WASHINGTON - November 14, 2010 - Judges who hear Social Security disability cases are facing a growing number of violent threats from claimants angry over being denied benefits or frustrated at lengthy delays in processing claims.

There were at least 80 threats to kill or harm administrative law judges or staff over the past year - an 18% increase over the previous reporting period, according to data released to the Association of Administrative Law Judges.

During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.

LONDON, England - November 10, 2010 - University students forced their way into the headquarters of British Prime Minister David Cameron's party on Wednesday during a chaotic protest against the government's plans to triple tuition fees.

Dozens of demonstrators smashed ground-floor windows and charged into the lobby of 30 Millbank, a 1960s office building near the Houses of Parliament that houses the Conservative Party, an AFP reporter witnessed.

DUBLIN, Ireland - November 8, 2010 - Enterprising Irish Tax Commissioner's have taken to Google Earth in a novel way of finding tax evaders and evidence of their undeclared wealth or illicit earnings.

The international satellite and street view images online could be used to provide evidence of major work around people's homes such as home extensions, new swimming pools or other undeclared assets that could suggest a family's wealth is actually far above the levels indicated by their tax returns.

ORLANDO, Florida - November 7, 2010 - As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business hours on a Saturday in August, handcuffing barbers in front of customers during a busy back-to-school weekend.

It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Pine Hills area.

MOUNT JOY, Pennsylvania - November 7, 2010 - Authorities in central Pennsylvania say an autopsy is planned Monday on the body of a man who died over the weekend after being subdued by police using a stun gun.

OAKLAND, Kalifornia - November 7, 2010 - Philip Means could sympathize with the hundreds of people protesting Johannes Mehserle's two-year sentence for killing Oscar Grant Friday night - right up until they surged into his neighborhood and started screaming, jumping on cars and smashing windows.