in Holladay, Utah. He appears to have accidentally registered as an independent, by leaving the political party choice box empty. See this story, which has a picture of the form. He has since re-registered as a Republican. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link. …read more

The Florida League of Women Voters has published a Voters Guide, and it contains questions for the Democratic and Republican nominees for Governor and Attorney General, and their responses. It does not mention the Libertarian nominees for those offices, even though the Libertarian nominee for Governor, Adrian Wyllie, has been recently polling at 10%, and(More)… …read more

Video has recently surfaced showing Baltimore City Police Officer Gualberto Diaz breaking down the door of a Brighton Street apartment, just before he allegedly assaulted a number of the occupants inside, while pointing his gun and making death threats.
While these are the same actions that Diaz carries out in the line of duty every single day, this intrusion was not done under the color of law.
Diaz showed up to the Brighton Street Residence in his police car, and in full uniform, to confront his estranged wife and her new boyfriend on September 29 around 9:30 a.m. Diaz was reportedly …read more