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Why do cops hate cameras?

Bob Collins August 1, 2011, 2:22 PM Aug 1, 2011

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Yet another case of police ordering someone to stop videotaping them has surfaced.

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Court: School board shouldn’t have spent money campaigning for referendum passage

Bob Collins August 1, 2011, 12:17 PM Aug 1, 2011

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School boards can spend money to inform voters about issues, but it’s a fine line between providing information and politicking.

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Politics

Bradlee Dean’s revenge

Bob Collins July 27, 2011, 12:44 PM Jul 27, 2011

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A controversial pastor is suing two media organizations.

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Norway searches for a punishment to fit the crime

Bob Collins July 25, 2011, 11:23 AM Jul 25, 2011

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Anders Behring Breivik could be out of prison in 16 years.

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Norway’s terrorist is a Norwegian

Bob Collins July 22, 2011, 11:26 PM Jul 22, 2011

Prior to the 9/11 attacks nearly 10 years ago, the threat of domestic extremist groups was the number-one security concern in the United States, too.

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Computer security war “can’t be won”

David Cazares July 13, 2011, 11:00 AM Jul 13, 2011

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A Blaine man who hijacked his neighbor’s Wi-fi and then made threats to Joe Biden and distributed child pornography using his victim’s identity has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. It’s just one more nasty incident — albeit a very small one — in the long war between forces of good and evil online. Read more →

Netflix price hike an attempt to move further away from DVDs

David Cazares July 13, 2011, 9:00 AM Jul 13, 2011

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Those tap-tap-tap noises you hear are DVD coffin nails. Netflix is trying like mad to get out of the DVD business. Peter Kafka of All Things D nails it: Even though the majority of Netflix’s 24 million subscribers are still paying it to get DVDs by mail, Reed Hastings and company see themselves as Internet Read more →

Court of Appeals: Facebook posts were grounds for U of M to discipline student

Bob Collins July 11, 2011, 1:37 PM Jul 11, 2011

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld the University of Minnesota’s right to discipline a student in a mortuary sciences class who made jokes about a cadaver and made threats on her Facebook page.

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Appeals Court: Death of fetus is death of a human being

Bob Collins July 5, 2011, 1:07 PM Jul 5, 2011

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld the 40-year prison term of a man who paid another person a few hundred dollars to punch a pregnant woman in the stomach because he didn’t want to pay child support.

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Are violent video games the same as fairy tales?

Bob Collins June 27, 2011, 11:39 AM Jun 27, 2011

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Today’s Supreme Court decision throwing out California’s ban on selling violent video games to people under 18 contains an unintended invitation to News Cut reader. What children’s book contains violence akin to the video games in question?

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