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Boston Herald | Biden: "...we were convinced that our nation had reached a strategic turning point, requiring us to rebalance our foreign policy,""

WSJ | 49.1%: of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit.

VOA News | One resident of village tells U.N. observer team, "My God, we are men...we are men and they are killing us as if we were less than donkeys."

Miami Herald | A road ranger in the Miami area saw a naked man chewing on another man’s face and shouted for him to back away.

The Guardian | 'Eight innocent civilians dead in Paktia province, say officials, but coalition says troops came under fire from insurgents.'

The Guardian | Legal experts say president himself must have been aware of systematic killing and torture

Kurt Nimmo | Baghdad talk undermined as the U.S. and Israel sabotage the diplomatic avenue and prepare for war.

Relying on a tip of men selling drugs in Cleveland, the officers approached defendant and he admitted smoking PCP earlier. That was reasonable suspicion to pat him down for officer safety. State v. Hunter, 2012 Ohio 2302, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 2023 (8th Dist. May 24, 2012)*:

[*P19] In our view, the record establishes that the officers proceeded to investigate the area in good faith reliance upon the tip of men selling drugs. During their conversation with the men, defendant was sluggish, appeared dazed and confused, and repeatedly failed to answer the officers' questions. Although the officers demanded that defendant take his hands from his pockets, the record demonstrates that as the officer took a few steps closer to defendant, he quickly detected the distinct odor of PCP from defendant. Defendant then told the officers that he had smoked PCP earlier, and this created a reasonable suspicion, based upon specific and articulable facts, that an individual is or has been engaged in criminal activity such to justify a search of defendant's outer clothing under Terry. Accord State v. Wilson, 8th Dist. No. 94097, 2010 Ohio 5478 (patdown permissible where officers detected odor of PCP); State v. Dunn, 8th Dist. No. 85435, 2005 Ohio 3477.

Hunter is here. What’s this gratuitous use of “good faith” for an encounter? Sloppy appellate court writing--completely unnecessary, and a prosecutor will later use this case to argue the good faith exception applies to warrantless searches.

Susanne Posel | Same agency that disseminates Agenda 21 policies will be centralized into global agency with powerful international backing.

The product of the wiretap in this case gave probable cause to believe that defendant had drugs in his car when he showed up as predicted. United States v. Carey, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72846 (S.D. Cal. May 24, 2012).*

A juvenile’s school photo ID was used in a photo lineup. He claimed an expectation of privacy in it, and the trial court granted a motion to suppress. Remanded for a determination of how all this came about because it can’t be determined whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy on this record. “Such evidence might also help resolve whether the student identification card and photograph form part of the confidential ‘student record’ under State and Federal education regulations; if they are part of the student record, that fact would also bear on whether the juvenile had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the photograph.” Commonwealth v. Zachary Z., 2012 Mass. LEXIS 370 (May 24, 2012).*

By affidavit in response to the motion to suppress, the government showed that the drug dog was reliable and the motion to suppress is denied without a hearing. United States v. Sandoval, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72776 (E.D. Cal. May 24, 2012):

"Based upon [these undisputed facts], the Government has met its burden of proving [Darco's] reliability." United States v. Neatherlin, 66 F. Supp. 2d 1157, 1160-61 (D. Mont. 1999)(stating evidence that the narcotics detection dog trains eight hours every two weeks, is tested and certified annually, and does not alert where no drugs are present "shows, by a preponderance of the evidence, that [the dog] is reliable"); see also Spetz, 721 F.2d at 1464 (stating a "mistake in the affidavit [supporting a search warrant] as to [the narcotics detection dog's] record was unimportant because the difference in figures[, i.e. alerting correctly 56 out of 61 occasions versus 60 out of 66 occasions,] is immaterial and would not have affected the magistrate's judgment of the dog's reliability").

Philip Weiss | he Baghdad talks on Iranian nuclear enrichment have failed without an agreement.

Kurt Nimmo | Proposal gives United Nations control over cybersecurity, data privacy, technical standards and web address system.

US News | 'Fears of a eurozone collapse make for scary headlines and worries in Washington, but the American public isn't convinced.'

J. D. Heyes| why does our government continue to shortchange our veterans?

CS Monitor |This Memorial Day the Iraq war is over and the Afghanistan war is winding down, but they're weighing heavily on post-9/11 veterans, 33 percent of whom said they weren't worth the cost.

New American | National law enforcement agents are slowly creeping across borders through a variety of shadowy schemes.

US News | And you thought once you lost your leg the war was done with you.

LA Times | 'The lowest price is usually available only if patients don't use their health insurance. In one case, blood tests that cost an insured patient $415 would have been $95 in cash.'

MSNBC | Hillary: "Those who perpetrated this atrocity must be identified and held to account."