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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Oprah on Lance Armstrong Confession: “Entire Interview was Difficult” [Video]
“The entire interview was difficult,” Winfrey said Tuesday on “CBS This Morning.” [...] Winfrey went on to explain that while Armstrong “did not come clean in the manner that I expected” and that it was “surprising to me … my team, all of us in the room … I feel that he answered the questions [...]
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 — 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 [...]
Republicans From Jindal to Rand Paul Wake Up, But Still No Signal to Women
“We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything.” – Gov. Bobby Jindal IT’S REALLY not that tough for Republicans. Embrace actual conservatism. Get in touch with the libertarian nature of conservatism. This includes letting people do what we [...]
News Desk: Lance Armstrong Stripped of 7 Tour de France Titles, Name to be Stricken from Record Book
WE HAVE to come up with a new adjective other than “fall.” It’s an epic collapse of character for a man who was one of the most admired athletes in the world. The International Cycling Union announced on Monday that it would not appeal the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s ruling to bar Lance Armstrong for [...]
Meningitis Outbreak from Massachusetts: Speed Put Above Public Safety
THE NEED to deliver quickly put over public safety is blowing the minds of the medical industry and destroying scientific credibility, while scaring the bejeezus out of the public. The meningitis outbreak is casting a dark shadow on the economics of science in the modern era. From ABC News today: In the shameful steroid contamination [...]
Nike Drops Lance Armstrong Over Growing Doping Scandal
Nike Inc. said Wednesday it has terminated its contract with Lance Armstrong, “due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence” that the bicyclist participated in blood doping. The athletic shoe and clothing maker said Armstrong “misled Nike” for more than 10 years. [MarketWatch] IT’S BEEN a slow and steady demise of the once mighty Lance Armstrong. Armstrong [...]
Barney Frank, Obama’s War, and the Need to Decriminalize, Legalize, then Tax Marijuana [updated]
“I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.” – Barney Frank FREEDOM REALLY means nothing to Republicans or Democrats, especially so-called conservatives on both sides. If we had freedom in this country we wouldn’t be arguing about gambling, marijuana, women’s self-determination, and gay rights, among [...]
Buchanan: If Welfare is a “Narcotic,” Barack Obama is a “Drug Dealer”
NOBODY BOILS down Republican extremism better than Patrick J. Buchanan. Quoting F.D.R., then twisting it into an example for maximum affect, the Southern strategy guru is reeling it out on Fox these days, after MSNBC kicked him to the curb. A writer who boiled down Bush’s Iraq war misadventurism better than most, Buchanan once offered [...]
Pot and the President
“When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!’ and took an extra hit.” – “Barack Obama: The Story,” by David Marinass MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION is long overdue, with medical marijuana a societal benefit that should be respected and embraced instead of treated as a crime. Both [...]
Oh Donna, How We Danced
DONNA SUMMER was writing “Love to Love You Baby”; I was Miss Missouri. “Last Dance” came out in 1978, the year after the BeeGees and John Travolta blasted on the scene and shook American culture. I was Broadway bound and once I got there one thing I’ll never forget is a couple of years later [...]
Trayvon Martin Case Shifts to Confusion and Accusations Against the Victim
“They killed my son, now they’re trying to kill his reputation.” – Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sabina Fuller Somebody is trying awfully hard to make 17 year-old Trayvon Martin look like a bad kid. Yesterday, information was released about Martin and marijuana, which led to a school suspension, the reason he was visiting his father, but [...]
Secy. Clinton’s Strength at State Seen in Obama Budget
Provides $51.6 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an increase of 1.6 percent, or $0.8 billion over the 2012 enacted level when including Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) resources. Within tightly capped budget constraints, the Budget makes investments in key priorities including the Middle East, Iraq, [...]
HIT PIECE: Michele Bachmann’s ‘Stress-Induced’ Headaches ‘Incapacitate’
Aw, come on, boys. If John F. Kennedy can do it on all the drugs he chugged, so can Michele Bachmann. The Daily Caller headline is the tell: Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged. It cannot possibly be a coincidence that with Rep. Michele Bachmann surging we now are privy to a potentially [...]
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