According to the Green Party’s webpage, the 2016 presidential convention will likely be August 6-7. This is the latest the Green Party has ever held a presidential convention. In the past it has always been in June or July.
The 2016 Democratic national convention will be July 25-28. …read more
The Tennessee Secretary of State’s web page has been altered recently. On December 22, 2015, it said that presidential primary candidates can’t be independent presidential candidates in November. But the same portion of that page now (as of December 25, 2015) says only that they can’t be nominees of a different political party; it no longer says they can’t be independent candidates. See that page here.
The page might have been changed because it was pointed out that Tennessee let John B. Anderson run as an independent in November 1980 even though he had run in the Tennessee …read more
Lindsey Graham withdrew from the Republican presidential race on December 21. On the same day, he removed his name from the South Carolina Republican presidential primary ballot. But he did not act to remove his name from the primary ballots of any other states, and it is now impossible to do so in eleven states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
He still has time to withdraw from Florida, Idaho, and Ohio, if he wishes to. In Alabama, if he notifies the state that he has withdrawn, votes for …read more
On Tuesday, December 22nd, 56-year-old Kenneth Stephens was gunned down by law enforcement officers executing a no-knock raid at his Burlington, Vermont apartment.
Federal, State, and local authorities executed the warrant, reportedly looking for evidence of drug trafficking. “Officers executing the search warrant confronted a male subject inside the residence,” according to a statement from State Police official Major Glenn Hall. He continued, “Officers discharged multiple rounds at the subject, resulting in his death. None of the officers involved were injured.” According to the initial DEA complaint written by Agent Robert Estes, Stephens was suspected of having a gun in his …read more
In recent weeks at the Dark Android Project, amidst a barrage of rumors, I talked about the supposedly coming “Google OS”, which may be (key phrase, “may be”) a desktop-centric version of Android for laptops and actual desktop devices. Not that desktops/laptops trying to run Android are anything new, HP and Acer have both tried with seemingly little success. Maybe it was the premium price of what they tried to build, and consumers inability to see Android as a serious enough desktop OS.
And those concerns are somewhat well-founded. As much as I will often connect a bluetooth mouse and keyboard …read more
‘Tis the season for cheer and giving. Charitable donations ramp up for the holiday season, with people using all sorts of avenues, from the Red Cross to feeding the homeless from their own pockets.
Some people, however, feel that it’s a great idea to have cops distribute their charity by prowling the roads and pulling over motorists. Across the country, avid police supporters with lots of money are initiating what amounts to bribery campaigns based on questionable means.
Naturally, cops are leaping at this opportunity to manufacture good feelings toward the police force. With trust in police declining as their brutality and …read more
Tre Hargett has been Secretary of State of Tennessee since before the 2012 election. In 2012, Gary Johnson was on the Republican presidential primary ballot in Tennessee, and he also qualified as an independent presidential candidate in Tennessee in November 2012.
But this year, he has posted a comment on his web page, saying once a candidate’s name appears on the presidential primary ballot, he cannot qualify as an independent presidential candidate. When he was asked why he had a different policy in 2012, he said he put Johnson’s name on the November ballot “in an abundance of caution.” …read more
The Green Party in the United Kingdom is challenging a recent decision by the British Broadcasting Corporation to give free air time during 2016 to five political parties, but not the Green Party. See this story. …read more
Washington, DC – A recently revealed document indicates that top federal health officials have given the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) a recommendation to reschedule marijuana under the federal Controlled Substances Act. However, the details of that recommendation are not entirely clear.
Cannabis is currently considered a Schedule 1 drug under federal law, a classification reserved for drugs considered to have no medical value. So, if any rescheduling is to happen, it can only get better.
According to the document obtained by Marijuana.com:
“DEA recently received the [Department of Health and Human Services] scientific and medical evaluations as well as a scheduling recommendation that …read more
Douglas County, GA — Bobby Daniels was a peace officer by trade – a private security guard employed at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. When he learned that his emotionally troubled 25-year-old son Bias had suffered a breakdown and was holding a fellow security guard at gunpoint in a mobile home part in Douglasville, Bobby raced to the scene. Using the skills of persuasion and patient de-escalation upon which a private peace officer must rely, Bobby persuaded his son to relinquish his handgun and place it on the hood of a car.
Just seconds later, Daniels was fatally shot – not by …read more
