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...This is, of course, not an argument against the legalization of marijuana. Perhaps there is a legitimate argument to be made that all of these problems could be easily dissolved by legal sanction for the drug trade. But until that point comes, we light up with the legal system we have, not the legal system we wish we had, and we cannot merely pretend that our actions have no consequences...
...take a different view of the ONLF. Your security forces detained four American personnel because they were dealing with the ONLF in some way, or talking to them or using them to help them operate in Somalia. Meles: As far as we know, these personalities did not have official sanction to do that what they were doing. They were violating their own code of conduct. That is why they were stopped. We have no proof that they were in contact with the ONLF but there are indications that they might be moving in that direction. We stopped it from happening...
...only Florida, which announced plans to schedule its primary on Jan. 29, has been informed that its delegates will be cut, barring a compromise. But others, including Michigan, could suffer the same fate. The Republican National Committee has said it will also sanction early-acting states--there are as many as seven--but it has been less strict in reining them in. What's more, on the Democratic side, the DNC granted exceptions to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada (pleasing African-American constituencies in South Carolina and Hispanics in Nevada), and these "first four" have coaxed pledges from...
...that has proved difficult to suppress. According to the World Wildlife Fund, many sturgeon species are now being pushed to the brink of extinction. Although the British government recently introduced tough new labeling requirements for all caviar sold in the U.K., so far caviar smuggling has passed with little sanction. EU countries imported 591 tonnes of caviar in 2006, but seizures of illegal caviar between 2000 and 2005 totaled just 12 tonnes...
Werker said that he has received mixed reactions from his colleagues, and a primary criticism seems to be that this plan would simply give official sanction to businesses’ intervention in government...