...In 1785, a resolution authorized the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs to open and inspect any mail that related to the safety and interests of the United States. The ensuing inspections caused prominent men, like George Washington, to complain of mail tampering. According to various historians, it also led James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe to correspond in code. That is, they encrypted their letters to preserve the privacy of their political discussions.

"These sorts of abuses are likely to continue until there are adequate safeguards to assure accountability."

The temptation to submit to authority examined by "Compliance" bolsters an authoritarian culture by transforming its leading institutions into servants of power rather than checks on it. But worse, it conceals the presence of oppression by ensuring that most citizens, choosing to follow and obey authority, do not personally experience oppression and thus do not believe – refuse to believe – that it really exists.

Just when you thought the religious right couldn’t get any crazier, with its personhood amendments and its attacks on contraception, here comes the academic left with an even crazier idea: after-birth abortion.

Back on June 19, Howard led police on a brief chase before crashing his car and running from officers. They said they had to use force to take him into custody behind a house in northeast Oklahoma City. Officers turned away an ambulance and took him themselves to Southwest Medical Center, where he died four days later. The medical examiner ruled that Robin Howard died from acute pneumonia due to blunt force trauma to the chest; the manner of death has been ruled homicide.

‘‘I don’t regret what I did,’’ Mueller told Brown. ‘‘I don’t think jails were built for people who make phone calls or chalk buildings.’’ He said locking him up would not deter him from being an activist.

Brown gave him a three-month sentence on one of the convictions, saying, ‘‘I don’t ­accept the state’s reasoning,’’ but he did not elaborate.

Deputies say 23-year-old Nicholas Joseph Caputo had 57 signs from 18 different candidates in his SUV. When asked about them, Caputo said, he was, "Cleaning up the neighborhood". He told deputies he didn't think it was right for the signs to be out because he considered it littering.

Juror outreach in Manchester for the upcoming trial of Ademo Freeman.

A cop kills an old man in a wheel chair because he's speeding 20 miles over the speed limit and only loses his job!

“Modene had been floating on the river for the day and consuming alcoholic beverages the entire time,” troopers wrote in their “daily dispatches” log on their website. Of course, the inflatable raft could have killed someone if he had lost control and swerved into oncoming traffic.