Category: episode 23 - 10 Mar 2010
A New York restaurateur has been warned by city health officials after he offered customers cheese made from his wife's breast milk.
A group of masked women caused controversy in China by dancing in the street in their underwear in a bid to find husbands.
Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.
The D.C. police union says a detective accused of unholstering his gun at a snowball fight faces a possible 10-day suspension.
...(Former Prosecutor Jim) Gray is part of a growing national movement to rethink pot laws. From California, where lawmakers may outright legalize marijuana, to New Jersey, which implemented a medical use law Jan. 19, states are taking unprecedented steps to loosen marijuana restrictions. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say generational, political and cultural shifts have taken the USA to a unique moment in its history of drug prohibition that could topple 40 years of tough restrictions on both medicinal and recreational marijuana use.
Rule of thumb: if any given piece of legislation can be interpreted more broadly than legislators intended, some overeager prosecutor will do so.
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
The Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements on whether or not to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan.
As was stated on our Freedom Watch interview last May and many times since, Jason, Adam and myself are seeking to hold accountable those from the Jones County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol that violated our rights on May 14th.
As such, our awesome legal team recently submitted an intent-to-sue letter to the JCSD, MHSP and the Chancery Clerk of Jones County. I say “intent” because in Mississippi its mandated that those seeking to sue government entities must first inform them of their pending actions and then wait 120 days waiting until actual filing the suit (ostensibly to give the government entity time to review it and decide how to proceed).
