Red light cameras and speed cameras are no longer issuing citations in Arizona. Cities throughout the state have decided to unplug their automated ticketing machines in the wake of last month's surprise opinion from Attorney General Mark Brnovich requiring photo ticket vendors to obtain private investigator licenses (read opinion).
"The city of Scottsdale has not issued any citations since March 16th in response to the attorney general's office opin... (more)
A police officer in California backed down after a verbal confrontation with a BMX bike rider who exemplified a vast knowledge of the city’s public park laws.
In a viral video uploaded to Youtube Saturday, Long Beach Police Lieutenant Mark Cobel approaches two BMX bikers and demands they stop riding in the park.
“If you’re up here and doing tricks and… I don’t care, but once you get off of this you can’t ride your bikes down here... (more)
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sent shockwaves through the photo enforcement industry on Wednesday in finding that red light camera and speed camera companies have been violating the state's private investigator statute. Under the law, anyone other than a police officer who gathers evidence for use in a court trial must be a licensed investigator. Failure to obtain a license is a class one misdemeanor.
"The private investigator licensing statutes specifically exempt eleven... (more)
A 7-Eleven shopper in Washington State relied on his concealed carry firearm over the weekend to subdue a man who attacked customers and staff with a small ax.
Just before 6 a.m. Sunday, a masked man entered a convenience store in Seattle and "began swinging a hatchet at both the customer and the store clerk," before attacking the cashier, reports KOMO News.
"We don't know if the intent was to commit a robbery because the suspect didn't say anything," King Coun... (more)
Police officers may not hold a Florida driver's license and demand to search a vehicle. That was the conclusion last month of a three-judge state Court of Appeal panel that ruled the search of Joey Villanueva's van unconstitutional.
Lakeland Police Officer Bradley Dollison, a rookie, pulled Villanueva over, claiming he blew through a stop sign. The officer opened with the standard request for license and registration. Villanueva's papers were in order, except a computer check note... (more)
The US Supreme Court will decide next week whether it will hear the appeal of a US Air Force major who was detained for more than half an hour at an immigration roadblock 67 miles from the border with Mexico. Richard Rynearson filed his last brief in the case, hoping that the high court's eight justices would overturn the US Court of Appeals decision that endorsed Rynearson's March 18, 2010 detention (view ruling).
"The two judge majority of the Fifth Circuit panel (both milit... (more)
The legislature of West Virginia voted to override Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s veto of a bill that would allow adults to carry concealed handguns without a permit. Governor says the law puts the lives of police officers and residents in danger.
The state’s House of Delegates voted 64-33 to override Tomblin on Friday without discussion on the matter, and the Senate completed the override on Saturday morning with a vote of 23-11. The vote to bypass the veto was bipartisa... (more)
Motorists who have done nothing wrong will no longer be pulled over by police in West Virginia. The state's highest court last week overturned the conviction of Matthew Feicht, who was pulled over even though he had committed no traffic violations. Although Feicht's case involves no new question of law, the unanimous decision caused state police officials to stop pulling over drivers randomly so that they could receive various gifts from a police "Santa Stop."
If you thought Donald Trump was radical, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Trump has cleared the way for a new generation of politicians to seize control: those who simply don't give a damn about sucking up to the establishment.
Apple hires plenty of interns all year round, but one particular addition revealed this week caught the eye given the company's current position opposing a controversial order to enable the FBI to access the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Frederic Jacobs, a Switzerland-based developer who worked to develop secure messaging app Signal -- the communications app of choice for NSA whistleblow... (more)
Looking down at your phone while driving in Indiana is no longer a crime. The Seventh Circuit US Court of Appeals set that precedent last week in dismissing charges against Gregorio Paniagua-Garcia, a man who glanced at his phone while behind the wheel on September 27, 2014. Under Indiana law, it is unlawful to use a cell phone to type, send or read a text message or e-mail while driving. All other uses of the phone are perfectly acceptable.
Another legally armed person has stopped a potential mass shooting in Hamilton, Alabama on February 10th, 2016.
The shooting occurred in the morning, a little over an hour before noon, over a distance of a couple of blocks.
Two people, 67-year-old Donny Miller and 61-year-old Linda Cole were killed in separate offices. The second victim was shot in an accounting office close to the bank pictured above. A WVTM13 crew was on the scene less than two h... (more)
Donald Trump said Monday night that he believes Hillary Clinton will likely get away with her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, but said that as president, it's only fair that
Donald Trump is calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve.
The GOP frontrunner said it was important to audit the Fed and even called out his rival, Sen. Ted Cruz, for skipping a vote on Sen. Rand Paul's "Audit the Fed" proposal back in Jan.
Two can play at the "pull on the heart strings about losses due to terror" game apparently. While the FBI has rolled out the "but the poor victims of San Bernardino" argument for why it wants to force Apple into hacking the security of its own customers, Apple has countered with a big gun of its own: it has hired former Solicitor G... (more)
Trump has managed to turn Ann Coulter into a voice of reason in American politics.
In this clip from MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Coulter says Bush does share "partial blame" for 911 because he took a stand against the racial profiling of Muslims at American airports one year before 9/11.
A group called the Free State Project is trying to get 20,000 libertarians to move to New Hampshire to push for political and legal changes. Members say the state's "Live Free or Die" ethos makes it a prime location for the political experiment.
The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a decisive blow to President Obama's so-called EPA climate regulations. The Court may have stopped the EPA cold with the EPA regulations unlikely to be implemented before Obama leaves office. This will give political leaders time to mobilize and ensure that the EPA 'climate rules' never see the light of day. Delay is nothing short of a victory.
This is a major victory for U.S. sovereignty, energy freedom, climate science and a blow to eco... (more)
Julian Assange is warning Americans going to the polls today in New Hampshire not to vote for Hillary Clinton, telling them she's a "war hawk ... who gets an unseemly emotional rush out of killing people."
What kind of impact will 20,000 liberty-loving people make when they move to a small state, like New Hampshire? The country will soon find out.
MANCHESTER, NH (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 03, 2016: As of today, The Free State Project is the most successful intentional migration movement in American history. This is because today the organization has announced that 20,000 participants have signed the Statement of Intent to move to New Hampshire, where they will “exert their fullest pract... (more)
The famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, wanted in the US on charges of espionage, has found his way to the White House in the form of a prank snowman.
A smiling Snowden snowman was recently spotted in front of the White House when crafty political activists decided to make a statement outside Obama’s house.
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Washinton, D.C. – A "critical warning" has been issued by Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes "to the entire U.S. military, but especially to the military Special Operations Command and community" with it secondarily being "addressed to federal LEOs, and especially to their SRTs, such as the FBI HRT (many of whom are former military special operations)."
The "warning" indicates that the escalation the situation in Oregon from a simple occupation of an empty federal building ... (more)
Rather than fire his employee for using a gun to defend himself and his fellow workers, as other despicable employers have done, a manager for a T-Mobile store in Chicago praised his employee for shooting two armed robbers and said he did "a great job."
