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Attorney General Eric Holder announced he is terminating the Justice Department’s three-decade-old civil asset forfeiture program called Equitable Sharing that allowed state and local law enforcement agencies to keep 80% of cash, vehicles, real estate and other assets seized under federal drug laws before formal warrants or criminal charges were filed.

Time to dust off the eye patches and pull out the gold earrings. Everybody grab a parrot and bottle of rum its time once more for Talk like a Pirate Day!

Although I love the country as a second home and one that has treated me incredibly well, I would, as a concerned parent first – and latterly, of a one-year-old daughter who may attend an American elementary school like Sandy Hook in three years’ time – seriously consider deporting myself.

One of my favorite movies as a kid was the classic Tora Tora Tora. I first saw it with my brother at the local theater. The majority of the movie were the events leading up to the attack that you knew, we all knew, was coming. A good while back a met somone who lived through the attack and ever since I have wondered what it must have been like. I can not help, but feel that we are now living that same type of event. The air armada is coming ashore for the sneak attack in the form of...

One of my favorite movies as a kid was the classic Tora Tora Tora. I first saw it with my brother at the local theater. The majority of the movie were the events leading up to the attack that you knew, we all knew, was coming. I while back a met somone who lived through the attack and I wonder what it must have been like. I can not help, but feel I am now living that same type of event. The air armada is coming ashore for the sneak attack in the form of a massive betrayal of the...

In Family Guy episode 8, season 7 at the end of the show Brian is concerned about Glen Quagmire's dislike of him so Brian tricks Quagmire into going out to dinner. Brian finally asks Glen why he dislikes him and Glen totally unloads.

Iranian doctors have overseen the country's first animal cloning _ a lamb that died minutes after birth _ and plan future experiments in genetics and stem cell research, a member of the team said Wednesday. Iran's program is part of the Islamic regime's ambitions to become a regional center for medical, aerospace and nuclear technology _ which has led to an international showdown over Western claims that Tehran also seeks atomic weapons. "We learned a lot about cloning during the experiment. It made us more hopeful about further cases," said Dr. Morteza Hosseini, a member of cloning team at Isfahan...

GAZA (Reuters) - A deadline set by Palestinian militants for Israel to free hundreds of prisoners in exchange for a captured soldier expired on Tuesday with the Jewish state rejecting any swap. Three factions in the Gaza Strip, among them the armed wing of the governing Hamas Islamist group, had given Israel until 6 a.m. -- threatening that it should respond by then if it valued the life of the captured soldier. No information was immediately available on the fate of 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a raid across the border from Gaza on June 25, after...

BEIJING - China dropped its politically volatile policy of linking its currency to the U.S. dollar on Thursday, adopting a more flexible system based on a basket of foreign currencies that could push up the price of Chinese exports to the United States and Europe. ADVERTISEMENT The government also strengthened the state-set exchange rate to 8.11 yuan to the dollar — from 8.277 yuan, where it had been fixed for more than a decade — in a surprise announcement on state television's evening news. That raised the value of one yuan by about one-quarter of one U.S. cent to 12.33...

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles police officer was shot in the stomach during a gunbattle in South Los Angeles Saturday night. The shootout happened at a suspected rave party in the Vermont Knolls area near Broadway and 83rd Street, just before midnight. Police said they were trying to break up a loud party, possibly an illegal rave, when suspected gang members fired on them. Officers immediately returned fire killing one person, the channel 4 News reported The injured 30-year-old officer was listed in stable condition after surgery. At least two partygoers were injured and transported to a hospital for...

Ebaum, "My sister-in law is from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is when all of the fur hanging down below the cat's tummy is taken off (because it gets matted or snarled). When she moved to Chicago with my brother, one of the cats fur got all tangled up during the move so she took it in for a line cut. She was quite surprised when she heard the...

Sources: Expos to be renamed Nationals By JOSEPH WHITE, AP Sports Writer November 19, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Montreal Expos are about to get their new name: the Washington Nationals. A city official and a baseball official, both speaking on condition of anonymity, said Friday that the team will reveal its new name, cap and red-white-and-blue color scheme during a news conference Monday. The search for a new name began Sept. 29, when Major League Baseball announced it planned to relocate the team for the 2005 season. Initially, the plan was to wait until the team was sold to...

What happened to the First Ladies' Bake Off. Can't Mama "T" find the kitchen?

The New Armed Services In light of the current budget woes the Department of Defense has decided to "Think out of the box" and has come up with a "Sure Fire" idea to bring in supplemental funds for the next generation weapon systems. A DoD spokesman stated "That in light of the Nascar and MLS successes with making the most of their equipment to produce passive income we thought this was a natural extension of the American Culture we want to project to the World. The sky is the literally the limit and our audience is extremely far reaching and ...

EDITORIAL • April 8, 2000 Intrusive government, intrusive questions More than two years ago, the Census Bureau sent each member of Congress a report titled "Questions Planned for Census 2000." Congress was given the opportunity to vet each of the seven question on the short form and each of the 53 questions on the long form, which has been sent to one of six American households. Congress approved all of the questions. Now, more than two years later, in the midst of the decennial census, several Republican leaders have raised objections, citing privacy concerns. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has ...

As of January 1,2000, on any flight over 2 hours duration the FAA is instituting a new procedure. Every 15 minutes a camera mounted in the cockpit will automatically take a picture of the flight deck. This will insure that the pilots are awake, alert, and in their places. The attached picture is one of the first to be made public.

As of January 1,2000, on any flight over 2 hours duration the FAA is instituting a new procedure. Every 15 minutes a camera mounted in the cockpit will automatically take a picture of the flight deck. This will insure that the pilots are awake, alert, and in their places. The attached picture is one of the first to be made public.

Wednesday April 5 6:57 PM ET Gates at White House After Judicial Ruling By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates set aside his differences with the government's antitrust case against him on Wednesday and appeared at a White House ``new economy'' conference that heard some alarm bells about the gyrating stock market. ``We're at the beginning of what the computer can do to change our lives. The best is yet to come,'' Gates told the conference hosted by President Clinton, two days after a federal judge ruled Microsoft broke the law by trying to control the market ...

April 5 2000 UNITED STATES Gates pins hopes on Bush win FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN WASHINGTON BILL GATES emerged bloodied but unbowed yesterday from the anti-trust ruling against his company. Publicly he announced that he would appeal against the judgment and privately he hopes that George W. Bush wins the presidential election and eases the legal pressure on Microsoft. Microsoft shares dropped again in early trading yesterday, the day after Federal Judge Thomas Jackson found the company guilty of abusing its monopoly position to crush rivals and to harm consumers. In the next stage of the marathon legal battle, Judge ...

April 3, 2000 Dear friend of liberty, Do you think the 2000 census questionnaire asks for more information than it should? If so, you'll want to know about H.R. 4085 - The Census Privacy Act. Go to http://www.libertystudy.org > Take Action to learn about the legislation introduced recently and to urge your U.S. representative to support it. The Liberty Study Committee Web site (http://www.libertystudy.org) has been updated. Home page: Select information will now be posted on a daily, and in some cases, hourly basis right on the Home page. Bookmark http://www.libertystudy.org and check it daily. About Us page: Congressman Ron ...