huffingtonpost.com - 3/17/2009
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I hope those who have commented on my piece on police brutality (or my previous posts , for that matter) will forgive me: Four entries into my new HuffPo blog, I'm just now figuring out how to join the conversation. "Learned helplessness" is a lousy excuse for rudeness, as is technophobia. I'm ...
Norm Stamper: Marijuana No Laughing Matter, Mr. President
huffingtonpost.com 3/29/2009 — The president's busy. He's got important things to do, like rescuing the economy, saving jobs and mortgages and industries. But we ought not to let him off the hook for his frivolous dismissal of a widely popular question he faced in Thursday's ...
Norm Stamper: A Former Police Chief on New Marijuana Book
huffingtonpost.com 8/20/2009 — I'm a drug " legalizer ," not an "incrementalist." I do not believe drug policy reform should end with the legalization of marijuana. Yet, when asked to contribute a foreword to the new book, Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink ...
GALLERY: Top 10 Police Brutality Cases
newsone.blackplanet.com 3/26/2009 — Iliana Rabun-Wood December 18, 2008 11:20 am Police brutality has been a problem in America for a long time now and with the most recent news of Michael Mineo, being sodomized by police officers , NewsOne would like to take a look back at the most ...
Norm Stamper: Progressives Push Against Drug War; Will Dems Listen?
huffingtonpost.com 7/3/2009 — It's official. We can now talk openly about what the great majority of us have known for a long time: drug prohibition isn't working, and never will. It's time to try something different. News organizations are awash in stories about the failure of ...
New police brutality video at 3arabawy
arabist.net 3/10/2009 — Dear Mr Hossam, i have been follwing this important blog, the best egyptina blog in english in my opinion, for a while. therfore, i was surprised to read your comment on misrdigital regarding this revolting torture act. however, i considered it as a ...
Norm Stamper: POTUS vs. Cambridge Police: Stupid Is As Stupid Does?
huffingtonpost.com 7/23/2009 — Nothing like a question from out of left field to elicit some bare-boned truths about policing, race, and stupidity.
President Obama in a televised news conference, billed as an attempt to shore up allied support and win converts for his health ...
Closing arguments wrap in Minn. Senate battle —
msnbc.com: Politics 3/13/2009
Judges began deliberating Friday in the dispute over Minnesota's vacant Senate seat, where they must decide if Republican Norm Coleman proved there were enough flaws in the election and a recount to invalidate Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote ...
Franken wants Coleman to pay —
First Read 3/18/2009
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroIn the recount we all love to hate, Democrat Al Franken wants Republican Norm Coleman to pay the costs of the seven-week, three-judge trial if Coleman ultimately loses.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "Democrat Al Franken ...