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A group of 10 Democratic senators today reintroduced legislation designed to end the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine — a long-standing push that never quite seems to get enacted.
In a statement, the lawmakers cite the reasoning behind the proposal.
Under current law, possession of five grams of crack cocaine (roughly the weight of two [...]

Hours before The Associated Press ran its piece yesterday on the protester in Hagerstown, Md., calling for the death of President Obama, “Michelle and her two stupid kids,” TWI commenter “Dave,” who apparently attended the Ben Cardin town hall, had the story.
His sign didn’t just say ‘death to obama.’ It also said ‘death to michelle [...]

There have been some pretty nasty banners waved around by the town hall crowds protesting the Democrats’ health overhaul plans in recent days, but none reaches the level of that held up today in Hagerstown, Md., where Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) sought to sell the reform strategy for a second straight day. “Death to Obama,” [...]

Whatever else there is to be said about mountaintop mining (and there’s plenty), no one can deny that it makes a place ugly. How could it not? The technique involves the blasting away of mountain peaks to get at the coal inside, leaving oceans of bare dirt and rock that resemble the surface of the [...]

Big day for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the gun-control front. First she introduced a bill to prohibit foreign felons from buying firearms; now she’s pushing a proposal to end the practice of hunting from airplanes. Co-sponsored by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the bill aims to close a loophole in the ban against aerial hunting [...]

A conservative friend passes on this article about Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) taking heat at a town hall meeting from “Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland,” reprinting Broadus’s statement.
I decided not to get the health insurance. That’s working out for me because I’m able to save that extra money and give it to my family members [...]

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) asks about the Iraqi refugee crisis. Now that there won’t be a Bush administration to treat dealing with Iraqi refugees as an admission of failure, what should the policy be?
Clinton says she’ll staff the State Department’s resident refugee office with “creative individuals.” Pledges to help the Iraqi government “as it deals [...]