When interviewed for Jury Duty, Mora plumber Todd Gilly was being forthright, frank, honest and ... naive? In this economic crunch, he admitted he didn't have the fiscal means to lengthen the trial by going against the flow.

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As accommodating of police-state tactics as Congress has been, especially since 9-11, at least some members of that body have raised concerns and demanded investigations of some of those abuses by organizations like the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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From a blogger I respect who follows stories of police abuse of power.

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One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says.

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Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, asserts in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote. Mr.

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Thousands of pages of internal e-mails and once-secret congressional testimony showed yesterday that Karl Rove and other senior aides in the Bush White House played an earlier and more active role than was previously known in the 2006 firings of a number of US attorneys.Aides to  …

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Delano, 40, was viciously beaten by his cellmate, John McCullah.

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For those of us who had hoped that the Obama administration would present us with a rebirth of the old republic that was so rudely erased a few years ago by that team of judicial wreckers, Bush and Gonzales, which led, in turn, to a recent incident in Cambridge, Mass.

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The main problem with President Obama's nationally televised comment about Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley had less to do with race and justice than it did with the unwise, immature application of presidential power.

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Federal workers wake up and join with me fight for your rights. Please leave comments and show the world you're not going to take it anymore ...

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With Obama safely in the hot seat, Americans can surely look forward, once more, to summer holidays abroad without subterfuge. They can unpick the maple leaves sewn onto their suitcases under George W, and stop passing their accents off as "Canadian, honest".

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The CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress during the Bush administration on direct orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, current CIA director Leon Panetta told members of Congress, a knowledgeable source confirmed to CNN.

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Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government, South Korea's main government spy agency said on Wednesday.

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This article deserves hats off to the judge's decision in this case of wrongfully strip searching minors, but to say that that the persons involved or the schools aren't liable just leaves the door open for more abuse and common sense should make it clear that unlawful strip sear …

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The Fourth Estate is Dying

It was on June 21, 1788 that the United States Constitution was officially adopted with its ratification. And it was at that time that its ratification was contingent upon suggested changes be made to the Constitution, thereafter.

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I wonder if their wives live in the same fear when these police officers sit down to dinner or it's not on time! On the serious note, what if the gun accidentally went off and aren't the average citizens arrested for displaying guns in public?

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It took a while for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to release a video showing one of its troopers choking a paramedic who was taking an elderly patient to the hospital, and now that it's available on YouTube, you can understand why they tried to suppress it.

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It was one thing when President Obama reversed himself last month by announcing that he would appeal the Second Circuit's ruling that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compelled disclosure of various photographs of detainee abuse sought by the ACLU.

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An Emergency Medical Technician who was involved in a scuffle with an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper is speaking out about the incident.

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John Yoo, one of the Bush 6, ironically used a definition for a condition that warrants emergency medical treatment in the framing for his definition of torture.

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ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's wife wants to file for divorce, Italian media reported on Sunday, just days after she publicly criticized his party's selection of young women to run in European elections.

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If there is one recurrent theme in the images of the recent G20 protests, it is what's held in the hands raised in the air.

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Did the U.S. Government revoke the tenth amendment to criminalize marijuana?

When Prohibition criminalized alcohol and liquor on January 16, 1919, It was accomplished by the passage of a constitutional amendment requiring ratification by two-thirds of the states.

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Why does the FBI building in Washington D.C. still bear the name of J. Edgar Hoover? Itshouldn't, for many reasons.

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Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. More Articles

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