California's prisons are a budget-busting debacle. There are currently more than 170,000 inmates crammed into prisons designed to hold 100,000 people. Around 40,000 of these prisoners are incarcerated for a drug offense. Enter Prop 5, a ballot initiative that will reduce prison overcrowding, cut costs, and start the state's first drug treatment program for at-risk youth. Given all this, passage of Prop 5 would seem like a no-brainer. Yet Prop 5 is struggling because of a very powerful special interest: the prison guards union, which has funneled $1.8 million into helping fund an array of ads that blatantly mischaracterize Prop 5 as a "drug dealers bill of rights." Goodbye reform, hello fear. The special interests are, once again, overwhelming the public interest. Read More
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Framing Obama as an aspiring deity works like a red cape in the face of the Christian right by flaunting the notion Obama somehow sees himself as a God, God himself, or, the son of God.
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I never thought I would run for Congress -- or feel like I had to. People ask me why I run and the truth is, once I got home from Iraq, I never even thought to it as a choice.
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It looks like Drudge is trying to get folks believing that Al Qaeda supports Obama. The reality is much more complicated.
Voters get to pass the final judgment on both Senators as Stevens and Wilkerson soil their respective state's ballots in tawdry reelection attempts Tuesday.
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