Schaeffer Cox

Judge Won't Toss Weapons Evidence In Schaeffer Cox Case

Jillian Rayfield | February 10, 2012, 5:14PM

Second Amendment Task Force organizer Schaeffer Cox prepares to address fellow gun rights supporters on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Friends Community Church.

A federal judge will not grant a motion by Schaeffer Cox and other alleged members of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia to throw out evidence obtained from multiple searches, which turned up weapons that are key to the prosecution's case.

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Sovereign Citizens

British Man Using 'Sovereign Citizen' Tactics To Get Out Of Weapons Smuggling Charges

Jillian Rayfield | February 10, 2012, 1:30PM

A British man, who owned a company that sold weapons to the U.S. Department of Defense, is attempting to stall his extradition to America to face weapons smuggling charges by filing hundreds of pages of paperwork containing statements like "I deny that I am a person," and other language consistent with members of the sovereign citizen movement.

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Mississippi

Mississippi Rep. Wants The Gulf Of Mexico Renamed The 'Gulf Of America' (UPDATED)

Jillian Rayfield | February 9, 2012, 11:10AM

Updated, February 9, 9:16PM

Mississippi State Rep. Steve Holland said later on Thursday his bill was meant as satire, to mock tough anti-immigration bills introduced by his fellow legislators.

The original piece follows:

A lawmaker in Mississippi is pushing to change the name of "the body of water located directly south" of the state, the Gulf of Mexico, to the "Gulf of America."

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FAA

The Drone Next Door: New FAA Rules Will Increase UAVs In National Airspace

Jillian Rayfield | February 9, 2012, 6:15AM

A new set of laws will require the FAA to ease up on the rules governing domestic drone use -- and to find a way to integrate them into national airspace alongside regular aircraft.

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Islam

Report Finds Radical American Muslims Are Not Such A Big Threat

Jillian Rayfield | February 8, 2012, 4:42PM

In 2011 there was a "relatively low level of radicalization among Muslim-Americans" and that number has been continuously decreasing over the last couple of years, according to a report by a professor at the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

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Alaska

Wasilla Councilman Recalled After He Drunkenly Trashed Hotel Room

Jillian Rayfield | February 8, 2012, 12:14PM

Members of an Alaska Tea Party group successfully pushed for a recall of Wasilla City Councilman Steve Menard, after he admitted to drunkenly trashing a hotel room he was staying in during a trip on city business.

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Proposition 8

Proposition 8: What Happens Next?

Jillian Rayfield | February 8, 2012, 6:18AM

Now that a Ninth Circuit panel has ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, it seems inevitable that the ruling on Proposition 8 will eventually be appealed to the Supreme Court. But whether the Supreme Court agrees to hear it is another story.

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Proposition 8

Ninth Circuit Rules Prop 8 Is Unconstitutional

Jillian Rayfield | February 7, 2012, 12:59PM

Gay rights activists celebrate following a federal court's overturning of Prop 8, California's same-sex marriage law.

A federal appeals court in California has upheld a lower court's ruling that Proposition 8, the state's ban on gay marriage, is unconstitutional, writing that the law "serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples."

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Southern Republican Leadership Conference

Did Major GOP Group Skip Out On $200K Hotel Bill?

Jillian Rayfield | February 7, 2012, 5:54AM

The organizers of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference are being sued by a South Carolina hotel for allegedly skipping out on a $200,000 tab. An attorney for the conference says the charges are "spurious, and not very well thought out."

The Charleston Place hotel in SC filed suit in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas last week, claiming that the SRLC has an outstanding balance of $227,872 for the conference they held this year from January 19-22.

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ACLU

ACLU Wants Info On Drone Strikes Against U.S. Citizens

Jillian Rayfield | February 6, 2012, 11:52AM

The ACLU is suing the federal government for the release of records related to the program of using unmanned drones for "targeted killing" of U.S. citizens overseas.

On Wednesday, the ACLU filed in U.S. District Court in New York to force the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, and the CIA to release records on overseas drone use, in compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request.

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