Hugh Pickens writes writes "Megan Garber writes that in high school, Paul Ryan's classmates voted him as his class's 'biggest brown noser,' a juicy tidbit that is a source of delight for his political opponents but considered an irrelevant piece of youthful trivia to his supporters.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Global Economic Intersection reports on a project to statistically measure political bias on Wikipedia.

An anonymous reader writes "Fans of Sarah Palin were found to be changing the article on Paul Revere to make it fit their idol's view that Paul Revere was not warning the American colonists that the British were coming, but rather warning the British were not 'going to taking away our [guns]'."<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F11%2F06%2F0

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<p>A number of Wikileaks revelations have shown that US officials, despite their public stance, have been well aware of corruption and human rights abu