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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Is Pot Tourism the Next Big American Thing?
ONE OF the reasons I traveled to Amsterdam in the early ’90s was to interview legal prostitutes, as I continued my Vincent Van Gogh pilgrimage throughout my trip, which began in France. The legal soft-drug bars were simply a bonus. It’s where the girls I interviewed met me. Amsterdam perfected the soft-drug bar a long [...]
John Lennon’s Glasses *Landmark Gun-Control Update*
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed landmark new gun laws on Wednesday expanding background checks on gun purchases and limiting the size of ammunition magazines, placing the traditionally firearm-friendly state among the handful to pass new restrictions in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn. The Democratic governor defended the legislation in a press conference [...]
News Desk: JonBenet Jury Handed Down Indictment on Ramseys, DA Wouldn’t Prosecute
KNOWN AS the paper of record in Boulder, Colorado, where the child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was brutally murdered, the Daily Camera reported over the weekend that the jury voted to indict the parents back in 1999, but the District Attorney Alex Hunter refused to move on it. “I and my prosecution task force believe [...]
Top Story — The N.R.A. is a Minority Group, 87% of Americans Want Universal Background Checks
“There is an emerging set of recommendations — not coming from me but coming from the groups we’ve met,” Biden said. “There is a surprising, so far, a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks.” These recommendations were not only about “closing the gun show loophole,” he said, “but total universal background [...]
News Desk — Raw Story: Indiana State Police Chief Advises Lawmakers to Legalize and Tax Pot
Indiana State Police chief advises lawmakers to legalize and tax pot (via Raw Story ) The top cop for the Indiana State Police on Tuesday advised a group of state lawmakers that marijuana be legalized and taxed. Speaking at a budget committee meeting, Superintendent Paul Whitesell noted that both Colorado and Washington had decriminalized small [...]
News Desk: Marijuana War Joined Through Victory
The Rocky Mountain High just got a whole lot higher. On Tuesday night, Amendment 64 — the measure seeking the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults — was passed by Colorado voters, making Colorado the first state to end marijuana prohibition in the United States. [Huffington Post] IT IS official. We’ve got to [...]
Top Story: Al Gore, Time to End the Electoral College
“I’ve seen how these states are written off and ignored, and people are effectively disenfranchised in the presidential race. And I really do now think it is time to change that.” – Former Vice President Al Gore AMEN. …and hallelujah. If you don’t live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North [...]
Top Story: Middle Class Voters Remain Romney’s Kryptonite, White Middle Class Men are Obama’s
NEW POLL NUMBERS hit as Team Obama releases an ad to push back against Mitt Romney’s false welfare claims, which are an effort to gain any grand possible with middle class voters that are dragging Romney down. Obama also is stronger with women than Romney, which isn’t hard to understand. The right wing continues to [...]
The Smoking Gun in Aurora
“His answering machine message was incoherent, just bizarre, really bizarre — slurring words, but he didn’t sound drunk, just strange — I could make out “James” somewhere in it,” Glenn Rotkovich, of the Lead Valley Range, in Byers, Colo., told FoxNews.com. “I told my staff, here’s the name — James Holmes — this is the [...]
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 [...]
LEAD STORY: Colorado Shooting Rampage at Theater Showing ‘The Dark Knight’
**UPDATED** “Soothing words are nice,” Bloomberg said during an interview on WOR News Talk Radio 710 in New York City. “But maybe it’s time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across [...]
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