Patriot News Network

The following collection of articles by various authors are their opinions, inspiration and humor for your reading enjoyment.

War on Freedom

Teachers and administrators changed answers to increase test scores!

ATLANTA, Georgia - July 7, 2011 - More than 150 teachers and administrators from 44 public schools across Atlanta were caught changing answers on standardized tests used to judge student performance and rank schools, according to a state report.

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TSA agent stole 50,000 dollars and passenger's iPad!

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - July 7, 2011 - While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting passengers' electronics down his pants.

The Broward Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months from Fort

War on Freedom

Black woman suspects discrimination after TSA hair search!

SEATTLE, Washington - July 7, 2011 - An African American woman in Washington state says that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may have singled her out for a hair search because she’s black.

War on Freedom

Fed up citizen lashes out against speed cameras!

BALTIMORE, Maryland - July 7, 2011 - Maryland State Police closed down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway for more than three hours Wednesday as they searched for a man who was carrying a shotgun and hammer and smashed the windshield of a Jeep SUV that had speed cameras mounted on it.

Nobody was injured. As of Thursday morning, police were still searching for the man, who was described

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Police and firefighters shot with fireworks during riot!

PEORIA, Illinois - July 6, 2011 - A large-scale illegal fireworks display in a housing complex adjacent to the state’s largest Fourth of July celebration turned into what police termed a near-riot Monday as tens of thousands of revelers tried to filter out of Downtown.

As the grand finale of the Red, White and Boom! event exploded over the Illinois River, emergency responders were

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Woman removed from U.S. Airways flight for snapping photo!

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - July 2, 2011 - A Miami photographer was escorted off a U.S. Airways plane and deemed a “security risk” after she snapped a photo of an employee’s nametag at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday.

Sandy DeWitt said the employee, whose name was Tonialla G., was being rude to several passengers in the boarding area of the flight to Miami.

Road to Depression

Minnesota shuts down government!

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (PNN) - July 1, 2011 - Minnesota's state government began a broad shut down on Friday going into the Independence Day holiday after Democrat Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders failed to reach a budget deal.

Parts of the government had already begun to shut down on Thursday ahead of the midnight budget deadline, including some websites and d