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Your Tax Dollars At Work: NJ Cops Dress Up As Bushes To Hand Out Cell Phone Violations If you thought speed traps were getting creative, New Jersey police have officially entered the landscaping business. Officers in Dunellen spent part of the week hiding in full ghillie suits, essentially dressing up as oversized shrubs, to catch drivers using their phones behind the wheel, according to Newser. While unsuspecting motorists scrolled through texts and notifications, a camouflaged officer watched from the roadside with binoculars, radioing violations to waiting patrol units. The six-hour operation ended with...

Supreme Court Rejects Bid By 98-Year-Old Appeals Judge To Be Reinstated Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on June 15 declined to take up the case of a 98-year-old federal judge’s challenge to her ongoing suspension from an appeals court in the nation’s capital. The court’s new decision in Newman v. Moore took the form of an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision. Judge Pauline Newman, who turns 99 on June 20, sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Norway Lobbies To Persuade EU To Drop Arctic Drilling Ban Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Norway, Western Europe's top oil and gas producer, has intensified lobbying at the European Union to persuade the bloc to remove or tweak its moratorium on Arctic oil and gas drilling. Norway, which is not a member of the EU but is the biggest gas supplier to European markets, has sent nearly a dozen of its ministers to Brussels so far this year to discuss energy and trade and the state of the Arctic drilling. The Iran...