you might be able to have people grow their own. i think if the governor of colorado was right to say not to break out the cheetos just yet. a lot needs to be ironed out here. the studies and negative consequences. there s a lot of interesting gain on this. there s data with no effect. some that finds some negative facts depending on when kids smoke it. it has to be compared to alcohol. in some ways, that becomes a big issue. there s lots of negative effects of alcohol. it s legal because of a cultural history. marijuana it s legal because we tried to ban it and it was the biggest policy disaster arguably. it was criminalized when it was prohibited.
policy disaster because it s completely anti-growth. so in as much as this is a vote against austerity and is going to kind of end the merkozy and create breathing room for policies that favor employment, that s hugely significant. the other important thing here is that are maureen la pen, part of the quasi fascist. far, far right. the fact that she did so well is again, i think, and she did so well with working class voters is i think another warning signal. obviously a lot of that was about immigration but it was also about that societies cannot kind of coher if you have these incredibly brutal austerity measures. kirk, when we were talking about la pen s showing, sarkozy at 22.2, alland at 28.6, the la pen thing is interesting and the trend lines of disaffected
this is policy disaster. right. this is unnatural. this is policy. this is gun violence. tell me thank you for this gift. this is what guns have done to my community. and i have more vacant houses, more empty lots than any other city in the city of pittsburgh. i have 5,000 of them. i can show you house after house, houses that have furniture in them. you could move into them tomorrow. why doesn t the democratic party and people who represent urban districts have a say in gun debate? the gun debate is dominated by the nra, people that are fundamentalists about gun rights? why doesn t the other side surface in gun debate? we are controlled here in pennsylvania by the republicans, our house, our senate and our governor are all now republicans. they are not interested and the nra spends a lot of money in b
but this is a natural disaster. this is policy disaster. right. this is policy. this is gun violence. tell me thank you for this gift. this is what guns have done to my community. and i have nor vacant houses, more empty lots than any other place in the city of pittsburgh. i can t answer that quechlt we arecontrolled by the republicans. our house and senate and governor are all nonrepublicans. and so they re not interested in the nra. you know, they put a lot of money in lobbying and political contributions. and they absolutely control our
through a decade that the national journal calls a decade of disaster. michael hirsh is chief correspondent for national journal and author of the cover story. michael, it was a depressing cover story that i read. i read it a couple hours ago. it essentially makes the case that this has been a policy disaster on the national security front for the last ten years, that our response was a mistake. yeah. well, it was a depressing decade. i felt that a depressing story why not. was appropriate. i believe, it wasn t just my views. i went back and talked to some of the leading skeptics of the iraq war in particular, but for the whole direction of the war against al qaeda was going in after 9/11, like the former centcom commander, brent scowcroft, former national security advisor, and revisited a lot of these questions with people who were more prescient than others about the potential pitfalls of diverting to iraq at