To those out there desperately trying to paste together scraps of enthusiasm by singing the poetic praises of VP Dick Cheney, please don’t expect the average conservative out in flyover country  to join your little Republican booster club.     Certainly, there is not much to disagree with in what the former VP says.  No doubt, we’re […]

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Every day we see some new concern in the western media, our media or some apex western meeting. Richard Holbrooke’s recent congressional hearing was quite pithy in this context. One comment from BBC’s anchor is still frozen in my memory, that some people argue that instead of AfPak policy it should be called the PakAf […]

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Upon hearing that Chris Simcox had decided to take on John McCain in the AZ 2010 Senate race, I’ll wager many a good conservatives thought, “oh. Cool!”    Nothing would be better than to see John McCain become as positionally irrelevant within the GOP as he actually is.  Wouldn’t it be sweet to see someone come […]

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Congressman Murtha again shows his ignorance of his own district when he offers to house Gitmo prisoners in his Congressional district in Pennsylavania.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat who is a leading critic of the Iraq war says he would have no qualms about transferring Guantanamo detainees to a prison in his Pennsylvania district.
Suspected […]

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The “fake scientific study” of the day is the one that announced that four cups of coffee would make you see visions.
It got a lot of press, of course, with even the staid National Geographic reporting “Coffee may cause hallucinations”.
The UK press had a field day:
Three cups of brewed coffee a day ‘triples risk of […]

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I have an insight. The block party Insite supporters held yesterday afternoon was an attempt to embarrass Canada’s freshly re-elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Insite supporters — particularly executives and staff at the PHS Community Services Services Society which operates Insite — do not want Harper to shut down this space where junkies in Vancouver […]

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Dallas, TX police found almost half a million dollars worth of cocaine hidden in an undercover police car while cleaning the vehicle’s interior on Wednesday. The nearly fifty pounds of cocaine were found in hydraulically-controlled compartments.
Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, Commander of the narcotics division, found the 2004 Infiniti during a raid at a drug house […]

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Obama’s been in the news courting faith voters, talking to evangelical leaders.
McCain? He’s been visiting Colombia and Mexico. Ho hum. Yawn.
I was bemused when one political writer wondered if the hostage rescue in Colombia had been “timed” for his benefit. Tres estupido.  What if the rescue had gone wrong? But of course, the rescue merely […]

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With budget cuts by Governor Mitch Daniels, and Terrible news by a resent study on towns in the path of I-69, Oakland City Indiana seems to be headed for trouble.
A study conducted by The University Of Southern Indiana (USI) states “Investment in upgrading/expanding infrastructure (e.g., water/sewer facilities)
yields a greater return if it is made early-on, […]

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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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In Colombia, the narco “insurgent” group FARC is being decimated by a “carrot-stick” approach by the Colombian President Uribe.
After years of a “talk nice and let’s negotiate” President, where FARC used truces and safe zones to regroup and fight again rather than to negotiate, the present government is hitting hard, but offering amnesty to those […]

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(Photo courtesy of the OCCRP site)
Eastern European/Eurasian organized groups seem to have their hands in a wide variety of organized criminal activity. They are often mentioned when referring to anything from auction fraud to payment (credit/debit) card skimming and computer crimes.
eBay claims there are entire towns in Romania making a living via auction fraud on […]

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The war on terror has encouraged other countries to follow and kill known terrorists who found safe havens a couple miles across the border.
First someone dropped a missile on some AlQaeda bigshot in Pakistan, then the Turks sent troops to chase Kurdish separatists into Iraq. They too were terrorists who have killed and bombed […]

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How long have they known about and underestimated the toxic effects of Methadone?
In a February 12th 2008 article from the Baltimore Sun, it was revealed that SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration) withheld information on reported abuses of Suboxone.   It is reported that over 2 years ago, SAMHSA learned that people were misusing and […]

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(Cartoon by Suad Leija. Suad is the artist, however the political opinions are those of her husband. More cartoons can be seen on her new site, here.)
With the 2008 election in full swing, most of the candidates seem content to dodge the issue of border security.
Tied into another controversial issue, which is illegal immigration, discussing […]

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About every 2 weeks, somewhere in the US, a SWAT team raids the wrong home  
The Increasing Militarization of the America’s Police

“A Man’s Home is his Castle.”
–A proverbial expression that illustrates the principle of individual privacy, which is fundamental to the American system of government. In this regard, the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution […]

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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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A Palm Beach paper Has a Story About Rush Limbaugh Drinking a Cocktail
An ‘Expert’ in the form of a “Treatment Specialist” is Summoned 
Although Limbaugh Exhibits no Problem Behavior, You’d Never Know it 
Conservatives Have to Bend Principles to Support the War on Drugs
Another Expensive “War” Gone Awry 
About 14 or 15 years ago, an email was sent […]

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“. . . and we are political junkies.”–“Hi, Mark; hi Mom!”
You’ll never catch Mom or me at a Twelve Step meeting. I don’t want “serenity.” I want adrenaline. I want to roll up one sleeve, plug my high speed internet cable into a vein, let my eyes roll back, and quiver uncontrollably when I hear […]

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According to the BBC, over a million people in Bogata protested FARC’s terrorist war against the Colombian people.
On the streets of Bogota, the message was blunter.
“No more Farc, we don’t want any more Farc, young people have to say no to the Farc and tell them to stop their violence,” student Jaime Martinez said.
Former hostage […]

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In Colombia, FARC continues to tease by again claiming they will release two hostages (out of 3000 civilian and military hostages, of which a couple hundred are high profile hostages).
This is a game, of course, allowing nearby Venezuela President Chavez to bask in the limelight pretending he is Castro’s heir in promoting socialist utopias in […]

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(Picture of “toy” Border Patrol vehicle courtesy of SpongeBob22 at Flickr)
It appears that the criminals exploiting our notoriously “not very secure” Southern border have a new tool in their arsenal.
Vehicles bearing fake logos of the Border Patrol, Fedex, DirecTV and everyone’s favorite source of outsourced goods, “Walmart” are being used to smuggle illicit merchandise and […]

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Michelle Malkin has a link to this intriguing item: Bomb factory in Colombia professor’s home.
The professor’s area of expertise is the spread of infectious disease.
Umm…like maybe anthrax? The link brings up all sorts of questions.
But a Medline search shows that the lowly professor’s published works are mainly about interviewing HIV positive men about POV parties,  […]

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Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television and one of Hillary Clinton’s impolitic high-profile supporters apologized to Barack Obama for his comments in a SC campaign event on January 13th insinuating that while the Clintons were in the trenches fighting for civil rights, Obama was in the hood taking drugs (Obama admitted youthful marijuana and […]

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If Oliver Stone bothered to go outside his Caracas hotel room into some of the small nearby businesses, he might meet the middle class folks who demonstrated many time en mass against Chavez’ attempt to become dicator.But if Stone went around the corner, he would find the lower middle class neighborhoods are dotted with small […]

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Oliver Stone was left with the proverbial egg on face when a highly publicized “hostage release” of a two woman and a child, a son “conceived by one with a captor” were to be released into the waiting arms of Venezuela’s left wing president Chavez.
Whoops. Turns out the boy was a foster child in Bogata…and […]

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New Code of Behavior Has Amsterdam Police Ready for Court  
“Has to be Scope for Soft Drugs” 
Dutch Cops Just Want to Have Fun 
Drug police in Amsterdam are going to fight for their right to party.
The men in blue (or whatever color Dutch police wear) in Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands, are up in […]

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With new Social Security verification laws on the horizon, up to 20 million illegal aliens are probably will have to come up with a legitimate identity in order to remain employed.
Up until now, anyone has been able to make up a number and pass it off with false identification. DHS (Department of Homeland Security) was […]

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DEA’s Deadly Decision
As Prescription Drug Deaths Increase – DEA Reduces Restrictions on Schedule II Drugs
On Wednesday December 19th 2007, the DEA announced physicians’ are now allowed to write a prescription for a 90 day supply of schedule II drugs. Schedule II drugs are controlled and classified as legal narcotic and stimulant drugs with high potential […]

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Being a leftist makes things so easy to understand things.
It’s like sausage: Just place anything into the meatgrinder, and out comes sausage. It gives you a nice template in which to judge foreign policy.
In the Philippines, it means you can issue reports condemning the government’s hand in “extrajudicial” killing of leftists while ignoring the NPA […]

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