New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as:
[A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu.
On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse of the […]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether.
Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. Gov. […]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama.
Since none of the […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Early Results from the Maine Caucuses Show Romney ahead, Paul 2nd
Seven Quotes from Ron Paul’s Denver Speech yesterday
Paul to be Represented at WV GOP Convention Tuesday; WV GOP Paul Delegate Totals
Is Ron Paul the Anti-McCain?
UPDATE: SATURDAY, February 2, 2008 2:15 pm
Mitt Romney took an early lead in presidential preference voting by Maine Republicans as […]

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  ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Will A  Year of Firsts Yield 
More of The Same Old, Same Old?
 
January 30, 2008
 
By RB Scott
Boston, Massachusetts
 
Note:  RB Scott, a former staff writer and editor at Time, Life, People and Sports Illustrated, frequently writes about national politics.
 
As  the barrow pit alongside the campaign expressway collects more roadkill  (Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, […]

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Four people have just been shot at New Life Church, a large Christian megachurch located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Police have not yet released the condition of the shooting victims. It is believed that the shootings may be related to an earlier shooting today at a Christian missionary organization in Denver.
UPDATE: Outstanding coverage of the […]

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This is a story that everyone in America should care about, even though the action takes place in Colorado. It shows a justice system manipulated by a corrupt governor (former district attorney) persecuting one of our best Immigration Agents for objecting to plea bargains which allowed drug-dealing illegal aliens to avoid prosecution.
Please read “ICE […]

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Much like the Christmas shopping season, the ACLU's War on Christmas begins earlier and earlier every year. This year in Fort Collins, Colorado, the city council decided to revise their policies to honor appropriately the holiday that almost ninety percent of America celebrates as Christmas. A task force was drawn up, given their […]

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This is a contemporary American story if ever there was one; if only because it’s hard to imagine it occuring at any other time in American history.
It says a lot about America today–what it says is up for grabs.
“Sex Offender Seeking Seat on School Board”
A Horatio Alger story–kinda–from the Denver Post:
A Delta school board candidate […]

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The Rule by a few Unelected Officials Upsets Millions of Americans
“I had to rant and get some of this off my chest to someone so I figured who better to rant to than you?”
What would upset such placid(!) soul as RidesAPaleHorse?
The same thing that upsets millions of Americans–Left, Right or Center–across the USA each and […]

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Republicans in California are trying to change the way electoral votes from California are distributed.
Veteran GOP consultants said Monday that they were relaunching a drive to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes, aimed at helping the 2008 Republican presidential nominee capture the White House.
Political strategist David Gilliard said he was taking over […]

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Robert Daniels the 27 year old tuberculosis patient held for months in a room draped to block out the sun and denied appropriate treatment by sheriff Joe Arpaio. Until mounting National media pressure forced county health officials to allow travel for medical treatment in Colorado has fled to Russia, unable to “take the abuse” any more, his lawyer reported.
Declared by Maricopa county Arizona health officials to be suffering […]

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On Today’s Lunch, Rob and Will cover the usual Friday 10-in-3, including Chris Dodd’s trip to the ballpark, Fred Thompson’s paychecks, Mitt Romney’s rocky trip to the Rockies, and Al Gore’s upcoming smash-hit single.
Watch now!

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So much wisdom for one so young!
On Friday, the Rocky Mountain Collegian published what they called an editorial. Here it is, in its entirety:
“Taser this … F*** BUSH”
Yep, that’s all of it. That’s the entire thing. Four little words. (Note: I have tried repeatedly to load an actual image of the […]

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Writing about farm subsidies in The Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson observes, “most of today’s farm programs are simply income transfers from consumers and taxpayers to farmers … Farming has become the economy’s most pampered, protected and subsidized sector.”
In 1933 FDR signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act under duress, notes Samuelson: “The head of the Farm […]

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In the video Usama bin Laden released last week, he attempts to rebut the “neocon” assertion that immediate withdrawal from Iraq will precipitate a genocidal bloodbath with a history lesson that could have been delivered at any number of college campuses in the U.S.:

“[T]he morality and culture of the holocaust is your culture, not our […]

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Though Fred Thompson finally ended his dance of the seven veils and revealed his candidacy to Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” it’s Mike Huckabee – who has always made the most of his limited time in the spotlight as a second-tier candidate – who’s looking sexy after Wednesday’s “The First […]

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We’re eating up the ads today on a Political Lunch special edition. Romney comes back to earth, Biden boasts experience, and Richardson gets serious.
Watch it now at PoliticalLunch.com!

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Aerial News Gathering: Is It Worth It?
Reading about the fiery mid-air collision involving two Arizona news choppers in which four people died brings back a lot of memories.
As investigators try to sort out whether competition for the best shot of a police chase in progress contributed to the fatal crash that took the lives […]

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If you are a snake, especially a mean rattlesnake , you might know enough to back off when you see a hounddog or Rottweiler, but a Chinhuahua?
So today’s story of dog heroism comes from  Masonville, Colorado, where a one year old who was playing with the water in her grandparents birdbath disturbed  a nearby rattlesnake, […]

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Denver has recently announced a policy that plans to remove 500,000 cars from the road in an aggressive attempt to curb the effects of global warming. This follows on the heels of other plans nationwide to reduce emissions as well as commentary from elites who encourage the further increase in gas prices so fewer […]

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The Push to Preserve Biodiversity
By Carol Bogart 
 
Unless you garden, you probably don’t think much about seeds – except to wish raspberries and watermelon had fewer of them.
Although my parents were big on gardening, even before we moved to a farm when I was 10, it wasn’t until later in life that the bug bit me. […]

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Shannon Malloy, 30, from Fremont, Nebraska was involved in a serious car accident on January 25. When the car crashed near Tecumseh, about 50 miles outside of Lincoln, the force of her head hitting the passenger’s side dashboard separated her skull from her spine, causing what doctors call atlantooccipital dislocation, or internal decapitation. Amazingly, she […]

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As everyone reading Drudge knows, a monkey in Denver’s Zoo has died of the plague.
It seems that an enterprising monkey must have caught and eaten a squirrel, and developed the disease.
Zoo officials note 23 animals, mostly squirrels, have been found to have the disease, which is spread via fleas.
Actually, about a thousand people a year […]

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What was the first thing that ran through your head when you read that headline?
Did it confuse you? Maybe you were shocked? Perhaps you were even angered? I am sure a few even said something like “At last” or “about time”?
It is well known that MLK hung around Communists, even “card carrying” ones. It is […]

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     It might have something to do with my own history and familiarity with Pentecostal Christianity and radical faith, but I didn’t find this film either too ‘disturbing’ or ‘propagandistic’, all in all.  Jesus Camp, which was released on DVD on January 23, follows a particularly dedicated group of Christian kids and their youth leaders through a camp in North […]

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Danny and his girlfriend Nina weren’t sure where to move so they let the public decide it for them.
Danny a Florida native and Nina, an art student originally from Moscow Russia, met four years ago at a nightclub in Manhattan. They were inseparable after that. One day, while living in New York, the couple decided […]

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A Texas truck driver has been convicted in what authorities are calling the “nation’s deadliest human smuggling attempt.” Tyrone Williams faces the death penalty for the smuggling attempt, in which more than 70 illegal aliens were crammed inside Williams’ “tomb-like” tractor-trailer. According to reports, they “scraped at the insulation, broke out the tail-lights and screamed […]

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