It's no longer a crime in Minnesota to carry fruit in an illegally sized container. The state's telegraph regulations are gone. And it's now legal to drive a car in neutral -- if you can figure out how to do it.
Those were among the 1,175 obsolete, unnecessary and incomprehensible laws that Gov. Mark
The truth is every law on the books could be wiped out, the only law necessary is one covering property damages, which includes violations of one's body, and a framework for restitution of said property crime. Every real crime is a crime against one's property, be it theft, murder, or something more nuanced like pollution. An optional, though not necessarily necessary law would be one covering fraud, as it could be considered a form of stealing. - Chris
ISLA VISTA, Calif. — A Hollywood director and his family say they warned police about disturbing videos weeks before a shooting rampage that they believe their son committed near a Santa Barbara university. Seven people died, including the attacker.
Alan Shifman, attorney for Peter Rodger, assistant director of The Hunger Games series, said the family was told their son is dead after killing six people late Friday night. The family had not yet seen his body.
Despite the Orwellian police state, totalitarian monitoring and cataloging of all citizens' communications, and in this case direct contact with said assailant, the police failed to prevent this crime. - Chris
The 2014 Cross Examination Debate Association's national championship was held at Indiana University. The all African American female team from Towson University defeated the all African American male team from the University of Oklahoma. Though this might be a first for African American women, it is not a real win for wom
It is the debate of the moment. In a risk-filled world, are democracies justified in turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconventional threats? Or is the emergence of the surveillance state and the awesome powers it derives from information technology a new and pervasive threat to our basic freedoms? For some the answ... (more)
Disturbingly missing from this case seems to be any actual evidence. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears he was convicted purely on hearsay. Also, note he wasn't even allowed to face one of his accusers.
Dead on. The story is why was she secretly recording him and baiting him into this? Also, the tape sounds edited, certain parts make no sense, it doesn't flow like an actual conversation, similar to the edited tapes of Mel Gibson. I also find it hilarious that one day he's getting a lifetime achievement honor from the NAACP, then the next after some edited tape is released he's an evil racist. You can't have it both ways, they wanted to honor him for his actions helping black people, yet his private personal comments secretly recorded by this witch who supposedly loved him invalidate all his actions previous? It's blatantly clear this woman, who again, claimed to love him, despicably connived to completely ruin his life. Also, she is half black, if he's such a racist then why is he with her? Meanwhile, what happened to the virtue of tolerance? Leftists love preaching it, yet when someone holds views they disagree with they have zero tolerance and call for the man's head.
Update: AJ pulled the video, he said he listened to the full audio tape and Sterling is saying stuff a lot more racist than what the media played so he changed his mind. I only heard the first few minutes, it sounded edited and discombobulated, so I stopped listening and gave it no credibility. Sterling responded to the controversy saying the woman is accused of embezzling 1.8 million from him, I think by his ex-wife, and questioned her motives, though he doesn't explicitly deny saying what was on the tapes. - Chris
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said on Thursday that the federal government should follow the lead of states that have legalized marijuana. That makes him the first Supreme Court justice -- retired or otherwise -- to endorse legalization.
The Bureau of Land Management’s ongoing dispute with cattle rancher Cliven Bundy has supposedly been waged over unpaid grazing fees. Bundy’s cattle is said to have grazed in protected areas regulated to preserve endangered species, chiefly the desert tortoise.
Later we learned the BLM had actually been euthanizing scores of endangered tortoises, as well as releasing some into the wild, in advance of closing the doors to the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, whic... (more)
It was a banner day in Annapolis Monday, where legislators, working against an end-of-session deadline, managed to pass both marijuana decriminalization and medical marijuana expansion bills.
Working around obstinate reform foe Rep. Joe Vallario (D-Prince Georges), who initially detoured the decrim bill into a study bill, the legislature approved Senate Bill 364 and Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) says he will sign it.
The bill decriminalizes up to 10 grams of mar... (more)
The Intersection outside my work (Newton, Massachusetts) had a traffic light that was out the entire day. No blinking light, no cop to direct traffic, no warning of the broken light. Just people making their own decisions and the proper judgments. 1/2 the day went by with no issues and no accidents, So I thought I would record what happens without government to mana... (more)
I remember the first time i drove when all the lights were out, it was an absolute dream. Drove to the store which would usually take 15 minutes sitting at slow changing traffic lights in under half the time, safely going through intersections with everyone acting even more responsibly than under the statist rule system. - Chris
A new national survey released today by the Pew Research Center provides strong evidence that Americans are undergoing a tectonic shift in their views on drug policy. Not only are Americans convinced that marijuana legalization is coming; a majority supports it, and even larger majorities support a fundamental realignment of our drug policies away from the criminal justice system and toward ... (more)
When an interviewer recently confronted Vladimir Putin about Europe's American-made missile defense system, the President of the Russian Federation couldn't help but laugh right in his face.
According to the journalist, NATO's missile defense system is pointed at and designed to protect Europe from the nuclear threat posed by Iran, not Russia.
Putin's reaction is a must-see.
Interview: NATO claims the missile shield was not b
Americans believe that consuming cannabis poses less harm to health than does the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, or sugar, according to the findings of a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today.
Respondents were asked which of the four substances they believed to be "most harmful to a person's overall health." Most respondents said tobacco (49 percent), followed by alcohol (24 percent... (more)
