Patriot News Network

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

Road to Depression

Food inflation kept hidden in tinier bags!

NEW YORK - March 28, 2011 - Chips are disappearing from bags, candy from boxes and vegetables from cans.

As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.

Road to Depression

Another bank fails in 2011!

WASHINGTON - March 26, 2011 - Regulators on Friday shut down a small bank in Illinois, boosting to 26 the number of U.S. bank failures this year after 157 succumbed in 2010 to the sputtering economy and piles of soured loans.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Bank of Commerce, with one office in Wood Dale, Illinois, $163.1 million in assets and $161.4 million in deposits. Ad

War on Freedom

Google making app that would identify people's faces!

SANTA MONICA, Kalifornia - March 31, 2011 - Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.

In order to be identified by the software, people would have to check a box agreeing to give Google permission to access their pictures and profile info

War on Freedom

Two New Orleans cops sentenced in Katrina murder!

CHICAGO, Illinois - March 31, 2011 - Two New Orleans police officers convicted of shooting and burning a man in the 2005 post-Hurricane Katrina chaos were sentenced to 25 and 17 years in jail for their crimes, officials said Thursday.

They were two of three police officers convicted in December in the September 2, 2005 slaying, which was not investigated until early 2009 - shortly af

War on Freedom

Supreme Court rules prosecutors can lie and fabricate evidence!

WASHINGTON - March 29, 2011 - An ideologically divided Supreme Court on Tuesday stripped a $14 million award from a wrongfully convicted man who had spent 14 years on death row and successfully sued New Orleans prosecutors for misconduct.

Conservative justices prevailed in the 5 to 4 ruling, which shielded the district attorney’s office from liability for not turning over evidence

War on Freedom

Court may refuse to hear New Jersey man's appeal for being strip-searched!

WASHINGTON - March 29, 2011 - Albert Florence was strip-searched twice in seven days in two New Jersey jails after he was arrested on a warrant for a traffic fine he had already paid.

Florence said he should never have been ordered to undress for the searches, much less been arrested. He sued over his treatment, but a divided panel of federal appeals court judges in Philadelphia said

War on Freedom

Federal agency recognizes pot for medical use!

WASHINGTON - March 27, 2011 - Medical marijuana dispensaries currently under fire from the IRS may have been handed a critical new weapon in their fight to stay open. The National Cancer Institute, one of the many federal agencies who make up the National Institute of Health, has ruled that marijuana does in fact have medical benefits, making it the first federal agency to do so.