Los Angeles Times
Until it all went bad, Randolph Franklin used to talk with pride about his life in the Los Angeles Police Department. Wear a badge for nearly half of your 50 years and somewhere along the way it becomes more than just a job.
He was proud as well of the life he built on [...]

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Justice Department is dropping charges against the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and two of its members who were allegedly involved in voter intimidation on Election Day at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania polling station.
A Justice spokesman said the department decided to take this action after winning an injunction earlier this month [...]

A cyberbullying bill introduced last month has the potential to put half the Internet behind bars.
The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act is Congress’ response to the 2006 suicide of a 13-year-old girl who was harassed on MySpace. The bill makes electronic communication a felony if “the intent is to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial [...]

http://www.lp.org/blogs/austin-petersen/victory-for-liberty-in-california-special-election
By: Dr. Vince Mamo
Voters overwhelmingly defeat Proposition 1A that would have increased taxes by 16 Billion dollars during a recession.
California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s promise on replacing Gray Davis was to oppose new and higher taxes.  Contrary to his platform, California’s deficit has skyrocketed to over $20 billion dollars, placing the state in a position to [...]

Press Release May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON — America’s third largest party Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, citing past rulings that public employers should discriminate in hiring based on race.
“While Judge Sotomayor deserves a fair and impartial hearing, Supreme Court justices should be nominated for [...]

The Libertarian Party of Texas faced the most serious threat to its ballot access yesterday, and our opponents blinked first.
 
House Bill 1892, authored by Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler, Texas, was an attempt by our opponents to destroy their competition.  The bill required all political parties to have primary elections to nominate candidates, and ended the convention process for minor parties.
 
By forcing Libertarians to use primary elections, our challengers hoped to [...]

PUEBLO, Colo. — A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.
Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism.
Over 110 freshmen at Pueblo County High [...]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap
FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/07/walmart.death/index.html
It is a sad day indeed. As most will remember the holiday rush shopping last year that caused a walmart employee to be trampled to death by crazed shoppers, there has been a settlement in the case. Rather then persue criminal charges against the shoppers who were responsible for this animalistic behavior, they have decided [...]

By Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Trust is a fragile commodity, easily lost and difficult to regain. As an asset in the public arena, honesty appears to be in shorter and shorter supply. Even as considerable rhetoric continues to be devoted to restoring “trust” in government, [...]