Some positive developments this week in two ongoing Mississippi stories I’ve been covering. First, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has rejected the state’s motion for a rehearing in the Cory Maye case. Maye was convicted of capital murder for killing a police officer who broke into his home during a 2001 drug raid.
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Good News From Mississippi
Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that if the vote were taken today, she’d have enough support from House Democrats to pass health reform. But according to The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward , that’s news to Rep. George Miller, a close Pelosi ally who responded “I don’t know, I don’t know” when asked to verify her statement
In her latest Forbes column, Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes: “Pushing ObamaCare was an astonishing misjudgment, the domestic policy equivalent of President Bush launching a full-scale preemptive strike against Iran after embroiling the country in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on ObamaCare as the Democrats’ Iraq
The right may be backing off its brief romance with Eric Massa, but I’ve decided I like the man. Partly because he’s offering just the right combination of conspiracy theories, gay sex, and left/right convergence to make the world feel like a Gore Vidal novel
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You Can Hang Out With All the Boys
In Kentucky, a state legislator lays it on the line with a clarity that is stunning.
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All Politics is Local or, I Won’t Take “Free” Money if You Don’t Take “Free” Revenue
Reader inkfarm sends this dispatch from the frontlines of The War Against Beer in the City of Brotherly Love: More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections.
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Keystone Light Kops in The Keystone State
Democrats to cut congressional pay ? And ban earmarks ? Study ties moderate drinking to weight control.
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Reason Morning LInks: Dems May Ban Earmarks, Drink To Lose Weight, SCOTUS Looks at Free Speech and Funeral Protests
New York Democrat Eric Massa, who announced last week that he will resign from the House, claims he’s being forced out by an administration hell-bent on passing a health care bill.
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In Which a Battlestar Galactica-Inspired Sexual Innuendo May or May Not Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform
There are no dead dogs, lying informants, or flash grenades, but this story from Greensburg, Indiana , really captures the mundane stupidity, utter dissonance, and day-to-day waste of resources that is America’s drug war.
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Sleep Safe, Greensburg. You Won’t Have To Worry About These Monsters Anymore.
Police in Tennessee raid wrong side of a duplex, throw residents to the floor at gunpoint, manage to handcuff a recovering cancer patient. According to the residents and their neighbors, they then scratched off part of the address on the duplex to cover their mistake.
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Another Isolated Incident
