Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Attorney General Eric H. Holder said in March, that the federal government would not be devoting a great deal of effort to “prosecuting low-level marijuana cases” and now… The Supreme Court has “rejected appeals from two hold-out counties in Southern California that objected to the state’s 13-year-old medical marijuana law and claimed it should be struck down [...]
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Filed under: California, Civil Liberties/Civil Rights, Department Of Justice, In The News, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, SoCal, Supreme Court
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Darrell Prows
I could have gone a very long time without running across a report of a law enforcement officer containing this quote: “He said: ‘I’m the policeman of the world, and I can do what I want.’” But the rest of the story is so sad that it really breaks my heart. Or maybe it just [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a sad piece of news on the one of the SoCal wildfires today. A boy playing with matches was responsible for the Agua Dulce area fire.
Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
It’s been a long week here in sunny Southern California where the sky was glowing with flames rather than sunshine for days on end. Evacuees are now returning to their neighbors and AP News reports that “many Southern Californians lucky enough to find their homes still standing could nevertheless face hardships for weeks to come, [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Robert Freedland
Thomas Jefferson had it right when he wrote:
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
It wasn’t enough that many folks in Southern California were burned out of house and home or at the least evacuated thanks to inadequate response of aid to the area. Hell no, they residents of areas that got treated to the whirlwind visit from Bus today today also got to deal with this:
Rancho Bernardo residents [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
I’ve just posted a more comprehensive, updated, article about this topic, as I did here yesterday, at DailyKos. I hope you visit and support the diary so we can get some visibility.
The update is simply that the Hamilton Trail fire line held yesterday and throughout the night. Unexpected flareups in the fire to the north [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
We’re finally feeling some cooling temperatures here in L.A. tonight. The Santa Ana’s are slowing down and the firefighters are able to gain ground and start containing the fires. As Stuart reported below, the federal response has not been what was promised and once again the government has dropped the ball. BradBlog has more on [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
The story of the good coordination and efforts by federal authorities from the national media is a complete misrepresentation.
Use this article about Orange County as a microview of the entire California firefighting effort. Elsewhere in California the situation is much worse. We have nearly one million people evacuated. There have been over 1,660 homes burned [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Javelin
Although I haven’t been able to post as much recently, I thought I’d mention a good book out there that I don’t believe has recieved the accolades it deserves. It’s Lee Iacocca’s “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”. After leading Chrysler out of bankruptcy and becoming an American icon of what a [...]
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