The DECLARE PEACE FAIR will be held at Independence Visitors Center lawn area)6th & Market Streets, Phila., PA on Saturday, July 2 from 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Focus on Peace will have a table at the event. Come out and support us in our outreach efforts
Mayor Nagin writes that he and his top aides were in the Hyatt’s fourth-floor command center when about 20 men entered, “dressed in black combat outfits and adorned in bulletproof vests, rifles, and leg straps holding at least two very large handguns
By a former Police Officer! What follows is a very honest, insightful and terrifying message as he touches on the police perspective and the militarization of the police (which was largely excused as necessary by the War on Drugs. "When I was a "poli
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, came down hard today against a House bill (HR 2278) that would have limited the use of funds for the U.S.’s involvement in the Libya War.
Grant snapped the photo while being detained by Mehserle, sitting against the wall with other detainees. He called his ex-girlfriend and told her he was being abused by Mehserles. Then sent her the picture.
Republican 2012 presidential candidate Gary Johnson defended WikiLeaks as an agent of government transparency Thursday, breaking with a large bipartisan consensus that the group is a threat to the United States.
Discussing a new measure by Reps. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Barney Frank (D-MA) to lift the federal ban on marijuana, Current TV’s Keith Olbermann played clips from pot movies and cracked a few jokes.
"Deputies have tested the device, which is controlled by a jail officer using a joystick" (oh TELL me they didn't write that line? How long before someone is tied up in front of that thing... - Ed)
Debtor’s prison are making a comeback because of the debt collection industry. Elites like former Comptroller D. Walker are waxing nostalgically for more punitive measures in the face of a population that simply cannot pay its debts.
A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," says Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS, and satellite communications--all of which are vulnerable
You miss the main threat posed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s assuming the power to spy on all of us by physical surveillance, covert infiltration and even trash-picking, all without reasonable grounds for suspicion, much less the constitut
Can you imagine a government employee embedded in your business? And as far as the comparison with military embeds, this is completely wrong. The military embeds journalists to keep an eye on them so that they don't wander off on their own.
Betting odds in Las Vegas have been a sports standard (and a tight one at that) for a long time. At this point, they have Obama hands down as winner in 2012. No one else comes close.
Someone was missing from last week's Republican presidential debate, and that's too bad. He's an announced candidate who was a two-term governor of New Mexico, and he makes a case for strongly limited government.
Another week, another man shot dead during a drug raid. William Cooper, 69, of Hampton, Virginia, was killed over the weekend after an informant told local police that he was selling prescription painkillers. Cooper apparently fired at the police as
A woman was arrested for videotaping police from her front yard in Rochester, New York. The woman was recording a traffic stop where police had a man handcuffed.
The cops noticed her recording and started hassling her with absurd notions.
Introduction – We have been wondering for years why we the people are so asleep or dumbed down. We used to think it was the schools and a lack of proper government education. Well this is a small contributor to the problem. The Patriots, Sovereigns w
James Richard Verone, of Georgia, attempted to steal one dollar from a bank so that he would be arrested, taken to jail and — most importantly — provided with health care
Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, officially announced he was running for president on Tuesday, telling an audience of supporters and reporters gathered at a park facing the Statue of Liberty that he would be a better leader than Pres
"All it would take is one state to pass a tough eligibility law... Failure to do so will simply convince millions of Americans that our state legislators lack the resolve to defend the Constitution."
Kenneth Melson, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is expected to resign under pressure, in the wake of the controversy over Operation Fast and Furious. In which straw buyers were allowed to purchase illegally large numbers of we
A 16-year-old kid was handcuffed and detained for photographing trains in White Plains, New York earlier this month.
Gregory Grice is a railfan, a train enthusiast, which means he is a terrorist in the eyes of police.
He was using his iPhone to
Despite many lawyers saying that police must first obtain a subpoena before confiscating a camera, police throughout the country continue to do so.
And they are justifying it by claiming it is evidence.