When the NSA says it is keeping Americans safe (from a secondary threat) by taking away their freedom, the proper response is Patrick Henry's.

Brad Martinez was healthy when Florida thugs arrested him. When they took him out of the thug van, he was in a coma, from which he died.

There is some sign they strangled or choked him.

Syriza is continuing to defy the banksters that expected Greece to have to knuckle under.

What the international financial powers demand would be disaster for Greece.

I advise Greeks to choose defiance and resistance. Better to fight, and risk being crushed, than surrender to a certainty of being crushed.

Since America's poor can't afford homes, should we really want houses to be even more expensive?

The convicted murderer whose case Scalia cited to justify the death penalty has been pardoned. His trial ignored evidence that someone else committed the crime.

There is no word on whether Scalia has learned anything.