New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 19th, 2009 4:45 am by HL
New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new…
Tom Engelhardt: Who’s Next? Lessons from the Long War and a Blowback World
“The Long War” merely exchanged the shock-‘n’-awe geographical breadth of the President Bush’s chosen moniker (“global”) for a shock-‘n’-awe time span.
Sotomayor’s Clothes Picked By Government Officials During Supreme Court Nomination, Says New Justice
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for her….
Robert Kuttner: The Blair Project
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who turned a once-progressive party into Tory-lite, is now in line to be the first President of Europe. Given Blair’s central role in creating the conditions that invited Britain’s financial collapse, this idea makes about as much sense as putting protégés of Bob Rubin in charge of cleaning up after the mess that Wall Street made (whoops, that happened, too). Why, then, is Blair likely to be the first President of Europe? Because he is just what Europe’s ruling financial elite wants — nominally a man of the center-left who can be trusted to continue business as usual.
Paul Abrams: To al-Qaeda’s Cheers: Dick Cheney Is Running, Will Be the 2012 Republican Nominee
Barring illness, Dick Cheney will be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012. Of course, the mainstream media will yap away for the next two years…
