US Justice: Sticks For Blacks And Latinos, Carrots For Cops
On Friday, former police officer, Johannes Mehserle, who killed unarmed passenger Oscar Grant on New Years day 2009 was sentenced by Judge Perry in Los Angeles. The police brutality occurred in Oakland, but the trial was moved to Los Angeles to avoid a repeat of the protests following the killing of Oscar Grant. Judge Perry […]
Massachusetts Voters Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012
Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions last Tuesday.
UN Report: Human Development Is The Real Wealth Of Nations
Yesterday, the United Nations released its annual Human Development Report. It is the 20TH anniversary of the report, and this year’s report is broadening the general understanding of what it means for a nation to be “developed” by adding new parameters to calculate the nations respective index. The 2010 report has taken under consideration to […]
Fiscal Responsibility And Runaway Military Spending Are Not Compatible
Today the Republicans and their Tea Party associates are dwelling in election victory. The GOP expressed that the American people gave them a “mandate” to either set the political agenda and, of course, derail any further plan of reforms coming from the Obama administration. The intention of the Republicans, bluntly conveyed today, is also to […]
Election: America As An Idiocracy With ADD And Stockholm Syndrome
Americans have just traded the little hope for some change that the Obama administration was timidly trying to bring to the country for anger, fear, and ignorance by relying on “solutions” which have caused a down hill spiral for the United States for the past 30 years. As I am writing this, the GOP and […]
