...journalism is more essential than ever - and harder than ever to sustain.History has shown that the transparency provided by watchdogs and their sources is the best prevention for abuse of power. If it's important to protect the political opposition, it's...

Opens Friday, Aug 16, 2013 Synopsis: His heroic antics having inspired a citywide wave of masked vigilantes, Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) joins their ranks to help clean up the streets, only to face a formidable challenge when the vengeful Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) transforms himself into the world's first super villain in this sequel written and directed by Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down). Dave/Kick-Ass and Mindy/Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) are about to graduate high school and become a crime-fighting duo when their noble plans are foiled by Mindy's strict parents. Now, as Mindy hangs up her Hit Girl uniform and navigates the treacherous high-school social scene, Kick-Ass begins patrolling the streets with Justice Forever, a fearless group of urban watchdogs fronted by former mob thug Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). They've got the criminal element on the run when Chris D'Amico lays his Red Mist persona to rest, and reemerges as The Mother F**ker, a powerful criminal mastermind with a loyal legion of henchmen. The Mother F**ker is determined to avenge the death of his late father, who previously perished at the hands of Kick-Ass and Hit Girl. Now, as The Mother F**ker and his minions begin targeting the members of Justice Forever, Hit Girl realizes that the only way to save Kick-Ass and his new friends is to emerge from her forced retirement, and fight back with everything she's got. John Leguizamo, Donald Faison, Morris Chestnut, and Robert Emms co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey, John Leguizamo, Donald Faison Movie Details Movie Review

...Gazelka's literature is inaccurate on being 100 percent pro-life and pro-family. The Minnesota Family Council, the watchdogs of family and life issues, gave Gazelka their 100 percent rating. Gazelka also is the only endorsed MCCL pro-life candidate...

...Constitution. It also shakes the foundation of trust between the U.S. government and the media, which is responsible for being a watchdog of the comings and goings of the executive, judicial and legislative branches of our nation's government. Conservative...

...system from getting clogged up. And we imagine that the amendment would enable nonprofit good- governance groups to serve as watchdogs, filing complaints to the court as necessary.A strong PAYGO amendment would require that all new legislation be deficit...

...one of them, who wants to get rid of them liberals, is on the city payroll, with paid health insurance? These are the watchdogs of our taxpayers' money? Maybe they need to take a good look at themselves. The flip side I would be interested in hearing...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 20-year veteran FBI agent is asking court permission to tell President Clinton and watchdogs in Congress about what he calls criminal misconduct by federal workers during a top secret, undercover national security operation...

...John Ashcroft took his first concrete steps Wednesday to reign in the FBI after months of turmoil, giving Justice Department watchdogs greater power to investigate allegations of misconduct at the embattled law enforcement agency. The move eliminates bureaucratic...

...some kind of personal gratification? However, such people may always be necessary to ferret out sleaze because government watchdogs are too often asleep on the job. A case in point is the recent controversy exposed at the Army Corps of Engineers, a relatively...