Link: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_guest_Bush_should_have_executed_0227.html

A former CIA officer has said its ridiculous that the Bush administration didn't execute numerous prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, regardless of whether they have had a trial, when it had the chance.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=87086&sectionid=3510203

"Taking troops out of Iraq should not mean more troops available for deployment in other operations," he said. "You can't be in and out at the same time."

Link: http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-02-27/French_professor_sacked_over_9_11_conspiracy_theory.html/?fullstory

An academic in France has been sacked by the Ministry of Defence after questioning the official version of events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. He now reportedly plans to sue the government. Aymeric Chauprade lost his job allegedly over the introduction to his latest book about political crises around the world, and more specifically, that the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. were an orchestrated "American-Israeli conspiracy". The Defence Minister had strong objections to the material, so Aymeric had to go.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/129383/marijuana_milestone%3A_no_more_raids_on_pot_dispensaries%2C_says_attorney_general/

In response to a question at a Wednesday news conference, US Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will no longer raid medical marijuana dispensaries in states where they are legal under state law. The announcement marks the fulfillment of a President Obama campaign promise, and it marks the end of 13 years of stubborn federal resistance to state medical marijuana programs.

Link: http://www.truthout.org/030109Y

In a startling ambitious budget message, President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet to the American Right not only by tying the current economic crisis to the recklessness of the past eight years under George W. Bush but by tracing it back further to the anti-regulatory, anti-labor and anti-government policies of Ronald Reagan. "For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the nation's wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy,"

Link: http://www.infowars.com/government-prepares-the-public-for-cradle-to-grave-surveillance/

Last week Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood floated the idea of a mileage tax. “The idea — which involves tracking drivers through Global Positioning System (GPS) units in their cars — is gaining support in some states as a way of making up for a shortfall in highway funding,” reports CNN.