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Open Thread – Holiday Travels

I’ll be gone for about a week starting today, visiting relatives in places that don’t have convenient wireless access. So while I’ll be able to check email and keep up with the news, I won’t be able to use my blogging software much. Feel free to discuss anything in the comments. Be safe. Happy Holidays!

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Up Goose Creek

U.S. Marijuana Party Blog reports a tentative settlement in the outrageous Goose Creek School Drug Raid. The students could receive between $2,000 and $5,000 each. I hate the notion of depriving schools and communities of much-needed funds, but sometimes hitting them in the pocketbook is the only way to make them aware that they have […]

Student financial aid provision possibly on its way to partial reform

Not a very strong headline, but… Dare Generation Diary reports that reform to the horrid HEA (Higher Education Act) financial aid provision (that denies financial aid to students with a drug conviction) passed the Senate yesterday (as part of the spending bill in that 51-50 vote where Cheney broke the tie). Now, first of all, […]

An editorial gets it right

Yesterday’s Lima News (Ohio) and Ft. Wayne News Sentinal (Indiana) editorials discuss the spying business and bring up the 4th Amendment…

It was bad enough when The New York Times revealed that, since early 2002, under an executive order from President Bush, the National Security Agency has been conducting surveillance inside the United States, almost […]

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