'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities

The FBI says a 37-year-old man has been arrested following last week's discovery in Washington state of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

Here we go again. The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us.

The federal government is going after Lance Armstrong's money. As much as it can get.

Ann Romney told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that her husband "would have been a fabulous president."
The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, Feb. 11, to Sunday, Feb. 17, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.

U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe's historic decision to end Saturday mail delivery drew mixed reaction on Capitol Hill — and outright anger from the letter carriers union, which called for his resignation.
Your editorial "Delivering debt" (Jan. 3), about the long-term funding of health benefits of postal retirees, suggests that the Postal Service sought to "hide this mound of debt" and seeks to "push off" this problem to another day. The opposite is true.

The Postal Service is coming to grips with its diminished relevance in a digital society. The question is whether Congress will follow suit.

The most partisan, least productive Congress in memory has skipped out of Washington so lawmakers can make their case for voters to re-elect them.

The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported losses of $57 million per day in the last quarter and warned it will miss another payment due to the U.S. Treasury, just one week after its first-ever default on a payment for future retiree health benefits.
Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" one of television's most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, has died. He was 74.

Currently enjoying its bicentennial, the War of 1812 occupies a musty, forgotten junk drawer in America's collective cultural consciousness, stuffed somewhere between the liberation of Grenada and the time Will Smith punched that extraterrestrial fighter pilot in the face.
The co-founder of a large Russian Internet company wants to invest in the types of robotics envisioned in "The Jetsons" _ that 1960s cartoon portraying a family from the future, with flying cars, robot maids and all sorts of push-button inventions.

Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole paid tribute Wednesday to five persons during a National Missing Children's Day ceremony at the Justice Department, presenting awards to a special agent, a detective, a 30-year veteran of the Postal Service, a prosecutor and a fifth-grader for their efforts in recovering and rescuing missing children.

After presiding over three consecutive years of trillion-dollar deficits, President Obama told an audience in New York on Tuesday not to believe critics who accuse him of running a "bloated government."