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The Federal Election Commission has published Federal Elections 2014. The book is 121 pages and has election returns for primary and general elections, for Congress, in 2014. See it here. The same book will be in paper, and the paper version will be available free sometime in December 2015.
The FEC has been publishing similar election return books starting in 1980. In presidential election years the books include presidential election returns. …read more

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Media Alert: Friday (tomorrow) November 20, Tuesday November 24, and Wednesday November 25, Jim Babka guest-hosts the Gary Nolan Show. It airs from 9 AM to Noon Central time, in Columbia and Jefferson City, MO. But you can listen at http://theeagle939.com/ — click on “Listen Live,” on the top right side of the page.
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Terrorists strike, people feel fear, and the terrorists win. This is foolish. Please consider…

More Americans are killed by their cars or bathtubs, but you don’t fear those things. You shouldn’t fear terrorism either. Please realize…

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The Daily Beast has this lengthy story about Lyndon LaRouche. The story is triggered by the news that LaRouche prefers Martin O’Malley for President. LaRouche founded the U.S. Labor Party in 1973, but in 1979 he dissolved it and became a Democrat. He is age 93. …read more

Paris, France – In what can be described as an extremely strange “coincidence,” Paris-area emergency personnel and ambulance crews were taking part in a simulated emergency exercise on the very same day the Paris terrorist attacks took place.
The exact nature of the drill was a simulated mass shooting attack, according to Dr. Mathieu Raux, emergency room chief at the Pitié-Salpetrière hospital in Paris.
According to a report by Bloomberg:
During Friday’s exercise, trauma specialists used a centralized dispatch system to set priorities and direct victims to the ER best equipped to treat their injuries. Ambulance services made sure they were ready to …read more

The Alabama Democratic Party has a rule, barring candidates from running in its primary if during the last four years they supported another political party. On November 18, a state court upheld the rule, in a lawsuit filed by former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis. Davis wants to run as a Democrat in 2016 for Montgomery County Commission. However, in 2012 he endorsed Mitt Romney for President.
Alabama state and federal courts have consistently upheld the ability of the Democratic and Republican Parties to bar candidates from their own primaries based on the candidates’ past political behavior. See …read more

Candidates running in New Hampshire presidential primaries get on the ballot by paying a $1,000 filing fee. Ted Cruz recently filed to be on the Republican presidential primary. Two challenges to his ballot position have now been filed, on the grounds that he is ineligible. The Ballot Law Commission will adjudicate the matter on November 24. See this story. …read more

There is something to be said for niche products: They build communities around them, and having a community around a product gives it longevity, and–while some would find this ironic–it gives a product more options. Also, there is something to be said when a company doesn’t put out a million different products, and they stick with what they’re good at, or at least they concentrate on fewer things (part of why Apple’s products work so well, I think).
NVIDIA is one such company that has really been pushing the boundaries of what computer and mobile devices can do for a long …read more

Trenton, NJ — Last month, 51-year-old police officer Michael Roadside was suspended without pay after he crashed into a woman’s car while he was drunk and offered to bribe her so she wouldn’t report the accident.
The driver of the car, Kimberly Wilson, was horrified by her encounter with Roadside and declined the offer and called 911 instead. According to a statement that Wilson made to police, Roadside hit her vehicle while she was stopped at a stop sign. She said that he emerged from his car “disheveled,” asking her not to call 911 and saying that he would give her …read more

Montgomery, AL — Former Tallassee Assistant Police Chief Chris Miles pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing drugs from an evidence locker and beating a suspect during an interrogation. Although the suspect initially faced 105 counts of child sexual abuse and rape, the District Attorney was forced to dismiss 100 of those counts because Miles forced those confessions.
While interrogating a child sex abuse suspect on April 25, 2013, Miles coerced a myriad of confessions by beating Stephen Conrad throughout the interview. Instead of gathering evidence or using nonviolent tactics, Miles admitted to beating Conrad with a phone book-sized packet of paper. …read more

South Carolina — The Free Thought Project has been covering the murder of 19-year-old Zachary Hammond by Officer Mark Tiller since the incident occurred on July 26th. Three weeks ago the heartbreaking dashcam video was finally released, which shows a maniacal Tiller ruthlessly take the life of this teenager over a suspected bag of weed.
According to the Post and Courier, “the Hammond case was far from unusual” in South Carolina.
A campus cop at Spartanburg Methodist College shot to death an unarmed college student driving a car—including twice in the head—after responding to a report of a vehicle break-in. Of course, …read more