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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In the halcyon days of TV there was a game show, “To Tell The Truth,” in which contestants bluffed – even lied – their way through their résumés, claiming experiences and expertise they did not have. The object of the game was to fool the panel into voting for the bogus contestants, instead of the […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal judges have the discretion to give “reasonably” shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder.
The 7-2 ruling represents a victory for lawyers who argued that crack-cocaine offenders were unfairly targeted under U.S. sentencing guidelines.
Current federal penalties for selling 5 grams […]

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Drug Warriors Select a New Target
Hershey’s Ice Breakers Look Like Crack Cocaine?
“Clueless” is Used as an Unintended Description
“Drop the Ice Breakers and step away from the car.”
It would’ve been mildly amusing if it had been satire. After searching the story to see if it was intended to be a humor piece, “Mint or Drug: […]

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Say hey. Philadelphia has a new day. On November 6th, reform candidate Michael Nutter was elected mayor by the largest margin in the history of Philly mayoral elections. A gut reaction against the corruption and crime that flourished during the two terms of Mayor John Street. The feds convicted players in and around Street’s city […]

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Recent picture of Suad Leija taken during an interview with La Raza. Although not mentioned in many of the articles about this arrest, Suad is responsible for providing a lot of the information used in this latest indictment. Her story has been covered in the mainstream media by Lou Dobbs, Paula Zahn, Fox, CNN, La […]

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Ecuador wants a swap: the U.S. base at Manta, Ecuador for a base in Miami, Florida. Is Ecuador making a military or political point?
Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast.
Correa has […]

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Over the weekend, the press has been awash with a story that Iran is refusing to adhere with International money laundering standards.
It appears Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his motley crew of religious extremists don’t want anyone looking at their money flow “too closely.” My guess is that it might reveal that some of the money is […]

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Nope, no profiling allowed, folks.
Christian musicians entering the US from Canada, complete with seven kids are stopped and turned back twice by the border guards…
A security risk? Right. Pious Christian musicians with seven kids in tow are obviously a security risk (sarcasm)…What gives?
Well, I guess after Anne Applebaum reported strange behavior by supposedly innocent Syrian […]

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With 400 days until Election ‘08, Rob and Will report on Newt’s political abstinence, Rudy’s moderate handicap, the power of McCain’s straight talk, a Desperate (Housewives) tour for change, and much more.
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