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The New Face Of The Revolution
April 2008
By Jarret Keene

Surveillance Bill Offers Protection To Telecom Firms
June 20, 2008
By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane
House and Senate leaders agreed yesterday on surveillance legislation that could shield telecommunications companies from privacy lawsuits, handing President Bush one of the last major legislative victories he is likely to achieve.

D.C. Police to Check Drivers In Violence-Plagued Trinidad
June 5, 2008
By Allison Klein
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area.

10 airports install body scanners
June 4, 2008
By Thomas Frank
BALTIMORE — Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.

Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
June 4, 2008
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

Unmarked chopper patrols NY city from high above
May 23, 2008
By TOM HAYS
NEW YORK (AP) - On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty.

Top-ranking officer warns U.S. military to stay out of politics
May 25, 2008
By Thom Shanker
WASHINGTON: The highest-ranking U.S. military officer has written an unusual open letter to all those in uniform, warning them to stay out of politics as the United States approaches a presidential election in which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a central, and certainly divisive, issue.

DECLARATIONS OF CANDIDACY: Hopefuls for public office file
May 06, 2008
By MOLLY BALL
Las Vegas Councilman Larry Brown has been campaigning for the Clark County Commission for months. On Monday, he finally got to submit the paperwork making it official.

On the first day of filing...
May 5, 2008
By Joseph K. Cooper
LAS VEGAS-Although there are still two weeks remaining to file, today's filings give a good early idea of what races will be competitive this year. Here's a brief rundown of candidate filings today. Note: We have omitted incumbent candidates that are yet unchallenged.

Paul Campaign Never Ended, Spokesman Says
May 6, 2008
By Garance Franke-Ruta
As the Democratic presidential candidates held pre-primary rallies yesterday in Indiana and North Carolina, and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain spoke to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, another major-party presidential candidate continued his own quest for nomination, headlining a "Freedom Rally" on a Fort Wayne, Ind., university campus.

US troop deaths push monthly toll to 7-month high in Iraq
Apr 30, 2008
By Slobadon Lekic
BAGHDAD (AP) - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September, the military said Wednesday.

Hiring leaps in public sector
April 30, 2008
By Dennis Cauchon
Federal, state and local governments are hiring new workers at the fastest pace in six years, helping offset job losses in the private sector.

More restrained LAPD tactics to be tested at May Day rally
April 30, 2008
By Thomas Watkins
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department has spent the past year trying to overcome the bad publicity from an immigration rally last May Day in which officers fired rubber bullets and pummeled some demonstrators with batons.

STATE CONVENTION: Official: GOP probably continuing in Reno
April 29, 2008
By Molly Ball
Nevada Republican Party Executive Director Zac Moyle said Monday that the resumption of the weekend's incomplete state convention probably will be in Reno.

Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime
April 29, 2008
By Benjamin J. Romano
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.

Lawmakers seek to make state constitution amendments more difficult
April 28, 2008
By Adam Schrager
DENVER - Colorado lawmakers are debating whether to ask voters this fall if it should be harder to change the state's constitution in the future. The Senate Concurrent Resolution has already passed the Senate with two-thirds of the chamber in support and is expected to pass out of a House committee Tuesday afternoon.

Ron Paul campaign dominates convention
April 27, 2008
By J. Patrick Coolican
Reno — Call 2008 the year of the great tumult, the year of the outsiders, the young, the tech-savvy who are changing American politics.

GOP convention cut short
April 27, 2008
By Molly Ball
RENO -- The state Republican convention was called off Saturday evening without electing national delegates, prompting protests from a record crowd that included many supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Chaos over Paul cuts short gathering
April 27, 2008
BY Anjeanette Damon
After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention Saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention.

Bush lawyer tangles with judge over wiretaps
April 24, 2008
By Bob Egelko
San Francisco - A Bush administration lawyer resisted a San Francisco federal judge's attempts Wednesday to get him to say whether Congress can limit the president's wiretap authority in terrorism and espionage cases, calling the question simplistic.

CIA admits they will continue rendition program, which allows torture overseas
April 24, 2008
By John Byrne
The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Who Cares About Your DNA?
April 24, 2008
By Tricia Shore
When the elite want something, they are not above cheating their way to it. We see this example easily with mainstream media’s blackout of Ron Paul and Mike Gravel as presidential candidates, despite the candidates’ novel ideas. Candidates not elite-anointed are dismissed as crackpots and ignored by the Los Angeles Times and other mainstream propaganda outlets because they do not further the elite’s plans, which include tracking and surveillance that closely emulate plans laid out by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.

Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid
April 23, 2008
By Pete Yost
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.

Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
April 23, 2008
By Peter Swire
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the so-called “Server in the Sky” program to share fingerprint databases among the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia.

Child Protection v. the Constitution: Did Removal of 437 Kids Violate Parents’ Rights?
April 22, 2008
By Martha Neil
As the state of Texas proceeds with DNA tests this week to try to determine exactly who parents and siblings are in a controversial custody case that, at last count, involved 437 children, lawyers for the families—as well as some observers—are expressing concern about possible violations of parents' constitutional rights.

ABC News: Mexican Drug Violence U.S. Constitution's Fault
April 22, 2008
By Warner Todd Huston
True to the liberal penchant for blaming every ill in the world on the USA, ABC News has produced a "report" claiming that the increasing number of guns and drug cartel violence in Mexico is all the fault of... the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That's right, it isn't the drug dealers and killers in Mexico that are at fault, it's James Madison and the Founding Father's fault! Now, before you imagine that I am employing hyperbole in my introduction, just look at the title of their piece: "U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?"

U.S. to Insist That Travel Industry Get Fingerprints
April 22, 2008
By Spencer S. Hsu and Del Quentin Wilber
The U.S. government today will order commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the country under a security initiative that the industry has condemned as costly and burdensome.