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The partisan impasse over potential contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder continues following a lengthy letter from the deputy attorney general, and a blunt response from the House Oversight Committee chairman.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group's plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama's campaign accused Romney of failing to show "moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party."...

Courthouse News Service | A federal judge blocked provisions of the 2012 NDAA allowing military to detain anyone accused of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.

More from the political party of small government: Ohio Republicans AGAIN Try to Pass Unconstitutional Laws. This Time: Welfare Drug Testing:

Ohio Senate Republicans have proposed a three-county, two-year program where welfare applicants who are suspected of having a drug problem would have to submit to and pay for drug tests before receiving benefits. The Dispatch notes that Ohio is not unique: the “move appears to be part of a renewed national GOP movement to require drug testing for welfare recipients. ... revised laws have been introduced this session in about 30 states, and lawmakers in Georgia, Utah, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana have moved legislation in recent weeks.”

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The proposal to drug test welfare recipients is just the latest effort of Republican legislators to import ideological ideas from other states. But at least by bringing in ideas in from other states, we don’t have to guess that the proposals are unconstitutional. We know. We know because judges have already ruled that these efforts in other states are unconstitutional.

Trying to make money for civil rights lawyers when budgets are tight?

CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — Strong wind gusts likely will keep spreading a wildfire that has grown to nearly 10 square miles and prompted the evacuation of a historic Arizona mining town.

Fire incident spokeswoman Michelle Fidler said that gusts of up to 40 mph are expected Thursday in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- President Obama's campaign is calling on Mitt Romney to push back harder against plans by a conservative-leaning independent group to showcase Obama's ties to his controversial pastor....

Steve Watson | FAA investigating "extremely dangerous" incident.

Audio captures Howard Dean's car crash during a radio interview.

Infowars | Warning drivers in America: exercising your 4th amendment rights may be hazardous to police officers' dispositions.

Infowars.com | Alex speaks with Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr. about H.CON.RES.107.

RT | Russia warns that diminishing the principle of state sovereignty will threaten the world as we know it.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A super PAC working to defeat President Barack Obama is preparing an ad campaign highlighting Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A super PAC working to defeat President Barack Obama is preparing an ad campaign highlighting Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor....

Paul Joseph Watson | More groping needed to prevent terror attack.

Press TV | London Olympic 'security threatre' continues to expand, making it a test ground for new police state measures.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lost in the hoopla over the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker after he took on union rights is an ongoing secret investigation that has already ensnared a handful of the Republican governor's former aides.

The investigation by the Milwaukee County district attorney hasn't resonated ...

Drone Wars UK | DRONES: Moving towards the remote UAV policing of civil society?

WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, suggesting modest but steady gains in the job market.

The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly unemployment aid applications stayed at a seasonally adjusted 370,000, the same level as the previous week. The four-week average, a ...

Noel Brinkerhoff | Crime is down in Louisiana, but it still holds the ignominious title of “the world’s prison capital.”

Defendant’s discovery request for GPS trade information was denied as was his request for information which would support the government’s claim of Davis good faith until he files a motion to suppress the GPS information. United States v. Rose, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68095 (D. Mass. May 16, 2012).*

Delay in seeking a search warrant for a computer was not unreasonable where the delay was caused by the government thinking that defendant was going to cooperate. United States v. Armstrong, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68429 (M.D. Pa. May 15, 2012)*:

The fact that an earlier application was presented to a Magistrate Judge is not dispositive, particularly because the Magistrate Judge was concerned about the timing of the warrant in light of the imminent trial. Although the timing of the request for authorization, almost one year after the initial seizure of the laptops, is of concern, I am willing to accept the Government's representation that it did not immediately request an authorization to search the computers because it believed Armstrong intended to cooperate with the Government and plead guilty.

Where body language allegedly belied the defendant’s denial he had drugs in the car, a frisk was reasonable. United States v. Acosta, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67551 (W.D. Mo. April 27, 2012).*