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Christian Science Monitor

The federal government's efforts to create a standardized, secure driver's license that would also serve as a national ID card have hit significant stumbling blocks. 8 states will not participate in the program. 9 others oppose it. Legislatio

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After Downing Street

The danger is that a bleeding of Blackwater into US airport security in general would affect a coup in essence -- quite quickly and serenely -- even as a coup in fact need not be declared.

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Daily Telegraph

A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offenses that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored.

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After passing, the agent pulled in front of me and slammed on his brakes before he finished working his way back into the East-bound travel lane. This extremely unsafe maneuver placed me in imminent danger of a collision and forced me to apply my bra

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BBC News

Pakistan's President Pervez Muasharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution.

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Ten Shell gas stations in the Windy City are testing biometric systems that let consumers walk up to the pump, scan their fingertips on a device and fill up their vehicles.

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der Spiegel

European countries have been busy enacting controversial mandatory data retention laws. Now draft legislation by the German government would make it easier to monitor virtually all communications by journalists.

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Freedom to Tinker

The FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it didn’t have any such technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse.

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AntiWar

Paul Jacob, political reformer, libertarian and prominent term-limit activist, is in major legal trouble again. As some readers may know, in the early 1980s Jacob spent five and a half months in prison for resisting draft registration and thus violat

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Bovard Blog

...But the FBI still insists that its agent did nothing wrong. And the feds swayed the court to suppress that portion of a recent decision detailing how the FBI agent used the threat of torture to break an innocent man.

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Congressional Quarterly

The House is expected to pass a bill Tuesday that would establish a commission to study the roots of homegrown terrorism. Homeland Security will survey the methodologies implemented by foreign nations to prevent domestic terrorism and

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National Expositor

This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution and defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-te

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AP

Peace activists who were denied entry into Canada because their arrests for protesting the Iraq war landed them on an FBI-run database say they will try again to enter the country. Demanding Canada reverse a policy that keeps war foes from visiting

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