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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

On November 17, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal withdrew from the Republican presidential race. Presumably he will now contact state officials where he has been put on the presidential primary ballot already, and withdraw. See this story. …read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is married to Ginni Thomas. Ginni Thomas has just made and posted a two-minute video endorsing Ted Cruz for President. See it here. Thanks to HowAppealing for the link.
The U.S. Supreme Court makes many election law decisions. …read more

I say it all the time: in life, I’m a gamer before I’m anything else. More particularly, I’m part of the “PC Master Race” (I’m ethnically Jewish, and I don’t mind that term at all, thank you), but handheld gaming is certainly a long-held passion of mine. Be it playing the original Game Boy in the back of the family van, rocking on my Atari Lynx (yes, I owned one) in my bedroom in the middle of the night, or playing on my custom-Zelda-cased Nintendo DS at work (don’t tell anybody I did…well…I don’t work there anymore, so go ahead), …read more

I love it when a plan comes together.
It’s unfortunately rare (as in, it’s not by my choice) that I get to highlight some new hardware at the Dark Android Project, but there have been a couple things here and there. Take for instance the ASUS Zenfone 2. I’ve highlighted a few times on the Dark Android Blog, and while I’ve yet to do an indepth review, I now own one and it is my daily driver, because it’s an blazing fast and fully capable smartphone, shockingly for its price range.
The Zenfone 2 is part of a shortlist of modern Android …read more

Just hours after 155 people were slaughtered by gun-wielding terrorists in France, residents of Greensboro, North Carolina were asked by that city’s police to “show their commitment to safety” by turning in “as many guns as they want.”
According to Greensboro’s Fox affiliate, residents were invited to visit the Destiny Christian Center to sign a “Pledge of Non-violence” any time between 9:00 a.m. and 3 p.m. The first 1,000 signatories were promised a “small gift.” Participants 18 years or older were encouraged to turn in whatever firearms they could find – no questions asked.
In January of last year, Police Chief Ken …read more

On November 6, independent candidate Mark Moore asked the 8th circuit to reverse the decision of the U.S. District Court that upheld Arkansas’s non-presidential independent candidate petition deadline. Arkansas law says independent candidate petitions (for office other than President) are due on the same day that major party candidates file a declaration of candidacy to run in a primary. The U.S. District Court decision said early deadlines are only unconstitutional if the number of signatures is very large. However, this conclusion is plainly wrong, because in Anderson v Celebrezze, the U.S. Supreme Court said early petition deadlines …read more

Vermont State Senator David Zuckerman, a Progressive, has intervened in the lawsuit Corren v Sorrell, a campaign finance lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court. Vermont law prohibits anyone who plans to qualify for public funding from announcing candidacy for a 2016 race earlier than February 15, 2016. Zuckerman’s motion says he intends to run for Lieutenant Governor in 2016, as both a Progressive and a Democrat, and he wants to campaign now. Therefore, he is intervening in the case to argue that the time limit is unconstitutional.
No incumbent is running for Lieutenant Governor. Several Democrats, a …read more

The wait is over.
I know, I know…you heard me mention my “Life 4.0” talk on my podcast Sovryn Tech over and over again for a couple of months…and now you get to see it LIVE and IN COLOR! WOO!
This talk is from the phenomenal (and I think, unparalleled) Bitcoin Investor Conference in Las Vegas, and it covers topics from the importance of creating digital spaces with Virtual Reality (particularly for all kinds of levels of freedom), the ease of getting into Virtual Reality today, the history and future of Virtual Reality, and how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and others are tailor-made …read more

Yesterday, on the Dark Android Blog, I shared the ridiculously important “Bitcoin 101” video from the Bitcoin Investor Conference in Vegas by the lovely and hyper-intelligent Dr. Stephanie Murphy, as I see it as one of the most important videos about Bitcoin available on the internet today.
And while, as I mentioned, I will be sharing my own talk from the event–“Life 4.0”–on this website soon, there is another video that I find it absolutely necessary to share with you on this site. This was the talk given by Paul Rosenberg (author of “A Lodge of Wayfaring Men”, among other books) …read more