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Carl Hart is a Columbia University professor of psychology and neuroscience. He chairs the psych department and has a fondness for heroin – not only as a subject of scholarly pursuit but also as a substance for personal use. At 54, the married father of three has snorted small amounts of heroin for as many as 10 days in a row and enjoyed it mightily – even if, as he recalls in his new book “Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear” (Penguin Press), he’s experienced mild withdrawal symptoms “12 to 16 hours after the last...

CNN’s senior White House correspondent John Harwood said Friday on “Newsroom” that Republicans “would go smack their moms in the face” if President Donald Trump told them to. Anchor Kate Bolduan said, “Now President Trump’s continued efforts to overturn the results of the election is getting the full support from a clear majority of Republicans in the House. We’re going to control through this list for you, but it’s 106 House Republicans now backing a lawsuit that originated from Texas, the Texas attorney general that wants the Supreme Court to throw out the votes of millions of Americans in four...

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose inside a Greenwich Village home on Sunday, cops said. Hoffman’s body was found by a friend at 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning in an apartment at 35 Bethune St., sources said.

(CNN) -- Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment, law enforcement sources said Sunday. Hoffman, 46, was found in the bathroom of the fourth-floor apartment, the sources told CNN.

A 6-year-old boy stepped off the school bus one October afternoon and found himself locked out of his Metairie home. He peered into the kitchen window and saw his mother's lifeless body on the floor. Two weeks earlier, another 6-year-old returned to his Old Metairie home after a weekend away and found the decomposing body of his mother in bed. In July, a River Ridge woman found her 41-year-old son dead in a bedroom in her home, her third child to die from a heroin overdose.Those lives lost, two from heroin and another from a drug made to resemble it,...

Below is a statement from the office of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: Statement in Response to President Obama’s Misunderstanding Madison– Today President Obama again weighed in against Governor Walker’s proposal to balance the state’s budget deficit by having state government workers contribute a modest amount toward their own pensions and pay 12.6 percent toward their healthcare premiums. In response to the President’s comments, the Governor’s Press Secretary Cullen Werwie issued the following statement: I'm sure the President knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits while our plan allows it for base pay. And...

An amazing thing happened on the set of ABC's "This Week" Sunday: a liberal tried to extol the benefits of President Obama's unrestrained federal spending only to get completely smacked down by the entire panel. Host Christiane Amanpour began the Roundtable segment of the program by showing some of last week's horrendous economic numbers, and opened the debate about what can be done to improve the current condition. When Democrat strategist Donna Brazile got her turn at the plate, she uttered the same nonsense Americans have been hearing from her ilk for approaching two years: Congress is divided. They are...

Get ready for a unique cosmic collision! Early this coming Friday morning (Oct. 9), NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will end its mission with a bang — literally. Currently carrying with it the upper stage of the rocket that launched it on its way to the moon on June 18, the game plan is to send that spent rocket motor on a course to smash into the lunar surface. But just not anywhere on the lunar surface, but to a thoroughly scrutinized crater called Cabeus that lies near the moon's south pole and is enveloped in perpetual...

Original in Japanese: グリーン雇用」提唱者、米特別顧問辞任　政権に打撃My translated synopsis: Reporter Mr. Katsuta from Washington reports for Asahi Shimbun news that the one person who asserted "Green Jobs" for the Obama Administration, Mr. Van Jones, has resigned. He was in charge as a special advisor to the President for Environmental Quality....right in the middle of President Obama's declining popularity as being hit on his health care reform policies, comes this resignation. As for the Obama Administration, this development has all the trappings of being a new smack in the face. ....Jones had signed on to a petition questioning the culpability of previous President Bush...

It nice to see that not all us are blinded with starry eyes over Obama. Gitmo Judge Refuses to Heed Obama Request for Delay in Terrorism Trials January 30, 2009 10:01 AM On Thursday Army Col. James L. Pohl, the chief judge at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court, said he would not heed President Obama's request for a 120-day continuance, or delay, in prosecutions of terrorism suspects. Supervising the trial of detainee Abd al-Rahim Hussein Mohammed Abdu Al-Nashiri, Pohl called the President's motion unreasonable and unjust.

Obama a "Snow Job" in More Ways than One It seems that, at the same age (early 20s) at which the next President of the United States was at the U.S. Naval Academy and learning to fly high-performance jet aircraft, the Democrats’ likely nominee was thoroughly “snowed.” I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though… Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father, page 93 http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByAlpha.asp?strTerm=B, “Blow” = “Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin. “Not smack” rules out the latter,...

Eight men and women, including two employees of Chicago's scandal-plagued city water department, were arrested Wednesday as federal investigators rolled up what they described as one branch of a Colombian drug-trafficking operation. The water department itself, already awash in charges of bribery and other political corruption, was not charged with being part of the heroin distribution ring. But investigators did find that department workers "were engaging in this kind of conduct during weekdays, during workdays, when they should not have been," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said at a news conference. Federal officials said the ongoing investigation got under way...

Bush Rejects Bin Laden Tape, Hits Kerry Fri Oct 29, 2004 08:28 PM ET By Steve Holland COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - President Bush vowed on Friday the United States will not be intimidated by a pre-election warning from Osama Bin Laden and called Democrat John Kerry "shameful" for accusing him of bungling the search for the al Qaeda leader. The bin Laden tape eerily offered a flashback to the Sept. 11 events that changed Bush's presidency on a day he was recalling the emotions of the moment. It also served to remind Americans that the man Bush once wanted "dead...

MIAMI, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Florida social services agency has in custody an 11- year-old girl who police say is one of the youngest heroin peddlers they have ever arrested. The Miami Herald reported Tuesday that the girl was arrested by South Miami police Friday night and subsequently turned over to the Department of Family Services. Police and prosecutors have not decided whether to charge the girl, and will make that decision later in the week. "Everything stems on Mom," said narcotics Sgt. Ruben Rodriguez. He said the girl was making the sales for her mother, Alison Lolanda Davis,...

A CARGO vessel thought to be the mother ship of an international drugs-smuggling operation was escorted in to Sydney last night after being boarded by the Royal Australian Navy in a high-seas raid. Police, navy personnel and customs officials went on board the North Korean- registered Pong Su about 70 miles off the central New South Wales coast after a chase through stormy seas to international waters. Surveillance teams were alerted last Wednesday, when 50 kilograms (110lb) of high-grade heroin believed to have come from Golden Triangle in South-East Asia was found on a beach at Lorne, on the coast...

(The March 29) editorial cartoon depicts a group of war protesters, one of whom is featured wearing across his derriere a sign which reads, ''But, hey, we support the troops.'' The implication is obvious. The publication of this cartoon is a deliberate slap across the face by this newspaper and/or its owners and management to put down those protesters who genuinely disagree with the invasion of Iraq. And it implies the lie that a protester cannot oppose the war and support the troops at the same time. I challenge the Athens Banner-Herald, its owners and management to prove that point....