Color me surprised. We live in a land where partisanship and team cheerleading take precedence over ideological considerations ten times out of ten. In essence, partisanship IS the ideology. Ross Douthat in a New York Times opinion piece concerning the American cancer that is political partisanship: Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had […]
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Anyone who thinks that Obama, because of his cool demeanor and past history of drug usage, would be more liberal with drug policy is a fucking idiot. Obama’s Drug Czar explains: Today, Californians recognized that legalizing marijuana will not make our citizens healthier, solve California’s budget crisis, or reduce drug related violence in Mexico [. […]
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Let’s continue to support the arrest hundreds of thousands of people a year, SWAT raids, and puppycide with our immoral War on Drugs so that we can maintain artificially high pot prices for a few people who operate in the dark. NPR: Another grower named Jay doesn’t want to use his last name because part […]
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Did someone say something about “outside groups” contributing money to republican campaigns at a far higher rate than democratic campaigns? Ah, yes. Here it is. Oh wait. Sorry. It must have been something about how eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil it is to accept political contributions from groups that “regularly take in money from foreign corporations”. Got it. No. […]
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The Federal Government (at Arizona): You cannot presume that you should enforce federal law, despite the explicit wishes of the residents of your state. The Federal Government, due to its behemoth size, slowly turns right while wiping drool from its chin and engages in a bout of fat-man breathing from the effort. It finally catches […]
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Though it shouldn’t be taken as an overt sign that they are abandoning their pro-Obama point of view, the Times has, once again, exposed one of the many kinks in Obama’s armor: A more national, outward-looking strategy for creating a “postpartisan” dynamic might have included White House partnerships with Republican governors or even with conservative […]
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From the Marijuana Policy Project: Back in May, when Kentucky Republican Rand Paul defeated an establishment candidate to win his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, I pointed out that one of the issues Paul used to win over voters was his support of medical marijuana laws. Now, in a telling political move, the son […]
All the federal government needs to do is dangle “free” cash for long enough, and eventually, states, even those who vowed not to accept more cash, will cave in. Los Times: Mr. Sanford joined several other governors who had initially expressed hesitation about the money but later relented, including Dave Heineman of Nebraska and Sonny […]
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Senator John Kerry. Cato explains: In the future, dictionary publishers should get rid of their existing definitions for “hypocrisy” and replace them with a photo of Massachusetts Sen.ator John Kerry. He’s just been caught committing the horrible sin of saving his family more than $500,000 by domiciling his new yacht in Rhode Island (which is a […]
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I wonder how long until I can use this link?
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