‘Ain’t prohibition great?

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Officers taze a 10 year old boy for having a smart mouth and beat the shit out of an 80 year old man for “posturing.” As should be predicted, they were cleared of official wrongdoing despite eyewitness accounts and official omission of the juicy bits from police reports. When the fuck are we going to […]

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Justin Scheck via The Wall Street Journal: Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, his budget under pressure in a weak economy, has laid off staff, reduced patrols and even released jail inmates. But there’s one mission on which he’s spending more than in recent years: pot busts. The reason is simple: If he steps up his […]

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Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) in his post-“doing something”about our financial institutions orgasm: It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here. No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring […]

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Radley Balko’s weekly kick in the nuts: First, the dog obviously poses no immediate threat to anyone. It’s chained. Until the officer starts chasing it with a restraining pole, the dog is calmly lying on the ground. Second, even if you take the neighbor’s complaint and the police report at face value, the dog never […]

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Some will call it a warning shot across the bow of those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil health insurance companies; those with a brain will call it Señor Hopey McChangey playing a pre-emptive game of CYA for what many know is an inevitable “side effect” of Obamacare.

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For just one second, I’d like you to imagine a land in which you had your rights as a parent taken away for taking legally prescribed medications.  “No way!” most would say, “That place is fucking gulag!”  And I would absolutely agree.  But apparently we have such a hard-on for the War on Drugs in […]

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Eternal douchebags Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Sarah Palin shouldn’t call Obama’s agenda socialist in nature because they have family problems. I’m no fan of any of those three.  In fact, I can’t stand to listen to any of them and I’m not sure we’d miss too much were the three to be abducted by […]

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Lori Montgomery and Brady Dennis of The Washington Post on the rejection of yet more spending: The Senate effectively rejected a slimmed-down package of jobless benefits and state aid late Thursday, rebuffing President Obama’s call for urgent action to bolster the economic recovery. Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) voted with a […]

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Jim Warren of The Lexington Herald-Leader on the finding of Moonshine in rural Kentucky: Moonshine whiskey is an illegal product that Kentucky was once well known for producing. But nowadays marijuana has largely replaced moonshine as a problem for law enforcement officers. Too bad the solution to the problem has been lost in translation.

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