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The Domestic For 7/28/10: Crack Cocaine Sentences Narrow Closer To Raw Cocaine Rulings

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Something that would have never been done under a Republican Administration, that's for sure. Clearly great news, especially for the minority community : Congress has changed a quarter-century-old law that has sent tens of thousands of blacks to prison for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the same amount of the drug in powder form. House passage of what was called the "fair sentencing act" sends the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature. The measure alters a 1986 law, enacted at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, under which a person convicted of crack cocaine possession gets the same mandatory prison term as someone with 100 times the same amount of powder cocaine. The legislation reduces that ratio to about 18-to-1. This is one clear example, at the very least, of some "Obamanism" changing "Reaganism". Though the ratio is still a gap that needs to ...

Giving The Insensitive Nutcase Another "W"

No remorse , and not a care in the world: And this: And he still freely claims that Sherrod is "the racist: But sadly, the insane thing he says about the black farmers sentiment brings me back to the worst bill of 2010 : Well, the "fradulent" settlement never went down, because it was stripped out of the final supplemental bill that passed last night in the House. So Breitbart's motivation to not only make the NAACP, but the added bonus of making sure a long overdue settlement for black farmers was derailed heighten his desire to ruin lives again like the heartless psycho that he is. That is what painfully happens when you give a platform to the mentally bizarre and unstable.

Dan Choi Has Been Discharged

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Photo from DEAN WRZESZCZ The insane policy has finally gotten to this terrific man. And he was foreign to it despite expecting the inevitable : The gay activist and former Army lieutenant who has been a vocal critic of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy told Gay City News that he has not received any notice that his discharge under that policy was finalized on June 29. “As far as I know, I haven’t been notified of my discharge except by the Gay City News,” Choi said on July 21. “Obviously, I expected it to happen.” Speaking by phone from Las Vegas a few hours after being released from jail for the arrests that he and seven other members of the activist group GetEqual faced as the result of blocking traffic during a protest, Choi said he learned his discharge was final when Gay City News reported it on July 20. He had no clue even though the end result he had prepared for the moment he has gone public in assailment on one of the most idiotic, asinine, and total dumba-- po...