From Reason’s Jacob Sullum: According to FBI figures released today, a record number of people were arrested for marijuana offenses in the U.S. last year: 771,605, compared to the previous record of 755,186, set in 2003 (which surpassed the earlier peak of 735,500, reached in 2000). Marijuana accounted for more than two-fifths of the 1.7 million drug arrests. As usual, the vast majority of marijuana cases (89 percent) involved possession,

From Reuters: Suspected Muslim militants killed a Buddhist monk and two teenage boys and set fire to a temple in Thailand’s restive south, police said on Sunday, in separatist violence that has claimed more than 900 lives. The militants who attacked the Buddhist temple in the southern Pattani province late on Saturday had slit the 76-year-old monk’s throat, said a police report obtained by Reuters. The charred bodies of the

Smith:  “I’ll tell you this much, Skins.¹ If that waitress isn’t here in 30 seconds with my fucking Pellegrino, I swear to Christ I’ll have her job…”* **** ¹Jane Skinner

From the Honolulu Advertiser: A lawsuit filed by five Hawaiians claims that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is illegally spending dollars reserved for the benefit of those with 50 percent Hawaiian blood or more. All nine OHA trustees as well as two former trustees are named in the suit, which states that they “expended trust funds without regard to the blood quantum contained in the definition of native Hawaiians” as

Reacting to this Richard Bennett post, which argues that the Miers nomination is less about overturning Roe (which dubious decision the Right relies upon to maintain the indignation that fires up the base) than it is about appointing to the court a judicial activist whose opinions on certain key issues will steer the court to the right (he suggests the Schiavo case is the social right’s new litmus test), Cathy