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Obama's new marijuana policy remains vague

The Obama administration scaled back the drug war on Monday, though by how much is still questionable:A Justice Department memo, sent Monday to...
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The coming internet Fascism

Our central leviathan government is poised to give Obama ‘emergency control of the internet.’ If this sounds like an egregious...
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Kerry threatens war over climate change

John Kerry is worried that we’re all going to die from global warming. That may be a slight exaggeration of his position, but it pales in...
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California is out of money, and that's OK

Our golden state of California has run out of money. On Thursday we will resort to issuing IOU’s to creditors in lieu of actual payments:...
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Obama buys GM, healthcare next on list

Today, as seemingly every news outlet wades through the ashes of what used to be General Motors, Reuters is running a story about Obama’s...
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European Union says donuts are health food (seriously)

Libertarians (by and large) think that government is oppressive, and like to point to the fact that government is almost categorically incapable of...
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Hugo Chavez declares capitalism dead

Guess it’s time to pack it in, guys. The heads of state of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela have all declared that...
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Dianne Feinstein in hot water again

Dianne Feinstein certainly knows how to work the system. Feinstein served as San Francisco’s first (and so far only) female mayor, and is now...
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Attending SF's Tea Party

I went to the San Francisco Tea Party today. Having attended U.C. Berkeley, I avoid protests the way someone wearing a gas can for a hat might...
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Do as I say, not as I do - the debt ceiling

Not long ago, raising the government’s debt ceiling was denounced in the following speech:"The fact that we are here today to debate...
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