A professor from Princeton University and a graduate student just proved electronic voting machines in the U.S. remain astonishingly vulnerable to hackers — and they did it in under eight minutes. In fact, Professor Andrew Appel and grad student Alex Halderman took just seven minutes to break into the authentic Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting Read More…
Constitutional Rights
Effective Immediately: Illinois Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession
Illinois is now the most recent state to show signs that it is beginning to move in the direction of more sensible and responsible drug laws, particularly when it comes to marijuana. This is because Governor Bruce Rauner signed legislation last week which makes Illinois the third largest state in the country to decriminalize minor Read More…
Spying’s New Frontier: Private Firm Collects Data on ‘Every American Adult’
“We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad.” The fight for internet privacy has focused much of its attention on government surveillance, but mass data collection is done by private companies as well—and one such firm has “centralized and weaponized” all that information for its customers, Bloomberg reports on Friday. Read More…
Sheriff Raids Good Cop’s Home, for Alleged ‘Crime’ of Exposing Political Corruption on Facebook
Houma, LA – In Terrebonne Parish, if you want to expose corruption of local politicians, don’t be surprised when cops invade your home and seize your property. The owner of a Facebook page called “ExposeDat” (similar to the New Orleans Saints’ motto WhoDat) was apparently getting too close to the truth, so Sheriff Jerry Larpenter – one Read More…
The Harsh Truth About the Gun Debate Politicians Refuse to Talk About
As of late, there has been a number of violent attacks throughout Europe that have been largely ignored by the American media. For example, a deadly knife attack in Japan claimed the lives of 19 people and injured 26 others approximately a week ago, but the tragedy received little mainstream coverage. In mid-July, a teenage Read More…
National Guard, DEA, State Police Raid 81-yo Cancer Patient’s Organic Garden to “Protect” You
In a gross display of wasted taxpayer dollars, dozens of Massachusetts National Guard personnel, operating under a grant from the DEA, alongside Massachusetts State Police, descended into the backyard of an 81-year-old cancer patient in a raid last week — to protect society from the dangers of his four marijuana plants. Paul Jackson, 81, of Martha’s Vineyard, Read More…






