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As noted earlier, the Peace & Freedom Party of California asked the California Secretary of State to list Jill Stein on its presidential primary ballot, but the Secretary of State refused. A request was made for any writing that might have explained the Secretary of State’s decision. But that office has replied that such writings will not be made public, because they are “notes, drafts or memoranda that are not retained in the ordinary course of business and are exempt under the deliberative process privilege.”
Before 2012, the California Secretary of State had always printed the names of presidential …read more

Meriden, CT — Responding to reports of an intoxicated man asleep in the middle of the road, a Meriden, Connecticut police officer said, flatly, “I think we oughta just f***ing pop him.”
If by now you still have any lingering doubts about the widening disconnect between police and civilians — or the culture of violence and contempt rampant in police culture — this footage could tip your opinion. Though the incident was captured on video by dash camera and audio by body cam, it was only released on Thursday following a Freedom of Information Act request by the Record-Journal.
Officer John …read more

Carroll County, GA — In September, on a rainy Saturday night, Georgia state trooper Anthony Scott was flexing his above the law privilege and driving at dangerously high speeds for no reason.
Scott was not on his way to a call, nor did he have any official reason for driving fast, when he slammed into a Nissan Sentra carrying four kids. Kylie Hope Lindsey, 17, and Isabella Alise Chinchilla, 16, who were in the back seat of the Nissan, were killed.
Dillon Lewis Wall, 18, who was driving, and front-seat passenger Benjamin Alan Finken, 17, were critically injured and taken to Grady …read more

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On February 18, some Kansas voters filed a new federal lawsuit to regain their status as registered voters. The case is being handled by the ACLU and seeks to be a class action lawsuit. It is Fish v Kobach, 2:16cv-2105. It is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge John W. Lundstrum, a Bush Sr. appointee.
Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the federal law that provides a federal voter registration form, and even though that form does not ask applicants to attach proof of citizenship, Kansas will not register voters who use the federal form unless …read more

While speaking with supporters at a campaign event in Bluffton, South Carolina republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said if he is elected “you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.”
“It wasn’t the Iraqis,” Trump said.
“You may find it’s the Saudis.”
Trump may have been referencing the fact 15 out of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Last year it came out the so-called “20th hijacker,” Zacarias Moussaoui “claims that he met personally with several of Saudi Arabia’s most famous and important leaders on Osama Bin Laden’s behalf; that the kingdom’s VIPs and its leading religious court …read more

Richland Township, PA — In the famous Supreme Court case of Texas v. Johnson in 1989, a five-justice majority ruled that desecrating the American flag was protected speech under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Despite this ruling, Americans from sea to shining sea continue to call for the arrest, or even death, of those who’d dare express their opinion through the use of the Old Glory.
The very essence of freedom is tolerating peaceful forms of expression, no matter how uncomfortable they make us feel. Sadly missing the point, however, are folks who fail to understand that burning or desecrating …read more

On February 17, the Maine Secretary of State filed this response in the Libertarian Party’s ballot access case. The case challenges the December 1, 2015 deadline for a group to qualify as a party. The state says that the early deadline is needed for proper election administration, even though the primary is not until June 2016.
The state says that early deadlines are constitutional if the petition or registration drive hurdle is easy, and then says that getting 5,000 voters to join the party on voter registration forms is easy. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Anderson …read more

A Danish security firm has found malware that can, frankly, ravage any Android smartphone with a single text, potentially erasing all of your data, or sending rogue calls and text messages.
Denmark-based security firm Heimdal detected the malware, called “Mazar”, which sends text messages that include an ostensibly harmless multimedia message link to users. Click through, and it downloads Tor software to your phone, and then the actual malware, whose source the Tor software hides.
Heimdal thinks that over 100,000 phones have received the Mazar text in Denmark, the BBC reports, and the firm isn’t yet sure if it’s spread to other …read more