‘CUT!’ Chinese censors erase 13 minutes from Men In Black 3 to remove ‘offensive’ Chinese baddies

What do Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and an alien disguised as a Chinese restaurant worker have in common?

They all feature in newly-opened Hollywood blockbuster Men in Black 3 – unless you’re watching it in China, where Beijing’s censors deemed the last character too offensive for the screen.

Before the film could open, the Chinese government insisted on removing three scenes, totalling 13 minutes of film.

She’s a goner: Government censors removed [...]

A shocking new way the government is spying on Americans

From Andrew P. Napolitano on LewRockwell.com:

If this question had been asked by a fictional character in a spy thriller, it might intrigue you, but you wouldn’t imagine that it could be true in reality. If the Constitution means what it says, you wouldn’t even consider the plausibility of an affirmative answer. After all, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution was written to prevent the government from violating on a whim [...]

Navy SEAL Team 6 took down bin Laden in darkness and gunfire, told to keep quiet. Probably won’t claim credit:

From AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Osama bin Laden’s death in a ripped-from-a-spy-thriller helicopter raid and firefight gives a storied unit of U.S. special operations forces bragging rights for what has become the most famous covert operation since the Sept. 11 attacks launched on bin Laden’s orders.

The unit, called Navy SEAL Team Six, probably won’t claim the credit publicly, however.

U.S. officials, speaking [...]