Andrew W. Griffin | Thankfully no innocent lives were lost today and it is a shame that James J. Lee put himself in this position.

Eric Blair | Prop 19 is the liberty and states’ rights battle of our time. Restoration of our rights has to begin somewhere.

Florida Oil Spill Law | Test results reveals 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A, in swimming pool.

MyFox New York | The number of homeless in the borough of Manhattan was up 47 percent in the past year.

Americans for Prosperity | Would President Obama’s EPA really force Americans to pay a tax on “rainwater runoff” from homes and small businesses? You bet they would.

Wall Street Journal | Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort.

Yahoo News | Two New York lawmakers want farmers to vaccinate their chickens against salmonella.

Devvy Kidd | Let me get on everyone’s bad side here by pointing out a few inconvenient truths.

Politics Daily | Are Americans holding off on having kids because of the bad economy? It sure looks that way.

Washington’s Blog | I have repeatedly pointed out that it is possible that the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs) will become the world’s reserve currency.

Patrick Henningsen | It seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last legs, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.

Ron Brynaert | Global initiative claims suspect never worked for them, but they need to confirm whether a volunteer with same name is the same individual.

Jerry Mazza | We had a total loss of 221,000 jobs last month.

Reuters | New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods excluding transportation equipment posted their largest decline in 1-1/2 years in July.

Des Moines Register | “We don’t know if this was juveniles fighting or a group of kids singling out white citizens leaving the fairgrounds,” said police.

Kitco News | “If there was no question about the gold being there, you think they would be anxious to prove gold is there,” Paul said of the Federal Reserve.

Yahoo! Finance | There’s a lot of talk these days about America being an empire in decline. Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute, goes a step further, arguing America is following a similar path as the former Soviet Union.

Los Angeles Times | A measure that swiftly made its way through the Legislature expresses the state’s “deepest regrets” over the mistreatment of Italians and Italian Americans during World War II.

Bill Simpich | With millions of documents released in the years since the JFK Act was passed in the nineties, the intelligence backgrounds of Oswald’s handlers have come into focus.

Daniel Tencer | Federal government admits not testing for arsenic, mercury or other toxic heavy metals in seafood.

Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld | What have we done? How has it come to this? Where do we go from here?

Kelley Bergman | Technically speaking, the disastrous consequences of the BP oil spill have barely begun.

Raw Story | Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who owns seven percent of News Corp., “has directly funded [Imam Feisal Abdul] Rauf’s projects to the tune of more than $300,000.”

The Economic Collapse | Adam Smith must be rolling over in his grave.

MyFox New York | A new survey claims that 27 percent of public school students aged 12 to 17 attend schools that are both gang and drug-infected.

The Los Angeles Times | Gallup released a new overnight poll showing that many Americans have regrets that their president made that statement.

Global Research | The rampant use of toxic dispersants, out-of-state private contractors being brought in to spray them and US Coast Guard complicity are common stories now in the four states most affected by BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Bloomberg | Hearing loss among U.S. adolescents has surged, probably because of the use of devices such as earbuds for listening to music, doctors say.

NBC Bay Area | A Bay Area kayaker lived a real life shark tale and survived to talk about it.

Washington’s Blog | Fish contaminated with arsenic will not smell or taste like oil.

Robert J. Samuelson | A two-child family would cost about $600,000. All these estimates may be understated because they do not include college costs.

Brian D. Hill | I had my suspicions over the Fair tax proposal because the Bilderberg’s have used false messiahs.

Bob Livingston | It’s good to see civil disobedience making a comeback.

Raw Story | A US Internet radio host was convicted Friday of threatening to assault and kill three judges who upheld a ban on handguns in Chicago, the US Justice Department said.

Barbara H. Peterson | Farmers in Oklahoma are being targeted with new dust regulations.

The Observer | America appears to be a society splitting down the center, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-nots.

CNN | Turner faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Bloomberg | A judge ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to stop manipulating debit-card transactions without consumers’ knowledge to increase revenue from overdraft fees.

Press TV | The US trade deficit in June has reached its widest point in the past 20 months on the rising imports and weakening exports.

Freedom of Information | The result of nearly two decades of unchecked neoliberal economic policy has been a sharp decline in real wages and living standards in the United States.

Meta-Oceanic Research | Matt Simmons, famous for his controversial criticisms of BP and calls for full disclosure regarding the true nature of the oil disaster in the Gulf, is dead.

Cassandra Anderson | There are over 600 US cities that are members of ICLEI, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, now known as Local Governments for Sustainability.

Steve Watson | Rand Paul “fan” later caught marching with opponent’s supporters at rally, ousted as a “hardcore Democrat,” Obama supporter.

Wall Street Journal | Foes want the Obama administration to ban a 1% ‘private transfer’ charge — assessed every time a property is sold for 99 years — paid to investors who backed the home’s original builder.

Veteran’s Today | The Wayne Madsen Report previously reported on President Obama’s more than one year employment by a CIA front operation, Business International Corporation, Inc. (BIC) after his graduation from Columbia in 1983.

New York Times | Because of a $45 million budget gap, the New York City Housing Authority may have to revoke rental-assistance vouchers from more than 10,000 low-income tenants, a drastic move that could cause families to lose their apartments.

Sydney Morning Herald | Michelle Obama’s office said the Obamas would pay for personal expenses, but would not reveal the taxpayer cost for the government employees.

Austin American-Statesman | This editorial urges demonstrators to welcome the President during his visit to Austin on Monday with respect.

Mail Online | The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her a modern-day Marie Antoinette.

Washington Post | The Times had obtained copies of Navy and Marine Corps messages banning troops from accessing WikiLeaks.