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Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
The Occupy Wall Street demonstration marched on the Brooklyn Bridge, shutting down traffic. The NYPD started pushing the crowd back around the middle of the bridge. In response, the …
How Automatic License Plate Recognition Tracks Your Steps
As the surveillance state continues to expand, the push to track the movement of individuals across state borders has also expanded. Automatic license plate recognition technology is at the …
Top Oil and Gas Executives Had Major Presence at Bahrain Conference
(Photo: Michele Solmi / Flickr) What began as a bright democratic uprising in Bahrain, a part of the famed Arab Spring, has transformed into the movement's tragic …
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Arrested in New York
Police in New York City have corralled and arrested protesters attempting to march across the Brooklyn Bridge, according to media reports. One woman claimed New York Police …
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California’s Prison Hunger Strike Is Back on
Prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison’s Secure Housing Unit who led a monthlong hunger strike in July say prison officials have not made good on promises to meet their …
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Would the Founders Back Health Law?
Today’s American Right is fond of pushing the idea of “originalist” thinking by the Founders to rally opposition to government initiatives that address modern-day problems. The claim is that …
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Edmund Burke and American Conservatism
It has become a truism that modern American conservatism is revolutionary in the sense that it seeks to overturn the established order rather than to preserve it. “Reagan Revolution,” …
Keystone Hearing in Nebraska Sandhills Draws Mostly Critics, and Passions Flare
Atkinson, Neb. - People began arriving at West Holt Junior-Senior High School before noon on Thursday, some in pickups or cars from nearby ranches and farms, others in buses …
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California School Spending Among Lowest in Nation
Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, relative to the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by the California …
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Gandhi’s Lesson for Today
(Photo: Wikimedia) In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi's probable killers …