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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The lilly smelling three foot long lilly white spitting earthworm is going extinct, and it’s Bush’s fault.
Well, actually, the Palouse earthworm had been thought to be extinct already, since the last one was sighted in 1988, but now that an Idaho scientist found one in 2006.
So now conservationists are suing the administration to try to […]

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The Failed War on Drugs Combined Edition for January-February
25 Links to stories about Corrupt Cops, Reforms, Botched Drug Raids, News, This Week in Drug History and More
The USA’s Second Longest Running “War”–After the “War on Poverty” 
Corrupt Cops, This Week in Drug History, Reforms, News, More!
Our January-February Special Edition of the “Failed War on Drugs” is […]

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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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  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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NOTE: The piece below was published by Sunstone Magazine in November of 2005. Since, then it has been cited by many other national reporters, most recently last Sunday 12/16/07 by Tim Russert on Meet The Press. Regular updates about Romney’s pursuit of the Presidency are available at www.catchingmitt.com This piece may […]

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Boston, Massachusetts
As a not-particularly devout Mormon and journalist who has tracked Mitt Romney’s campaign since it began in 1993.  My aim is to correct a number of errors in The National Catholic Register’s editorial of 12/11/2007 (Romney vs. JFK http://ncregister.com/site/article/7530/ )  and to set the record straight in a few other areas.
You wrote: “There are […]

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Craig, Idaho’s trying to let you know
Please don’t stay, you gotta go
If you say that you are mine
You’ll be stuck here ’til the end of time
Craig, I’m trying to let you know
Please don’t stay, you gotta go
Always tease, tease, tease
Do I have to beg down on my knees?
One day you’re gone and then you […]

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You’ve heard of institutional memory? Well The New York Times has developed institutional Alzheimer’s.
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus outlines the details of a story that is familiar to anyone who’s picked up a newspaper, watched the news on TV or listened to talk radio over the past few days:
[A]n important political figure, arrested for engaging […]

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Today on The Lunch, Rob and Will play 10-in-3 with a host of unlikely characters, including a senator from Idaho and a dictator from Cuba. Also in the show, Edwards and an unwelcome guest, Thompson decides to decide, and Wyoming flexes its two electoral votes.
Watch now! 

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On occasion a reader of my posts will send an e-mail, More then a hundred folks took of their time to tell me they felt my post on pedophilia concerns in the Craig scandal were out of left field and muckraking.
How do I justify the leap from revelation of a tawdry indiscretion in a public […]

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Is it so hard to tell a male human being from a female one? I guess to the AP it is because in a story from the 31st, the tale they told of a male inmate castrating himself with a broken disposable razor blade became the story of a male inmate castrating “herself” with a […]

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News Item:
Controversial billboards coming down
A morning radio show has caused a flap in Idaho, and we’re not talking about Howard Stern or Don Imus.  Boise radio station 96.9, The Eagle, wanted to attract a larger portion of male listeners, and decided cleavage was the way to go.  So they coughed up the required change to […]

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As a doctor, I’ve worked in many cultures, both in the USA and overseas.
One thing that drives me up the wall is when a novel or a news report gets theculture or customs wrong, whether it be giving the wrong medicine in CPR, havingthe Irish in Uris’ book Trinity act like they lived in modern […]

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued another report stating that the fraud losses in Katrina and Rita are a lot higher than previously disclosed to the public. 
The report states:

Almost $20 million in double payments was paid to people claiming damage to the same property in both hurricanes (Katrina and Rita).
Almost $17 million in improper […]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands.
In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases are […]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.”
Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement:
In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after verification of […]

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Two employees have been fired from a Boise, ID skating rink after they were reported to have “borrowed” two zambonis after hours to make a fast food run. The pair of employees was reported by an anonymous source to have left the rink around 12:30am on November 10th and making their way to a […]

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From the department of “Well, it Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”
A pair of zamboni drivers employed by the Boise public ice-skating rink were fired after using their vehicles to make midnight run through a nearby Burger-King drive-through, about a mile and a half away from the rink.
(complete story here, what there is […]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now - I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.”
I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were selling […]

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Same-sex marriage bans called in SC, TN, VA, WI, leads in others, trails in AZ.
Eight states were voting on measures that would ban same-sex marriage. CNN.com has South Carolina, Tennesssee, Virginia and Wisconsin passing the same-sex marriage ban. The issue is too close to call in Arizona, but is trailing there with 48% voting to ban gay […]

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According to the mainstream media, “Lawyers for Joseph Edward Duncan III said Wednesday he will admit to the murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene at a campsite in Montana and to three slayings in Idaho if state prosecutors will agree not to seek the death penalty.”
Wow, so at least we know who committed those murders. It […]

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