KS2 Problema

Rants, observations, diatribes & digressions on current affairs, world news & politics, politics, politics.

Monthly Archives: January 2012

Mitt Romney’s most outrageous campaign promise: assassinate Fidel Castro?

This writer’s jaw dropped when he saw Fox News quoting Mitt Romney, speaking to a number of presumably anti-Castro Cuban expatriates in the final days before Tuesday’s Florida GOP primary: “If I’m fortunate to become the next president of the United States it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this [...]

Good news on internet freedom of speech… Obama admin goes on record opposing SOPA as currently written

Those who support freedom of speech on the internet have qualified reason to cautiously rejoice in a statement signed by 3 top Obama officials appearing to offer a firm commitment that the Obama administration won’t be drawn into support for the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act, which online freedom advocates have called draconian, an assault on the [...]

Latest research on marijuana unlikely to change minds…

Despite new research in the form of a quite extensive study finding that marijuana smoking does not damage lungs in the same fashion that tobacco smoking does, the Los Angeles Times posits that the scientific facts of the matter are unlikely to change the minds of those who insist that marijuana use — even medical [...]

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