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On August 13, 2015, the Washington State Supreme Court fined the state $100,000 per day until the legislature complies with earlier court orders to equalize funding for wealthy and poor school districts. However, the legislature (which had three special sessions already this year) has not been called into a fourth special session, so the fine continues to accumulate.
The legislature won’t be called into special session until legislative leaders and the Governor can agree on a solution, and that hasn’t happened yet. See this story, which is about a particular Republican candidate for Governor. The paragraph headed “a …read more

This is the very first blog post I’ve ever done from a smartphone so pardon my brevity, but I just wanted you to see the lovely and hyper-intelligent Dr. Stephanie Murphy and the Golden Stallion Dr. Brian Sovryn in action at the Bitcoin Investor Conference! WOOOO!

Dr. Stephanie Murphy laying out Bitcoin “first principles” as only she can….

The Man of Tomorrow talking VR, Bitcoin, entrepreneurship, and freedom of association.

The Bitcoin Investor Conference has been amazing, and I look forward to sharing content from it with you!
Carpe lucem!

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A report has just been released that completely and utterly dismantles the “war on cops” narrative being pushed by police apologists and certain media outlets.
The FBI’s own data show that assaults on police officers were down sharply in 2014, continuing a steady decline since 2008. Assaults on cops were at their lowest point since 1996.
Combine this with the fact that felonious killings of police have been declining for three decades, and 2015 is on track to be the second lowest on record. There is nowhere in the logical universe one can go to push the false “war on cops” narrative.
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Salt Lake City, UT — On August 11, 2014 Dillon Taylor was gunned down in broad daylight by Officer Bron Cruz.
Despite the horrific body cam evidence showing this Salt Lake City cop murder an unarmed young man in cold blood, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill ruled the murder as “justified.”
Having been completely failed by the justice system, the family of Dillon Taylor filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Salt Lake, the officer who killed Taylor, Bron Cruz, and several other officers.
The confrontation happened, according to the lawsuit, because, a person who refused to identify herself …read more

Linwood, NJ — A police officer who killed two people in a drunken crash while he was driving the wrong way down the road is now claiming that he is not to blame for the accident because he suspects that he was drugged by strippers. However, it was documented that at the time of the accident the officer had a blood alcohol level of three times the legal limit.
The off-duty officer who was driving the car had posted a photo on his Instagram hours earlier of three shot glasses full of alcohol. In his Instagram post, Officer Pedro Abad identifies …read more

On October 28, the Sixth Circuit issued an en banc opinion in Bible Believers v Wayne County, Michigan, 13-1635. The majority opinion is 41 pages. The issue was whether Bible Believers had a right to engage in street preaching, and to parade around with banners, signs, and tee-shirts that displayed messages criticizing Islam and Mohammed, while attending the annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn. “En banc”means all full-time judges of the Sixth Circuit participated; there are 15 such judges.
The festival is very large and streets are always closed, because as many as 300,000 people attend over three …read more

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers have this article at Mintpress News, an on-line news source that has existed since 2012 and is based in Minnesota. Zeese and Flowers say the presidential primaries of the two major parties reveal great divisions in each of those parties, and if the United States had different election laws, the existing parties would be more coherent, and of course there would be more parties. …read more

*faceplam*
[I shouldn’t start a blog post like that, but I couldn’t help myself.]
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Microsoft was partnering with ConSensys, which itself is based off of the Ethereum project. Listeners of my science and tech podcast–Sovryn Tech–know how I feel about everything Ethereum related (it’s all a bunch of hogwash, in my opinion), and certainly I’m no defender of Microsoft (even though some of their moves recently have intrigued me and made me somewhat hopeful for the company).So what’s my take on Microsoft partnering with an Ethereum-based company? I think this is important to discuss on the Dark Android …read more

New York, NY — After an NYPD officer lied about a deaf woman’s disability and refused to provide a legally mandated translator before wrongfully arresting her, the woman reached a $750,000 settlement this week. Although the inept cop was responsible for wrongfully arresting the deaf woman and violating the Americans With Disabilities Act, taxpayers will bear the burden of the settlement instead of the incompetent officer.
On September 11, 2011, Diana Williams and her husband, Chris Williams, who are both deaf, attempted to evict tenants who had failed to pay rent. After the tenant’s boyfriend allegedly gestured that he had a …read more

Oklahoma City, OK – A school resource officer was recently arrested after he was caught assaulting a student on a surveillance recording. The student had reportedly been in the hallway without a pass, and after he was confronted by officer Thomas Jaha, he went to get a drink of water.
Since he did not leave the hallway immediately and go directly back to class, Jaha went into a rage and attacked the 16-year old boy. Jaha is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge.
Jaha says that the student took an “aggressive stance” so he began to strike the boy, and it was …read more