Coloradans say they are doing less hard drinking than they did in the past few years but say they are more likely to smoke pot, according to a two-year federal assessment to be released today.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found Colorado was the only state to log a decrease in those who think they are at risk to binge-drink since the last study completed in 2006, from 29.8 percent in the previous study to 25.8 percent in the most recent.

Meanwhile, Colorado is one of seven states that notched "significant" increases in teens and adults who say they are more likely to smoke pot at least once a month than those who participated in the last government survey.

The World's first black, female rabbi

The face of American Judaism has been changing over the past 30 years through intermarriage and the resulting births, interracial adoption and conversion. Stanton's ordination is a significant benchmark in this evolution, said Paul Golin of the New York-based Jewish Outreach Institute.

And finally, it was twenty years ago that a group of shipworkers in Gdansk pushed back against their Soviet oppressors and changed the World.

Poland took time to bask in historical pride on June 4 when the country
celebrated the 20th-anniversary of the historic first free elections in the communist bloc.  Coming after the famed Round Table negotiations between Poland's then communist government and the Lech Walesa led opposition, the June 4 elections heralded the end of 40 years of communist rule, and helped trigger a wave of revolutions in Central Europe that shattered the Iron Curtain.

"The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems."

Good advice.

Just ignore it, folks.

And while they're at it, they should not be distracted by what we are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Those pesky civilians are every-damn-where. For heaven's sake. What do they expect from a drone - brains?