Monthly Archives: June 2005

The Staggering Inability to Add 2+2

Reuters has an article today: Mexico’s Fox under fire as drug war spirals. Poor Vicente Fox. We used to wine and dine him and show him off at fancy parties. Now we don’t return his calls. MEXICO CITY, June 19 … Continue reading

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Is there trouble in Czar-land?

Could a certain Deputy Director at the ONDCP be getting a little big for his britches? Is the Czar himself in danger of falling out of favor? A little bird informs me that trouble (and maybe a power struggle) is … Continue reading

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Quick Takes

“bullet” Christopher sent me this AP story: College towns lead in marijuana use (talk about headlines stating the obvious). The interesting point — Christopher notes that if the numbers are true in the article, then 17.5 million Americans smoked pot … Continue reading

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TalkLeft Turns Three

Congratulations to Jeralyn Merritt and the always outstanding TalkLeft. TalkLeft is three today, which makes it one of the wise old elders in blog years. TalkLeft is the most prominent blog on the left that consistently and thoroughly covers the … Continue reading

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Hinchey Transcript Highlights

Here are some of the highlights from the Hinchey debate from the actual transcripts (instead of my hurried scribbling in yesterday’s posts): — Continue Reading —

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Interesting take on Raich

From the Denver Post, Commerce Clause is Infinitely Elastic by Ed Quillen. He spends the first part of the column examining Wickard and commerce clause history trying to find how Raich and Monson’s activity of growing their own could reach … Continue reading

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Quote of the day

…comes from reader BD in comments: Isn’t it interesting that Angel Raich, totally cognizant and aware of her pain, didn’t arouse as much sympathy from our public servants as Terri Schiavo did?

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Mark Souder is the scum of the earth

[First off — welcome to post number 1,000 at Drug WarRant. What a ride! When I started this blog just under two years ago, I expected to be posting once or twice a week. Obviously I got a little more … Continue reading

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What to do now that we lost the Hinchey vote

Official vote breakdown here. The Drug Policy Alliance also has a list of how the Representatives voted. You can send them a message saying what you thought of their vote at that link. But don’t stop there. Here’s a letter … Continue reading

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Hinchey Watch – Day 2, part 2

[See full proceedings through the Hinchey Amendment in the post below] In this post, we’ll continue to watch items in the proceedings. “bullet” C.L. “Butch” Otter (Idaho) has put forward an amendment to restrict the “sneak-and-peek” search warrants and brings … Continue reading

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