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DETROIT, Michigan - August 23, 2010 - This is your Sequoia touch-screen voting machine with Pac-Man hacked onto it without disturbing any of the "tamper-evident" seals supposedly meant to protect it from hackers.

DETROIT, Michigan - August 23, 2010 - This is your Sequoia touch-screen voting machine with Pac-Man hacked onto it without disturbing any of the "tamper-evident" seals supposedly meant to protect it from hackers.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - August 26, 2010 - Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment protections, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - August 26, 2010 - Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment protections, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 24, 2010 - As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 24, 2010 - As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

NEW YORK - August 21, 2010 - It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In seconds the target car's engine, brakes, and door locks are under their nefarious control.

It doesn't take a great scriptwriter to figure out what's next - except that it's not the movies anymore. It's real - well, almost.

NEW YORK - August 21, 2010 - It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In seconds the target car's engine, brakes, and door locks are under their nefarious control.

It doesn't take a great scriptwriter to figure out what's next - except that it's not the movies anymore. It's real - well, almost.

WASHINGTON - August 25, 2010 - A newly released report claims that illegitimate U.S. President Barack Obama is a CIA creation, as his clandestine life poses question after question.

WASHINGTON - August 25, 2010 - A newly released report claims that illegitimate U.S. President Barack Obama is a CIA creation, as his clandestine life poses question after question.

NEW YORK - August 23, 2010 - In a series of events that have caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to safeguard its nationals there.

NEW YORK - August 23, 2010 - In a series of events that have caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to safeguard its nationals there.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 21, 2010 - Logan International Airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed the debate over privacy vs. safety.

The new procedure - already being questioned by the American Civil Liberties Union - replaces the Transportation Security Administration’s former back-of-the-hand patdown.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 21, 2010 - Logan International Airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed the debate over privacy vs. safety.

The new procedure - already being questioned by the American Civil Liberties Union - replaces the Transportation Security Administration’s former back-of-the-hand patdown.

Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever informs us all that the federal government has ordered border patrol agents to stay away from the border in Cochise County because it is too dangerous and we want to avoid an international incident. Well, Sheriff Devers says “bring on the international incident!”

Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever informs us all that the federal government has ordered border patrol agents to stay away from the border in Cochise County because it is too dangerous and we want to avoid an international incident. Well, Sheriff Devers says “bring on the international incident!”

Texas Congressman Ted Poe describes one of a number of signs posted on U.S. Interstate 8, which runs from Yuma, Arizona to San Diego, Kalifornia. This federal government sign tells Amerikans not to travel on I-8 because there may be human and drug smugglers using the road and they (the feds) cannot protect you from these villains. So much for the Rule of Law.

Texas Congressman Ted Poe describes one of a number of signs posted on U.S. Interstate 8, which runs from Yuma, Arizona to San Diego, Kalifornia. This federal government sign tells Amerikans not to travel on I-8 because there may be human and drug smugglers using the road and they (the feds) cannot protect you from these villains. So much for the Rule of Law.

LONDON, England - August 19, 2010 - In heavy camouflage gear, Johnny Cochran squats down and shuffles noiselessly along the ground. His target is a large man who, like Cochran, is in military fatigues. Seconds later, Cochran leaps up and stabs the man once, hard, in the neck. The movement is swift, and would almost certainly be lethal, were it not for the fact that the weapon Cochran is wielding is a pen.

LONDON, England - August 19, 2010 - In heavy camouflage gear, Johnny Cochran squats down and shuffles noiselessly along the ground. His target is a large man who, like Cochran, is in military fatigues. Seconds later, Cochran leaps up and stabs the man once, hard, in the neck. The movement is swift, and would almost certainly be lethal, were it not for the fact that the weapon Cochran is wielding is a pen.