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Fidelity Charitable, the second largest charity in the U.S., is now partnered with Coinbase to allow people to contribute bitcoin to their donor-advised funds. Fidelity Charitable worked with Fidelity Labs, a unit of Fidelity Investments on the integration.

Bitcoin is useful in the world of charitable giving because it allows people to quickly and cheaply contribute any amount of value globally. Fidelity Charitable is now allowing donors to make bitcoin donations via our email invoicing tool. See here for more details on how you can now make a contribution with bitcoin.

This partnership is the latest example of a large organization leveraging …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

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

Worcester, MA – Four Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors, charged with disturbing the peace, had their trial date postponed until January 2016. However, the real story that came out of the hearing was the fact that Central District Court Judge Robert Pellegrini ruled that the protesters are banned from wearing clothing with the words “Black Lives Matter” on them in his courtroom.
“How is saying Black Lives Matter on a t-shirt or sweatshirt in a courtroom illegal or somehow disallowed and still have my free speech protected? This whole process is just so demonstrative of the disconnect between the law on …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