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Dr. Edith Linn, a retired New York police officer and professor of
criminal justice, said many of the 500
police officers she interviewed told her the outdated
equipment makes them less likely to perform arrests for minor offenses. [so, good?]
Defending the government's handling of the economic crisis last year, former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that the Bush administration's responses were not perfect but "saved this nation from great peril." Okaaaaaaay....
On Wednesday, Washington-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen quoted US intelligence officials as making ‘prominent’ references to Bhutto as a probable target of the program.
MA police spotted a suspected perv smoking pot in a car filled with coils of rope, a pair of handcuffs and bottles of NyQuil. But they had to let the man go, even though he was awaiting trial on child sexual assault charges.
Said Deputy Chief Russell Jenkins, “Had the law not been changed, he absolutely would have been placed under arrest.”
"You can't have a bunch of bankers going to congress for example and saying, we can't audit the Fed, because if you audit the Fed we're going to crash the system so we're holding it hostage. You can't allow that"
In the past week several leading economists have stated that the recession is over or about to end. The latest data from the nations largest port does not back up their rosie assessments. Both import and exports are falling...
In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
According to Goldman spokesperson Jonathan Hestron, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is "a good fit" because "they're in the business of printing money and
Troops' testimonies disclose loose rules of engagement and use of civilians as human shields. Palestinian houses were systematically destroyed by 'insane artillery firepower'
The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company announced the new job cuts along with a 91 percent plunge in second quarter net profit from a year earlier.
In other words, whether you want your kids (or yourself) to receive certain vaccines, the state can forcibly administer them in your home.
A UK court threw out a pair of speed camera citations yesterday after a retired veteran police officer admitted on the stand that he falsified official documents used as proof. How long until we catch them doing this here?
Steve has a DUI and a bar fight under his belt all while being one of Jack's finest Phoenix cops. Steve is a classy guy - while serving in the honor guard and at another cops funeral he threatened to kill a fellow lieutenant. NICE! He's tried a few times to go back to Iraq (he's a Marine) and they won't take him, but the Phoenix PD keeps him. He also had to serve time in jail, but never told anyone in the PPD. We have blogged about him many times before.
What kind of "urgent action" can be taken to "reduce high levels of excess capacity"? No amount of additional debt will put that idle capacity to work. Other than taking dynamite to idle factories, the only other "effective" measure would be to start a war
This time it's unmistakable.
Research published in Nature, a prestigous science journal, has found disturbing information about the current swine flu pandemic.
Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.
That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints.
"I think that's the whole point of this program," she told The Examiner. "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement -- law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives."
The new technology streams to iPhones and global positioning system devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light cameras.
Lanier said the technology is a "cowardly tactic" and "people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught" in one way or another.
The greater D.C. area
China looks set to hit its full-year growth target of 8% after a surprisingly strong second quarter notable for a surge in investment driven by powerful fiscal and monetary stimulus.
Annual gross domestic product growth accelerated in the second quarter to 7.9 percent from 6.1 percent in the first quarter, making China the best-performing major economy and reinforcing hopes that the world economy is pulling out of its deepest recession in 80 years.
With the death of the "housing has bottomed" call will come an end to those who claim that the economy has turned. It may take an hour, a day, a week or a few months before these folks realize they were wrong, but there's no way around...
The number of newly laid-off Americans signing up for unemployment
benefits last week, and those using this safety net over a longer
period, both plunged. But were
clouded by difficulties adjusting for temporary shutdowns at auto
plants.
Ask a Basterd: Am I a Jerk if I Dump Our Sucky Rock Band Bassist?
Minimum Waiting Period Before Revealing a Spoiler
If Your Call Drops, Call Back
Don't Google-Stalk Before a First Date
Don't Blog or Tweet Anything With More Than Half a Million Hits
Ask a Basterd: Should I Ask My World Of Warcraft Wife if She's Really a Dude?
Delete Unwanted Posts From Your Facebook Wall
Meet Online Friends in the Real World
Life in a state of liberty is not perfect. It makes no guarantees other than the opportunity to pursue your happiness. You may prosper or you may be poor. You may be safe or you may come to harm.
"We know very well what we inherited with Iran. We know how far its nuclear program has advanced," she said in remarks released by her aides.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a second quarter profit of $2.72
billion, a 36 percent jump that easily surpassed expectations as
strength in its core consumer and investment banking businesses offset
a jump in credit losses.
The lender for the Summit at Copper Square has taken the first step toward foreclosing on 74 unsold units in the downtown Phoenix luxury high-rise.
It was common on the left to intimate that George W. Bush was like Hitler, a remark that would drive the National Review crowd through the roof but which I didn't find entirely outrageous. Bush's main method of governance was to stir up fear of foreign enemies and instigate a kind of nationalist hysteria about the need for waging war and giving up liberty through security.
Hitler is the most famous parallel here, but he is hardly the only one. Many statesmen in world history have used the same tactics, dating back to ancient times. Machiavelli wrote in his Art of War advice to the ruler: "To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else."
But what's the point of studying Hitler's rise to power unle
The following individuals whose primary goal in life is getting tenure and publishing a textbook, yet believe they have a voice in deciding whether over 300 million American people should know just whose interests the Fed so staunchly protects...
Among the most shocking [REALLY?] aspects of Obama’s presidency so far has been his embrace of the power to incarcerate people suspected of terrorism for the rest of their lives, without a trial.
Al-Qaeda has vowed to avenge the deaths of Muslims in China's Urumqi city by targeting the country's workforce in northwest Africa.
The call for reprisals against China has come from Algerian-based Al-Qaeda, the South China Morning Post said, summarising the intelligence report by London-based risk analysis firm Stirling Assynt.
The endless cheerleading and propaganda continue at CNBC.com...
When Yehuda Shaul finished his required Israeli military service in 2004, he used his army discharge as seed money for Breaking the Silence, a reservists' group that challenges Israeli military policy.
On Wednesday, Breaking the Silence released its most ambitious project to-date: A 110-page collection of testimony from more than two dozen soldiers who fought in Gaza during lsrael's 22-day military offensive last winter.
