We already know that content providers don't care one bit about hard-fought concepts like freedom and privacy, but the joint proposals by the RIAA and MPAA to the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator really blew my brains out: monitoring software installed on people's computers, border inspections - it's all there, and then some.

Why is the War on Drugs lost? It reflects our failure to learn from history. Drug prohibition has all the characteristics of other well-intentioned, yet counterproductive, government programmes. Specifically, the drug war causes crime; it corrupts the police; it violates civil liberties; it throws good money after bad; and it weakens – even destroys – families, neighbourhoods, and communities.

After finding two groups of males the force executed all of them using silenced weapons. Unfortunately, it appears that the Special Ops team had not entered the sleeping quarters of an IED cell, but the dormitory of a private school for boys.

Not happy that the Tea party movement was Co-opted and Neocons by Statists a competing Tea party was held at the same time at Armstrong College in Savannah Ga. Is this a new tread to steer the Tea Party message back on course. Check out the REAL tea Party!

Richard Fine, who holds a PhD in international law and served as an anti-trust prosecutor at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C., has been in jail in the L.A. County Jail for over a year in solitary confinement. He never had a trial, there has been no conviction, nor any sentence to keep him there.

For wearing handcuff keys on a necklace draped around his neck, a homeless Miami Beach man could face years in prison.

The Davey family's £815-a-week state handouts pay for a four-bedroom home, top-of-the-range mod cons and two vehicles including a Mercedes people carrier.
Father-of-seven Peter gave up work because he could make more living on benefits.
Yet he and his wife Claire are still not happy with their lot.
With an eighth child on the way, they are demanding a bigger house, courtesy of the taxpayer

Just last week the NY Times was reporting that, yes, there will be rationing of health-care, thanks to the Federal Government. In fact, the NY Times says that this is a good thing. (Huh?!) So let the medical rationing begin!

Mon evening it is being reported that 60 hospitals have been cancelled due to the Federal State taking greater control over the health market.

"If these videos shock and revolt you, they show the reality of what war is like."

These are the words of 

Josh Stieber, a member of IVAW who served with Bravo Company 2-16, the Company whose members were involved in the incident captured in Wikileaks' "Collateral Murder" video.

Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday passed one of the toughest pieces of immigration-enforcement legislation in the country, which would make it a violation of state law to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. It would also grant police the power to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being illegal.