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I Led With the Cross 5-6-10

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

In the age of the Internet, when everybody wants to get his two cents into the debate and anybody can invent his own facts and rant in a blog or sometimes even a newspaper column, endorsements don't mean much. They particularly don't mean much coming from a congressman.

Endorsements ...

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney looked past his GOP opponents and focused squarely on President Barack Obama Friday, calling the president's new campaign film a misleading "infomercial" that ignores a slew of alleged administration failures.

President Barack Obama traveled Friday to a Rolls-Royce jet engine facility in Virginia, where he outlined a proposed network for manufacturers to share "access to cutting edge capabilities."

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney offered a few suggestions to the director of a new film about President Obama.

Illegal Immigration is a Happy Invasion 5-6-10

A "Bold New World" and "Forces Too Powerful," Part 4, 11-14-11

What About the Right to Have a Father? 8-26-10

Ground Zero Mosque: It's Their Touchdown Dance 8-26-10

ars technica: Obama admin wants warrantless access to cell phone location data by Timothy B. Lee:

A Maryland court last week ruled that the government does not need a warrant to force a cell phone provider to disclose more than six months of data on the movements of one of its customers. Two defendants had been accused of armed robbery, and a key piece of evidence against them was data about the movements of the pair's cell phones. The defendants had sought to suppress this location evidence because the government did not get a warrant before seeking the data from network providers. But last Thursday, Judge Richard D. Bennett ruled that a warrant is not required to obtain cell-site location records (CSLR) from a wireless carrier.

Courts all over the country have been wrestling with this question, and the government has been on something of a winning streak. While one court ruled last year that such information requests violate the Fourth Amendment, most others have reached the opposite conclusion.

The Obama administration laid out its position in a legal brief last month, arguing that customers have "no privacy interest" in CSLR held by a network provider. Under a legal principle known as the "third-party doctrine," information voluntarily disclosed to a third party ceases to enjoy Fourth Amendment protection. The government contends that this rule applies to cell phone location data collected by a network provider.

Saved From What? 12-16-10

Setting the stage for America's degraded future, Part 2, 12-16-10

The remarkable similarity in income distribution across countries over the past century means domestic policy has less effect than many believe on who gets what.

LOUISIANA

Federal court takes over BP's Gulf oil spill claims

NEW ORLEANS | The man who has overseen the long, complicated job of paying out billions of dollars to the victims of the BP oil spill was relieved of his duties Thursday when a federal court took over the claims ...

John Boehner talks about the need for Republican unity and why the House is in ill repute.

Students at Doane College in Crete, Neb., come from their classes and dorms, pick up their lunches and proceed to step back in time.

The millennials seek out an honest-to-goodness, dead-tree, processed-pulp newspaper, handed out by the paper's staff, to catch the midday dining rush.

"It's strange. These kids are ...

DENVER — Courts are ruling in favor of allowing those with concealed-carry permits to bring their handguns on campus, but universities are figuring out ways to keep the guns out.

Gun rights advocates recently notched major legal victories in Colorado and Oregon, with courts in both states agreeing that ...

Obama administration officials at a House hearing Thursday tried to push back against recent investigative reports detailing problems and fraud in the nation's food-stamp program.

Fraud is down to 1 percent - or a penny on the dollar - in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the ...

The number of Americans with college degrees is growing, so why are GOP candidates trying to alienate them?

When some say that our red line is a 'nuclear weapon,' it suggests that anything short of a working bomb is acceptable. This is exactly the wrong message to send.