Posts Tagged ‘drugs’

US-Mexico border is a safe place to be?

June 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

That’s the AP headline this morning. AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn’t so dangerous MEXICO CITY — It’s one of the safest parts of America, and it’s getting safer. It’s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it [...]

Chris Dodd will have NOTHING to do with states rights

April 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Chris Dodd is mad.  He’s quite upset too: “The idea that state by state would start developing its own immigration laws in the country — imagine what a patchwork that might look like,” He didn’t stop there.  He tossed in the only answer the Democrats seem to have any more: “It’s demanding a national answer [...]

The Kentucky Poverty Task Force

September 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

I read a lot.  I work in social services.  I also live in the poorest Congressional District in the United States which is in one of the poorest states in the nation.  So, needless to say, I’ve seen poverty and deal with it rather regularly.  So, I took particular interest when I received this newsletter: [...]

Just legalize drugs and all the problems go away

March 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Here we go again.  Jack Cafferty writes for CNN: If drugs were legalized, we could empty out a lot of our prison cells. People will use this stuff whether it’s legal or not. Just like they do booze. And you could make the argument that in some cases alcohol is just as dangerous as some [...]

Sex, drugs, and Barack?

February 14th, 2008 | No Comments

This primary thing is finally starting to become fun for me.  First we had the Huckabee floating cross with inferred secret messages, then we had the weeping Hillary, now we’ve got sex, drug, and Barack (and roll ): Now, the video is funny enough.  This guy definitely looks and acts like has had his fair [...]

Elected officials who really, really, care

July 20th, 2007 | 2 Comments

This is making the rounds, and it’s true: I doubt it really served any purpose. But, I’m fully in support of Michael Polensek in this case and agree with every word he says here. Sounds like there’s some history between the two that motivated the exchange, but what Polensek summarizes about Arsenio is dead-on. I [...]

The war on drugs – Shawn Bentler

October 16th, 2006 | 8 Comments

"The War on drugs" has taken a lot of flack from the liberal left of late. While most of them are more than happy to prosecute the hell out of anyone that smokes tobacco, the efforts to combat the hardest drugs has been met with a lot of resistance of late.  A lot of people [...]