News/Other Stuff

Yesterday, I ran into a fresh Clover patch - the enstupidation of what had been a commendably Libertarian-minded entrance/exit to the main shopping center in my small-town Burg of Roanoke, VA. Previously,...

Selma police officer suspended A Selma police officer has been suspended with pay after being accused of handcuffing a nursing supervisor at a Johnston County hospital over the weekend. Selma police investigators said...

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants or probable cause. A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power...

From today's Copblock.org (the good stuff is about two-thirds of the way down): Cleveland, Ohio Police Officer Luis M. Rivera By Davy V. It’s no secret that a major part of what drives me...

...over a Snicker's bar: SPOKANE, Wash. -- A police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for using excessive force against a mentally disabled janitor who died after...

This is just depressing: ... from an article about How to Fly Through the Airport http://www.huffingtonpost.com/us-news-travel/how-to-fly-through-airpor_b_2121227.html   Succumb to the Scan k There has been a lot of backlash surrounding the recently introduced full-body scanner. While some passengers...

From today's copblock: Former Greece, NY Police Chief Merritt Rahn, now a convicted criminal who has served about 2 1/2 years in State prison for four felonies and three misdemeanors related to...

After years of denying that blood samples were taken at birth, bioethicists are arguing for the State’s right to seize newborns’ blood samples for global database:

The following, originally posted at WashingtonTimes.com on Thursday November 1, 2012: A District Heights police officer who shot a handcuffed man in the back as he fled from the officer’s custody was...

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