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There are now two ways for Americans to get involved in the war on terror and feel good about reporting their fellow Americans. DriveMeCrazy, developed by Shazam co-founder Philip Inghelbrecht, allows users to report drivers for numerous, minor infractions. The new Patriot App for the iPhone allows users to report anything they find suspicious. Charles Reinighaus, creator of the app believes that Americans need to be more proactive towards terrorism and reporting suspicious activity.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will remain in a London prison until a British court takes up a Swedish request for extradition for questioning on sexual crime allegations. An international group of former intelligence officers and ex-government officials have released a statement in support of Assange. We speak to one of the signatories, Daniel Ellsberg, the famous whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971. "If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me," Ellsberg says. "I would be called not only a traitor--which I was then, which was false and slanderous--but I would be called a terrorist... Assange and Bradley Manning are no more terrorists than I am."

The ignorance and willingness of the people interviewed to let the government do whatever they want to ordinary people is astounding. According to Joe Biden's wife, we should just put up with it.

Even though Glenn Beck uses his usual nutbag assortment of tricks, including the infamous chalkboard, he actually makes a lot of sense in this video.

Carl Bernstein believes that Julian Assange is doing the right thing. This video covers several different aspects of the Wikileaks story. If you have read even a portion of the Wikileaks cables, none of it isn't anything we didn't know or didn't suspect and there is nothing that should surprise anyone. Most of the information is low classified information. In the future, there will be many people getting rich off of books written based on this information.

In the past month, we have seen major media outlets follow the story of National Opt Out day. Now that it is over, the stories are less frequent and will probably subside as the media moves on to other stories. It is important, however, to remember that everyone must keep up the pressure against the TSA or else the TSA will feel that they can continue their abusive behavior towards travelers.

If you care, even a little bit, about your privacy, you'll take the time to watch this. It's about three hours long, but well worth your time. Watch it in bits, but watch it all.

New Mother Harassed and Threatened by TSA because she requests alternate screening for her breast milk. As a repeat traveler, the TSA singled her out to make an example out of her. She spends over an hour in the "Special Inspection" area and is forced to miss her flight.