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Conservative reporter Audrey Hudson was awakened by federal officers acting on a warrant for a toy potato gun. She is convinced they were acting on orders from the Regime in response to her criticism of Barack Obama. One of Hudson’s main concerns involves her sources. What might the Regime do to them? How will they be punished? Click on the link to Coach is Right for Hudson's interview with FOX News reporter Gretchen Carlson.

CARVER – Police say someone shot an ear of corn through a police cruiser’s windshield using a makeshift device. Police say the corn, which had previously been described only as a “projectile,” damaged the cruiser but did not cause any injuries. At least two other cars have been hit by objects fired at them near Purchase and Callow streets in the last week.

Maryland state police and federal agents used a search warrant in an unrelated criminal investigation to seize the private reporting files of an award-winning former investigative journalist for The Washington Times who had exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department’s Federal Air Marshal Service. Reporter Audrey Hudson said the investigators, who included an agent for Homeland’s Coast Guard service, took her private notes and government documents that she had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act during a predawn raid of her family home on Aug. 6. The documents, some which chronicled her sources and her work at the Times...

Weeks after Maryland State Police and federal agents seized reporting files from a former Washington Times journalist’s home, a Homeland Security agent checked the materials out of the police evidence room for an hour, according to logs that shine new light on a case that has raised First Amendment concerns. The custody logs don’t state why the reporting materials were removed from evidence Sept. 3, about a month after they were seized from reporter Audrey Hudson’s home during a search in an unrelated investigation of her husband. But they do show that the Homeland Security agent checked out files and...

Ever since 911, there has been a trend moving toward much harsher local police. Here is a photo of how the Boston Police have militarized to the point it looks like war against the people. Even small towns are geared up for war. The small town of Medford, Oregon with a population of 76,462 has spent millions of dollars to militarize their police. They have their own Swat Teams, yet no incident in history of some major shooting of such a nature to warrant a Swat Team. The entire reason where there was the Second Amendment was to eliminate this...

Western Iowa man killed after potato gun explosion HULL (AP) --- A potato gun stuffed with explosive powder ignited and erupted, killing a Hull man on Friday night. The potato gun apparently ruptured when it was fired by Ryan Meerdink, 21, authorities with the Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office said. Hull authorities discovered Meerdink outside a residence around 8:20 on Friday night. He was then taken to Sioux Center Hospital, where he later died. Authorities believe the explosion was an accident. "It's just been real blurry today," said Betty Meerdink, Ryan's grandmother. Funeral arrangements are pending.

Two Boys Hospitalized After Potato Gun Accident In NW Minnesota Apr 21, 2003 1:58 pm US/Central (AP) (Erskine, Minn.) Two boys remain hospitalized after a bizarre accident on a farm near Erskine in northwestern Minnesota. Polk County Sheriff Mark LeTexier says the two friends were shooting a screwdriver from a homemade potato gun when the accident happened Friday night. When the potato gun failed to discharge, the boys put it down. But when one of the boys went to pick it up, it went off. The sheriff says the screwdriver struck one of the boys in the chest. It narrowly...

Teen blinded when frog shot from potato gun Associated Press DALLAS - A teenager was blinded after being struck in the face with a frog shot from a so-called "potato gun." Daniel Benjamin Berry, 17, received the injury after he looked down the barrel of the gun's PVC pipe barrel and was hit in the face by the frog. "He is going to be blind in both eyes," Daniel's mother, Lisa Berry, said. Potato guns are made of pipe with one end sealed. A potato is wedged into the open end and a flammable liquid put into a sealed chamber...

One Killed, Three Injured In Potato Gun Accident One person is dead and three others are in the hospital after a potato gun explosion. The Champaign County Sheriff's office says one man was pronounced dead on the scene. His identity is not being released until his family is notified. Three other men were injured in the accident. Thirty-one-year-old Judd Coffey is listed in critical condition at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. Twenty-two-year-old Jason Anderson is listed in fair condition at Miami Valley Hospital. The condition of 48-year-old Robert Kiser is unknown. The incident is believed to have happened late Saturday...

ITHACA -- A 14-year-old Ithaca male was transported to the hospital after being accidentally hit in the eye by a potato-gun. At 5:40 p.m. the Ithaca Police Department responded to 206 Cascadilla Park Road for the report of a teen with an eye injury. Police said it is believed the teen was creating the potato-gun -- using PVC piping, hair spray and combustion to propel potatoes -- for a science project. After being transported by Bangs Ambulance to the Ithaca High School fields, the teen was air-lifted by Stat Medivac Helicopter to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa. Ithaca Police...

Denton, Texas -- Two months ago, Daniel Berry looked forward to his 18th birthday and fulfilling his childhood aspiration to become an Air Force pilot. Now, his nights are filled with thoughts of seeing again. "I dream that I'm running somewhere," Berry said. "I blink my eyes and I can see. Then I blink my eyes again and I can't." Berry, 17, was blinded April 13 in an accident with a potato gun, a homemade device that combines a long plastic tube or pipe with a propellant such as hair spray to fire projectiles several hundred feet. In this case,...

<p>LENOIR COUNTY, N.C. -- Seven people are charged with attacking a Lenoir County deputy's house with a gun that shoots potatoes. Officers say the homemade device could have injured or killed someone.</p> <p>Authorities said the suspects took a section of PVC pipe and placed a potato in it. The suspects then allegedly put chemicals in one end of the pipe and ignited it, firing the potato.</p>