My father's beliefs have been a constant source of verbal and mental abuse my family has had to suffer with for many years. His views consumed him, and in doing so, not only destroyed his life, but destroyed our family and ruined our lives as well.

CREW is appalled, of course.

Link:  Warning, MSNBC

Even MSNBC says that Obama=Bush on the issue.

  I actually don't recall a case where my client was accused of selling "chronic" although quite a few of the coke and crack guys possessed personal use amounts on them when busted.

  Your point about quality not affecting the charge or likely sentence  is pretty much  accurate insofar as  the drug counts go, but many drug cases are joined with money laundering counts so the price can have an affect.

  In most drug  cases because counts get grouped (I'm talking about federal here) and the base offense level is set by the highest offense which is a drug count, ancillary money launderng charges have no real impact on sentencing. with marijuana, though, because it takes such a vastly greater quantity of marijuana to result in the same offense level as with the other recreational drugs, you do get instances where the guidelines for money laundering work out higher than for the drug count. Obviously, then the more expensive the weed the more likely that is to happen and the greater ther difference between the offense level for the marijuana count and the money laundering count.

Brennan has described himself as an internal critic of waterboarding--a position that friends, such as Emile Nakhleh, a former senior officer, confirm. Yet, in an interview with me two years ago, Brennan defended the use of "enhanced" interrogation techniques and extraordinary renditions, in which the C.I.A. abducted terror suspects around the globe and transported them to other countries to be jailed and interrogated; many of those countries had execrable human-rights records. He also questioned some people's definition of "torture." "I think it's torture when I have to ride in the car with my kids and they have loud rap music on," he said. Asked if "enhanced" interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, he replied, "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the C.I.A. was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."

The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed its lawsuit after being denied access to Secret Service records, including White House entry and exit logs, that would identify coal and energy industry visitors.

The government's refusal to release the records contrasts with President Barack Obama's pledge of transparency.

After he gets out, Stallworth will serve two years of house arrest followed by eight years' probation, according to his plea deal. He will also lose his driving privileges for life and have to perform 1,000 hours of community service.