Saturday, January 31, 2015
Jeb Bush Smoked Marijuana And Was A Bully In High School, Say Former Classmates - Typical conservative, rules only apply to those other people"
“It was pretty common," Bush said of his substance use during that time. A former classmate of Bush's, Peter Tibbetts, recalled to the newspaper that the first time he ever smoked marijuana was with Bush, in some woods near their dorm.
“The first time I really got stoned was in Jeb’s room,” Tibbetts told the Globe. “He had a portable stereo with removable speakers. He put on Steppenwolf for me.” Tibbetts was eventually forced to leave the boarding school after being accused of using drugs.
As a politician, Bush has not embraced marijuana. He spent much of his time as Florida governor championing jail instead of treatment for nonviolent drug offenders, and pushed for mandatory prison sentences for drug offenders -- with the exception of his daughter, Noelle, who has struggled with crack cocaine use."
Jeb Bush Smoked Marijuana And Was A Bully In High School, Say Former Classmates
Friday, January 30, 2015
Let the All In 2016 Fantasy Candidate Draft begin! Chris Hayes has assembled an all-star cast of political experts to compete against each other as they try to build teams of presidential contenders with the most staying power. In Round 1, rules are contested and the everything gets off to a fierce start.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Sarah Palin and her onetime fans on the right: It’s so over - The Washington Post
Sarah Palin’s odd, rambling speech last weekend before an audience of committed conservative activists in Des Moines has many influential voices on the right saying that the time has come to acknowledge that the romance has gone cold and the marriage is dead.
Sarah Palin and her onetime fans on the right: It’s so over - The Washington Post
Sarah Palin and her onetime fans on the right: It’s so over - The Washington Post
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Voyage of the Damned - Holocaust Ship of Shame.
As the St. Louis steamed toward Havana from Hamburg, Germany, with nearly 1,000 Jews fleeing the Nazis aboard, Recha Weiler desperately nursed her dying husband, Moritz. While other passengers enjoyed the elegance of the civilized cruise after the repressions and humiliations of Germany, Weiler spent most of the voyage in her cabin with Moritz. But her efforts failed. The university professor died aboard the ship and was buried at sea.
An estimated half of the passengers were to die later, after both the US and Cuba rejected their pleas for refuge and the cruel 40-day journey sent them back to Europe to face the Nazis. Some 59 years after the St. Louis's desperate passage back and forth across the Atlantic, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and its Survivors' Registry are trying to trace the fates of its passengers, including Recha Weiler, the 61-year-old widow originally from Cologne.
Voyage of the Damned - Holocaust Ship of Shame.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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