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Zero Hedge | Why did Fed revise consumer credit lower? Simple: as debt goes down, net worth goes up.

Candy takes a look at when campaign surrogates go "off" message and how it affects the overall presidential campaigns.

President Barack Obama is running against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but the economy may truly be his greatest opponent.

Kurt Nimmo | Propaganda ramps up as Syrian attack gains momentum.

WASHINGTON — The number of violent crimes reported to police across the country fell 4 percent last year when compared to 2010, the fifth straight year of declines.

The FBI also said Monday that the number of reported property crimes went down 0.8 percent, the ninth straight year-to-year decline.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are calling it "Taxmageddon," the big tax increase awaiting nearly every American family at the end of the year, when a long list of tax cuts are scheduled to expire unless Congress acts....

Jon Rappoport | "The only answer to this eternal dilemma is decentralization of power along every possible front."

All Gov | Police officers in Indiana are upset over a new law allowing residents to use deadly force against public servants.

Paul Joseph Watson | Ron Paul campaign responds to controversy.

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities searched Monday for a gunman suspected of killing three people and wounding three others in a weekend shooting at a pool party near Auburn University that a witness said began with a fight over a woman.

Two of the slain victims were former players for ...

President Barack Obama is presiding over the most scandal-ridden administration in many years, from Colombia to Las Vegas, to the Mexican border, to Solyndra, and more. The Secret Service's prostitution party in Colombia is an international embarrassment. Many questions are still waiting to be answered. Who arranged the party at the now-notorious Pley Club Cartagena, which apparently supplied Phyllis Schlaflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11930380089191812969noreply@blogger.com0

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — The first witness in Jerry Sandusky's trial said the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused him as a young teenager on campus and in hotels and later sent him "creepy love letters."

The witness, dubbed Victim No. 4 by prosecutors, said what began as "soap ...

Ethan A. Huff | More and more, technophiles are relishing in the role of God, now taking abortion to a new level.

Daily Mail | Software giants will use military-grade cameras to take powerful satellite image.

Steve Watson | Still no independent testing despite cancer warnings from experts.

Mail Online | Research shows that shroud was most likely given to French knight as a memento from a crusades.

Steve Chapman | We've come a long way in religious tolerance. Or maybe not.

Washington Post/AP | After the satanic ritual that was the Queen's Jubilee, Prince Charles headed for Transylvania, his vampire homeland.

Defendant agreed to a knock-and-talk at his gate, and the officers’ insistence on coming inside violated the curtilage and the scope of consent. Ferrer v. State, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 9211 (Fla. 2d DCA June 8, 2012):

We reject the State's contention that once Ferrer opened the locked gate, general "knock-and-talk" principles authorized the deputies to proceed to the front door area. See, e.g., State v. Navarro, 19 So. 3d 370, 372-73 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009). The State argues that because the officers were free to proceed to the front door of the house to knock and talk, the evidence of marijuana was legally obtained under the "plain smell" doctrine. The flaw in this argument is that it does not recognize that the deputies' encounter with Ferrer at the gate was a knock and talk encounter. Rather than leaving his property open for any member of the public to enter, Ferrer had taken steps to keep out uninvited visitors by fencing it and erecting an electric gate across his driveway, thereby demonstrating an expectation of privacy. Cf. Nieminski v. State, 60 So. 3d 521, 525-27 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011) (finding no violation of privacy where officers entered fenced property through a closed, but unlocked, gate). Thus, while officers were free to approach the gate to conduct a knock and talk—which they did—the area inside the fence fell under the same constitutional protections as the residence itself, and the officers were not at liberty, absent consent, to approach the residence. Compare Fernandez v. State, 63 So. 3d 881, 883-84 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011) (holding that the defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the fenced yard adjacent to his residence and that the momentary opening of the gate to allow the defendant to leave was not an invitation for police to enter); with State v. Triana, 979 So. 2d 1039, 1045 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008) (finding no constitutional violation where the police had a consensual encounter with the defendant outside of the locked gate to the defendant's property and the defendant agreed to a search and opened the gate to allow the police to enter). [¶] It is undisputed that the only thing Ferrer consented to was to speak to the officers "on the other side of the gate." ...

WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary John Bryson said Monday he will take a medical leave of absence to undergo tests and evaluations after suffering a seizure in connection with a succession of traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area.

Mr. Bryson informed President Obama that he was taking ...