It's simple, the pediatrician answered: Newborn babies in the United States are routinely screened for a panel of genetic diseases. Since the testing is mandated by the government, it's often done without the parents' consent, according to Brad Therrell, director of the National Newborn Screening & Genetics Resource Center.

Can printing your own cash actually help revive a struggling economy? That's just what traders in one London shopping district are hoping for, as they begin accepting a new local currency.

Liberty Pulse, run by one of Tom Woods' friends, is a useful, Drudge-style overview of what's going on in the world from a good-guy perspective. It links to lots of interesting pieces and is updated regularly.

A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.

DRAMATIC video has emerged showing a bungled CIA drug operation that led to Peruvian fighter jets shooting down a light plane carrying American missionaries.

The disturbing 2001 surveillance plane footage, aired on America's ABC News, shows the Peruvian fighters opening fire on a seaplane being shadowed by a CIA aircraft.

Free Talk Live Video Validation of Allison Gibbs LOLA Calendar Girl. Allison Gibbs talks about her Calender shoot and her fight for free speech and other civil liberties.

The Pope has yet again been causing controversy, but, for once, he’s on the right side of the issue (even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut).

Murray Hill Incorporated, a diversifying corporation in the Washington, D.C. area, has filed to run for U.S. Congress in the Republican primary in Maryland's 8th Congressional District.

A farmer who built a castle hidden behind a stack of straw bales has lost a High Court bid to save it from being demolished.

The useful idiot with smoke in his underpants who failed to blow up the plane was allowed onto the flight by federal agents.There are several witnesses who saw this happen and also saw someone filming him the entire flight even before his underpants caught on fire.

So now we have full body scanners and bureaucrats pushing for more inroads into our lives.What targets will the feds let be attaced next that will allow a totalitarian police state to fully exist ? In the current climate of fear they will be able to push this through without any resistance.