RIPPING the Department of Justice and Attorney General “I was recused” on marijuana prohibition and the “cultural lag” in Washington, D.C. It was the best moment ever. When I heard it during the hearings with Mr. “I was recused,” I let out a loud cheer and applauded. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, take it away, [...]
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News Desk: Alleged Cop Killer’s Remains Identified [AFP Report]
Alleged cop killer’s remains identified: US sheriff (via AFP) Human remains found in a burnt-out mountain cabin in California have been confirmed as those of alleged cop-killer Christopher Dorner, the local sheriff and coroner’s office said. The 33-year-old was cornered Tuesday after a six-day manhunt in the cabin near the Big Bear ski resort, two [...]
News Desk: Vendetta Leads to Massive Manhunt in Southern California, with Manifesto Inflaming the Right
A former Navy reservist who was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008 has gone on a murderous rampage aimed at police officers and their families, law enforcement officials said Thursday, killing at least three people — including an 11-year veteran of the Riverside Police Department — and setting off a huge manhunt [...]
Super Bowl #Clydesdales Sunday *Updated*
THIS IS America’s Sunday of sharing one sport. But if football isn’t your thing, TCM is in their Oscar month of greatest films. Even many football agnostics watch the Super Bowl. Some watch it for the commercials. Some pretend to watch it, but simply tolerate it for the good eating. What’s your favorite recipe? Or [...]
Aaron Sandusky Gets 10 Years for Operating Legal Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in California
WELL, AT least they’re legal in California. But since it’s illegal under federal law, the Obama administration and the Justice Department lowered the boom. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money, which results in anything but justice. A Southern California man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for operating medical marijuana dispensaries, [...]
News Desk: Condoms Required for Porn Films Passes
THIS HAS been a bone of contention (sorry ’bout that) since I was writing about and snooping around in the sex industry back in the mid-90s. From LA Times: A measure that would require porn performers to wear condoms while filming in Los Angeles County was approved by voters. The measure garnered 55.9% of the [...]
News Desk – UPDATED — Queer Talk: Supreme Court Will Consider Review of Prop 8 Case
UPDATE at end. From a press release this morning by the American Foundation for Equal Rights : Today, the United States Supreme Court indicated that it will consider whether to grant review in Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. The Perry case, along with several cases [...]
Meet the Republican “Flat Earth Five” of 2012
THEY ARE Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-01), Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-24), Rep. Dan Lungren (CA-07), Rep. Francisco Canseco (TX-23), and Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08). Joe Walsh might ring a bell. He’s the guy who likes to mock his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee. He’s also got a bad reputation [...]
Queer Talk: New California Law Bans ‘Conversion’ Therapy
California became the first state to prohibit “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for minors. “Conversion” therapy is intended to change sexual orientation. Such therapies have been criticized and discredited by nearly all major U.S. medical, psychiatric, psychological and professional counseling organizations. Signing the legislation into law, Gov. Brown said: ‘These practices have no basis in science [...]
Condoleezza Rice Enters Politics, Just Don’t Tell Her
CLASS ACT alert. Condoleezza Rice should prepare herself, because the Republican Party in California has been comatose since Pete Wilson’s governorship. She’s just the woman who might bring it back. She’s an abortion rights advocate, incredibly adept, with her domestic passion education, which she calls the civil rights issue of our time. Who can argue [...]
Guns, ‘God’s Plan,’ and Leadership
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what [...]
It’s Not ‘Walking While White,’ It’s the Rodney King Syndrome
“Justice for Trayvon” mob beatings are now a rising cause for the right, with a horrific crime leaving one man in critical condition. Elevating “walking while white” is the most absurdly tortured false equivalency someone can hoist as an answer to George Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin. But that’s what Erick Erickson was happy to legitimize [...]
Chilling Video of UC Davis Police Pepper-Spraying Peaceful Students
I can’t see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here. Watch that first minute and think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays unarmed and passive people [...]
Homecoming Gang Rape in California
We interrupt this packed foreign policy news day to shock you with a case of criminal inhumanity… What kind of teens are people raising these days? What kind of young men would not only participate in gang raping a young girl, but also leave her to die after they were done? Investigators say as many [...]
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