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President Signs Law Minimizing Cocaine Sentencing Disparity

By we are stardust on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 6:32pm |
Under a law passed in 1986, 5 grams of crack would trigger a five-year prison sentence, but the same sentence would only be triggered by 500 grams of powder cocaine.  The disparity, of course, meant that more minorities went to...
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Some Bits of News and Revelations You'll Want to Know About

By we are stardust on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:15am |
I'm pressed for time just now, so I put these items into a potpourri of descriptions and links.  Something for everyone here, I think; but only two pieces of Good News.    EPA whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman is a senior policy...
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Best Blackwater Story Ever; Obama DOJ Declines to Prosecute

By we are stardust on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 10:43am |
  Back in 1997, when Sudan's Muslim North under Omar al Bashir waged civil war against the mostly Christian and animist South, killing over two million people and causing millions more to flee, President Bill Clinton enacted comprehensive sanctions...
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Worse Than Hiroshima: Fallujah's Health Nightmare After Operation 'Vigilant Resolve'

By we are stardust on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 4:42pm |
(This is just a heads-up post, no analysis, no brave call to arms, just a morbid report that is hard to pass on to you.)   What are we doing to the people of the world? A major study released...
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Is the President Plagued by Fear?

By we are stardust on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:13am |
(Request: Try not to go knee-jerk at the question.)   Over the past month or two on the Café boards, both on the Left Side and, to a lesser degree, the Right side, this question has come into play. ...
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Marvin Booker Died After Denver Police Tased Him Repeatedly; Godspeed, Mr. Booker.

By we are stardust on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 1:15pm |
    Marvin Booker, 56, was a homeless ordained street minister.  He'd spent the last several decades living back and forth between Denver and Memphis.  He had a string of crimes in his past: loitering, carry a concealed weapon, disturbing...
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Is BP Trying to Buy Gulf Oil Science?

By we are stardust on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 1:38pm |
  The short answer seems to be yes.    Ben Raines of the Alabama Press-Register has spoken with a number of marine scientists at private universities who say BP representatives are offering $250 per hour for them to join...
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Oscar Grant Was Shot Dead. The Jury Called It Involuntary Manslaughter.

By we are stardust on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 6:21pm |
Oscar Grant and his daughter   On New Year's Day 2009, Bay Area Rapid Transit Police officer Johannes Mehserle shot him while he was lying face down on the platform at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, CA.  Two...
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What a Goddam Waste of Time

By we are stardust on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 7:07pm |
 This is for Obey; wherever it may find him...   Our son seemed to have been born with a predisposition to love grandparents.  I don't know how he came by it; could there have been a genetic cause, hardwired somehow into...
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'Rethink Afghanistan. com' Offers Facebook Meet-ups to End the War

By we are stardust on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 5:07pm |
"Want to do something about ending the War?" they ask. Here is a link to their Facebook page allowing people to make or meet groups this weekend to watch this Brave New Foundation video, and discuss 'What's Next?' This is their...

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