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“Celebrating Our Freedoms” on Morning Energy
The United States of America (u.S) is affectionately known as the “Land of The Free“ and “Home of the Brave”. This famous phrase is known to be authored by Francis Scott Key in the early 1800s and is presently sung as part of the National Anthem of the United States of America,“The Star-Spangled Banner.” In… Read more »
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Activists Protest Killing of Civilians by Border Patrol
Last Wednesday in Tampa’s Ybor City a group of about a dozen people protested the killing of people in Mexico by US Border Patrol agents. The Associated Press is reporting this morning that: “U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who tried… Read more »
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Second Amendment Scholar Says Gun Regulations Were Part of Original Intent of Founders
Our guest today says that the writers of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution intended for guns to be regulated. This is WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. There’s an effort to put an assault weapons ban on the 2020 Florida ballot. A group called Ban Assault Weapons Now is… Read more »
Update: Lara Alqasem is appealing her Israeli deportation order
Update: Israel has ordered Florida resident Lara Alqasem to be deported, but on Friday her mother told WMNF that she is appealing that deportation and is still being detained at Ben Gurion airport. She expects a decision Sunday. Here’s an article from the Miami Herald. And one from from Haaretz. Below is an interview with… Read more »
Mother of Lara Alqasem, Floridian detained by Israel, wants answers
An American graduate student from South Florida has been detained in Israel and risks deportation; her mother is asking for answers. Lara Alqasem is in Israel to attend graduate School at Hebrew University in human rights and international law. But this week she was detained. WMNF News spoke with her mother, Pembrokes Pines resident Karen… Read more »
Social media anonymity may not be guaranteed as free speech
Judge: Social media user isn’t entitled to anonymity By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press A social media platform can be compelled to divulge account information belonging to a woman who anonymously chatted online about plans for last summer’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a federal magistrate judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero’s 28-page… Read more »
Voter registration in Florida ahead of the primaries
Today was the last day to register to vote/change registration, to be able to vote in the August 28th primary. The deadline for voter registration for the November election is October 9, 2018. There are 12,927,318 people registered to vote in Florida as of June 30, 2018, according to Florida’s Division of Elections: 4,562,533 registered… Read more »
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FL Senator Nelson & Rep. Wasserman Schultz barred from migrant children detention center
Lawmakers barred from child migrant facility in Florida By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and BEN FOX, Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up” after officials denied him entry Tuesday to a detention center for migrant children in South Florida where he had hoped to survey living conditions. Nelson… Read more »
Privacy concerns over police using dead man’s finger to unlock phone?
On WMNF’s MidPoint Monday we discussed privacy concerns that arise from police trying to use a dead man’s finger to unlock his phone; we also heard part of President Donald Trump’s speech at the National Rifle Association. In March, Linus Phillip was shot and killed by police at a gas station in Pinellas County. Officers say… Read more »
