Brave New Book: Political Scientist Argues the U.S. is a Police State
For Kolin the USA-Patriot Act, passed in haste by a cowed and cowardly Congress that hadn't had time to read it after 9/11, marks the final end of formal democracy…
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." Albert Schweitzer
FACT CHECK: Bachmann bomblets raising eyebrows
Written by Calvin Woodward for AP WASHINGTON (AP) --- Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is…