Quote Of The Day

From Conor Friedersdorf on Newt Gingrich's 1996 bill proposing to execute non-violent pot smugglers.

This insufficient regard for the sanctity of human life and willingness to pander with the death penalty is problematic enough when exhibited by a powerful legislator. Electing a president with that mindset is terrifying

Exactly right.

Quote For The Day

I don't do much national politics any more but this one is too good to pass up.

"Let's start with a premise that I don't think a lot of Americans are aware of. We have five percent of the world's population; we have 25 percent of the world's known prison population. There are only two possibilities here: either we have the most evil people on earth living in the United States; or we are doing something dramatically wrong in terms of how we approach the issue of criminal justice," - Jim Webb

Chew on that a minute. I bet you can guess my solution.

Another Drug War Casualty

Add the morale and morality of portions of Atlanta's police force to the butcher's bill of the ridiculous war on drugs.

Atlanta police narcotics officers often falsified search warrants to make busts and pad their arrests records hoping to satisfy goals set for them by upper brass, federal investigators said...That accusation was noted in the guilty plea agreements of narcotics officers Gregg Junnier and Jason R Smith and confirms what police union members and other critics have long said: that pressure on quotas caused officers to bend the rules.

A 92 year old woman dead. Two police officers convicted of manslaughter. APD morale possibly at an all time low. All very tragic. All just part of another day in the useless drug war.

We Usually Save This Stuff Til Christmas

Holy Christ! I go out of town for a few days and we start shooting 92 year old ladies?

Blog round up:

Doug Monroe - It's the war on drugs. Yep. That one seems spot on.

Jason Pye - No knock warrants are an abomination. Couldn't agree more.

Grayson - It's all Reefer Madness and Media Whores. Yep.