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By Nick Pinto / Village Voice / August 8, 2012

The question being argued in federal court in Lower Manhattan yesterday boiled down to this: Is a law authorizing the indefinite military detention of American citizens with only the barest recourse to civil courts constitutional?

By K.S. Wang / Motor Trend / August 9, 2012

When members of the jam band Slightly Stoopid drive around Ocean Beach, San Diego, they are often recognized for being famous hometown sons. But when co-lead singer Miles Doughty drives around town, what usually turns heads is his 1942 Ford pickup.

“My dad got it for me 18 years ago when I was 16 and I was able to get it restored over the past couple years, so it’s pretty sweet,” Doughty says proudly. “We bought it in a farm area in Northern California. We were driving down the coast and there was this truck sitting out there in the field with a ‘for sale’ sign on it.”

Editor: The following was lifted off People’s online newsletter.

This month, Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Market celebrates its 40th year as a retail vegetarian grocer.

Our story began in 1971, when a group of liked-minded people met at a beachside picnic table to discuss the idea of creating a place where the community could purchase whole, minimally processed, organic (when available), vegetarian food at affordable prices.

Today, as a bastion of sustainable and environmental living practices, People’s operates out of a 12,000 square foot, award winning “green” building, providing the very best in organic and vegetarian food.

A Majority of Americans Support Legalization of Marijuana Now for the First Time

This is an Open Letter to President Barack Obama Calling on him to legalize marijuana.

If you legalize marijuana, Mr. President, you’ll get the youth vote and win the 2012 Presidential election. It’s as simple as that. However you do it, Mr. President, if you legalize cannabis, you’ll then do for the young of this country what you did for the Mexican-American and Latino populations, and then what you did for the gay and lesbian communities earlier this year.

How is this so? …

By Barry Ladendorf
In many parts of the world, people will pause to commemorate what happened 67 years ago on August 6, 1945, when the United States unleashed the most diabolical weapon in the history of mankind on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later on August 9th, the same hellish fire consumed the city of Nagasaki. It is estimated that 250,000 people died as a result of the bombs.

On June 4th, the San Diego Free Press was launched as an online news source for the San Diego area, promising in its byline, “Progressive views and neighborhood news.” It was the latest effort in citizen journalism to hit San Diego. So how is it doing, two months into its re-birth?

Re-birth it is, for the original San Diego Free Press was published for about one year, 1968 to 1969, …

Sundara
1424 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.
619-889-0639

Have you ever driven down Sunset Cliffs Blvd. and seen a very small café with a few tables outside teeming with customers near the corner of Point Loma Avenue? The name of that restaurant is “Point Loma Beach Café.” This review is not about that restaurant; rather it is about the Sundara that shares the space from 5:00-10:00pm every night except Tuesday.

Nikolette Kristina Gallo had pleaded guilty in June to the March 11th hit and run incident at OB’s entrance that killed Sho Funai. On Friday, July 27th, she was sentenced by Judge Dwayne Moring to one year in prison, plus the standard five years of probation.

The 19-year-old Gallo had admitted that she had drank alcohol and smoked marijuana prior to the crash at the end of I-8. It left Funai, an engineering student at UCSD, without a life.

At their Wednesday night meeting, OB Planners will decide on whether to call for an immediate moratorium on variances granted by the City of San Diego on 25 foot front lots. At 6:55 pm on the Planning Board’s agenda for August 1st, is Information Item 002 – which is when and where the full Board takes up the recommendation of its sub-committee on the matter.

The sub-committee – formally called the Project Review Committee – is recommending that the Board request an immediate moratorium on variances in certain areas of Ocean Beach. The areas include the RM 2-4 zone, the FEMA 100 year Flood Plain A, lots without alley access, and on substandard or 25 foot front lots. The Project Review sub-committee took up this issue at its last meeting on July 18th and decided then to bring their recommendation to the entire Board.

New Comfort Station Opens to Rave Reviews … But the Stalls Don’t Have Doors

OB Rag T-shirt Contest to Find Hidden Text (scroll down)

It’s been nearly a month now since the new public restrooms at the foot of Brighton Avenue in Ocean Beach opened. And the innovative, design-busting “comfort station” opened to rave reviews from City Hall to San Diego CityBeat. The crazy and weird and cool design elements of the building and its immediate vicinity are far-out, dude.

Here’s a sampling of what the new facility has to offer: …

by John Lawrence / San Diego Free Press

Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was very good at making money for Mitt Romney.

At the same time, it loaded companies Bain bought with debt, borrowed even more money to pay dividends to Mitt Romney and destroyed or outsourced lots of jobs. It even raided pension funds. Then Romney turns around and holds himself up as a “successful businessman.”

By Bernie Sanders / July 26, 2012 / Reader Supported News

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held a hearing Tuesday on “Taking Back Our Democracy: Responding to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs”.

Here is Sen. Bernie Sanders’ testimony:

Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening a hearing on the monumentally important issue of “Taking Back Our Democracy.” Unfortunately, that title exactly describes the challenge facing us today.

The history of this country has been the drive toward a more and more inclusive democracy—a democracy which would fulfill Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful phraseology at Gettysburg in which he described America as a nation “of the people by the people for the people.”