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Zimmerman Wants Judge Disqualified for Bias

blogs.findlaw.com

by Andrew Chow, JD

July 13, 2012

George Zimmerman's judge is biased and should be disqualified from any further role in his murder case, defense lawyer Mark O'Mara argues in a new motion filed Friday.

Sanford, Fla., Judge Kenneth Lester showed his bias by making "gratuitous, disparaging remarks" about Zimmerman in Lester's Order Setting Bail last week, Zimmerman's Motion to Disqualify states. Lester also makes opinionated remarks about prosecutors' evidence, threatens contempt proceedings, and "advocates for Mr. Zimmerman to be prosecuted for additional crimes," O'Mara argues in the motion, which his legal team posted online. Is that sufficient to get Judge Lester disqualified?

Zimmerman's Judge Rejects Motion to Step Down

blogs.findlaw.com

August 1, 2012

George Zimmerman's judge will not step down because the motion seeking to disqualify him is "legally insufficient," the judge wrote in his order.

Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. on Wednesday denied a motion by Zimmerman's defense team that sought to disqualify the judge because of alleged bias, Reuters reports. The motion accused Judge Lester of making "gratuitous, disparaging remarks," among other alleged misdeeds, when he set Zimmerman's bail at $1 million in July. So how did the judge reach his ruling? It may seem a bit strange, but under Florida's Rules of Judicial Administration, the same judge who is accused of bias gets to decide whether he is in fact too biased to preside over the case in front of him.

Zombie statists ask, 'But if there's no government, who will build roads?!'

davidmcelroy.org

by David McElroy

April 28, 2012

It's a bad movie that you might have seen before. It tends to show up whenever an advocate of voluntary cooperation explains how society could operate without state coercion.

Right on cue, the zombies from "Night of the Living Statists" rear their heads and mindlessly intone, "But if there's no government, who will build the roads?!" The zombies can't hear your response, so it's useless to try to give them facts and explain how things could be done in a way that's better for everyone if roads and other such things were provided as private services rather than as coercive government monopolies. For those who are open to the facts, though, is there any evidence that people can actually cooperate voluntarily for their own interests? As a matter of fact, there's quite a bit of evidence of that.

Zombies: How the Left Captured Academia, the Media, and Other Organizations

PJ Media

by Vik Rubenfeld

September 5, 2012

Alinsky-style behavior in the workplace itself may have been the key.

Recent studies have confirmed that American universities have become bigoted and biased against the expression of conservative views. One new study documents bias against the expression of conservative views among social and personality psychologists, including those at universities...

Zuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be allowed on Facebook

tech.fortune.cnn.com

by Michal Lev-Ram

May 20, 2011

Facebook's founder sees the social networking site as a tool with educational potential. That of course means getting kids Facebooking at an early age.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be a college drop-out, but the billionaire 27-year-old is passionate about education reform. That's why he took time out of his busy schedule to discuss the heated topic (and why he thinks young people can benefit from social networking sites) at a recent summit on innovation in education. Last year Zuckerberg pledged $100 million to the school system in Newark, New Jersey. At the NewSchools Venture Fund's Summit in Burlingame, Calif. earlier this week, Zuckerberg told interviewer (and venture capitalist) John Doerr that improving education and making the Internet more open are two of his favorite dinnertime topics.

Zynga fires back with countersuit against EA

CNS News

September 14, 2012

Zynga Inc. is firing back at rival game maker Electronic Arts Inc. in a legal tussle that it says goes beyond who copied whose game.

While saying EA's copyright infringement lawsuit filed last month has "no merit," Zynga on Friday filed a countersuit against EA for allegedly violating antitrust laws by trying to prevent its employees from defecting to Zynga. The countersuit "addresses actions by EA we believe to be anticompetitive and unlawful business practices, including legal threats," said Zynga's general counsel Reggie Davis in a statement.

[UPDATED:] Shawn Kelli Sepulveda, Who Left Her Baby to Die in Dumpster, Convicted

OC Weekly

by Matt Coker

July 28, 2010

A Laguna Niguel woman was convicted today of leaving her newborn daughter to die in an apartment complex dumpster.

The jury in Fullerton found 40-year-old Shawn Kelli Sepulveda--who friends called a "doting soccer mom" upon her August 2008 arrest--guilty of attempted murder and child abuse.

[VIDEO] DHS Caught Moving Somali Muslim Illegals Into California

tpnn.com

by Colleen Conley

May 13, 2015

A shocking new video blows the Obama Administration's covert plans to bus hundreds of illegal Muslim Somali's into California and other states to "resettle".

According to the DHS, all that any of the African refugees must do is find a border agent and say "I am in danger in my home country, and want asylum in the United States." Once they utter those words, they are off limits to deportation and are turned over to DHS resettlement specialists who help them move into communities across the country.

[Watch] Airport Security Vulnerable - Whistle Blower Detonates Device Made With Items Sold In Terminals

freepatriot.org

November 14, 2013

Frequent travelers to different cities and countries know that there is a wide degree of variation in the Airport screening practices from one location to another. Inconsistencies can be windows of opportunity.

For many members of the travelling public, there have been incidences where we were confronted by TSA screeners with what seemed to be ridiculous "requests" that just seemed to not make sense. We need to travel and recognize that there may be an unknown yet valid reason for a particular policy, so we comply. There are documented flaws in our security measures which, even after being exposed, are allowed to continue without being addressed by policy directives or procedural updates.

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