Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Ore. smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season. The six smokejumpers from a base in Redmond found the site Monday evening, when there was a rash of lightning strikes. More
Police confiscate 4-foot, 2-pound marijuana joint California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. More
On Marijuana Tax, Colorado Asks: What’s Too High? If marijuana is legalized and properly regulated, its proponents have long said, it could generate millions of dollars in state tax revenue. But how the drug should be taxed has proved to be a thorny question. More
Marijuana legalization may be on the ballot in these four states in 2024 I t’s been more than a decade since Colorado and Washington state made recreational marijuana legal, and in the years since, 24 states and Washington D.C. have followed. Seventeen other states have ... 04/22/2024 - 2:06 am | View Link
Most Spoken Languages in the U.S. (Besides English and Spanish) While the United States does not have an official language, English is the country's main language. With 42.5 million native speakers in the U.S., Spanish lands in second place. But what about all the ... 04/21/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Will 'honor killing,' cannibalism also be justified as religious beliefs? In short, the three appellate judges agreed with the original county judge that the plaintiffs desire to obtain an abortion was directed by their sincere religious beliefs so that the destruction of ... 04/21/2024 - 12:45 am | View Link
Edwardsville street renamed to honor ‘Potato King’ of Kansas EDWARDSVILLE, Kan. (KCTV) - An Edwardsville street has been renamed in honor of Junius Groves, recognized as the ‘Potato King.’ Groves was born a slave and built a potato empire in Kansas. 04/19/2024 - 9:31 pm | View Link
Iredell Health System holds flag raising ceremony in honor of National Donate Life Month In observance of National Donate Life Month, Iredell Health System hosted a flag-raising ceremony, followed by a moment of silence to honor the selfless act of organ donation and celebrate ... 04/19/2024 - 11:45 am | View Link
Wisconsin U. S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) missed a line in the Pledge of Allegiance at a recent appearance, skipping “one nation, under God” and going right to “indivisible,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Politico: “If the opening week of Trump’s hush-money trial laid bare the courtroom’s constraints on Trump, no single 24-hour stretch demonstrated the extreme asymmetry of the unfolding campaign more than Tuesday. There was Biden making campaign stops with fawning supporters of abortion rights in Tampa, Florida, while Trump was sitting in a “freezing” Manhattan courtroom, with barely any supporters in sight.”
Said Trump: “He’s out campaigning, and I’m here in the courtroom, sitting here, sitting up as straight as I can all day long.”
He added: “It’s a very unfair situation.
There is a lot to dislike about Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has consistently held a high disapproval rating in his home state. However, most people would agree with two things McConnell has said. One of them was his speech just after Donald Trump whipped his lint-licking base of supporters into a frenzy to attack the Capitol.
Day 2 of the Donald Trump Election Interference Criminal Trial was a rocky one - for Donald Trump and his lawyers. It started off with the long awaited Gag Order Hearing where Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, got the legal equivalent of a tongue lashing that surely left bruises.
A bit of the highlights, from both sides:
Out of the gate.
"Defendant has violated this order repeatedly and hasn't stopped," prosecutor says, adding that Trump even did it on Monday in the halls of the courtroom.
— Kaelan Deese (@KaelanDC) April 23, 2024
Lots of back and forth about posts and statements, but the prosecutors make it clear that they have Trump's number.