Author: Joe from MassPrivateI

Mises – by Alan Mosley

In May of 2018, Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) wrote an opinion column for USA Today in which he called for significant increases in gun control, following the murder of Gary Jackson, a 28-year old security guard from Oakland, California, whose killer was armed with an “AK-47-style semi-automatic assault rifle.” Swalwell was the prosecutor in the case, and his exposure to Jackson’s autopsy reports emboldened him to seek significant gun control legislation at the federal level. Continue reading “Congressman Threatens to Bomb Gun Owners Who Don’t Submit to Gun Control”

Gizmodo – by Tom McKay

Earlier this year, broadcasting giant Sinclair—the media group that forced anchors at its stations to read an ominous script parroting Donald Trump’s narrative on “fake news”—was stopped by regulators from acquiring rival Tribune Media Co. in a shady $3.9 billion deal that would have amounted to a wholesale takeover of local TV news. Though that deal was defeated, Tribune has now reached an agreement to sell to fellow broadcaster Nexstar Media Group Inc. in a $4.1 billion deal, Reuters reported on Sunday.   Continue reading “Tribune Media May Sell Out to Rival Nexstar, Creating TV Station-Owning Behemoth”

Free Beacon – by Stephen Gutowski

A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her roommates uncomfortable.

“Since it’s clear that Leyla wants to keep her firearms, it would be best for all parties if she finds another place to live,” Dave Lewis, president of Avid Management, said in an email to the household obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.   Continue reading “Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

A couple of months ago, a consent decree drastically restructured Philadelphia’s severely-abused asset forfeiture program. It didn’t eliminate the program entirely, but it did eliminate the small-ball cash grabs favored by local law enforcement. The median seizure by Philly law enforcement is only $178, but it adds up to millions if you do it all the time. Small seizures like this now need to be tied to arrests or the property needs to be used as evidence in a criminal case.   Continue reading “Philly Cops Skirting Forfeiture Restrictions By Seizing Cars As ‘Evidence’”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Davis Taylor

Vaccine mandates generally have their basis in federal recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most Americans believe that the CDC’s guidelines are carefully crafted, based upon unbiased and thorough scientific research, and that they will keep us safe. This narrative isn’t necessarily true.

Because of their misplaced faith in this federal agency, most people assume there is no need to push back against federal narratives on vaccines or against anticipated federal vaccine mandates. In his important new book, Vaccines – A Reappraisal, Richard Moskowitz, M.D., provides information which should thoroughly refute these assumptions.   Continue reading “New Book Shatters Our Misplaced Faith in the Federal Vaccine Narrative”

Gizmodo – by Kashmir Hill

Next time you’re chatting with a customer service agent online, be warned that the person on the other side of your conversation might see what you’re typing in real time. A reader sent us the following transcript from a conversation he had with a mattress company after the agent responded to a message he hadn’t sent yet.   Continue reading “Be Warned: Customer Service Agents Can See What You’re Typing in Real Time”

Chicago Sun Times

5:55 p.m. Trial ends for the day

5:34 p.m. Defense attorney questions whether David March placed the call

Defense attorney James McKay attacked on cross-examination an investigator for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office who said he took a damning statement from McKay’s client, David March, following the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.   Continue reading “Cop cover-up trial Day 1: Defense questions if detective ever made critical call”

ICE.gov

WASHINGTON – More than 1 million copyright-infringing website domain names selling counterfeit automotive parts, electrical components, personal care items and other fake goods were criminally and civilly seized in the past year through the combined efforts of law-enforcement agencies across the world, high-profile industry representatives and anti-counterfeiting associations.   Continue reading “Over a million websites seized in global operation”

Tampa Bay Times – by Stuart Leavenworth

LEHI, Utah — It markets its DNA kits with promises that tug at the heartstrings: Discover ancestors. Strengthen family ties. Understand your life.

Aided by venture capital and a flood of savvy marketing, Ancestry LLC has grown to become the world’s largest DNA testing conglomerate. Since 2012, it has lured more than 5 million people to spit into tubes and add their genetic code to the world’s largest private database of DNA. It has also banked away the world’s largest collection of human spittle, numbering in the hundreds of gallons.   Continue reading “DNA for Sale: Ancestry wants your spit, your DNA and your trust. Should you give them all 3?”

WPXI

EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The East Pittsburgh Police Department will soon be no more.

The Allegheny County district attorney told Target 11 that the department will be disbanded.   Continue reading “East Pittsburgh Police Department will be disbanded, state police to take over patrols”

Courthouse News – by Helen Christophi

Dealing a blow to vaccine opponents, a California appellate court upheld a 2016 state law repealing the personal belief exemption to California’s immunization requirements for schoolchildren.

Four California parents and a California anti-vaccine group called A Voice for Choice, Inc. sued the state’s education department over the statute last year, claiming it violated their rights to due process, privacy, a public education and free exercise of religion under the California Constitution.   Continue reading “California Appeals Court Upholds Vaccination Law”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly signed a memo late Tuesday allowing troops stationed at the border to act in a law enforcement capacity and use lethal force, if necessary, according to Tara Copp of Military Times.    Continue reading “White House Authorizes Lethal Force At The Border”

ProPublica – by Derek Kravitz and Marshall Allen

Medical devices are gathering more and more data from their users, whether it’s their heart rates, sleep patterns or the number of steps taken in a day. Insurers and medical device makers say such data can be used to vastly improve health care.

But the data that’s generated can also be used in ways that patients don’t necessarily expect. It can be packaged and sold for advertising. It can anonymized and used by customer support and information technology companies. Or it can be shared with health insurers, who may use it to deny reimbursement. Privacy experts warn that data gathered by insurers could also be used to rate individuals’ health care costs and potentially raise their premiums.   Continue reading “Your Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data to Themselves”

WOKV

The Finance Director of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been arrested on dozens of charges in connection to a scheme that defrauded the Sheriff’s Office and associated Benevolence Fund of more than $700,000.

SJSO says 47-year-old Raye Brutnell admitted to the fraud and claimed she did it because of the “financial strain” her family was facing.    Continue reading “St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Finance Director Arrested For $700,000 Fraud Scheme”