Jeff Sessions

A little background: I was a major stoner... in the 1960s, when I was in college. I stopped using drugs on January 1, 1969 sitting in my van on the border between Pakistan and India. I had no interest in smoking pot after that-- other than when Neil Young delivered a new album to me personally-- I worked at his record label. Once I was up at his ranch listening to his new songs and I took a couple of hits and got wasted and there was a huge buffalo staring at me on the other side of a window. Other than those times, pot was off my radar.

Supporters of Russiagate, endeavouring to find some material in former FBI Director Comey’s essentially empty testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, seem to have convinced themselves that certain comments of Comey’s somehow pointed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions being in some way implicated in the scandal.

(ANTIMEDIA) — For those who have failed to notice the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America until now, it is high time to look down at the Lilliputian now occupying the Attorney General’s office.
As AG Jeff Sessions appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee to the discuss the ongoing Russia scandal, do not let his diminutive stature, mousy demeanor, or “aww-shucks” Southern drawl fool you; he is a mouse that has long roared: “Law enforcement can do no wrong.”

(ANTIMEDIA) Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been vocal about his archaic opposition to cannabis.

AG Jeff Sessions ended corporate donations to political cronies as a means of escaping prosecution for crimes. This money, estimated in the hundreds of billions in 2014 alone, typically funded special interests like La Raza. [...]

(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — In a move that advances the Trump administration’s push to establish mandatory minimum sentencing practices nationwide, last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would require courts to send teens convicted of sexting to federal prison for 15 years.

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This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Schools out for summer, schools out forever; people are spending more on independent journalism; and a new website hopes to be the Match.com of the seed-sharing scene.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Schools out for summer, schools out forever; people are spending more on independent journalism; and a new website hopes to be the Match.com of the seed-sharing scene.

(ZHE) In a report by Axios this morning, citing White House sources, President Trump is reportedly considering a “huge reboot” of his core staff and cabinet members that could lead to the termination of everyone from Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, to counsel Don McGahn and