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Posts Tagged ‘Drugs’
October 9th, 2024 - 7:33 pm § in Misc.
The city where liberal policies failed
IN 2020, 74% of Portland, Oregon’s voters approved decriminalizing drugs. Since then the city has been plagued by drug use, homeless camps, violent protests, and a spike in murders. The tourists are gone, businesses have closed, and thousands of residents have left for greener pastures. “[...]
Fentanyl smugglers are U.S. citizens, not migrants
Fentanyl deaths rose under Trump, and continued to rise under Biden, until today the drug kills more Americans than guns and car accidents combined. “Trump repeatedly blames the increase in fentanyl deaths on the influx of 10 million migrants who crossed the border during the Biden,” NBC[...]
July 31st, 2024 - 2:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
Vance fails to explain how he’ll solve the migrant and drug problems
J. D. Vance hopes to be vice president in a second Trump administration. In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 (details here), he said he wants a role in solving the border and drug crises. How does he plan to solve them? On the border, he said “I’d basically do the [&helli[...]
July 22nd, 2024 - 9:09 pm § in Politics, Republicans
J. D. Vance’s lying campaign video
In the video below, J. D. Vance says, “I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across the border,” referring to drugs. That’s a lie; his mother, a nurse, fed her addiction by stealing drugs from her patients. He would’ve had little reason to lament “losing” h[...]
True or False: Did Biden “open our borders” to fentanyl smugglers?
There are three basic kinds of facts: Real facts, legal facts, and political facts. “Real facts,” as the term implies, are reality. “Legal facts” are the pictures lawyers paint to juries, which may bear little or no resemblance to reality. “Political facts” are wh[...]
June 27th, 2024 - 8:14 pm § in Law and Courts
Is Judgment Day coming for the Sacklers?
This family made billions of dollars by selling OxyContin, the addictive painkiller that hooked millions of Americans. Wikipedia says (here), “They have been described as the “most evil family in America” and as “the worst drug dealers in history.” Whether that’s true or not, the S[...]
March 5th, 2016 - 10:45 pm § in Misc.
Rogaine Addiction: Gateway to crime
Police Hunt Bald Guy FEBRUARY 25–Ohio police are hunting for a bald suspect in connection with a series of Rogaine thefts. According to cops, the middle-aged thief has boosted the popular hair loss treatment in repeated thefts at pharmacies, including a Walgreens in Mt. Healthy, a city [...]