Month: August 2015

A Smarter War on Drugs

A short drive from Acapulco, you can find one of the main sources of our heroin epidemic. Not that anyone in Calvario much cares for — or even knows — of the broader debate over the drug trade. Villagers see little harm in...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.524

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the large gabled Victorian. The photo I am using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 10 by 10 inch gallery-wrapped canvas. When last...

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Hell, we bought it, might as well use it.

Which, of course, is the refrain of petty authoritarian bureaucrats. (Another in a continuing series on public communications monitoring.) Baltimore police have been using “cell phone trackers” or Stingrays for a...

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Which One is a Winner?

Based on the imagery and the language, which one of the following presidential candidates looks like they are primed to replace Barack Obama in the Oval Office. I’m not going to blame the media for all of this, but...

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O’Malley Needs Better Advice

Here’s my advice for Martin O’Malley and, to a lesser extent, Bernie Sanders. If you’re talking about process, you’re losing. I don’t know how the presently planned debate schedule compares to prior...

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