By DAN ELLIOTT

Associated Press

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of…

Posted by Kate Bergman on July 3rd, 2011

Updated: Visitors to Meridian Park were surprised to see a mysterious addition welded on one of the child-themed statues ringing the playground: a machine gun. The statue is right at the northeastern entrance to the playground — one of several statues, like a train engine and a child on stilts, created by artist Pat Maher.…

Yakima County has become the first county in the state to implement a controversial new federal program designed to crack down on illegal immigrants accused of breaking criminal laws — and it won't be the last.

By Amy Harris

Seattle Times staff reporter

http://www.pcworld.com/article/231359/microsoft_patents_spy_tech_for_skype.html

A newly patented Microsoft technology called Legal Intercept that would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype calls is stoking privacy concerns.

Microsoft's patent application for Legal Intercept was filed in 2009, well before the company's…

By MICHAEL LUO

Published: July 2, 2011

PULASKI, Va. — In May 2009, Sam French hit bottom, once again. A relative found him face down in his carport “talking gibberish,” according to court records. He later told medical personnel that he had been conversing…

NY motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law

Troopers say man would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet

updated 7/3/2011 11:59:48 AM ET

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Democracy is for me, and for 12 million black Americans, a goal towards which our nation is marching. It is a dream and an ideal in whose ultimate realization we have a deep and abiding faith. For me, it is based on Christianity, in which we confidently entrust our destiny as a people. Under God's guidance in this great democracy, we are rising out of the darkness of slavery into the light of freedom. Here my race has been afforded [the] opportunity to advance from a people 80 percent…

Wake up people--get off your ass and do…

By Bill Sizemore

A second former Blackwater contractor was sentenced to prison for involuntary…

By Lee Duigon

June 26, 2011

NewsWithViews.com

In conjunction with the New York State Legislature’s passage of its new “gay marriage” law, a group of progressive churchmen has released a brand-new Bible to replace the old.

“By…