Visitors to Chinese Blind Rights Lawyer Chen Guangcheng Disappear A group of Internet activists decided to visit the blind rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng on October 5th. But, none of them made it to their destination. At least nine were scattered, stopped or taken by Chinese officials.Henan-based Internet activist Li Shasha first came up with [...]
So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it. News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that’s seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its “Don’t Be Evil” [...]
Ballot Access News On October 30, Jim Duensing, who was chairman of the Nevada Libertarian Party until March, 2009, was shot by a Las Vegas policeman after the police had stopped Duensing for making an illegal turn and some illegal lane changes. According to this newspaper story, he was in a rental car, and he [...]
Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama’s spending in ‘tea-party’ demonstration By Mail Foreign Service Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control [...]
Obama Website Calls Opponents “Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists” Kurt Nimmo Infowars September 4, 2009 Bobby Eberle, writing for GOP USA, is alarmed by the latest Obama political tactic — characterizing all who would oppose Obamacare as rightwing extremists. Eberle points to a post dated the first of September on the Heritage Foundation website. Heritage’s Rory Cooper [...]
Boom! Studios sends word that comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at Los Angeles International Airport this past weekend because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries Unthinkable. Sable was detained while traveling to New York for a debut party at Jim Hanley’s Universe today. [...]
Daniel McAdams, LewRockwell.com April 8, 2009 It makes for a great story-line – the kind the international media embrace with relish: thrusting young Moldovans grab their iPhones, rush to the town square, and Twitter their way to a revolution against a Communist Party that had just stolen an election. The story-line has been written with [...]
A chyron which accompanied a report on CNN’s Newsroom program on Wednesday about the arrest of a leader of an organization inspired by the Minuteman Project, referred to her and her accused accomplices as “extremists.” Despite qualifying how the largest Minuteman organization had distanced itself from the suspects, anchor Rick Sanchez questioned how she became [...]
Court: Suspects can be interrogated without lawyer. By JESSE J. HOLLAND. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a long-standing ruling that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant’s lawyer was present, a move that will make it easier for prosecutors to interrogate suspects. The high court, in a 5-4 ruling, overturned [...]