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Group into drinking, thinking A liberal dose June 11, 2007 Kathleen Thompson said she wants to promote heavy thinking and maybe a little drinking. So the 30-year-old local organizer for the Democratic Party has helped open a local chapter of Drinking Liberally, a nationwide network of left-leaning types who gather to drink and talk politics. 'A lot of people are politically engaged, but they don't want to go to a meeting; they don't want to go through an agenda,' said Thompson, of Grapevine, who is president of the Colleyville Grapevine Southlake Democratic Club. While she spoke, small groups of people...

(10/16/06) - Imagine this. You are hooked on alcohol and you want help getting off the booze. You go to your doctor, and he or she says, "Drop some acid." That's right. LSD, the infamous drug of choice for many hippies in the 1960s and '70s. Lysergic acid diethylamide, the drug that caused hallucinations or "tripping," was, of course, outlawed, giving it immeasurable street cred in its time, before fading away as flower-painted bodies grew into gray-flannel suits. So, in the 21st century, why would a respected medical doctor even consider prescribing LSD as a wonder drug to help cure...

Officers Claim Brass Interfered in Investigation of Rep. Kennedy Incident Thursday, May 4; 4:16 pm By John McArdle, Roll Call Staff Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade...