then popped up a new problem for the Democratic administration -- and one that may well help explain the inexplicable delays in Obama changing federal policies. Valerie Jarrett, the president's senior adviser who seems at his elbow virtually everywhere, this week gave a videotaped interview (see below) to Jonathan Capehart, an editorial writer at the Washington Post.

In it, she described the pain of a gay man's family after his suicide: "They were aware that their son was gay. They embraced him. They loved him. They supported his lifestyle choice."

"Lifestyle choice"? Is that what they really think in the Obama White House after all this time? How could someone so close to Obama get his thinking so wrong in public on tape? Unless....

Capehart did not press her on that surprising, perhaps revealing slip.

the president sometimes sounds wistful when noting the differences between this year and 2008.

"Sometimes I feel as if we had such a high on election night, and then there was the inauguration and Bono was singing and Beyonce," Mr. Obama said at a fundraiser in Chicago last week. "That was the start, not the finish, of the journey. And it made each of you a shareholder in the mission of rebuilding our country and reclaiming our future."

First lady Michelle Obama recently told Democratic supporters that the big-stadium events of 2008 were "very exciting and people should know that those rallies invigorate Barack as well."

If I held your hand in this town
They would lock me up for possession
But now they're strung out on heroin
And we've gone out to California

In this depression
Breaks my heart in two
In this depression
All I need is you

I could make some friends down at the courthouse
Get bailed out and go on welfare
I'd rather lay down in a pine box
Than to sell my heart to a f*cking wasteland

Amen brother.

Reason?  Nothing to do with a Medicare scam or rip-off drug prices or anything, just for selling psuedoephedrine cold meds to smurfers.

Leave it to Unlce Sam to make me feel bad for freakin' CVS....this is some bullsh*t.

Im hearing that the Ted Stevens crowd wants Murkowski but they are not sure she can pull it off and McAdams is the second choice.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Alaska shows Republican Joe Miller with 35% support and Murkowski, the incumbent senator he defeated in the state's GOP Primary now running as a write-in candidate, with 34% of the vote. Democrat Scott McAdams runs third with 27%. One percent (1%) prefers another candidate, and three percent

James Cameron is such a big director that if there's a chance in the slightest he might do a new movie, we're obligated to report on it. So, as unlikely as it may seem, rumors are circulating that the brass at Sony are "exploring the possibility" that the King of the World could direct a new version of Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie

SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if voters next month make the state the first in the nation to legalize the drug.

The Justice Department strongly opposes California's Proposition 19 and remains firmly committed to enforcing the federal Controlled Substances Act in all states, Holder wrote in a letter to former chiefs of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, dated Wednesday.

"We will vigorously enforce the CSA against those individuals and organizations that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational use, even if such activities are permitted under state law," Holder wrote.

The attorney general also said that legalizing recreational marijuana in California would be a "significant impediment" to the government's joint efforts with state and local law enforcement to target drug traffickers, who often distribute marijuana alongside cocaine and other drugs.

He said the ballot measure's passage would "significantly undermine" efforts to keep California communities safe.

The ex-DEA chiefs sent a letter to Holder in August calling on the Obama administration to sue California if Proposition 19 passes. They said legalizing pot presented the same threat to federal authority as Arizona's recent immigration law that spurred a federal lawsuit.

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".there is evidence that Willingham hit his wife, even when she was pregnant, but there were no police reports or medical evidence indicating that Willingham had tried to abort or kill his children" and that "Willingham's wife insisted during the trial and under interrogation that Willingham had not physically abused the children."
"Consistent with typical Navarro County death penalty practice, Willingham was offered the opportunity to eliminate himself as a suspect by polygraph examination, which "was rejected in the most vulgar and insulting manner," according to Jackson.[7]  Against the advice of his own counsel, Willingham also declined a life sentence in exchange for his guilty plea. He insisted he would not admit to something he had not done, even if it meant sparing his life."