thomas paine
- Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.
- Elected officials are unwilling to admit the failure of the drug war; jurors can and should step in to nullify charges in marijuana cases to send a message.
- Occupy Wall Street protesters want to overthrow the government; the tea party just wants to reduce federal borrowing. Who are the extremists here?