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The proposed National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act would let the agency waive 36 federal environmental protection laws in the name of better border patrols on public lands. But it would give Homeland Security unchecked authority to disregard major environmental laws covering wilderness areas, national parks and wildlife refuges.

"We're not talking expanding authority. We're talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security."

A police officer who was waiting in the drive-thru line at a McDonald's restaurant in Forsyth County is accused of pulling a gun on the customer ahead of him because the officer was angry at having to wait for his food.
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While most folks are looking elsewhere, Congress is trying to sneak an absolutely awful "cybersecurity" bill through Congress, permitting ISPs to funnel private communications and related information back to the government without adequate privacy protections and controls. The bill does not specify which agencies ISPs could disclose customer data to, but the structure and incentives in the bill raise a very real possibility that the National Security Agency or the DOD’s Cybercommand would be the primary recipient.

"If they can force you to engage in commercial transactions, they can force you to do almost anything," Stated Paul Clement who represented the several states and private companies that filed a lawsuit over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This act is also known as Obamacare to the majority of people. The lawsuit is challenges the federal government’s position to mandate the purchase of healthcare insurance on all citizens in the United States. The Supreme Court heard this case in March of 2012 and we will find out their decision in the summer of 2012.

That's another big problem. People can't separate the authority and the people who have the authority vested in them. I think you see that a lot in the demonstrations. Cause actually the people are demonstrating not against Vietnam -- they're demonstrating against the police department. Actually, against policemen. Because they have that concept -- that the law and the law enforcement are one.

Corporation is a distinct and legal and separate entity from the persons that have created it. Of all business organizations, corporation is one of common form, and its owners aren't responsible to pay for its liabilities. Corporations are usually classified as: profit corporations, non-profit corporations, public corporations, private corporations, professional corporations, publicly-held corporations and closely-held corporation.

"It seems to me we're going to be trying the most dangerous terrorists in the wrong place," former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said on "Good Morning America" today. Giuliani argued that if Abdulmutallab, 23, is tried in a military court the government would have more time to interrogate him.

Overcriminalization alert: a Republican House member has introduced HR 3011, which would make it a felony to "without written permission, use the words, acronyms, or symbols of those agencies on apparel or in a publication 'in a matter that is reasonably calculated to convey the impression that the wearer of the item of apparel is acting pursuant to the legal authority of' the agencies or 'to convey the impression' that the written materials 'is approved, endorsed, or authorized by' the agencies."