In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what's behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for many years to come. Check it out in this video.

A couple weeks ago, a 59-year-old Vietnam War veteran and cripple in rural Illinois was found not guilty of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. The man was arrested last October, when a drug task force found 25 pounds of marijuana in his home and 50 pounds of plants. Though evidence was overwhelming, the jury acquitted in an act of what can only be assumed as jury nullification: though the man had clearly broken a law, the jury unanimously did not agree with the law.