Instagram Blocks Some Search Terms Used to Sell Drugs
Not the next Silk Road, it seems
Civil Liberties
EU: Homosexuality Can Be Grounds for Asylum
If laws in home countries allow for prosecution (and persecution)
NYPD Unions Ask to Intervene in Stop-and-Frisk Suit
Worry that city will drop appeals under new mayor
Hamptons School Board Bringing Drug Dogs Into High School, Voted on Unanimously to "Thunderous Applause"
Didn't hear any complaints, or about the Constitution?
Senate Passes Bill to Outlaw Anti-Gay Job Discrimination
Will head to the House, where there is significant resistance
President Obama: Pardon Edward Snowden
The whistleblower may not be asking for clemency, but he should get it.
Ex-Marine Charged With Unlawful Possession of Gun Says He Went to Garden State Mall to Help Stop Shooter
Cops followed him outside the mall because he had looked like he could be the man who ended up shooting himself at the mall
The Folly of Arming TSA Agents
Because navigating the airport security gauntlet is already such a joy.
Sanford Florida Police Chief Reverses Ban on Neighborhood Watch Carrying Guns
New rules explicitly banned it
CIA Reportedly Pays AT&T More Than $10 Million For Phone Records Database Searches in Voluntary Contract
According to anonymous government officials
FDA Moving to Ban Transfats Nationwide
Estimates average American eats more than 4 pounds of it a year
Princeton Police Department Insists It Won't Cooperate on Federal Immigration Enforcement
Now stop cooperating with their drug war plox
How Can the NSA Spy on Merkel, the Pope, the U.N., and the Rest of Us?
The federal agency is out of control.
British Authorities Claim Snowden Leaks Will Help Pedophiles
That is a pretty desperate claim
Deputies Arrest 'Photography Is Not a Crime' Editor for Recording Them
Seem to think that photography is indeed a crime
Senator Pushing Drone Privacy Bill
Would require law enforcement officials to get warrant for surveillance
Death Sentence Upheld in NH Cop-Killing Case
Would be first execution in the state since 1939
Dutch Groups Sue over NSA Data-Sharing
Collection of lawyers, privacy advocates and journalists
University to Investigate NYPD Police Commissioner Hecklers
Booed off over pro-stop-and-frisk lecture at Brown
Apple Releases Transparency Report of Government Data Requests
As much as the feds allow them to say, anyway
Second Case of Man Anally Probed Following Traffic Stop Uncovered
No consent or search warrant
FBI Monitored Antiwar.com Over Mistaken Threat
Site passed along hacking threat to FBI. FBI thought Antiwar.com was threatening to hack them.
Supreme Court To Consider Constitutionality of Opening Government Meetings With Prayer
Appeals court in New York found prayers before town board meeting to be unconstitutional
Husband of Jailed Pussy Riot Member Says He Hasn't Been Able To Contact Her in Two Weeks
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is serving two years for hooliganism
German Parliament's Intelligence Committee Calls For Investigation Into Alleged British Spying
British ambassador was summoned yesterday
Portland, Maine, Three Towns in Michigan Vote to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
All by healthy margins
Chinese Officials Broadcasting Confessions on State TV Before Trials
Move criticized by legal scholars
