Pleading defends authorities' decision to jail defendant for 12 hours in violation of the law. Attorneys for Bradley County, Tenn., and several of its officials have submitted a brief to the state Supreme Court arguing that the constitutional idea of "liberty" doesn't actually mean "physical liberty."

Oversight chair ready to pull plug over sex-trafficking exposé videos. A string of undercover videos that shows employees of the nation's largest abortion provider aiding and abetting underage sex-trafficking has prompted powerful players on Capitol Hill to call for the cash-strapped federal government to stop funding Planned Parenthood.

Kurt Nimmo | The government has once again imposed an unreasonable and absurd mandate on business and the American people. Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombing event.

Attorney argues justices real problem is getting judges to take oath 'seriously' A veteran attorney who has pursued a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's presidential eligibility since he was elected is telling the U.S. Supreme Court that if its members continue to "avoid" the dispute they effectively will "destroy the constitutional rule of law basis of our legal system."

Apparently, in addition to terror experts Steve Emerson and Robert Spencer, Representative Peter King has backpedaled on Ayaan Hirsi Ali as well. Pity. She is a powerful witness. King will be relying in Muslims to testify. I imagine it will be quote difficult for Muslims to testify against their own community and then return to live in those very communities.

Paul Joseph Watson | Anyone attending a public event will be forced to prove to Homeland Security that they are well-behaved slaves. Even as Christina Aguilera butchered the words to the American national anthem before the start of last night’s Super Bowl, the hard-fought freedoms recognized in that song were being eviscerated as hired goons conducted 4th Amendment busting pat downs on people entering the stadium.

Top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa asked 150 industry groups which of President Obama’s regulations they think are impeding economic growth. The results are in: On Monday, Issa released 1,947 pages of almost unreadable letters from a slew of trade associations specifying complaints on government regulations that reach almost every part of American industry.

President Obama and Canada's prime minister will call on just two reporters at their "joint press availability" Friday afternoon, according to the White House.

Last month, the Obama EPA began enforcing new rules regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from any new or expanded power plants.

Zero Hedge | Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Paul announced Subcommittee will meet to examine the impact of Federal Reserve policies on job creation and the unemployment rate.

Republicans plan to quickly advance a bill banning the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, officials say

On February 9, House Republicans will begin their effort to reform government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant mortgage lenders many blame for the 2008 financial collapse. The firms were both left out of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill that was passed last summer to remedy the causes of the most recent recession.

Heritage Foundation gets tough with Dems looking to raise limit. Members of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party urgently have been warning Congress, especially GOP members of the House, that the U.S. debt limit must be raised – and raised soon – to avoid default, the dollar's collapse and various other catastrophies.

Discussed fall of Egypt with group dedicated to Islam's global spread. JERUSALEM – The Egyptian government has information a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Cairo secretly met yesterday with a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the nation's major Islamist opposition group, WND has learned.

WASHINGTON — New U.S. intelligence assessments have concluded that Pakistan has steadily expanded its nuclear arsenal since President Barack Obama came to office and that it is building the capability to surge ahead in the production of nuclear-weapons material, putting it on a path to overtake Britain as the world's fifth-largest nuclear weapons power.

Donald Trump is mad as hell — and he’s letting everybody know it. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV on Friday, the billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star lashes out at China, OPEC, Obama’s Middle East dealings, the president’s State of the Union address and more.

'It's one thing to share disrespect for rule of law, but it is quite another to collude' A public interest organization that uncovers and prosecutes corruption in government said it has confirmed from Department of Justice documents that the federal agency under Barack Obama's command worked hand-in-hand with the American Civil Liberties Union to attack Arizona over its tough new immigration law.

8 already considering plans simply to ignore Obama's health-care takeover. What if Washington made a law and nobody paid attention? Or even more significantly, what if states specifically repudiated it and threatened to prosecute those enforcing it?

DOT negotiating now with officials over specifics of plans. NEW YORK – Department of Transportation officials and the U.S. trade representative's office are in Mexico this week negotiating final details of a renewed Mexican truck demonstration project with the goal of allowing foreign long-haul loads to roam U.S. roads by summer.

Some citizens outraged, calling probe 'illegal seach and invasion' of property