This is a short video showing a clash between the protestors and the riot police. If you watch to the end you see the protestors routing the police to cries of “Hurrah! Hurrah!” Battle w/ Police – Tehran, Iran – June 20th 2009 by mightier-than
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This is, spectacular, to say the least. In 1993, William Osburne was convicted of kidnapping, assaulting and raping a woman in Anchorage, Alaska. He spent the next 14 years of his life behind bars. Osburne insists that he is innocent, the State of Alaska has in its possession DNA evidence which will once and for [...]
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This is mighty/bizarre on so many different levels that I’m not sure my head will ever recover:
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette regarding the guy who killed 3 cops Saturday morning: He was also convinced that the government wanted to take away his guns and his freedom. I wonder where he got that idea? Could it be from irresponsible rhetoric like that of Michele “Amistad” Bachmann? UPDATE: According to the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) [...]
The status quo is not working: Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. We just might have to do something about healthcare sometime soon. And the choice [...]
Goddamnit. Electric cars have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a more immediately viable transportation fuel of the future could be liquid derived from coal. Scientists have devised a new way to transform coal into gas for your car using far less energy than the current process. The advance makes scaling up [...]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Michele Bachmann brings the stupid like few others in the history of mankind. You can see the confusion on Geithner and Bernanke’s faces give way to astonishment, recognition, and finally, disgust.
It turns out there is a western country will full legalization; including heroin and cocaine. Portugtal. Via Glenn Greenwald: In 2001, Portugal became the only EU-member state to decriminalize drugs, a distinction which continues through to the present. Last year, working with the Cato Institute, I went to that country in order to research the effects of the [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
It’s been 100 years since the first international effort to prohibit the drug trade. And in response to the chaos and murder rolling across Mexico, The Economist decided to mark the anniversary by calling, again, for an end to drug prohibition: In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Watching MSNBC this morning, I stumbled across a good debate on the TARP money, and the banks that got some of it and the banks that went under and the CEOs answering questions before Congress this morning. On one side was the guy who says the banks should be able to give bonuses because they [...]
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