Archive for July, 2007
State to allow patients to grow own pot
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.
It’s a decision that has made a lot of state law enforcement officials upset.
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007Clarity matters
Bush Is al-Qaeda’s Biggest Ally
Thursday, July 19th, 2007The new National Intelligence Estimate on the resurgent terrorist threat underscores not only the failure of George W. Bush’s “war on terror” but how his arrogance and incompetence have made him al-Qaeda’s most important strategic ally. The NIE confirms that the Iraq War has radicalized young Muslims and given al-Qaeda new life. This symbiotic relationship helps Bush, too, because a stronger al-Qaeda frightens many Americans so much they don’t dare question the President.
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007In conversations with at least twenty College Republicans about the war in Iraq, I listened as they lip-synched discredited cant about “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” Many of the young GOP cadres I met described the so-called “war on terror” as nothing less than the cause of their time.
Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went into contortions. Asthma. Bad knees…
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007With Bush stiff-arming Congress with one specious claim of executive privilege after another, impeachment is more imperative than ever.
The people understand this. It’s the politicians, even most Democratic ones, who are lagging so far behind.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Subprime Bait and Switch
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
The hope for subprime boosters was that such loans would allow the mortgage industry to continue business as usual while at the same time meeting government mandates for fair and affordable housing.
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I was just told Dick Cheney, while CEO of Halliburton, used her services regularly, they are trying to spin up a message to explain that members of his staff, in his offices, used this service to entertain foreign clients.
Sphere: Related ContentUS Air Force prepares to add unmanned drones to surge
Monday, July 16th, 2007
Technology will replace the human soldier. Then we don’t have to take ANY responsibility, do we? Robots can do all the killing while we sit behind computers unaffected.
Sphere: Related ContentDon’t Mess With Senator Webb
Monday, July 16th, 2007
On “Meet the Press”, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) takes surge supporter Republican Lindsey Graham to task for “putting words in the soldier’s mouths.” Now here’s a Democrat I can get behind.
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