The Police State

I can vaguely recall a time when the person who helped kids across the street was called a "crossing guard." It seems like not to long ago, the person parked and watched cars was called a "parking attendant." The people directing traffic at construction sites were just construction workers. The...

Skip Oliva is giving us regular updates on the writers' guild strike, from an informed perspective. He points particularly to the police-state enforcement tactics of the union itself. Excellent reading.

Andrew Meyer, a UF student from Weston, is tasered and taken away by police after asking John Kerry a question during a speech. Kerry seems to want to answer his questions, but the police move in and tackle him to the ground, Kerry goes on to...

Organizers of the protests at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Québec, say they have video that shows police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence on Monday.

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