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Illinois Enacts Concealed Carry Law; Chicago Sees Drop in Crime
Until last year, Illinois was the only state to ban concealed carry. A U.S. Appeals Court struck down their ban as unconstitutional and required that the state enact a concealed carry law. Last summer
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High School Student Arrested After Notifying Principal ‘We’re Disappointed In You’
Principal orders police to remove student for expressing himself A student was arrested at an Indiana high school last week after he voiced a dissenting opinion concerning a school official
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Knowing How the Global Internet Works – And How It Can Crash
We all know about websites crashing, or institutional infrastructure crashing, but can the Internet crash? The answer is ‘yes’. As we’ve pointed out before to 21WIRE readers, roughly 99% of TED Talks are pretty useless
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Arizona students riot after losing to Wisconsin in NCAA Tournament, 15 people arrested
Students at the University of Arizona apparently did not take Saturday night’s loss to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight well. According to student newspaper Daily Wildcat’s Twitter account (@dailywildcat): “Dozens of students shot with beanbags”
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BREAKING: Idaho governor signs emergency legislation nullifying all future federal gun laws
On Thursday, Idaho Governor Butch Otter (R) signed a bill, which would effectively nullify future federal gun laws, by prohibiting state enforcement of any future federal act relating to personal firearms, a firearm accessories
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24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana Production in America
The only thing green about that bud is its chlorophyll. You thought your pot came from environmentally conscious hippies? Think again. The way marijuana is grown in America, it turns out, is anything but sustainable
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CUPID drone to ‘shock the world’ with 80,000 volt stun gun
A Texas film has revealed an app controlled security drone that can zap intruders with an 80,000 volt taser dart. But Human operators still have to sanction any attack – for now. Web firm, Chaotic
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Taser Drone Capable of Unleashing 80,000 Volts Debuted at SXSW
Drone with 80 kilowatts of intense voltage waits for you to approve, detain or fire on visitors An Austin-based tech firm took SXSW by surprise this past weekend when it unveiled what it believes is
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The Five Commandments of Barack Obama
In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the Oval Office projecting idealism and proud to be the constitutional law professor devoted to turning democratic principles into action. In his first weeks in office, in
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18 Members Of Congress Ask Obama To Reschedule Cannabis
On February 12th, a bipartisan letter to President Obama was sent by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) along with 17 other members of Congress, asking him to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to reschedule marijuana
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BBC Accused Of Labour Party Paedophilia Censorship
The BBC was accused yesterday of keeping the growing paedophilia scandal from the airwaves in order to protect the Labour Party. Until yesterday afternoon, the corporation had refused to report that three Labour figures had
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Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate
The federal government doesn’t just want the ability to track down your car; it wants to be able to track down your body as well. Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance
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Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’
UK version of spy system was used to target political activists The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS
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18 Members of Congress Formally Ask Obama to Reschedule Marijuana
Today, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) along with 17 other members of Congress, sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama asking him to direct Attorney General Eric Holder to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I of
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Woody Allen and Polanski: The Rich and Shameless Display Hypocrisy About Child Sexual Abuse
Nobody hates pedophiles more than the Rich and Shameless. At least, they hate pedophiles when the pedophile is a priest. Pedophile priests should be — and are — burned at the stake of public opinion, and
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New Snowden Docs Confirm NSA’s Role in Drone Killings
While the world is rightly concerned about the wholesale dragnet spying of citizens across the planet, another program has emerged which shows how "intelligence" gathered by the National Security Agency (NSA) is being used
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Hollywood is Set to Honor A Pedophile: Open Letter From a Woody Allen Victim…His Daughter
In 2009, Roman Polanski won an Oscar for Best Director for his movie about the Holocaust, The Pianist. Polanski could not walk up the red carpet or onto the stage because he had
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How Many Will Die in the New Madrid Earthquake?
Almost two decades ago, I wrote in Dare To Prepare about dire consequences from mega-quakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. After Dare To Prepare’s 1st Ed. was published, scientists retracted their worries and
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First American arrested with help from drone is sentenced
A North Dakota farmer who was the first US citizen to be arrested in a situation where law enforcement had help from a drone has also become the first to be convicted and sentenced,
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Holder: Feds to set rules for banks and pot money
The Obama administration will soon announce regulations to make it easier for banks to do business with legal marijuana sellers, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. "You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in
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