Police brutality in Ozone Park?

From NY1:
It was six o'clock Tuesday evening when the Martin family says two plainclothes New York City police officers kicked down their door.
"We all came running downstairs and said 'What are you doing?' They said 'We kicked in the door.' We said 'What was the reason for kicking down the door?' They said 'Because we felt like it,'" Sean Martin said.
The NYPD's version is very different. The police say the officers were chasing a drug suspect who ran into the building where Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Map: On the front lines of the drug war

Ismael Estrada
CNN's AC360

It's an all-too common scene on patrol with a joint Mexican law enforcement task force in Juarez, Mexico.

Two people are shot dead in broad daylight Wednesday in a city lost in a drug war between rival cartels over the lucrative drug route into the United States.

Gunmen fire on a car, killing the driver; the passenger starts to flee and is gunned down in the street. These are the 11th and 12th killings in the Mexican citySource: AC360 RSS Feed

ThinkFast: December 2, 2009

In announcing his 18-month escalation strategy for Afghanistan, President Obama underscored his view that “Islamist extremism in the region remains an enduring threat to the security of Americans.” Obama revealed, “In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) offered a cautious response to President Obama’sSource: Think Progress RSS Feed

Can Obama rally the country on Afghanistan?

U.S. troops search for militants in the mountainous Taliban stronghold in Paktika Province in Afghanistan.

David Gergen | BIO
AC360° Contributor
CNN Senior Political Analyst

In his Afghanistan speech tonight, Barack Obama will face one of the toughest tests of any president in modern times.

Presidents usually seek public support for sending U.S. combat troops into action just after another country has attacked us or threatened our national interestSource: AC360 RSS Feed

Beck criticizes TP for not laughing at his sexist ‘joke’ about Palin.

Last week, ThinkProgress reported on Glenn Beck’s sexist explanation for ruling out a vice presidential run with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the top of the ticket. Beck said that he might consider a Beck-Palin ticket, but Palin-Beck would be out of the question because she’d always be “yapping away” as if she were “in the kitchen.” Today, Beck responded to our post on his website, saying hisSource: Think Progress RSS Feed

The Old Feeder in Ames, Iowa

Typical ISU Students - 1972
There have been some changes in the old feeder's plan to escape to the desert. I have acquired a traveling companion. This has required me to move my base of operations to Ames, Iowa, where I am going to stay until my adventurous partner, (who also happens to be an ex-wife) gets her house sold and her household goods secured. I have no idea how long this will take. I lived in Ames from 1965 to 1972.
In the meantime, I'm living out of a suitcase at herSource: Plains Feeder RSS Feed