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If you happen to be walking down the streets of Brooklyn and a tuxedo-clad dolphin tries to sell you crack, don't be concerned. It's not real. Neither is the dolphin. The not-so-illegal narcotics scheme is just performance artist Nate Hill's latest act. Every other Saturday night, Hill dons a dolphin headpiece and white tuxedo and delivers $1 bags of "crack" – packs of crushed up sugar cubes flavored and colored with snow cone syrup, in actuality – to anyone in Williamsburg and Greenpoint who calls in an order. He peddles his wares between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. like a...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder sought support Wednesday for erasing the gap in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine crimes, a disparity that hits black defendants the hardest. The effort to change federal sentencing laws for cocaine has broad support but may still unravel amid disagreements about how equal the sentences should be, and whether the whole sentencing system needs to be changed. "One thing is very clear: We must review our federal cocaine sentencing policy," Holder said at a legal discussion sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus.

FORT PIERCE — A 40-year-old man who is suspected of trying to sell bread as crack cocaine to pay bills is facing charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday. A deputy about 12:50 a.m. Sunday saw a man identified as Timothy Allen Riggin, of the 600 block of Avenue E, peeking around the rear building of the Nowalk Motel. Riggin ran from the deputy, but was apprehended near U.S. 1. Investigators turned up several pieces of faux crack cocaine in his pocket, according to the affidavit. “When I located the counterfeit crack, the male immediately said it was bread,”...

High on the hog: Slaughtered pig traded for crack, Syracuse police say by Robert A. Baker / The Post-Standard Friday June 05, 2009, 3:44 PM Syracuse, NY -- A Fulton resident was arrested Thursday for drug possession after police witnessed a drug transaction that was paid for, in part, with a half of a slaughtered pig, Syracuse police said. Police were conducting surveillance about 7:40 p.m. in the 200 block of Merriman Avenue when they saw the two men conduct a drug transaction including the half of pig, Lt. Joe Cecile said. The half of pig and $10 were used...

fter nearly 20 years of quietly handing out free, clean needles to drug users on Berkeley's streets, the city's needle exchange is coming out of the shadows. In April, a year ahead of its 20th birthday, the Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution became a registered charity, a certified nonprofit group and last year was able to get a state grant that increased its yearly budget to more than $100,000. "We've really grown a lot in the last year," said NEED's 22-year-old director Christina Muller-Shinn. "When we got the money from the state, we were able to hire staff and before we...

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer said the administration believes Congress' goal "should be to completely eliminate the disparity" between the two forms of cocaine. The Obama administration joined a federal judge Wednesday in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine. "Jails are loaded with people who look like me," U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, an African-American, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing. Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer said the administration believes Congress' goal "should be to completely eliminate the disparity" between the two forms of cocaine. "A growing...

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is asking Congress to close the big gap in prison sentences for dealing crack versus powdered cocaine, a law that critics say is unfair to blacks. Such sentencing reform efforts tend to focus on lowering the mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine possession, but in prepared testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer did not spell out exactly how the administration hopes to make the law more fair. "The administration believes Congress' goal should be to completely eliminate the disparity in prison sentences between crack cocaine and...

VIENNA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Wednesday. Morales, a former coca farmer, also called on participants at a United Nations drug policy meeting in Vienna to lift a ban on coca for some uses. "My top aim (in coming here) is to defend coca, to fight for coca," Morales told a news conference through a German translator. Bolivia is the world's No. 3 cocaine producer after Colombia and Peru. Coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine, is used by millions of...

The Cecil County Sheriff's Office said a deputy about to take a bathroom break at a gas station smelled crack cocaine and made a quick arrest.

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Commission finally succumbed to years of immense political pressure from the NAACP, left-wing judges, the ACLU and other liberal groups to decriminalize the federal penalties for trafficking in crack cocaine. Now upwards of 20,000 crack dealers will be released back on inner-city streets within the next 12 months. They’ve all had years of a steady diet of “gangsta” rap music and made new drug contacts in prison, and now will not be intimidated by the new, puny prison sentences for selling gram amounts of crack cocaine. Many argued that the mandated five-to-10-year sentence...

He said he would ask President-elect Barack Obama to push for legislation to help cities, particularly for infrastructure renewal and employee pensions.

Truth is stranger than fiction. Last night I appeared on a pre-taped segment of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” The reporter on the satirical show, John Oliver, and I discussed community organizing. I said in the segment that aired, “community organizers use crack cocaine in exchange for votes.” The segment aired, coincidentally, the night before another story about community organizers and cocaine broke. KyPost.com reported today that a self-identified ACORN worker who allegedly uses crack and is allegedly a prostitute just got arrested in Ohio. Returning to the statement I made on “The Daily Show” that has been...

Today I received the following email via Facebook from Dan Mitchell, a New York Times reporter. It was a reaction to my appearance last night on the satirical news show, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” On the show I talked about community organizing, ACORN, electoral fraud and related matters. Mr. Mitchell wrote: I notice that you have a picture of you and Oliver there. This seems to be fairly common among people who have humiliated themselves before millions of people on shows like the Daily Show -- they pretend they were in on the whole thing and it's all...

If we learned anything from the mess in Florida in 2000, it’s this: When elections don’t end on Election Day, things get ugly quickly. That is why today, and not the day after Election Day, is the day for Americans of all political stripes to aggressively press for more robust safeguards against vote fraud and for immediate action on the registration-fraud investigations targeting ACORN, the community-organizing enterprise that has been the sometime employer and full-time ally of Barack Obama. ACORN’s voter-registration affiliate, Project Vote, was founded by leftist activist Sandy Newman. When Newman was looking to hire somebody to run...

Sinclair Crushes Obama Today Barack Obambi rolled up into Grand Rapids speaking and sounding like a lot of hot air. At the same time Larry Sinclair arrived with a megaphone. 80 percent of the crowd were college students with a smattering of folks in suits and some black folk. Well all of a sudden a tall big white kid asks Larry if he would like to give his view out over the airwaves. He hands Larry the cell phone and Larry starts to conduct an interview with the most popular radio station in Grand Rapids. 104.5 WSNX. Then the Grand...

ACORN activists at the side of L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (at lectern) yesterday * * * * * The vote fraud factory known as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is apparently supporting Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s crazy push for $5 billion in so-called affordable housing. (See above photo from yesterday which shows the mayor surrounded by ACORN activists wearing red shirts bearing the ACORN logo.) As the nation stares into the economic abyss precisely because of housing-related tomfoolery, Villaraigosa’s plan calls for $1 billion in government to be spent as part of the $5 billion...

New Larry Sinclair video of his call to Obama press office with request for answers and threat to show up at office with cameras if answers not forthcoming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCHnDblemZc

The Truth Obama/Biden do not want you to know! From a life long gay democrat. I am writing this open letter to all Americans who want the truth about Barack Obama’s 1999 Crack Cocaine use, his gay sex encounters, his relationship and involvement in the murder of former Trinity United Christian Church Choir Director Donald Young, his use of Senator Joe Biden and Bidens son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to have me arrested in an attempt to shut me, exposed before the election. I am willing and determined to defend myself against the Obama attacks and smears and expose...

There have been attempts by Democrats to make an issue of a firing of an Alaska state trooper, making it out to be an alleged abuse of power implicating the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, who also happens to be Senator John McCain's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. Recently Governor Palin's husband was subpoenaed as part of this ongoing probe. Meanwhile, a far more egregious example of abuse of power is going virtually unnoticed and unreported by the mainstream media, abuse of power that implicates both members of the Democratic presidential ticket, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe...

Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. "This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement. The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the...

For those who are or claim to be unfamiliar with the Larry Sinclair story, let me summarize it as briefly as possible. Larry Sinclair, who now lives in Duluth, Minnesota, claims to have spent parts of the evenings of Nov. 6 and Nov. 7, 1999 with Senator Obama in Chicago. At least as far back as 1986 Sinclair has been in trouble with the law, arrested for a variety of things (fraud seemingly at the top of the list), and had been up to that time in and out of prison. He is an openly gay man, and he seems...

For those that don't know the preface to all of this, Larry Sinclair is the guy that insists ( with cell phone numbers and names) that he shared crack cocaine with Obama (which Obama bought in a matter of a single phone call in Sinclair's presence) and sexual activities in 1999. The story gets even more serious after someone Sinclair had never met or knew about--Donald Young--- the openly gay choir director at Trinity United ( Rev Wright's church) contacted Sinclair and told him not to expose the information--while Young also dropped that he and Obama had been intimate as...

In a 41 page statement responding to the Corsi book “The Obama Nation”, the Obama Campaign may have wished they had not included the response to “whether Barack Obama ever dealt drugs or when he stopped using them.”

While in Chicago this evening I came across an interesting item being sold in Obamaland. According to the packaging of this Obama doll "HE IS ALREADY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" I find it unacceptable that Barack Obama is using "The Seal of The President of The United States" to sell dolls of his big ears and his forked tongue. This is an outright illegal and unauthorized use of the Presidential Seal. I also found something else interesting while in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama seem to have put their Chicago area home up for sale. I will be posting...

August 12, 2008 EXCERPT Next up: Barrack Hussein Obama. Two supermarket tabloids who “print lies” like John Edwards had and is still having an affair have also been on Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. The Globe has published explosive allegations about Obama, a homosexual tryst with a man named Larry Sinclair and their nose candy (cocaine) fests back in 1999. Remember: Obama has admitted to using cocaine: “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man…I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.” Would-be black man? Obama...

The National Enquirer is doing the job that the mainstream media has failed to do. The National Enquirer broke the story in December of 2007 of John Edwards having an affair with Rielle Hunter. No one took the National Enquirer seriously. Finally, Fox news confirmed the story months later and still the MSM has mostly downplayed the story. On March 17, 2008, the National Enquirer ran a story about Larry Sinclair and his allegations of a drug and sex encounter with Barack Obama in November 1999 as well as Larry Sinclair’s contact with murdered TUCC choir director, Donald Young. When...

A study that interviewed HIV-infected crack users at Grady Memorial Hospital highlighted the risky behavior and lack of care among this population. Researchers interviewed 190 HIV-infected crack-using patients at Grady and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami over 14 months half had not seen an HIV specialist in the last six months, and more than three-fourths were not getting important medical treatments.

Man Robbed While Trying To Purchase Crack Cocaine Calls Cops, Is Arrested Wednesday July 9, 2008 CityNews.ca Staff A man who called police in East Hartford Connecticut Monday seems to have lost sight of his priorities. He reported he'd paid money for goods never received, presumably hoping they would chase down the guilty parties. But authorities were more interested in the fact that the man was trying to purchase crack cocaine at the time of the theft, and charged him with criminal attempt to commit possession of narcotics. The Judge at his arraignment reportedly asked if he "really thought" police...

San Francisco -- An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday. The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-immigrant drug dealers from federal authorities and possible deportation because of San Francisco's 1989 declaration that the city is a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Until recently, San Francisco flew juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of drug crimes to their home countries rather than cooperate with the federal Immigration...

Barack Obama's campaign efforts to "stop the smears" are quickly morphing into an attack on free speech. In a June 28 article, "An attack that came out of the Ether", Washington Post reporter Matthew Mosk attacks FreeRepublic.com and falsely associates a 2007 article I wrote with a stupidly written email claiming that Obama's Indonesian step-father was a "radical", that Obama went to a "Wahhabi" school, and that Obama swore his oath of office on a "Kuran". In fact my article, "Obama: Secular Muslim stealth candidate favored by the corrupt?" served to sort out truth from fiction in such emails and...

Washington DC, June 21 — Tonight political prisoner Larry Sinclair is spending his fourth night in the DC Jail, the victim of a Gestapo-style enemies’ list operation carried out just three blocks from the White House last Wednesday afternoon. Sinclair had come to the National Press Club to detail his charges that the self-proclaimed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama had indulged in two homosexual encounters complete with crack cocaine in early November 1999, that Obama was complicit in the December 2007 assassination of Donald Young, the gay choirmaster of Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ, and that’s Obama’s...

Larry Sinclair strikes again! The Main Stream Media seem to have taken the approach that the name Larry Sinclair does not exist. There has been almost no mention of the press conference held yesterday where Larry pulled out his somewhat doubtful but none the less humorous tale of driving around in the back of a limo, while he and Barak Obama engaged in some less than heterosexual activities, and did a couple of lines of Cocaine. Oh, and the cocaine was obtained by Obama. This entire story has the credibility of some of the claims made by late night infomercials!...

Larry Sinclair held a press conference Wednesday to try to get the media to investigate his claims of a sexual liaison with Barack Obama, and drug use. These events occurred, allegedly in 1999. You can view the press conference here. And his original video here. Other videos and info can be found here and here. Many people in the media do not believe Larry to be credible because he has a past police record (from incidents that occurred 20+ years ago). People have ridiculed him and tried to discredit his story because he is on disability, which is due to...

Donald Young, a vibrant, charismatic choir director at one of Chicago's largest open and affirming black congregations, Trinity United Church of Christ, was found shot to death this past Sunday in his home. Young,47, was a longtime member of Trinity's choir, initially singing bass and then moving up the ranks to become one of its most electrifying and popular directors. He was also a faithful attendee at the conferences of the Gospel Music Workshop of America. The details about why and exactly how he died remain unclear; there is, however, one story that emerges with some semblance of clarity: a...

On Wednesday, Larry Sinclair issued a statement to the world regarding presumptive U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama's crack-smoking ways. In a brazen act of Gestapo-type terror tactics, US Marshals kidnapped Sinclair immediately after this performance at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Other audio files of this press conference circulating on the Internet are missing the crucial final minutes of the press conference concerning the murder of Donald Young, restored exclusively by Total411.info . This MP3 also contains audio of the aborted Whitehouse.com press conference which immediately followed Sinclair's, concerning that organization's bribe-taking from the Obama campaign.

Today I will discharge my obligation as a citizen to witness this knowledge to you and raise questions for others to investigate and consider. I am going to briefly describe my background, my experience with Senator Obama in 1999, what appears to me to be a coordinated effort to discredit me and finally a list of questions. After this brief statement, I will take and try to answer any reasonable questions. Background I am 46 years old and I currently reside in Duluth, MN. I am a US Citizen, and I have made mistakes in my lifetime. I have been...

A footnote to the story of Larry Sinclair, the gadfly whose long criminal record I wrote about this morning: He was arrested by Washington, D.C. police after his press conference there today, two officials at D.C.'s First District station confirmed to Politico. Sinclair is wanted in Colorado on theft and forgery charges, but police officials I spoke to wouldn't discuss the charges. Reason's David Weigel first reported the arrest. Avi swung by Sinclair's press conference at the National Press Club today, an utterly strange scene whose highlight came from Sinclair's spokesman, Montgomery Blair Sibley, whose law license has been suspended,...

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As one might have predicted, O-Beasts reacting to my previous post presumed that I consider Larry Sinclair credible, even though I had used such phrases as "nuttier than a Snickers bar" and "One would be hard-pressed to conceive of a less credible source of information." (The O-folk see only the reality they want to see. That's why and how they formed delusions of Messiah-hood around a crooked Chicago pol.) At any rate, I've found out a bit more about Paramjit Multani, the driver who allegedly hooked Sinclair up with Barack Obama. Although Sinclair said that he was divulging the name...

As many of you know Larry Sinclair made some astonishing allegations against Senator Obama in a You Tube video last January. Subsequent videos have come out giving more “details” of the event Larry Sinclair says occurred between he and Senator Obama. Today he had a press conference at NPC. I personally do not feel that Mr. Sinclair has presented enough evidence to make his allegations credible, but many people have expressed an interest in this press conference so I want to share this firsthand account with you. Today, Chalco, a member of Capital Hill forum was able to report back...

Larry Sinclair's press conference today at the National Press Club ended with the surprise appearance of US Marshalls, who presented a warrant for Sinclair's arrest. The DC police arrested and led Sinclair away in handcuffs. UPDATES UPDATE at 6:32 pm Wednesday June 18, 2008: Sinclair was indeed arrested by DC police immediately after his press conference and is being held, at present, by the Washington DC Police Department. Sinclair's being held at the 1st Division, 415 No. 4 Street SW. No charges have been announced. According the The Mitch and Nan Show blog: After a phone call to the Washington...

Good afternoon, my name is Larry Sinclair and I am a former recreational drug user and trafficker, a convicted felon for crimes of forgery, bad checks and theft by check. I am also an American who loves this country and I cannot stay silent regarding Barack Obama knowing what I know. Today I will discharge my obligation as a citizen to witness this knowledge to you and raise questions for others to investigate and consider. I am going to briefly describe my background, my experience with Senator Obama in 1999, what appears to me to be a coordinated effort to...

Larry Sinclair–the gay man who’s accused Senator Barack Obama of sharing gay sex and drugs with him in a Gurnee, IL hotel room in 1999–held a press conference at the National Press Club today. He began the press conference by handing out press packets which contained little new information. He ended up his DC appearance in handcuffs, led away by the DC Police. He’s currently being held by the DC Police, according to Larry Sinclair Arrested at NPC Press Conference; UPDATE. [UPDATE at 6:53: Sinclair was arrested by DC Police after 2 US Marshals showed up and presented a warrant...

I've been trying to cope with life as it is today. It's different than it was, that's for sure. About July of 2006, I met the woman of my dreams. Intelligent, very pretty, highly sexually-charged, professional, able to understand my offbeat humor, seemingly very compatible with me in every way. Soon after starting to date, we began to plan to marry. Our target date was June of 2007. Some things began to bother me, however. She seemed to make major changes, quickly. She converted in levels of religious fervor, and seemed to change in core directions, too quickly. I began...

Barack Obama now faces a new challenge - one that is sure to be much more scandalous than anything he's seen so far. If the allegations are to be believed, it's also a scandal that his campaign has tried to cover up. A Minnesota man has come forth, claiming that he took cocaine in 1999 with Obama, the then-Illinois legislator, and participated in homosexual acts with him. Larry Sinclair, the man making the claims, said his story was ignored by the news media. Still not willing to let this one slip quietly under the rug, Sinclair made a YouTube video...

ALBANY, NY--Stop the presses! A “prominent” New York State Democrat has complained that a tax might hurt small business people. Of course, in this case, the small business people are crack dealers.The New York Post reports that: Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry told Spitzer Tax Commissioner Robert Megna during a legislative budget hearing that requiring drug users and dealers to pay state sales tax on their illegal stash is an undue burden since they already face fines and possible forfeiture of property and money."This component adds another financial hardship on people who don't have a lot of money," Aubry said. Currently, New...

LIMA, Ohio — Darla Jennings walked through the streets of south Lima last night sobbing as hundreds of people behind her called for justice after the shooting of her daughter, who was killed by police as she held her baby. Tarika Wilson, 26, was shot and her 1-year-old son was wounded when Lima police conducted a drug raid on their home Friday night, prompting members of the black community to organize a candlelight vigil and demand answers from police. "They shot my daughter and her baby," Ms. Jennings said through tears while being consoled by other family members.

ANGLETON — A 28-year-old Angleton man died after officers said he ate a bag of what they believe was crack while being booked into the Brazoria County Jail. William Yendis Franklin was arrested by a Texas state trooper in Angleton on Thursday afternoon on a charge of possession of a controlled substance and was taken to the county jail. While he was undressing for a body search during the routine booking process, he reached into his underwear and pulled out a small bag, officers said. "It was quick," Brazoria County sheriff's Lt. Russ Baker said Friday. "He did it too...

Security firm cracks encryption for Microsoft's wireless keyboards Dreamlab Technologies AG says it has found a way to sniff the data traffic between Microsoft's wireless keyboards and their base stations, which communicate with each other on the 27 MHz band. In the method they discovered, unauthorized parties are reportedly able to record and decrypt all keystrokes from such keyboards. The decoding was demonstrated using data traffic from the Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 and 2000. The security firm says that other keyboards that Microsoft sells, such as the Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 and 4000, encrypt and transmit data using the...