On January 11, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Arizona Libertarian Party v Bennett, 15-598. The lower courts had upheld the Arizona law that says only the names of the two largest parties should be printed on voter registration forms. If a voter wants to register any other way, the voter must write in the name of that party, even if it is ballot-qualified and has its own primary. …read more
Read that title again. Yes, Polaroid (at least as a brand name) is releasing not one, but actually two smartphones. The two smartphones are the “Polaroid Snap” and the “Polaroid Power”. And while the former isn’t half bad for its $130 entry price point, it’s the latter that is the most interesting. And we’ll get into them in a minute.
But first, a little bit about Polaroid as a company. Obviously, the company behind these two new phones is not the original 1937 company founded by the legendary Edwin H. Land that ended up tanking soon after his death in the …read more
While Syria is torn apart by the warring of U.S. imperialists and Islamic fundamentalists—leaving its children to die of starvation—another country plans to take advantage of the chaos by stealing resources from Syria’s southern region. The theft will be carried out by the most notorious pushers of military hegemony, and they don’t care that it violates international law.
Genie Energy is an American-based oil and gas company with major investors and advisors comprising a who’s who list of war profiteers—Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Lord Jacob Rothschild, and James Woolsey. The president of their Israeli subsidiary is Efraim “Effi” Eitam, an Israeli …read more
Imagine the following scenario: You are on your way home from work, driving down the road when you notice police lights in your rearview mirror. You are being pulled over.
As you sit there, on the shoulder, adrenaline rushing, simultaneously angry and nervous, the police officer, in his patrol car behind you, is sizing you up based on an algorithm that determines your “threat rating.”
The officer enters your license plate into a mobile application on his laptop. In a matter of seconds, this application crawls over billions of records in commercial and public databases, including all available social media engagement, recent …read more
It often gets talked about in tech journalism and reviews as late how Android smartphones in the $200-$300 range are just as good, if not better, than the flagship phones from companies like Samsung that run in the $600-$800 range, and in many cases it seems very true when you consider phones like the ASUS Zenfone 2 that hav more RAM (4GB, to be exact) and onboard storage space (a whopping 256GB onboard, potentially) than almost any other phone out there. And while sub-$200 phones are certainly starting to shape up (consider solid $130 offerings from, of all things, Polaroid), …read more
The U.S. House district boundaries for Virginia are not yet determined. Because Virginia has an unusual set of ballot access laws for petitioning for statewide office, this uncertainty is making it impossible for such petitions to begin to circulate.
Virginia independent and minor party presidential petitions must include a list of presidential elector candidates. Each elector candidate must live in a separate U.S. House district, and each district must be represented on the slate.
All statewide petitions in Virginia have a congressional district distribution requirement. President, U.S. Senator, and gubernatorial petitions (whether for the primary or the general election) …read more
Recently captured in a firefight that ended with five of his men dead, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as “El Chapo,” reportedly fell under surveillance in October after Mexican law enforcement trailed actor Sean Penn to the drug lord’s compound. Although Penn claims the DEA and Mexican authorities never contacted him, the controversial actor stated several times that he felt they had been followed on the way to their secret interview.
According to a recent Rolling Stone article written by Sean Penn, he chartered a flight down to Mexico in order to covertly interview Guzmán on October 2, 2015. Unaccustomed to …read more
Atlanta, GA – On Friday afternoon, a wealthy rapper was assaulted by police and had guns drawn on him because he took a large sum of money out of the bank. Blac Youngsta, born Sam Benson, withdrew $200,000 cash from a bank so he could purchase an expensive vehicle and was attacked by police as soon as he reached the parking lot because he was confused for a forgery suspect.
“I come out the bank, I see the police, I’m walking to my car, I see one of them point to my bag like ‘him,’. They come bum-rushing me at the …read more
The South Dakota initiative for non-partisan elections (for all office except President) has been found to have enough valid signatures, and will be on the November 2016 ballot. Thanks to IndependentVoterNews for this news.
Meanwhile, the proposed Arizona initiative on the same subject still has not been finalized, so no petitioning for it is proceeding. …read more
There is a question that often comes up in a variety of ways, and boils down to: “Should any government legislate or attempt to legislate morality?” Most people would answer …
