As 120 million U.S. Census forms begin to arrive in mailboxes around the country, only 13% of Americans realize that it is illegal not to answer all of the Census questions.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of adults think - incorrectly - that it is not against the law to not answer all the questions on the Census. Another 30% are not sure.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of adults say the Census simply counts the number of people in the... (more)
...And they would be correct. The only constitutionally authorized question is how many people are in the household. That said, our government operates as a criminal enterprise and doesn't give two licks about the constitution.
Joseph Casias has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor and takes medical marijuana, which is legal in Michigan. He was fired from the Michigan Walmart where he had been working for the last five years after he failed a drug screening test there.
At his doctor's recommendation, Casias says he legally uses medical marijuana to ease his pain.
"It helps tremendously," he says. "I only use it to stop the pain. To make me feel more comfortable and active as a pe
INDIANAPOLIS -- Pendleton police have seized a license plate of a so-called "sovereign citizen," a growing group of Indiana residents who claim to be outside the law.
Police said the plate was going to be placed on a vehicle by a self-proclaimed diplomat in lieu of a state-issued plate.
Members of the sovereign citizen movement contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using identification cards that show them as diplom... (more)
Saddam Hussein, Harry Potter and the deaths of Michael Jackson and Australian conservationist Steve Irwin were also hot topics, according to the list released by the company to mark its 15th birthday.
The figures also reveal that the number of websites has reached an estimated 200 million from just 18,000 in 1995, with the number of users increasing from 10 million globally, or less than 0.33 per cent of the world's population, 15 years ago to the current 1.6 billion or 25 per cen... (more)
The parents of John Patrick Bedell, who was shot to death after pulling a gun on Pentagon police guards, said Friday they are “devastated” by the incident, adding that “his actions were caused by an illness and not a defective character.”
“To the outside world, this tragedy is the first and only thing they will know of Patrick,” his parents said in a statement. “To us, he was a beloved son, brother, grandson, nephew, and cousin. We may nev... (more)
HONOLULU, Hawaii - March 3 - Yesterday, the Hawaii Senate passed by overwhelming, veto-proof margins three measures that will greatly improve marijuana laws in the state:
· SB 2213 passed 20-4, with one excused. This bill would allow counties to license medical marijuana dispensaries.
· SB 2141 passed 24-1. This bill would increase the ratio of plants, ounces and caregivers allowed for each medical marijuana patient.
Earlier today, Cryptome posted an email sent to John Young by PayPal explaining the website’s account was locked down.
“As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account,” the email sent by the PayPal Account Review Department states. “For your protection, we have limited acces... (more)
Violence breaks out as students at the flagship school of the University of California protest stiff tuition hikes.
Students at the University of California’s flagship Berkeley campus took to the streets on Friday night, vandalizing university buildings, burning trash cans and clashing with police in the latest expression of frustration over cuts to the educational budget in California.
In November, the University of California Board of Regents voted to raise... (more)
A Maryland appeals court has thrown out the conviction of a man who threatened to wrap his hands around Gov. Martin O'Malley and "strangle the life" out of him.
The Court of Special Appeals overturned the conviction of Walter Carl Abbott Jr., because the judge at his original trial didn't properly explain to the jury the difference between a real threat and constitutionally protected speech, the court ruled.
In a 2008 e-mail to O'Malley, Abbott complained of financi... (more)
The Internet has surpassed newspapers as a primary way for Americans to get news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That makes the Internet the third most popular news platform overall, with many connected users taking advantage of nontraditional consumption methods such as social media postings, personalized news feeds, and getting their news on-the-go.
National and local TV stations still dominate the news cycle for most Americans, but the Internet now sta... (more)
In his 81 years, Bob Moore has built a mini empire with his health food company, Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods. During his recent birthday celebration, he told his dedicated employees that he's passing the torch and ownership of his multimillion dollar business to them, the Seattle Times reports.
Under Moore's plan, any worker with at least three years tenure is n... (more)
Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The founding document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, states that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." Today, however, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% disagree and say the government does not have the necessary consent. Eighteen percent (18%) of voters are not sure.
In relation to the plane crashing into the IRS office in Austin, Texas, this website has a long rambling rant from a guy named Joe Stack with a grievance versus the IRS. If the site goes down the text is here.
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Web page Header: 'Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.'
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the lo... (more)
Could this be any more perfect for the establishment?
Austin Bureau chief Christy Hoppe, who is traveling with Gov. Rick Perry as he campaigns, reports that Perry just took a moment in Sugar Land to make a statement about the plane crash in Austin.
Perry said he was trying to be very cautious with information and was still finding out details himself. But "anytime you have an aircraft that hits a building particularly after 9/11, there is always great speculation about how or why that occurred."
By now, everyone knows who Austin Texas crash pilot Joe Stack is.
But his manifesto hosted on EmbeddedArt.com holds clues to how angry he must have been. Diving into the HTML source of the website shows that he generated his manifesto using Microsoft Word.
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HOUSTON - In an interview with KLBJ radio, a woman says she believes the plane that crashed into an Austin office building on Thursday is that of an in-law who burned his house down the night before.
"My little niece is his step daughter," said the woman in an interview with KLBJ radio. "He burned their house down last night. My sister had gone over there last night to get them out of the house. They spent the night in a motel."
Voters are madder than ever at the current policies of the federal government.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 75% of likely voters now say they are at least somewhat angry at the government's current policies, up four points from late November and up nine points since September. The overall figures include 45% who are Very Angry, also a nine-point increase since September.
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WASHINGTON -- In its ostensible attempt to create a nondiscriminatory application process, the Department of Justice is inviting candidates with "mental retardation" to pursue attorney posts.
A DOJ job listing at its official Web site reveals that its Civil Rights Division is seeking 10 "experienced" trial attorneys for its Voting Section in Washington, D.C. and is encouraging "qualified applicants with targ... (more)
Gut feeling: Indianapolis Colts’ DT Daniel Muir shares his instinctive hunch that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, shown to him in a photo, is a crook. Good guess. Currently he and his institution operate in the shadows, so no one can say for sure, at least until the Fed’s first audit is achieved.
Muir further comments that Bernanke “just has that look about him. He looks like he’d take everything you own.” Something like $23.7 trillion, maybe.<... (more)
THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.
Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. He acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the governme... (more)
Dr David Kelly exposed a fraud and got murdered for it. Phil Jones carried out a fraud and claimed he was going to kill himself for being found out in order to boost his faltering image. There is a difference. Him and his colleagues worked to politically eradicate their opposition, if they're at all similar to Dr David Kelly it is because of their similarities with his murderers.
A tenured Portland State economics professor is currently suspended from teaching after he publicly accused a student during a class lecture of being an FBI informant and of trying to sell guns to students.
Professor John Hall, during his 2 p.m. “Economics 445/545: Comparative Economic Systems” class on Jan. 14th, verbally harangued student Zachary Bucharest for nearly half an hour, according to students in the class.
