Monthly Archives: June 2007

Progress report

Imagine having an employee who was completely incompetent. Everything this person did on the job was a disaster. He failed to do the proper research or listen to his co-workers who had. He pushed through his own agenda despite all … Continue reading

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Further thoughts on Bong Hits for Jesus

Congratulations, Joseph Frederick! At age 18, Frederick was fed up with his lack of rights as a student and decided to shake things up a bit. Take a provocative nonsense slogan from a surfboard, put it on a banner, and … Continue reading

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Bong Hits for Jesus (updated multiple times)

Could be any day now for the decision in this Supreme Court case. Will it be a victory for free speech and the rights of students to have a life that isn’t controlled by the schools? Will it be the … Continue reading

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Despicable lies

Link. Mark R. Trouville, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office: “This ain’t your grandfather’s or your father’s marijuana,” Trouville said. “This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you.” Perhaps Trouville would care to … Continue reading

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Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker is fed up with the Drug War

Wow. Booker redirects his anger at the war on drugs This is big. He is an angrier man now. And the focus of that anger is a public policy that he believes is ruining his city and threatening his hopes … Continue reading

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World Anti Drugs Day attempts to disguise the catastrophic failure of the UN drug agencies

Tranform Drug Policy Foundation NEWS RELEASE On Tuesday June 26th the UN office of drugs and crime (UNODC) will celebrate annual World Anti-Drugs Day. Transform Drug Policy Foundation, the UK’s leading independent centre of expertise on drug policy and law … Continue reading

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Call for poetry about the drug war

I ran across this singularly bad (and ignorant) piece of political poetry, supposedly about the drug war, and it got me thinking that maybe we have some poets in our midst who would like to try their hand at some … Continue reading

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Drug Czar – fuzzy statistics, fuzzier conclusions, all in the name of job security (his)

The Drug Czar’s latest “report” on teens, drugs and violence is the usual mishmash of distorted statistics and implied conclusions not drawn from the data, all in an attempt to scare people. Today ONDCP released a new Special Report showing … Continue reading

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Radley’s busy

Radley Balko’s doing some great stuff. Today, he’s testifying “as part of House Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott’s ‘Crime Summit.’ … topic is the militarization of domestic police departments.” There’s nobody better to talk about that subject. And on July … Continue reading

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