POLICE STATE

CNN reporters try to help a family locate a (possibly deceased) child in the aftermath of the Joplin tornado and get threatened by local police.

If you want to overcome their mind lock you need to destroy their shutters before they come down on you. How can you defeat an enemy with centuries (if not millenniums) of experience in all sorts of warfare and virtually unlimited resources? The answer is obvious, even to someone who hasn't studied the Chinese classic 'The Art of War': Avoid up-hill battles and attack the enemy with overwhelming force where he is weak.

People have no right to resist if police officers illegally enter their home, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in a decision that overturns centuries of common law.

A former Miss USA gets more than she bargained for in the full body pat down line.

It's been described as Israel's 'big ears'. A huge facility where it's claimed phone calls and e-mails from all across the Middle East and beyond, can be monitored for intelligence. Hidden from prying eyes for decades in the desert, it's become a focus for investigative journalists.

A popular GOP congressman announced today that he will soon introduce gun control legislation that will make it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of a federal official.

MK Yariv Levin recruiting additional co-sponsors for initiative that would forbid foreigners defined as enemy agents from entering Israel.

“They [the police] crashed the car and right away he said, ‘Get out, get out,’ two times, and then he started dumping the whole clip on her. He actually reloaded when he was done.”

Brian Kennish worked at Google for seven years...Near the end of his stint at Google, Kennish developed a browser extension for Chrome called Facebook Disconnect. The software blocks websites that have Facebook widgets installed from automatically sending information about the user back to the social networking company...While Facebook and the applications that run on its platform can be considered personal-data hoarders, Kennish eventually realized his then-employer was, itself, among the biggest collectors.

George Donnelly was about to delete an offensive comment from the We Won't Fly blog – one of the very few they get – and thought, hmm, "I wonder where this guy is posting from?"

In research published in the Journal of Transportation Security, physicists Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson of the University of California San Francisco say body scanner machines can easily be duped.

While the purpose of the scanners is to find contraband hidden on the body, some weapons and explosives would not be visible to the devices say the researchers, who are known for their work in creating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines used in hospitals.