According to this story, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet with any U.S. presidential candidate who visits Israel and requests a meeting with him. Donald Trump will be meeting Netanyahu in Israel on December 28. …read more
On December 9, the Sixth Circuit issued a three-page order in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, 15-4270. The party had asked the Sixth Circuit for an injunction, putting it on the ballot for the 2016 election. The grounds (in the Sixth Circuit) are that the 2013 ballot access law violates the State Constitution.
The Sixth Circuit says it has no jurisdiction in this case now. The U.S. District Court still hasn’t ruled on another argument in the case, that Ohio applied its campaign finance laws in 2014 in a discriminatory fashion to block ballot access. The …read more
Moscow, Russia – The flight data recorder of the Su-24 bomber shot down by Turkey will prove the Russian jet was in Syrian airspace, not Turkish, when the attack took place, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
Putin was presented with the airplane’s black box, which was recovered by Syrian and Russian special-forces, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday.
Putin wants British experts to take part in probe of the Black Box from #Russia’s downed SU-24. @MoscowTimes https://t.co/YSIZ7t2l2T
— Corey Flintoff (@CoreyFlintoff) December 9, 2015
According to a report in the Moscow Times:
Russian President Vladimir Putin invited British experts …read more
Dover, DE – Officer Thomas Webster of the Dover Police Department was finally indicted last May for kicking a man in the face during a despicable act of police incompetence in August of 2013. The attack was captured on the dash camera on another officer’s car, which showed the victim, Latif Dickerson getting kicked in the face by Webster as he was complying with the officer’s orders.
Dover Police Lt. Jason Pires said that the department chose to release the video immediately after the indictment to “control the narrative,” after keeping it secret for nearly two years.
“We released the video because …read more
Personally, I think most mobile games are bullshit. There are some great ones out there, no doubt, and they get their due (Riptide GP2, Plague, Inc., Snowboard Party 2, etc.). In my opinion, games from Rovio–such as the Angry Birds series and Bad Piggies–are not in their number. These preposterous timesinks and wallet-drainers that have absolutely no point (you know, remember games that had a story and purpose?) somehow became cultural phenomenons over the past few years.
But in the past year, Rovio has seen some hard times. Massive layoffs ensued (what a shock). The company obviously wasn’t innovating with the …read more
On December 8, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Evenwel v Abbott, 14-940. Here is a summary of the argument from Scotusblog. The issue is whether legislative districts should have equal numbers of residents, or equal numbers of eligible voters. The tradition in the U.S. for the last 50 years has been equal numbers of residents, including children and adults not permitted to register to vote, such as aliens.
Here is the transcript of the oral argument. Thanks to Rick Hasen for that link. …read more
On Monday, Donald Trump issued a statement advocating “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what’s going on.”
Only hours after calling for a “total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States,” the Republican presidential candidate forwarded the notion that America should also consider “closing the Internet up in some way,” as a means of fighting the Islamic State.
During a speech, Trump said that children in America are “watching the internet and they want to be masterminds,” and “we’re losing a lot of people because of the internet.”
Forwarding the …read more
On December 8, the U.S. Supreme Court put out its first full election law decision of the current term. Here is the decision in Shapiro v McManus, 14-990. It is unanimous. The case had been argued November 4.
The plaintiffs had filed a lawsuit against Maryland’s U.S. House redistricting, arguing that it represented a severe gerrymander by Democrats and was thus unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Federal law says challenges to redistricting deserve a 3-judge U.S. District Court, unless the case is wholly unsubstantial. The U.S. District Court single judge had ruled that the Shapiro case …read more
A report has just been published which exposes perhaps the most depraved use of state power in the immoral War on Drugs.
60 Minutes aired the program on Dec. 7, describing how law enforcement across the country coerces young people, just starting their adult lives, into becoming confidential informants in the drug war. This sickening practice, largely kept secret, turns good people into liars and puts them in deadly danger.
The report profiled two victims of different state governments, Florida and North Dakota. Both states still have draconian drug laws, even as marijuana legalization is sweeping the nation.
Rachel Hoffman, 23, was a …read more
Next week we will begin offering volume-based rebates for trades placed on Coinbase Exchange. Our standard maker-taker fee structure still applies, however, traders will now receive a daily rebate based on their trading volume as a percentage of the total 30-day volume for each Coinbase Exchange order book.
Maker Orders
Maker orders are not immediately filled, creating liquidity on the book. These orders facilitate trading and carry a 0% fee.
Taker Orders
Taker orders are immediately filled, removing liquidity from the book. These orders are charged a fee at the time of trade but receive a daily rebate resulting in an effective fee …read more
