George Carlin On Freedom Of Choice

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Understanding The Republican Stance On Regulation

Corporations are people. Therefore they have rights that limit big government’s intrusion on them. Women are not people; they are carriers for the unborn, which are people. Therefore they must be regulated.

Federal Prison Population Has Increased 800% In 30 Years

The Article: Feds to Reconsider Harsh Prison Terms for Drug Offenders by Sarah Childress in PBS.

The Text: The federal prison population has expanded by nearly 800 percent in the past 30 years, spurred in part by the increasing use of tougher sentences applied to nonviolent drug crimes.

Now there’s a growing movement to scale it back. On Thursday, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, an independent federal agency, plans to vote on an amendment to sentencing guidelines that could ultimately begin to winnow the federal prison population, nearly half of whom are people convicted of drug offenses.

The amendment is part of a bipartisan push away from America’s addiction to incarceration, which prison reform experts say costs far too much, not only in dollars — $80 billion a year in 2010 — but also in the devastation primarily of African-American communities, who have been disproportionately caught up in the system.

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George W. Bush’s Art Of Legacy

If only reality were as rosy as he’s depicted on the canvas.

Obama, Putin and Biden In One Selfie

Sadly, this was shopped.