All (18) GOP eyes now on New Hampshire, where lawmakers are about to consider a GOP bill requiring new legislation to find its direct origin in an 800-year-old, English feudal barons' declaration of rights - the Magna Carta of 1215. Sponsor Lucien Vita admitted he needs to "bone up" on the charter, but "it's a document that still functions," which is evidently more than you can say about the New Hampshire state legislature.

"We shall straightway return the son of Llewelin and all the Welsh hostages. - the Magna Carta

New York's City Council has joined Montana and a growing number of states and cities in declaring that corporations are not, Romney and company notwithstanding, people. Bravo, and more here.

"Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction which forces people - human beings - to share fundamental, natural rights with soulless creatures of government." - Montana ruling

With little media coverage, the NYPD blithely continues its crackdown on OWS and free speech - particularly when used to protest the restriction of free speech and other rights under the National Defense Authorization Act. Police evicted and arrested those livestreaming NDAA protests, and arrested a protester leading a mic-check against the NDAA, which evidently constitutes "annoyance," aka "free speech."