a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison in New Orleans criminal court for possessing 15 grams, .529 of an ounce, of marijuana.
Corey Ladd, 27, had prior drug convictions and was sentenced September 4, 2013 as a “multiple offender to 20 years hard labor at the Department of Corrections.”
via 27-Year-Old Man Gets “20 Years Hard Labor” for Half an Ounce of Pot | Alternet.
Obviously, the adjective “Christian” has gone through a lot of permutations since Jesus died. Now, apparently Christian means purposely not helping people who are down-and-out. That’s the interpretation that Family Research Council fellow Ken Blackwell was going with when he said this week that “nothing is more Christian” than the massive ($40 billion) cuts to food stamps passed last week by House Republicans.
via From the Mean-Spirited to the Asinine: 7 Prime Examples of Right-Wing Lunacy This Week | Alternet.
Has the Pew Charitable Trust been compromised by its association with the union busting Arnold Foundation? We talk with Gary Cohn, the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting who has uncovered some disturbing news that calls into question Pew’s objectivity. Mr. Cohn is also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. This is an excerpt from The David Feldman Show.
Bill O’Reilly slammed me on his Fox News show last night for mentioning, in a New York Times op-ed last weekend, that he has called me a Communist. In that op-ed I referred to his Communist name-calling as an example of the kind of ad hominem incivility that now passes for political debate in America — of which O’Reilly is a part.
ORBISONIA, Pa. — MIKE FLECK, wholesome country boy, cruised to a second term in the State Legislature in 2008, running unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election. He got 100 percent of the vote in a largely rural, religious, conservative district.
The Log Cabin Republican – NYTimes.com.
Climate change: Finally, at least one conservative gets it By Eric C. Ewert First Published 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago Last week, Bob Inglis, a long-time member of Congress from South Carolina, spoke at Weber State, Westminster and the University of Utah about human-caused climate change. Hailing from what he calls “the reddest district in the reddest state” Bob insists that if he gets it, any conservative should. While Utahns may […]
