New York Times – by Ron Nixon

WASHINGTON — Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: A handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.

“Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the card. It included Mr. Pickering’s name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word “confidential” was highlighted in green.   Continue reading “U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement”

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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:

Egypt’s top military commander says the army is now in full control of the country and President Mohammed Morsi has been replaced by the chief justice of the constitutional court as the interim head of state.

He made the announcements in a Wednesday night speech — the latest twist in an all-out power struggle inside Egypt that Morsi’s national security adviser is describing as a military coup.   Continue reading “Top Egyptian military commander says Morsi ousted as president”

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Gun rights advocates marched to the National Mall from Arlington Wednesday — while “armed” with water pistols.

The group kicked off their Toy Gun March at 9 a.m. at the Memorial Bridge, and made their way to the Washington Monument for a rally at 10:30 a.m.   Continue reading “Gun Rights Group Holds Toy Gun March in D.C.”

Tech Dirt – by Tom Cushing

On what was presumably a hot, sweltering night in the nation’s Texas’ capital, a senator’s epic filibuster temporarily derailed an abortion bill. This all went far from smoothly as time stamps were changed post-vote, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (whose pet legislation was being talked over) briefly threatened to have media members arrested for “inciting a riot” and a 74-year-old woman was arrested for assaulting an officer.   Continue reading “Texas Trooper Shoves 74-Year-Old Then Arrests Her For Felony Assault When She Hits Him With Her Purse”

Buzz Feed – by Ruby Cramer

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the gun control movement’s most active and affluent advocate, will host a fundraiser at his Manhattan home later this month for Sen. Joe Manchin, according to an invitation for the event obtained by BuzzFeed.

Manchin, a Democrat from red-state West Virginia, led the Senate’s push for a bill to expand background checks on private gun sales earlier this year in the wake of the mass shooting last December in Newtown, Connecticut. Manchin’s bill, co-sponsored by Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, failed despite backing from the White House and Bloomberg’s own group, Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns.   Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg Will Host Fundraiser For Joe Manchin”

CNS News – by Charlie Daniels

I think that if anything exemplifies the overt prejudice and determination of the American media to report only the news that suits their social and political interests and concept of what does and does not fit their agenda, it’s the totally overblown coverage of something Paula Deen said 20 years ago, and some party she planned that she wanted to resemble a plantation scene featuring black male waiters in period dress.

If Hollywood plans a movie featuring black waiters in a plantation scene or portrays women as prostitutes or cast minorities in caricature roles does the media get upset and start calling the movie moguls racists?   Continue reading “The Press and Paula Deen”

july-4th-lakewood-banStory Leak – by Anthony Gucciardi

The City of Lakewood Ohio will be celebrating July 4th with mandatory bag searches and a ban on all Fourth of July related fun — including fireworks, drinks, grills, pets, sports, and just about everything else.

The anti-independence regulation is a real testament to the current state of our nation, which now stands for heavy bans on all forms of person freedom. But I would have never actually known about this insane ban if it weren’t for a Storyleak reader who sent me the amazing image above. And following my inquiry as to where the image came from, doubting that any city could be so draconian and downright wicked, I was amazed when the reader went and linked me to a page on The Lakewood Observer website which listed all of the same nonsense with official quotes from the city.   Continue reading “Ohio City Bans Fireworks, Drinks, Grills, and Enacts Mandatory Bag Searches for July 4th”

Hawthorne Police Shoot DogIngenious Press

The shocking video of the Hawthorne, CA Police Department gunning down an innocent man’s Rottweiler, who was doing nothing more than coming to his master Leon Rosby’s aid after he was being falsely detained for obstruction, was arguably the viral-video-of-day for July 2nd, 2013. It was the latest in what seems to be a disturbingly high number of Cop-on-Canine assassinations in the United States which have occurred within the last few years.   Continue reading “What’s With All These Unnecessary Cop-On-Canine Killings?”

Nerf footballs. (Courtesy photo)Washington Examiner – by Kelly Cohen

A lack of oversight allowed Internal Revenue Service employees to purchase wine and pornography, among other things, with government-issued credit cards, the agency’s inspector general said.

The IRS made more than 273,000 purchases totaling more than $103 million by using credit cards and another $4.4 million using convenience checks, the inspector general said in a June 20 report. The purchases took place in 2010 and 2011.   Continue reading “Porn, wine, Nerf footballs bought with IRS credit cards, IG says”

Contraction: The ultra-Orthodox practice of metzitzah b'peh requires a practitioner to orally suck the baby's penis to 'cleanse' the open wound following its circumcision, making them susceptible to the virus (file photo)Daily Mail – by NINA GOLGOWSKI

Two more infants have been infected with a deadly herpes virus in the last three months after undergoing a controversial religious oral circumcision in New York City.

The latest cases bring the count to 13 infants since 2000, two of which suffered brain damage and two died from the virus which can rapidly spread throughout its body.   Continue reading “Two more babies stricken with herpes after ritual ultra-orthodox Jewish oral blood sucking circumcision in New York City”

Image: Dennis Rodman Says He Should be Considered for Nobel PrizeNewsMax – by Matthew Auerbach

Five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman wants to add another trophy to his collection: the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Washington Times reports Rodman, in an interview appearing in the current issue of Sports Illustrated, lays out the reasons behind his controversial trip to North Korea and his belief that he should be in the running for this most prestigious honor.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman Says He Should be Considered for Nobel Prize”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

“The world will be shocked” by the next story on the National Security Agency’s vast spying operations, said Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist leading the exposure—made possible by leaks from whistleblower Edward Snowden—of the agency’s far-reaching surveillance.

Glenn Greenwald (R) speaking with Eric Bolling on Fox & Friends about the ongoing revelations of NSA spying and whistleblower Edward Snowden.Speaking Tuesday morning with conservative host Eric Bolling on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Greenwald hinted that a new NSA story was forthcoming and potentially explosive.   Continue reading “‘The World Will Be Shocked’: Greenwald on Upcoming NSA Exposé”

Washington’s Blog

Listen to What Insiders Say About Mass Surveillance

Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser – a key American foreign policy architect (Zbigniew Brzezinski) – wrote in 1970:   Continue reading “High-Level US Government Officials Have Warned for 40 Years that Mass Surveillance Would Lead to Tyranny in America”

Photo: YoutubeIntilliHub – by JG Vibes

As we reported yesterday, a Hawthorne police officer shot a not so violent looking dog in front of several people filming the police, as they raided a house with a gang of officers, with several police cars nearby.

Details about this officers past have now surfaced showing a history of violence.  One situation has even been described where this officer killed a man with down syndrome as a rookie.   Continue reading “Dog Killer Cop Killed Man with Down Syndrome as a Rookie”

Young Americans for Liberty – by Christopher Padilla

On December 14, 2012, Adam Peter Lanza using a semi-automatic rifle opened fire on student and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. It was a tragedy by any measure and it took most of the nation by surprise. The result of this shock has been a rash of gun and ammunition laws that have all but made owning a firearm useless.   Continue reading “Orwellian Freedom in California: Guns”