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Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA)

June 16, 2006

TACOMA -- The only person charged criminally in a scheme to let an Oklahoma company overcharge federal facilities for natural gas was sentenced Thursday to six months of home confinement.

William R. Mitten, 56, of Battle Ground was accused of accepting gratuities from Tiger Natural Gas Inc. of Tulsa. The company suggested it would hire him to open a Northwest branch, paid his wife $11,000 and gave him $14,000 in meals and entertainment from 1998 to 2001.

mises.org

by Peter G. Klein

June 12, 2006

Libertarians often cite the internet as a case in point that liberty is the mother of innovation. Opponents quickly counter that the internet was a government program, proving once again that markets must be guided by the steady hand of the state.

In one sense the critics are correct, though not in ways they understand. The internet indeed began as a typical government program, the ARPANET, designed to share mainframe computing power and to establish a secure military communications network. Of course the designers could not have foreseen what the (commercial) internet has become. Still, this reality has important implications for how the internet works - and explains why there are so many roadblocks in the continued development of online technologies. It is only thanks to market participants that the internet became something other than a typical government program: inefficient, overcapitalized, and not directed toward socially useful purposes.

The Clayton Tribune (GA)

by Blake Spurney

June 6, 2006

Stories of overzealous Department of Family and Children Services employees prowling for referrals and using people's children as tools of extortion were true, according to the Georgia Department of Human Resources investigative report.

Such stories had been circulating for months before the watershed moment nearly a year ago when Melinda "Mindy" McCoy was charged with reckless conduct for not removing children from a home. Her downfall, brought about by co-workers seemingly targeting her for reporting questionable practices to the state, shed light on a rogue outfit operating behind a cloak of confidentiality. After McCoy was suspended, her case and mileage documents were found in a shredding container at the DFCS office.

Lawrence Journal World (KS)

by Chad Lawhorn

June 5, 2006

Every Lawrence police officer is reminded of that each time they walk up to a vehicle they’ve pulled over. You never know who may have a gun or just a chip on their shoulder that’s going to cause problems.

Soon, technology may be able to help. Lawrence police officers are beginning to test a new ticket writing technology that utilizes bar code scanners and portable printers. The system, which is currently in one patrol car and should be in about a half-dozen more within a month, allows an officer to scan the magnetic strip on the back of a driver license.

News With Views

by Charlotte Iserbyt

June 5, 2006

Congressman Charles Rangel, introduced HR 4752 in the US Congress which requires: "all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service..."

The bill applies to both US citizens and non-citizens, to men and women. There does not appear to be a provision which would exempt women who are pregnant and/or caring for infants/children in a young age. The bill also supports Big Brother. Those who are not sent overseas to the war theater would, according to the clauses of the bill, be inducted into the civilian homeland defense corps and other civilian duties, including the Citizens Corps, the "Neighborhood Watch Teams" and the "Volunteer Police Service" established in partnership with local law enforcement.

World Net Daily

June 3, 2006

WASHINGTON - If and when the Secret Service visits the offices of Living Waters Ministry in Southern California to collect more "counterfeiting evidence" in the form of gospel tracts disguised as $1 million bills, agents better be armed with a warrant.

Ray Comfort, the world-renowned evangelist and head of the ministry, says he is not inclined to turn over any more copies of one of his most effective tools for witnessing his faith just because some Treasury agents demand them.

Stop The Drug War

June 2, 2006

A member of the mint family related to the flowering sages enjoyed by gardeners, salvia divinorum is a southern Mexican herb that when smoked properly can induce a psychedelic experience something akin to an express acid trip.

It comes on like a fast-forward freight train; within a few seconds of inhaling, a full-blown psychedelic experience is underway, and within five minutes, it's all over. And as a legal product under federal law, it is sold in thousands of retail outlets in the United States as well as being easily available over the Internet. salvia leaves Hailing from the state of Oaxaca, salvia has been used as a sacred plant for generations by the Indians of the remote Sierra Mazateca.

Detroit Metro Times (MI)

by Ben Lefebvre

May 31, 2006

It's called the Real ID Act, but the way things are right now, it might more accurately be called the Really No IDea Act.

More than a year after President George W. Bush signed into law the legislation touted as a tool to combat terrorism, Michigan officials and their counterparts still don't know what will be required for them to comply with the measure that's to take effect in less than two years. Passed without congressional debate as a rider tucked into the 2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief, the act seeks to have states drastically overhaul procedures for issuing drivers' licenses by increasing the amount of documentation required to prove citizenship or legal residency and boosting the personal information contained on each card, including the addition of biometric identifiers such as fingerprints or retinal scans.

The Register (UK)

by Guy Kewney

May 31, 2006

VeriChip chairman Scott Silverman's appearance on American TV this week has raised fears of the introduction of RFID technology. According to RNIF, he "bandied about the idea of chipping foreigners on national television Tuesday".

RINF said Silverman appeared to be emboldened by the Bush Administration call to know "who is in our country and why they are here". He told Fox & Friends that the VeriChip could be used to register guest workers, verify their identities as they cross the border, and "be used for enforcement purposes at the employer level". He added: "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it..."

New York Times (CT)

by Alison Leigh Cowan

May 31, 2006

Four Connecticut librarians had been barred from revealing that they had received a request for records from the government, expressing frustration about the sweeping powers given to law enforcement authorities by the USA Patriot Act.

The librarians took turns at the microphone at their lawyers' office and publicly identified themselves as the collective John Doe who had sued the United States attorney general after their organization received a confidential demand for patron records in a secret counterterrorism case. They had been ordered, under the threat of prosecution, not to talk about the request with anyone.

      
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