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some light reading....
IT'S TRUE!!!
Please Keep in Mind
If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.
Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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NOT NORMAL - Six months in, and the Trump gang is already purging disloyalists https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/25/scaramucci-ousts-first-staffer/ Scaramucci Axes Fir...
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a wednesday in your garden - senate votes to proceed forward on trumpcare debate, pence casting tie breaker trumpcare could bring back an epidemic of abuse why are dogs so insanely ha...3 hours ago
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Happy birthday to me! - 55 years ago today ... at 2:12pm ... I made my arrival into the world at the Grace Maternity Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here I am at my first birthd...
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Who Thinks Subsidizing Rich Sports Team Owners Is A Good Use Of Public Funds? - I was elected freshman class president at college and the first vote I remember taking on the student council was to oppose spending student funds on mo...
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Senate Votes Down BCRA - In the first major vote since moving to debate Trumpcare, the Senate has voted down the original Senate Trumpcare bill (BCRA) by a 57-43 vote margin.10 hours ago
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Awkward Dinner Conversations - Two things. The first is this thread, which will teach you more about what’s really at the heart of Trump’s support than a thousand New York anthropologica...11 hours ago
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The maverick leaves his sick bed for a vote, and POTUS gets political wtith the Boy Scouts. - [image: MORE DISCLAIMERS]I am glad to see that John McCain is on his feet and getting around again. But let's be honest, did he really have to fly in from ...
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Bad Packaging, Cont. - The most fabulous water ever sold. (Hat tip: Scissorhead Skinny-D)Filed under: Bad Packaging11 hours ago
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Saving 1,400 Iraqi Nationals From ‘Grisly Fate,’ Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Deportations - A federal court in Detroit temporarily blocked the deportation of over 1,400 Iraqi nationals, who say they face a "grisly fate" if they are deported back...11 hours ago
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Cooping Cops - In the St. Louis, MO area, the metro system serves two states. They have their own cops. St. Louis County didn't like that, so they've done their level bes...13 hours ago
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The Republican God Demands Blood Sacrifices - And as headline-grabbing as they may be, America's periodic mass shootings weren't calculated, sadistic or widespread enough to slake the thirst of the R...
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Reefer Madness at Trump’s Justice Department - The US Department of Justice is preparing to crack down on marijuana use following the release of a report later this week claiming the drug is linked vio...15 hours ago
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Trump Leads Boy Scouts To Boo Former President Obama - *Just returned home from taking my grandson to the theater and read this:* *The president’s decision to give such an off-the-deep-end rant in front of pr...1 day ago
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life's little lessons - Some young neighbours of a retired couple asked them what they did to keep life interesting. The elderly man answered, "Well, the other day my wife and I...
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Priorities - Regular readers of this blog will notice that I just don't blog as much as I used to. Facebook is partly to blame, it's easier to stay in touch with my so...2 days ago
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A Conversation With Sociologist Randolph Hohle About Neoliberalism and the Color Line - Randolph Hohle is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a professor of sociology at SUNY Fredonia and the author of several b...2 days ago
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June New Housing Construction, etal - the June report on New Residential Construction from the Census Bureau was the only major monthly economic release of this week...the week also saw the r...2 days ago
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Donald Trump Colluded With The Devil To Get Elected Predisent - The question has changed now. It's no longer "was there collusion?", it's now "how much collusion was there?" ~ Trevor Noah of the Daily show, re the ema...
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Ep 398 The Professional Left Podcast - . Link for this episode: Bluegal thanks Lawrence O'Donnell for acknowledging the panic that Trumpcare has wrought. The button below allows listener...
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Six Eternal Months - *"Heaven help us, look where we are. We have a president - commander-in-chief of the armed forces, ostensibly the leader of the free world - whose every...
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Tell Me Why - How you fuckers been? I've got five years of bein' sober under my belt finally. Shits different now. I'm still an asshole though so there's that.
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Wash, Rinse, Repeat - Republican, Modus Operandi They Lie, They Cheat An endless cycle Wash, Rinse, Repeat Pick any notion Watch their retreat Ask them a question Wash, Rinse, Re...3 weeks ago
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Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Camp in Targeted Attack - Border Patrol agent interrupts humanitarian assistance of migrants provided by No More Deaths. Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 pm, Arivaca, Arizona: As tempera...
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Katy Perry Witness LIVE Everything on Camera Youtube Spectacular - Right now.. Neil Degrass Tyson Katy Perry Witness LIVE Everything on Camera Youtube Spectacular Big Brother style or whatever you want to call it. {Youtub...
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HOUSE OF TURDS - Murderous rat and fictional television President, Francis Underwood, exists in a world of make-believe, fake news, and lies. Or does he. The post HOUSE O...1 month ago
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Endangered Creature, Shemdangered Creature - Kill it. I am trying to think of a more moronic motto than the one that Xyzal uses. Maybe "Our Name Wins at Scrabble"? At least this thing can be taken to ...
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Vivre sa passion sans diplôme grâce à la loi de l’attraction - Dans le passé, j’ai eu une belle carrière d’analyste-programmeur et j’ai aussi eu une belle carrière de producteur-réalisateur pour la télévision Irlandais...3 months ago
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Life Story - Some people front-load their condition in life The what could have been’s the almosts The man who reaches across to me on the train needs connection with m...4 months ago
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Your Sex Pot Handbook - Sex Pots… And Pans The single girl’s to hooking her man-through cooking Howard 1970 Ladies! Are you worried about snagging that man? Today’s post features ...5 months ago
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Completed Transition and Export to Wordpress. - I've finally completed exporting this blog to Wordpress. The new location is undergroundunbeliever.wordpress.com My email will be changing shortly to an en...6 months ago
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#NotMyPresident - Lets fix this??? #NotMyPresident The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days. What does this mean? Right now, the presidential ...8 months ago
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Well, we're really screwed now... - The results are in. Now we have four years of this: And in case you thought it'd be okay, that their policies will affect someone else:
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Yeah, Screw This Shit - I'm done. Had enough. Mercy. Uncle. No mas. Screw this. Later. Most of my real friends are in hell or headed that way anyhow. A man can only take so much, ...
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Being Right and Wrong at the Same Time - The nation is emotionally raw today. Murders do that to people, especially when people choose up sides like a nightmarish game of dodgeball Continue reading →1 year ago
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Bagaimana kucing peliharaan sendiri - Baru-baru ini, keturunan anjing telah menjadi topik yang populer. I think it's super manis untuk berpikir tentang bagaimana kemitraan kami menyebabkan ...
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Hold the mustard! - Show me a sane man and I will cure him. ~Carl Jung Show me a cured man and I will show you a ham. ~okjimm Show me a cured man a...
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"The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer" has taken on a whole new meaning. - Oh look, I'm back, but no one reads my blog anymore so 'oh well.' Hey, there has been an extraordinary primary process in AmerryKKKa these past few months t...1 year ago
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THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. - THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. Let’s discuss the real reason why “Face The Raven” was a heartbreaker. The episode wasn’t just sad because ...1 year ago
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Career Advice - Pursuing a career is significant investment of time and money, so really investigate whether this is what you want to do. Research the career to ensure it ...
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April 14, 2015 - Let me tell you about my week... Directing 2 plays for Elementary schools in Dunlap (performances this week, neither is ready). I was given one month of 1 ...2 years ago
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My Wife Wrote a Guest Post (Spoiler Alert: She Loves Me Too) - Ever since Oren started blogging he has asked me to write a guest post. I would be venting or kvelling about one thing or another and he always, under his ...
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Losing It - I've been losing words Old lover Why am I standing in the kitchen Lost Bad habits, good health Trying to gain weight Wanting loss to matter I cancel ancient ...2 years ago
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Weeping While Congress Sleeps - Fifteen years ago in Denver, I was working on a research project for a reporter when a city editor came running in and yelled, "Stop what you're doing." Wi...
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Oct. 24th Radical Movie Night - "30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle" - October 24th Radical Movie NightSeptember's debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went well enough that we will now be doing two showings per month. ...
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Meow Mix - I don't even think I'm going to apologize for blogging, for being away or for existing, for a change. Obscurity= anonymity I always sometimes say. I jus...
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Acrylic Nail Supplies - Acrylic Nail Kits Wholesale#Acrylic Nail Kits Nails schoolAcrylic nails suppliesAcrylic nails suppliesImproving the Beauty of Nails with Acrylic Nails Supp...
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WTF? - Ok so besides the FBI,CIA,NSA, DHS, we now have armed agencies including but not limited to IRS,NOAA, yep the weather people,of Course Border patrol howeve...3 years ago
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If you haven't heard this you Gotta listen. - Sorry about the ad. But awesome song,written by one of us! Hat tip to the Ghost,somewhere in southern Ind among other places. China III3 years ago
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An incredible thing is happening right now in protest of FCC plans to break the internet - A little bit of background: To cut a very long and technical story short, every time you connect to Netflix, YouTube, or your high bandwidth website of cho...3 years ago
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Cruelty, malice, and their far-reaching consequences - Someone once encountered and captured a relatively tame and docile forest animal. The person was, however, very sadistic. Despite initial kindness to win...3 years ago
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THE FLIGHT FROM DALLAS - From noon to dusk on November 22, 1963, history went dark, locked inside the closed and crowded cabin of Air Force One. Fifty years later, what happened af...3 years ago
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Holding Time.... - Taking a moment to really see the world....the Leaves changing...the crisp autumn sky...the blues...the wispy clouds...Yesterday part of my day was spent ...
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UGH. - *One Reason I Haven't Posted Much This Year* Yep. Just the thought of Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX)makes me feel like comedian Lewis Black just before his head ex...
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If The Right Wants To Legislate Video Games, They Might Ought To Consider "Freedom of Speech" - After Newtown, like after any great tragedy where lives are lost in a mass-shooting, you automatically know that the Modern American Right will blam...4 years ago
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NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence - [image: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence]4 years ago
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This blog is not currently active. - It was used for many years but I now blog at leftwingnutjob.net. Check it out. But this one is only a warehouse for old posts.4 years ago
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Everythings Coming Up Roses! - From the Desk of Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s Big Chief in Charge of Bragging, Boasting, & Corporate Victimization: Hey, kids! Well, our policies may be hurtin...4 years ago
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A Very Telling Quote - McDonough manages to say *exactly* what is wrong with Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine in America in 81 words. Good job! So here's where I get radical. ...5 years ago
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Racism I Found Today: Non-Black Version of “The Talk” - I’m late hearing about this terrible and blatantly racist article. It’s written as a response to recent articles about “the talk” that black parents have ...5 years ago
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Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...5 years ago
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Come On Over to Our New Pad, MOMocrats.com - Hi! If you've come to us from the Washington Post article that mentions PunditMom (yay! also a MOMocrat and running the 2012 election coverage at iVillage)...5 years ago
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Maher: Indicative of an Asshole in Real Time. - Update: Thanks to reader @ribletsonthepan for tracking down the clip in question. I’ll try and find a more stable version, given that it may not remain on ...5 years ago
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Yeah, I am back again. But this may be the only one for a while. - Reading blogs today I found a reference to a blog post at DailyKos from 2005. Now I normally don't read much at the big orange anymore because I just can't...5 years ago
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Writing Tools: Idiots Who Think They're Great Because Other Idiots Respond to Them - I write for my local Patch*, a fun diversion that also pays a bit of extra pocket money so I can get my eyebrows threaded and keep Dilf in bon bons**. Fo...
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It's Time for the FCC to Investigate "Fox News" for False Advertising - Now that Rupert Murdoch's neo Nazi media empire is facing controversy and criminal investigations in Britain, it's time to consider the illegal activities ...6 years ago
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Now don't you wait or hesitate - Who is the best male Rock'n'Roll singer working today? Probably a stupid question; there are many fine ones. But I think a case can be made for this guy:
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Jane Harmon to step down - Jane Harmon leaving Congress to become the next President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I'm sort of surprised, but it's quite a ...6 years ago
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Want What - A new poem.... Want What Sometimes I just want to separate Jump out This skin Evaporate Into thin air Into ether Into another body Who's happier than me So...
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Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger should be a spokeswoman for damaged Black hair - I enjoy the Millionaire Matchmaker as much as the next couch potato, but there’s something about Patti Stanger’s “tough love” critiquing that irks the hell...6 years ago
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Blankie release party Oct 1st! - Join us to celebrate the launch of Blankie™! a new designer blind box series by design company Aarting. We’ll be hosting the official release party which...
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Final Blog - As most of you may have already heard, TheMom lost her long health battle on July 3rd. I am sorry I couldn't post any sooner than this but there have been ...7 years ago
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In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'. - I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get o...
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Odds & Ends Sunday - It's time to cook up a storm and restock the freezer with my homemade TV dinners...First thing this AM I made a tamale pie from a new recipe ...turned out ...7 years ago
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Politics Plus has Moved - Please join me at our new location. http://www.politicsplus.org/blog I’ll leave this site up, because it is where we have been, but I’ll be turning off com...7 years ago
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"I'll Take the Dreaded Opera Category for $500 Alex" - Turandot [The Village] must be satisfied by being begged for marriage and having her pre-requisite riddles answered and never challenged or rebuked. She’...7 years ago
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Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog. - Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing...7 years ago
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UFC 98 Happening This Very May 23rd - ...And oh what an event it threatens to be. Tapped for May 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (you can catch it on PPV starting 10 PM Eastern), this even...8 years ago
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Happy Birthday, BAC! - Darlings, it's BAC's birthday! I almost forgot, but Dr. Zaius reminded me. You simply must *go and wish her a happy birthday!*
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Sometimes There Are No Words - One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss. Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.8 years ago
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Good Reading and Good Blogs
- Al Jazeera
- All Africa
- all kinds of stuff (JohnK.)
- AlterNet
- AP/Reuters Photo Wire
- Beta News
- Bitter Lemons (Israel - Palestine)
- Bloomberg News
- Canadian Alternative
- Common Dreams
- Crooks and Liars
- CTV News (Canada)
- Daily Kos
- Democratic Underground
- Glen Greenwald (The Salon)
- Guerrilla News Network
- Haaretz (Israel)
- Inside Iraq
- Inter Press Service
- International Herald Tribune
- Iraq Blog Count
- Meet in the Lobby
- MSNBC First Read
- New York Times Politics Page
- Political Animal (Kevin Drum)
- political zazen
- Real Clear Politics
- Reuters Iraq Summary
- Roll Call
- Samachar (India)
- Slashdot
- Some Historical Perspective
- Ted Rall online (Comics)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- The Daily Voice
- The Nation
- The Onion
- The Smirking Chimp (Matt Taibbi)
- Truth Out
- U.K. Independent
- U.N. News Center
- U.S. News and World Report
- Village Voice
- Voice of America
Get off the couch
- An Enduring Legacy
- Any Soldier
- Boycott O'Reilly
- Bring Back Arrested Development
- College Dems
- End Animal Cruelty
- End the Death Penalty
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
- New Israel Fund
- No War in Iran
- NORML (Reform Pot Laws)
- Not Your Soldier
- P.I.R.G.
- Peace Now
- Picken's Plan
- Save Africa's Children
- Save the Whales--but Kill the Seals
- Save Tibet
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- The Climate Project
- The Color of Change
- The Green Foundation
- United for Peace
- We Can Solve It
- Why Tuesday
- Working for Change
Stuff We've Been Digging...
- 2008 Election Videos
- A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America -- Sen. Webb
- Aarting Designer Toy Competition
- Blackwater
- Body of War
- Fire Breathing Liberal (Rep. Wexler)
- Generation Kill
- The Great American Hypocrites
- The Great Derangement
- The Shock Doctrine
- Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment Of War On Drugs
* Another Victim of the Drug War *
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