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Embarrassing

From an audit of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office (Louisiana):

The Sheriff’s Office’s DARE Scholarship fund had $8,978 in “inappropriate expenditures” including $181 in liquor expense at a $595 dinner party for 25 people, according to the audit.

[Thanks to Herb]

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“bullet” King County Bar Association (Seattle) Calls for Legal, Regulated Drug Markets

In a resolution adopted Wednesday, the King County Bar Association (Seattle) has declared war on prohibition. The KCBA called for “a new framework of state-level regulatory control over psychoactive substances, intended to render the illegal markets for such substances unprofitable, to restrict access […]

Idiotic Editorial

The News-Hearld, which purports to be “serving Northeast Ohio” has this drivel to offer:

Mention the word “war” and you can easily start one of your own. Nationally, the topic is as controversial and as volatile as any in our vocabularies.

But there is one war that is neither controversial nor likely to start an […]

Stop Government Propaganda Act

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In response to continued revelations of government-funded “journalism” — ranging from the purported video news releases put out by the drug czar’s office and the Department of Health and Human Services to the recently uncovered payments to columnists Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher,who flacked administration programs — Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Frank […]

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