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The economic consequences of Mr. Bush

Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we ? and our children and their... more

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Iran gets nuclear fuel from Russia?

Russia said Monday it has begun fuel deliveries to an atomic power station in Iran... more

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Facts as of Dec-13-2007 about Mexico

Just to keep you updated:..... READ AS MUCH AS YOU DIGEST...! Introduction... more

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Many thinking suicide after taking a stop smoking aid

Tens of thousands of users of Chantix, a new stop smoking aid from Pfizer, are... more

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Huckabee shines bright in the South

Republican candidate hopeful Mike Huckabee has garned 24 percent of a CNN/Opinion... more

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U.S., Poor Nations Won't Pledge Binding Cuts In Bali: UN

And guess why poor naitons won't do so? Yes, because the assbackwards Neocons... more

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New York Philharmonic To Play In North Korea

"This is the first US cultural visit to North Korea, and it is being seen as a... more

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The Mighty Tall Fall of The Lofty Lord Black

"Lord Black of Crossharbour has seen his empire and power unravel in the space of... more

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France and Germany Still View Iran As A Threat

"Notwithstanding the latest elements, everyone is fully conscious of the fact... more

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Toxic Toy crisis highlights US and China's troubled relationship.

"Toygate" makes America sit up and think about its reliance on Chinese goods.

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Romney Employs Immigrants Twice; Then Fires Them!

Republican Mitt Romney, ridiculed by rival Rudy Giuliani for employing illegal... more

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Landlord Tenant Law for Every State!

Know your rights...check out the link to laws for every state! Check it out and keep... more

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How America Lost the War on Drugs

Great new read by Ben Wallace-Wells in this month?s Rolling Stone that exposes how the $500 Billion spent on the Drug War over the last 35 years has been all but a complete waste of time and money, and an absolute failure by any standard of measure.

[A]fter U.S. drug agents began systematically busting up the Colombian cartels - doubt was replaced with hard data. Thanks to new research, U.S. policy-makers knew with increasing certainty what would work and what wouldn?t. The tragedy of the War on Drugs is that this knowledge hasn?t been heeded. We continue to treat marijuana as a major threat to public health, even though we know it isn?t. We continue to lock up generations of teenage drug dealers, even though we know imprisonment does little to reduce the amount of drugs sold on the street. And we continue to spend billions to fight drugs abroad, even though we know that military efforts are an ineffective way to cut the supply of narcotics in America or raise the price.

All told, the United States has spent an estimated $500 billion to fight drugs - with very little to show for it. [?]

Even by conservative estimates, the War on Drugs now costs the United States $50 billion each year and has overcrowded prisons to the breaking point - all with little discernible impact on the drug trade. ?(read on)

That is a truly one great article every policy maker should have to read. I can?t ever read a word on this topic without remembering how Col Oliver North was involved in smuggling cocaine into the U.S. under Reagan, circumventing Congress to pay for an illegal proxy war, which coincided with the birth of the crack epidemic at the very same time the President had declared a ?War on Drugs? (Remember Nancy?s ?Just Say No??) and the great expansion in the building of prisons and increasing sentences that has resulted in the disenfranchisement of generations of disproportionately black would-be voters to this very day. But of course all that was just another unintended but electorally significant consequence of Ronald Reagan?s.Great new read by Ben Wallace-Wells in this month?s Rolling Stone that exposes how the... more