Teacher forces suudents to write this statement.

An 11 year old boy's Facebook picture of himself with a .22 rifle he received for his birthday from his father, prompts response by CPS and Police.

Recount by William K. Black of "The Justice Department's shameful, extortionate response to Frontline's latest act of speaking truth to power is equally eloquent as an admission that its leaders have perverted the department into a source of injustice."

The Army official who signed a secret agreement that military contractor KBR claims should burden taxpayers with the bill for the company's negligent poisoning of U.S. soldiers in Iraq resigned from the military in 2003 after a tenure marked by questions about his ties to Enron Corp.

An excellent talk by British climate scientist Kevin Anderson, highlighting the unreasonably optimistic assumptions behind the current world planning for mitigating climate change. Underscores the need for the wealthy world to take the lead, in terms of capacity and equity.

Last year the State Department proposed the adoption of new passport application forms that included intrusive and impossible to answer questions such as (for male applicants) whether or not applicant was circumcised. Facing negative reaction, the SD revised its proposed forms, but the impossible-to-answer questions remain. The intent appears to be to make passport applications simply to deny, as failure to answer is grounds for denial.

Imagine the impact on the polls if just days before Election Day, negotiations between the president and Iran dramatically broke down, intensifying an already volatile situation and fueling rumors that his Republican challenger cut a deal with a hostile enemy power to influence the election. Would you be surprised? Maybe not, if you remember what happened on the eve of the election in 1980. In that year, negotiations between President Jimmy Carter and Iran over the release of 52 American hostages collapsed on the Sunday before Election Day.

Rolling Stone exposes how the FBI has become an active terror organization operating in the US, routinely planning attacks against American citizens and framing non-violent activists. "The government has a responsibility to prevent harm," says former FBI counter-terrorism agent Michael German, now the senior policy counsel for the ACLU. "What they're doing instead is manufacturing threatening events."

AUSTRALIA'S security and law enforcement agencies are world leaders in telecommunications interception and data access and like most successful industries, they want more. Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon is canvassing a further expansion of surveillance powers, most controversially a requirement that telecommunications and internet service providers retain at least two years of data for access by government agencies. Security and privacy are in the balance as the Federal Parliament's secretive joint committee on intelligence and security considers Australia's future digital surveillance regime.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday said it was giving the Transportation Security Administration until the end of March to comport with an already 14-month-old order to “promptly” hold public hearings and take public comment concerning the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints.