The Verge – by Colin Lecher

The White House’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in a report released Tuesday that widely used forensic techniques may not pass scientific muster, and should be reviewed for accuracy.

The advisory group’s report said “feature-comparison” forensic techniques like bite mark comparison, analysis of firearms, and methods for DNA comparison should be better scrutinized, and new techniques should be given more attention for scientific validity in the future.   Continue reading “Forensic techniques sending people to prison may not be scientifically valid”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 20, 2016) – A bill prefiled for the 2017 legislative session would direct the state to refuse to enforce any foreign law that conflicts with U.S. or Kentucky constitutions, nullifying such laws in effect in the commonwealth.

Rep. Kim King (R-Harrodsburg) prefiled BR149 on Sept. 14. The legislation would specifically direct state courts, arbitrators, administrative agencies, or other adjudicative bodies or authorities in the state to refuse to enforce a foreign law if doing so would violate a right guaranteed by the Constitution of this state or of the United States.   Continue reading “Proposed Kentucky Bill Would Effectively Nullify Unconstitutional Foreign Laws in the State”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Oakland, CA — An abused little girl was only 12-years-old when she was forced into the sex trade, forever altering the course of her life. For years, this little girl was “exploited by pimps” when she finally broke away and made it to an Oakland police officer. For a brief moment, she thought she was safe — but, according to a recent lawsuit, she was wrong.

In September of last year, Officer Brendan O’Brien killed himself a little more than a year after police say his wife, Irma Huerta-Lopez, also took her life. Although police have still not revealed the reason why, immediately after O’Brien’s suicide, an internal affairs probe found that he was the officer who met the underage sex slave, Celeste Guap.   Continue reading “Dozens of Cops Implicated in Suit for “Trafficking, Raping, Victimizing” Underage “Sex Slave””

FARS News Agency

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Russian warships stationed in Syria’s coastal waters targeted and destroyed a foreign military operations room, killing over two dozen Israeli and western intelligence officers.

“The Russian warships fired three Caliber missiles at the foreign officers’ coordination operations room in Dar Ezza region in the Western part of Aleppo near Sam’an mountain, killing 30 Israeli and western officers,” the Arabic-language service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted battlefield source in Aleppo as saying on Wednesday.

Continue reading “30 Israeli, Foreign Intelligence Officers Killed in Russia’s Caliber Missile Attack in Aleppo”

Yahoo News

A prayer vigil in honor of Keith Lamont Scott turned violent Wednesday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency, as riot gear-wearing police fired tear gas at demonstrators who threw bottles at police, blocked an interstate, threw objects at passing cars, jumped on vehicles, looted businesses, vandalized a Hyatt hotel and attacked its employees.   Continue reading “Charlotte Protest Turns Violent, Governor Declares State of Emergency and Deploys National Guard”

CBC News

Saskatchewan’s RCMP have a message for farmers who are carrying firearms during harvest following what is thought to have been the attempted robbery of a farmhand by three armed, masked men.

“Let us do our jobs,” said RCMP Sgt. Earl LeBlanc at a news conference on Wednesday, adding residents should not arm themselves “for their own protection or … to protect others.”   Continue reading “‘Let us do our jobs’: RCMP respond to Sask. farmers taking up arms”

Ars Tecnica – by CYRUS FARIVAR

A federal judge in Iowa has ordered the suppression of child pornography evidence derived from an invalid warrant. The warrant was issued as part of a controversial government-sanctioned operation to hack Tor users. Out of nearly 200 such cases nationwide that involve the Tor-hidden child porn site known as “Playpen,” US District Judge Robert Pratt is just the third to make such a ruling.

“Any search conducted pursuant to such warrant is the equivalent of a warrantless search,” Judge Pratt wrote Monday in his 19-page order in United States v. Croghan.   Continue reading “Judge: child porn evidence obtained via FBI’s Tor hack must be suppressed”

New York Post – by Lia Eustachewich, David K. Li and Bruce Golding

Anthony Weiner spent months sexting with an underage girl he tried to lure into “rape fantasies,” it was revealed Wednesday — and the ex-pol’s new low could send him to the slammer.

The 15-year-old high school student went public with a trove of lurid come-ons she got from Weiner, who exchanged his “Carlos Danger” persona for the alias “T Dog” to send her kinky texts and shirtless selfies over a cell-phone messenger app.   Continue reading “Cuomo: Weiner could face jail time for sexting with teen”

Drudge – Circa

The ‘van life’

Imagine paying $120 to live in a studio in Los Angeles, California, where the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is about $2,300.

Sounds nice, huh?

Stephen Hutchins, 22, a freelance animation artist, does just that, except he doesn’t live in an apartment — or a studio, really. He lives in a van.   Continue reading “People are ditching their apartments to live the ‘van life’”

Washington Post – by Dana Hedgpeth

Authorities are trying to identify those in a group of 50 to 100 motorcycle and dirt bike riders who surrounded a Maryland state trooper in a marked SUV on Sunday afternoon on the Capital Beltway.

The incident occurred around 4 p.m. on the outer loop of the Beltway near Route 201 in Prince George’s County. The trooper, who was off duty at the time, was driving a marked Ford Explorer when the riders surrounded his vehicle.   Continue reading “Hunt underway for motorcyclists who surrounded Maryland state trooper’s SUV on Beltway”

CNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey

President Barack Obama affirmed this week that the Declaration of Independence recognizes that “individual human beings” have “God-given rights.”

Yet, he insisted this was a “radical idea” at the time of the founding.

Were he right — which he is not — history would see it as one radical idea Obama did not devoutly pursue.   Continue reading “Obama: God-Given Rights ‘Was a Radical Idea’”

Washington Post – by Dan Hurley

Before dinner on July 29, 3-year-old Carter Roberts of Chesterfield, Va., seemed perfectly healthy. That evening, he vomited. When he woke up the next morning with a slight fever of 99 degrees, his mother, Robin Roberts, figured that he was coming down with a cold. The next morning, she found him collapsed on his bedroom floor.

“Mommy,” she recalls him saying. “Help me, help me.”   Continue reading “A mysterious polio-like illness that paralyzes people may be surging this year”

The ‘Dancing Israelis’ (referred to after their arrest by the FBI as the ‘High Fivers’) were a group of 5 Israelis spotted in Manhattan behaving suspiciously on 9/11, who were arrested the same day in a white van. Two of them were Mossad agents. They were detained for 70 days and then deported. Three of them later appeared on Israeli TV and claimed that they were in New York City that morning “to document the event”.   Continue reading “TranceAm’s White Trash Target”

Daisy Luther

A peeing contest is  “a game in which participants compete to see who can urinate the highest, the farthest, or the most accurately.”

President Obama and President Putin have been engaging in just such a match for quite some time, but things are beginning to escalate in a very ugly way. The two leaders are blaming one another for two deadly air strikes in Syria, and tempers are rising.   Continue reading “Guess Who’s About to Get Wet in the Peeing Contest Between Obama and Putin?”

Daisy Luther

You know what I find absolutely beautiful?

When a person takes over something that is usually left to be done by the government, does it a thousand times more efficiently, and does it with a true sense of compassion.   Continue reading “Virginia Woman Feeds 150 Hungry People for $20: More Proof That the Government Is Obsolete”