A state bill placing medical marijuana patients and caregivers in a statewide police database would be a setback for the 2-year-old medical marijuana law, advocates say.
Despite objections from medical marijuana advocates, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday forwarded that bill - and another bill restricting medical marijuana-related lawsuits against municipalities - to the full Senate for consideration.
Conley: "Rick why don't we just end all of this. make some money on it for the state and just legalize it?"
Jones: "Well I think there are a lot of problems with legalizing marijuana. Once that gets into the schools, uhh, of course the next step is, 'Well this isn't very exciting, so let's go try cocaine, or methamphetamine, or the new bath salt drug?' Uhh . . . those are very dangerous, very deadly and we certainly don't want to see people transitioning to something worse."
The Institute for Research and Education and Human Rights has a report on the Tea Party group FreedomWorks, led by Dick Armey, and their increasing association with the John Birch Society.
To bring about less government, more responsibility, and — with God’s help — a better world by providing leadership, education, and organized volunteer action in accordance with moral and Constitutional principles.
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Only 30 percent of respondents said they are certain to vote for the president and 36 percent said they definitely won’t. Among likely independent voters, only 23 percent said they will back his re-election, while 36 percent said they definitely will look for another candidate.
As we have been saying for over a month, World War III Preseason Action is getting tense. A new development in that story is explained by researcher and historian Webster G. Tarpley, in a essay from yesterday as well as an appearance on the Alex Jones' radio show.
Are you bored with school, your job, life in general?J.B. Stradford, the son of a freed Kentucky slave, rose to prominence in Oklahoma during the early 1900s as one of the key developers of the all-black Tulsa enclave Greenwood. A lawyer and businessman, Stradford owned the 65-room hotel that sat right in the heart of the thriving community that would later become known as "the Black Wall Street."
But in a single day, all of that would change. On May 31, 1921, the arrest of a young black man on a questionable charge of assaulting a young white woman touched off the deadliest race riot in U.S. history. Whites charged through the community in retaliation, leaving an estimated 300 people dead, another 10,000 black residents homeless and 35 city blocks in ruin.
As much as I hoped it wouldn’t be the case last November. It appears that Governor Rick Snyder is nothing more than a velvet-gloved austerity whore hell bent on engineering an IMF-style dismantling of Michigan’s government and economy. It’s time for true liberals and conservatives to wake up and unite against the systematic destruction of Michigan’s economy, resources, Constitution and rule of law.
I am pleased to see, in the funny and serious serious links that follow, I am not alone in this belief.
Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite and corporate-collaborator government officials. However, the truth of such tyranny is not enough to set most of us free to take action. Too many of us have become pacified by corporatocracy-created institutions and culture.
I don't often agree with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, but in regard to his op-ed in today's Chicago Sun-Times, I am in full agreement.
So a major Mexican Drug Kingpin admits he runs drugs for the U.S. government? . . . As Sonny and Cher used to sing, The Beat Goes On.
The War on Drugs won't end until decriminalization begins.
In this episode, author and Marine Corps veteran, William Christie, talks about the United States' current situation in the War on Terror; what the future may hold in that conflict; as well as and how the relationships between the the "boots on the ground," the military brass, civilian leadership and the citizenry at large has evolved over the course of U.S. history.
By the way, today is the 18th anniversary of the U.S. government's humanitarian intervention in Waco, Texas. And what Uncle Sam and his pals in the corporate media told you about happened during that intervention, is a steaming load of Texas' cowpie.
The following essay is written by Webster Tarpley, telling the largely untold alliance between President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar Alexander II,
The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class – pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don’t believe these programs will be there for them, and the poor against the working middle class.
I am really looking forward to reading this new biography. I am unapologetic in telling anyone that Malcolm X is one of my heroes. As one would expect, anything related to Malcolm X usually sparks controversy. This biography, written by the recently deceased professor, historian and scholar, Manning Marable, is no exception. What follows is a few links related to Marable and his work on the Malcolm X story, along with a number of reviews of the book.
In my opinion, this is the greatest speech of Dr. Martin Luther King's Jr.'s life. It was also the one that signed his death warrant. That warrant was carried out a year to the day of his first delivery of this speech, 44 years ago, on April 4, 1967 at New York's Riverside Church.
The following rendition however was given by Dr. King 26 days later, in Ebeneezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georgia on April 30, 1967. This rendition is the better because it is much more powerful and emotional than the April 4th debut. Especially towards the end, during the section when he beckons America to "come home."
The speech was prophetic then and it remains so today. This was the hardcore, militant, justice demanding King on full display. The man who had the guts to look the American empire in the eye and call it onto the carpet. This is the Dr. King that Cornel West describes as "a freedom fighter who was unnerving and unsettling and unhousing elites . . . making them shake in their boots."
Please listen to this speech. Read the text that accompanies it. Then absorb and think about the message and how it relates to today. Also, please pass it on to your family and friends. This is not a speech you or your children will hear in school - which is exactly why it needs to be heard by all of us today as America enters the 10th year of another ever expanding war that looks to have no end in sight.
It is time to evolve the idea and the struggle of "Civil Rights" in the 1950's and 60's into a new battlefront for "Human Rights" in the 21 Century. Just as the Vietnam War stood in the way of America's economic and social equality in the 1960's, the War on Terror stands in the way of our economic and social equality and recovery today.
And more importantly, our current conflict stands in the way of our nation's moral standing, just as Dr. King said of Vietnam 44 years ago:
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Medics spoke of how three ambulances were hijacked by state forces.
“They are preventing us from attending the wounded,” said one nurse. “This is what this government is doing to its people. Please, the international community must do something to help us.”
There is little doubt among medics and anti-government protesters that the regime received clearance from political allies in Washington, London and the other Gulf states to step up its four-week old repression against the civilian population.
“The US Fifth Fleet is only one kilometre from this hospital. One phone call and this slaughter would stop,” said Arif Rajab, a surgeon at Salmaniya.
Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased and retained by suspected straw buyers with the expectation they might cross the border and even be used in crimes while the case was being built, according to documents and interviews.
The decision — part of a Phoenix-based operation code named “Fast and Furious” — was met by strong objections from some front-line agents who feared they were allowing weapons like AK-47s to “walk” into the hands of drug lords and gun runners, internal agency memos show. Indeed, scores of the weapons came back quickly traced to criminal activity.
