There’s an article on NPR this morning about the decriminalization of marijuana and its effect on diminishing the black market for the substance, thus minimizing crime and violence, and perhaps even some international tensions between the US and Mexico. They argue against it, saying that it might indeed cause a domestic dispute because California [...] [...]
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With Hurricane Earl quickly approaching the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area (I keep making mental pictures that juxtapose hurricanes and trailer parks– not pretty), I’m reminded that now is a good time to try to put things in a bit of perspective. I live near Charlotte, NC, after spending most of my adult life near the [...] [...] Elena Kagan doesn’t “want to outlaw pornography” and Obama isn’t preventing BP from cleaning up the Gulf Okay, today there are several lies that should be addressed. The latest ones involve SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan, whose confirmation hearings just began (and USA Today predicts they’ll be loathsome, and just the sort of “vapid and hollow [...] [...] BP, not the US government, continues to dump oil all over the Gulf of Mexico A political adversary recently accused me of “blindly supporting anything that Obama does,” said that “you obviously hate capitalism, and you believe that government intervention is the best solution to every problem.” It’s pretty obvious, and I’ve written consistently [...] [...] Another example of gross misrepresentation and distortion A huge banner headline on this morning’s Drudge Report screams “Obama says: ‘It’s Like 9/11′” and links to an article in The Daily Mail which quotes the President as saying that while it was “cruel” to compare the BP disaster with Hurricane Katrina, it did indeed have echoes [...] [...] |
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