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
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
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
