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• Supreme Court rules: Warrant needed for GPS tracking

  Mon Jan 23, 2012
  • This is a bit confusing because they can still physically follow you or your car without a warrant.

• Interpol faces legal threat for helping oppressive regimes hunt dissidents

  Mon Jan 23, 2012
  • This is a tough one. Most dissidents are not terrorists. But then, most terrorists ARE dissidents. I mean, that is why they are blowing stuff up in the first place, right? So where do you draw the line? I am sure that I do not know.

• Obama rejects Keystone oil pipeline

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • It is absolutely insane to pipe this crude all the way across our country just so the mega-oil companies in Texas can maintain their monopoly control of our gas supply.

• Philadephia mayor: Slain 14-year-olds' 'little butts' should have been in bed

  Fri Jan 13, 2012
  • The guy was a little too trigger-happy. If he had waited until they broke into his home or attacked his children he could have shot them legally, at least in my state.

• As home prices fall, more borrowers walk away

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • No way the homeowners should be the only victims in this regulatory debacle.

• Egyptians rally to protest treatment of women by security forces

  Tue Dec 20, 2011
  • You go girls! The women have all the balls in the muslim world.

• US: Don't publish lab-bred bird flu recipe

  Tue Dec 20, 2011
  • It should be published. If the terrorists want it, they will get it. The only people who will not get the information are the very people who are trying to find a way to disarm this potential weapon of mass destruction. Think about how science research in the US works now.

• FAMU head keeps job amid hazing death probe

  Mon Dec 19, 2011
  • As far as the President not losing his job, it is worth noting how modern universities operate. It is very much like a US corporate governance structure.

• Senate OKs short-term extension of payroll tax cut

  Sat Dec 17, 2011
  • That pipeline is conceptually insane. It does not need to go any further than the US Border, where a refinery could be built and the gasoline distributed from there. No need then to pipe all the gas back up to the upper midwest where they can use all the product that the pipeline will supply.

• New e-book pricing scheme a surprising assault on the wallet

  Thu Dec 15, 2011
  • True - the only sensible response to this is to unlock the book and post it on a file-sharing site.