Patriot News Network

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

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NYC councilman proposes banning Happy Meals!

NEW YORK - April 6, 2011 - San Francisco’s already done it, and now New York may follow suit. New York City Councilman Leroy Comrie thinks the city should consider a ban on “Happy Meals” and similar fast food promotions aimed at children unless those meals meet certain nutritional standards.

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Little League calls for fingerprinting all volunteers!

TENAFLY, New Jersey (PNN) - April 5, 2011 - A New Jersey Little League is taking safety up a notch. For the first time they’re requiring all their volunteers be fingerprinted. We’re talking coaches and concession stand workers, too.

Some parents, however, are crying foul.

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Bunny lady squaring off against TSA over airport confetti gag!

ROELAND PARK, Kansas - April 5, 2011 - She's known as the fun-loving, song-singing "Bunny Lady." But now a Roeland Park, Kansas, woman is facing the wrath of the Transportation Security Administration after a bizarre run-in with an agent at the Philadelphia International Airport involving, of all things, a basket of confetti-filled eggs.

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Colorado police pepper spray second grader!

LAKEWOOD, Colorado - April 5, 2011 - Police used pepper spray twice on a Lakewood, Colorado second grader who threatened them with a sharpened piece of wood after teachers called for backup when the boy had a tantrum.

A Lakewood Police report shows the shocking details of the eight-year-old's meltdown at Glennon Heights Elementary, 10 miles west of Denver's city center, on February 2

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Electronic information data breach grows worse!

NEW YORK - April 4, 2011 - The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup, Inc. and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon.

In what could be one of the biggest such breaches in U.S. history, a diverse swath of companies that di

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Oregon Supreme Court urged to block warrantless cell phone searches!

EUGENE, Oregon - April 4, 2011 - A digital rights organization told the Oregon Supreme Court that allowing law enforcement officials to search arrestees' cell phones violates privacy protections guaranteed by the Constitution.

In the case Oregon v. Nix, police officers searched through the data on a criminal suspect's cell phone after he had been arrested and placed in a holding cell

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Federal thugs seek to steal 7 million dollars in privately owned gold and silver!

RALEIGH, North Carolina (PNN) - April 4, 2011 - Federal prosecutors on Monday tried to take a hoard of silver "Liberty Dollars" worth about $7 million that authorities claim - in order to justify the theft of so much money from the Amerikan people - were invented by an Indiana man to compete with U.S. currency.

Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted last month in a federal kangaroo c