Businessinsider.com | Senator Ron Wyden, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, explained that "there are two Patriot Acts in America."
One is the public one, a law whose text you can pull up on your Web browser.
zerohedge.com | Let’s take an honest look at Europe. Merkel and Sarkozy claim they’ve got everything under control. They’re lying. Anyone who uses common sense can tell this. The reason…
They’ve never considered the true price tag for the leveraged EFSF. I’m not talking about money, I’m ...
WASHINGTON — A congressional audit of the Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks looks set to land this week with a whimper instead of a bang as energies and sympathies on Capitol Hill have shifted since the financial crisis that spawned the inquiry.
The study of the central bank's far-flung netw...
friendseat.com | White shrimp season in Louisiana began in late August, and after two months Louisiana shrimpers are warning it’s the worst season in over a half century.
“It is bad not just in spots but all over southeastern Louisiana,” said Jules Nunez, calling it the worst season he had seen sin...
Washington (CNN) -- Did an elite branch of Iran's military handpick a divorced, 56-year-old Iranian-American used-car salesman from Texas to hire a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the ambassador to Saudi Arabia by blowing up a bomb in a crowded restaurant in Washington?
U.S. offici...
YahooNews | government informant posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel in Mexico helped foil an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil, the Justice Department says.
The informant "posed as an associate of a sophisticated an...
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities broke up a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States would hold Tehran accountable for the plot.
Two men, originally fr...
(Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid, the second half of two-part legislation known as the "Dream Act."
The controversial measure, which passed the Democrat-controlled legislature on a pa...
endoftheamericandream.com | It would be easy to know how to defend America if enemy forces were invading our shores. But how do you defend a nation that is rotting from the inside out? How do you eradicate the internal decay that is eating away at the heart and soul of this nation a litt...
weirdloadreboot.com | If you were to buy into the American Conservative fantasy of Israel you might imagine the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv filled with Orthodox Jews carrying Uzis, wearing big, black hats, and searching for the next bit of Palestinian territory that they can park mobile homes ...
alternet.org | CREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car windows shut. “Don’t worry, I’ve been coming here for months and I’m still alive,” chuckles Chohei Sato, chief of the village council, as he rolls down the window and...
moneynews.com | Germany is printing deutsche marks in preparation to leave the euro common currency, says Philippa Malmgren, a former economics adviser to George W. Bush.
"My view is that it is Germany that will have to pull out of the euro," Malmgren said at an investors' conference in London re...
LATimes | By Jonathan Turley | With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties.
Protecting individual ...
rumormillnews.com | I hope you’ll find these as useful as I have in persuading people to think much more critically....
IF THEY DISAGREE WITH RON PAUL ABOUT THE WAR...
Moral Relativity: From Dutiful NeoCon Stance to Reformed; A True Conservative’s Rethinking of the war on terror: The Amazing Tom ...
endoftheamericandream.com | Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie are about to get a new friend. This new character comes from a family that is poverty-stricken and that struggles to get enough food. She is going to teach the other residents of Sesame Street the facts about hung...
endoftheamericandream.com | Could Fast and Furious be the scandal that brings down the Obama administration? With the full knowledge of the Department of Justice, ATF agents facilitated the sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and dropped all surveillance of those weapons once the...
theamericandream.com | Do you love liberty and freedom? If so, you better watch your back. The control freaks that run our society are stripping away our liberties and freedoms a little bit more each day, and lately they seem to be particularly focused on coming after those that are not ...
Daily Kos | , The New York Transit Workers Union (TWU) voted to support the Wall Street Protestors at their meeting last night.
A member of TWU Local 100 told a reporter that they would join the protest Friday at 4PM.
Here's more about them from their website:
The TWU has four main ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May by U.S. commandos would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in a court documents.
In a response late Mon...
telegraph.co.uk | Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue