Even as the House extends another senseless war, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are making plans to march on the NATO summit and give back medals they earned in a war "based on lies and failed polices." Organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War as a way to acknowledge "the rights and humanity of all who are affected by these wars," the action echoes a powerful one decades ago by Vietnam veterans.

Searching for a way to heal, “we came to these symbols of the occupations, which are these medals we carry around... (They're) reminders of what we’ve done, that it’s time to let go of."

From a longtime New York State judge suffering from pancreatic cancer, a plea for the palliative legal use of medical marijuana as "a fundamental human and medical right." New York is now considering the issue.

Astounding numbers from an NYCLU analysis of NYPD data on a stop-and-frisk program already dubbed "the most massive local racial profiling program in the country." Police stopped 685,724 people, a 600% increase since Bloomberg took office; almost 90% were black or Latino; more young black men were stopped than live in the city. They were also frisked more, but had fewer weapons than whites. A march is coming.

Update: A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging stop-and-frisk, saying she was disturbed by the city’s “troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights.”