Plus the name of the group; "Learning and Forgetting Lab"??
That sounds like something from Hogwort's, not a real academic university. It's hard to take something seriously when it sounds so whimsically fictitious.

Can America afford to be less educated?

Can America afford to ignore the bitter lessons of the Community Reinvestment Act?

citation needed.
The Tea Party has always been a single issue, grassroots voter advocacy group. Their platform has always consisted of 3 planks:
Fiscal Responsibility
Constitutionally Limited Government
Free Markets

That's it. Nothing about race and nothing about religion.
The TEA Party has Libertarian roots, not Christian Conservative roots.

Psychic damage... lol.
Maybe he used some sort of telepathy. Hacked their brains and their router.

You'd think that attorneys representing the government would know the difference between psychic and psychological.

Because in politics everything is so sensationalist. That's our problem.

Oh, and the article also says this:

Benoit has not posted it on Youtube because he is asking to be compensated. But it sounds as if he won’t have much trouble getting compensated through a settlement with the police department.
However, he first must post the video for the world to see.

So, he can't post the video because he asking to be compensated, however he must post the video first to do that???
Contradict much? FN reporter should have been a writer for Monty Python.

He probably took out the memory card after they put the smashed phone back in his pocket.
But who knows? If the reporter screwed up facts like 'SIM cards don't store video', who knows what other facts they got wrong in this story.

Once again, news reporting appears to the be the most technically clueless profession. (and if this video actually exists, I guess the police would be the second).

Also from TFA: "Mr. Spitz’s information, Mr. Blaze pointed out, was not based on those frequent updates, but on how often Mr. Spitz checked his e-mail."
His phone must automatically check for new email every 7.5 minutes or so. Those would be a data transfers possibly subject to charges, taxes and inter-carrier charges that are based his location, so it's not surprising or conspiratorial that his location data is retained.

They at least need to retain your location when you use your phone for customer billing, taxing, and inter-carrier billing. The taxing and inter-carrier data could possibly be anonymized, but I would expect that data would still be retained by the phone companies to cover their asses. Cell phone usage is taxed at the federal, state and city level (in the US) and inter-carrier charges/reciprocating agreements add up to big bucks, so I can understand why they might be hesitant to toss out data, particularly the original switch data, which contains all the originating and terminating information.

Because that's how cell phones work. Cell phone companies must know where you are so that they can route your calls and data to the nearest cell phone tower.

In other shocking news... your landline provider, cable provider and isp know where you live. OMG!