- "If Barack Obama or John McCain wants to find a federal program that wastes hundreds of billions of dollars, he can take the scalpel (or better yet the hatchet) to the national war on drugs." http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/10/20/drug_war/ 10 comments politics
- Obama's Drug War - One thing is clear: Obama is in no hurry to scale it back to any significant degree, much less end it. The drug war is now too deeply rooted in our nation's political and economic structure to be cast aside. http://www.thenation.com/article/156997/obamas-drug-war 29 comments politics
- Philippine President called Obama, the European Union and United Nations "fools" on Thursday, and warned they would end up humiliated and outsmarted if they accepted an invitation to investigate his war on drugs. "I will ask five questions that will humiliate you," Duterte said. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-duterte-iduskcn12d25n 29 comments worldnews
- End the War on Terrorism? Republicans Say No: G.O.P. lawmakers accused President Obama of misreading the threat in a way that will embolden some nations the republican stance is the war of terror must continue indefinitely like the war on drugs http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/wind-down-the-war-on-terror-republicans-say-no/?hp 4 comments politics
- Obama's Drug War: $1.7B Worth Of Pot Seized In Calif Sweep - "Tremendous devastation has been done and continues to be done by these industrial-sized grows," said Gil Kerlikowske, who directs the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy and was in Fresno on Thursday to support the raid. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7130757.html 18 comments politics