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Carrying a Gun Does Not Justify Detention, Indiana Supreme Court Says
Post Date: 2017-05-12 12:48:13 by Deckard
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Since possessing a firearm in public may be perfectly legal, more is required for a police stop.In a victory for Second and Fourth amendment rights, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled this week that public possession of a handgun is not enough, by itself, to justify stopping and questioning someone. That conclusion is consistent with what the U.S. Supreme Court has said about the "reasonable suspicion" that police need to detain people. The case, Pinner v. Indiana, began with a call to Indianapolis police by a taxi driver who reported that "a black male wearing a blue jacket," accompanied by a "black female with blonde hair," had dropped a gun as he was getting ...
FBI Releases 'Study' Of Law Enforcement's Persecution Complex
Post Date: 2017-05-12 11:36:23 by Deckard
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from the less-work,-more-griping dept In what may be an attempt to bolster now ex-FBI director James Comey's oft-derided "Ferguson Effect" claims, the FBI has released a "study" that gathers facts feelings from law enforcement officers around the US and attempts to build a narrative somewhere between "life is unfair" and "there's a War on Cops." It's not a study. It's an opinion poll with the word "study" appended to it. In short, the Ferguson Effect theory is this: cops are afraid to do their jobs because they're undergoing intense scrutiny in the wake of controversial shootings. It's bullshit, but there are ...
Massachusetts State Police Promise Higher Standard For No-Knock Warrants; Immediately Break It
Post Date: 2017-05-12 11:29:53 by Deckard
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from the promising-change,-delivering-soundbites dept No-knock warrants may have served a purpose when they first became a thing. It's not as though law enforcement's fear of evidence disappearing or a violent reaction to warrant service is completely unjustified. But no-knock warrants are being deployed extremely frequently, becoming the preferred method of warrant service any time drug sales are involved. The warrant requests are supposed to be subjected to a higher standard of review, but it's devolved to the point where officers are requesting no-knock warrants simply because the residence they're searching has locking doors and working toilets. Now, cops and citizens ...
Latest Attack On A Free Press: Reporter Arrested For Asking Questions To Trump Administration Officials
Post Date: 2017-05-12 11:28:16 by Deckard
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from the um-what? deptAnother day, another attack on a free press. The latest: a long-time reporter, Daniel Heyman, of the Public News Service in West Virginia was arrested for asking questions of Trump administration officials. Heyman yelled some questions to Health & Human Services Director Tom Price along with White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway: Daniel Ralph Heyman, 54, with the Public News Service of West Virginia, was freed on $5,000 bond Tuesday night on a charge of "willful disruption of government processes," according to a criminal complaint. “The above defendant was aggressively breaching the secret service agents to the point where the agents were ...
Opinion-shaping polling is as American as apple pie - illegal immigration ... Opinion-gauging polling --- not so much.
Post Date: 2017-05-12 11:26:54 by BorisY
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POLL: Americans Hit Record Liberal Views On Moral Issues Like Birth Control, Porn And Homosexuality By: Amanda Prestigiacomo May 11, 2017 New Gallup polling shows record high numbers of Americans holding liberal views on issues concerning morality, such as birth control, pornography and homosexuality. "Americans continue to express an increasingly liberal outlook on what is morally acceptable, as their views on 10 of 19 moral issues that Gallup measures are the most left-leaning or permissive they have been to date," says Gallup. "The percentages of U.S. adults who believe birth control, divorce, sex between unmarried people, gay or lesbian ...
Trump Wants Steam, Dammit, Not This Newfangled Digital Stuff
Post Date: 2017-05-12 10:32:15 by Willie Green
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Trump is insisting that the service return to installing steam catapults in place of the state-of-the-art Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) that were developed for the Gerald R. Ford-class super carriers. Trump, in an interview with Time magazine published today, said he received a negative report about EMALS during his trip to the Gerald Ford (CVN-78) on March 2. Trump said: “It sounded bad to me”. “Digital. They have digital“. Trump then claimed only Albert Einstein could figure out how to use digital technology to replace the steam-powered launch system for the next generation of Ford-class carriers. And I said, and now they want to buy more aircraft ...
America is 'showing the telltale signs of a failing state'
Post Date: 2017-05-12 09:57:26 by Willie Green
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We have the tin-pot leader whose vanity knows no bounds. We have the rapacious family feathering their nests without regard for the law or common decency. We have utter disregard for values at home and abroad, the disdain for democracy, the hunger for constraining a free press, the admiration for thugs and strongmen worldwide. We have all the makings of a banana republic. But worse, we are showing the telltale signs of a failing state. Our government has ceased to function. Party politics and gross self-interest has rendered the majority party oblivious to its responsibilities to its constituents and the Constitution of the United States. On a daily basis, Republicans watch their ...
Trump's Comey firing sets off new round of leaks
Post Date: 2017-05-12 09:37:34 by cranky
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President Trump is besieged by internal leaks as he tries to weather the fallout from his firing of FBI director James Comey. Media reports about the run-up to Trump’s decision paint him as isolated and consumed by anger and paranoia, prompting questions from Trump allies about whose interests these government officials had in mind when they spoke to the press. The behind-the-scenes stories have often undermined the White House’s public reasoning for firing Comey, causing further political trouble for the administration and exacerbating growing divisions between Trump and his law enforcement agencies. And Trump’s abrupt firing of Comey appears to have stirred opposition ...
Repeal and Repent! Jerry Brown Demands Republican ‘Penance’ on Obamacare
Post Date: 2017-05-12 09:12:37 by cranky
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California Governor Jerry Brown warned Thursday that the Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation would have to perform “penance” for having voted for the American Health Care Act in the U.S. House. Last week’s vote on the bill was the first step towards repealing (most of) Obamacare and replacing it with a more market-oriented health insurance system that would, supporter say, lower premiums and create better competition. Every one of California’s 14 Republicans voted for the bill, which now proceeds to the Senate. (Both of Califorina’s U.S. Senators are Democrats.) Governor Brown and the rest of California’s statewide leadership, all ...
Poll: Republicans Approve of Trump’s Immigration Actions While Overall Support Declines
Post Date: 2017-05-12 08:42:53 by cranky
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A Quinnipiac University National Poll released Wednesday finds overall support for President Donald Trump’s immigration actions declining, except amongst Republicans. Overall, 35 percent approve of Trump’s immigration moves, while 62 percent disapprove. But 78 percent of Republicans approve, and only 19 percent disapprove. Half of white voters without college degrees approve, while 47 percent disapprove. Among independent voters, 30 percent approve and 66 percent disapprove. Younger voters are especially opposed to Trump’s immigration moves: 75 percent disapprove, while 21 percent approve. Trump’s moves on immigration have been met with rising disapproval overall, ...
LGBT Activists Convince GOP to Crush Trump’s Christian Nominee for Army Secretary
Post Date: 2017-05-12 07:50:00 by HomerBohn
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LGBT radical activists run the nation. And when it demanded the crushing of Donald Trump’s Christian Army secretary nominee, the conservative GOP submitted to it. So as people continue complaining that Trump isn’t conservative enough, everyone else should continue not caring. After all, conservatism is nothing but progressivism. As soon as Trump nominated Mark Green to be the next U.S. Army secretary, homosexual activists coordinated a nonstop attack on him with the full cooperation of the media. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other usual suspects were in on the attack. The Hill may have led this particular influence operation. I noticed it published a minimum of ...
Police Dept Wanted a Cop to Kill a Suicidal Dad, He Chose Not To, So They Fired Him
Post Date: 2017-05-12 06:55:58 by Deckard
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Weirton, WV — Former Weirton police officer Stephen Mader is suing the city after he was fired for not killing a suicidal man who needed help. As we reported last year, on May 6, 2016, Mader responded to a domestic call about a suicidal person. When he arrived on the scene, Mader confronted 23-year-old Ronald D. Williams who was armed and mentally distraught. Madar said that he began talking to the young man in his “calm voice.” “I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it. “I ...
Good Cop Exposes ‘1 Ticket Per Hour’ Quota Scam After Being Fired for Refusing to Enforce It
Post Date: 2017-05-12 06:50:47 by Deckard
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For years now, The Free Thought Project has reported on police departments all throughout the country of instituting a mandatory quota system for traffic tickets and criminal violations among other things. Now one fired police officer is echoing our reports. Dibble Oklahoma reserve police officer Richard Searcy says he was fired for not writing enough tickets. He posted to his Facebook of his devotion to his job, and knowledge of his profession; For the town of dibble citizens. I have been a police officer for 12 years i know my job. Complaining about his department’s one contact per hour mandatory quota (contact meaning ticket or otherwise warning to the public); I also ...
Measuring What We Can’t Do (The Danger of Low Speed Limits)
Post Date: 2017-05-12 06:38:56 by Deckard
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Almost every new car I test drive – even the humblest hybrid – has a speedometer that reads to at least 120 mph. 140 is common; 160 not unusual. Some cars have speedometers that read to 180 or even 200 MPH And some of those are capable of pegging them. Few ever do. It would be interesting to know how many cars are ever driven faster than 100 MPH. And also how many ever see 130 – even briefly. My bet is maybe one out of ten and then only for a brief moment of furtive lawlessness. First, of course, it is extraordinarily dangerous to drive that fast. Not the speed, per se. In a modern car, 100 MPH is safer than 70 was in a 1960s-era car. Whether the measure is braking ...
Declassified CIA Documents Show Agency’s Control Over Mainstream Media & Academia
Post Date: 2017-05-12 06:17:13 by Deckard
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A declassified document from the CIA archives in the form of a letter from a CIA task force addressed to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency details the close relationship that exists between the CIA and mainstream media and academia. The document states that the CIA task force “now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation,” and that “this has helped us turn some ‘intelligence failure’ stories into ‘intelligence success” stories,’ and has contributed to the accuracy of countless others.” Furthermore, it explains how the agency has ...
PresidenT Donald Trump Thinks ... CNN's Don Lemon is "perhaps The dumbesT person in broadcasTing" --- Time reporTs.
Post Date: 2017-05-11 23:52:58 by BorisY
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Trump: CNN's Don Lemon Is 'Perhaps the Dumbest Person in Broadcasting' By Cathy Burke 11 May 2017 President Donald Trump thinks CNN's Don Lemon is "perhaps the dumbest person in broadcasting," Time reports. During a wide-ranging interview with Time Monday night and posted Thursday, the president also lashed out at CNN's Chris Cuomo – saying he looked like a "chained lunatic" – CBS's "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert – whom Trump discounted as a "no-talent guy" who talks "filthy" – and MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, whom Trump thinks has ...
OPEC to U.S.: Please produce less oil for the ‘prosperity of the world economy’
Post Date: 2017-05-11 23:49:30 by Tooconservative
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OPEC, the oil cartel really cares about the world. That’s the message of a new monthly report issued Thursday. OPEC says what the world needs now is a bit less supply on the global oil market. In particular, they would really appreciate it if the United States would stop producing so much damn oil…for the good of the world of course. From CNN Money: The report said that balancing the market would “require the collective efforts of all oil producers” and should be done “not only for the benefit of the individual countries, but also for the general prosperity of the world economy.” OPEC said that one producer in particular is to blame: The U.S., where shale ...
China's $246 Billion Foreign Buying Spree Is Unraveling
Post Date: 2017-05-11 14:44:11 by cranky
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Cross-border purchases tumble 67 percent after a record 2016 Sellers respond by demanding break fees as high as 10% China's Biggest Foreign Acquisition Frenzy Is Ending China’s biggest-ever foreign acquisition frenzy is ending almost as dramatically as it began.After stunning the world with a record $246 billion of announced outbound takeovers in 2016, Chinese dealmakers are now struggling to cope with tighter capital controls and increasingly wary counterparties. Cross-border purchases plunged 67 percent during the first four months of this year, the biggest drop for a comparable period since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2009, according to data ...
Racist Note That Led to Protests, Cancelled Class at St. Olaf’s College Was ‘Fabricated’
Post Date: 2017-05-11 14:06:44 by cranky
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Administrators at St. Olaf’s College revealed in an email that a racist note that led to a week-long series of protests on campus was “fabricated.” A racist note, that sparked week-long protest efforts by students at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, was “fabricated,” according to administrators. The note, which threatened a black female student and used an ethnic slur, was concocted as part of an ill-conceived attempt at political activism. “This was not a genuine threat,” St. Olaf President David R. Anderson wrote on Wednesday to students. “We’re confident that there is no ongoing threat from this incident to individuals or the ...
Black student group at UC Santa Cruz threatens more campus takeovers if additional demands not met
Post Date: 2017-05-11 12:32:11 by cranky
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‘There will be more Reclamations’ University of California Santa Cruz administrators recently agreed to meet to all four demands lodged by a black student group who commandeered a campus building and would not leave until their conditions were met. But in addition to the four initial stipulations, the group made three other demands to the university, and it has warned UC Santa Cruz that it has four months to comply with these demands or “more Reclamations” will result. After three days of occupation by students of Kerr Hall, Chancellor George Blumenthal agreed to give all black and Caribbean-identified students a 4-year housing guarantee to live in the Rosa Parks ...
Lesbian couple get divorce after politically charged battle (editors note they weren't actually married as there is no such thing as homo pervert marriage)
Post Date: 2017-05-11 08:12:59 by HomerBohn
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( In this June 24, 2016 photo, Erica Witt, left, cries as she is denied same-sex parenting rights during a Knox County Circuit Court hearing in Knoxville, Tenn. Judge Greg McMillan opined that because she is a woman who legally…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A judge has granted a divorce decree to a lesbian couple after a custody battle that was targeted by dozens of conservative Tennessee lawmakers who tried to intervene in the case.
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The same-sex divorce and custody case became a political flashpoint after a Knoxville judge initially ruled that one of the women had no parental rights to a child conceived by artificial insemination because she did not meet the legal ...
Interesting Political Cartoons
Post Date: 2017-05-11 08:01:50 by HomerBohn
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The moment a driver shot and killed a gunman who marched up to his car after they 'made eye contact' at a gas station is caught on video - but he WON'T be charged
Post Date: 2017-05-11 07:36:23 by cranky
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The shocking moment a man shot and killed a gunman in a shootout has been captured on surveillance video - and police say he won't be charged. A motorist pulled out a gun when Ronald Morales, 43, approached his car at a gas station in Elmwood Park, Illinois. The men shot at each other multiple times in broad daylight before Morales ran away and the driver sped off. Morales eventually died from his injuries - but police say they won't be charging the man who killed him because he was acting in self defense. Police say on April 8, at 4:52pm, Ronald Morales (seen in red jacket) made eye contact with a man pumping gas at BP gas station in Elmwood Park, IllinoisMorales exited the ...
FDA Hypocrisy on Marijuana and Prescription Drugs Is Worse Than We Thought
Post Date: 2017-05-11 06:03:23 by Deckard
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By Carey Wedler One-third of FDA-approved drugs were later found to have safety risks, according to a recent analysis of drugs cleared by the agency between 2001 and 2010. According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “Among 222 novel therapeutics approved by the FDA from 2001 through 2010, 71 (32.0%) were affected by a postmarket safety event.” A postmarket safety event includes “(1) withdrawals due to safety concerns, (2) FDA issuance of incremental boxed warnings added in the postmarket period, and (3) FDA issuance of safety communications.” The researchers, many of them from Yale University, found these events were more common ...
Scientists say the government’s only pot farm has moldy samples — and no federal testing standards
Post Date: 2017-05-11 05:59:33 by Deckard
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A researcher in Dr. Sue Sisley’s lab pours out a sample of marijuana produced by the federal facility responsible for growing cannabis for clinical research. When she received marijuana for a PTSD trial last year, Sisley says the packages contained mold and weren’t as potent as she requested. Photo courtesy of MAPS. Sue Sisley, a primary care physician in Scottsdale, Arizona, recalls the moment she picked up the carefully wrapped package fresh from the delivery truck. Nearly two years after Sisley and her colleagues were awarded a grant to study marijuana as a treatment for 76 military veterans suffering from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, her shipment of the drug was ...
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