It is impossible to reconcile respect for individual liberty with drug prohibition. The U.S. has been at the forefront of this puritanical policy for almost
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Earlier today the Senate Transportation Committee released the proposed transportation budget for the 2009-2011 biennium. Left out of the list of funded projects are the
LaunchThe NRA has not endorsed this bill. — Congressman Doc Hastings, explaining why he voted no on the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
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LaunchI like to know what I’m talking about before I speak. — President Barack Obama, to CNN’s Ed Henry, who twice asked why the President
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State parks need stable funding, not squirrelly politics The Olympian’s Chester Allen calls on Republicans to quit playing political games with our state parks, and urges
LaunchWe will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all
LaunchMiami VA warns that unclean colonoscopies may spread HIV
Veterans who got colonoscopies through the Miami VA medical system are at risk of being infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV through the
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Bainbridge man hopes to bring his new electric fleet to the street Retired software engineer, Bob Fraik, hopes to build electric vehicles at the Port
LaunchWe got America into two wars, we’ve done great damage to our economy, to our force structure, to our standing in the world. For a
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And now, for something completely different From the Onion News Network: Experts agree giant, razor-clawed bioengineered crabs pose no threat to America. In fact, they’re here
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This is a disturbing event in Florida and possibly other areas of the Southeast. Imagine that… the importation of products that secretly contain toxic components is being allowed. Gee,
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The vocabulary of sprawl Jebediah Reed at The Infrastructurist explains some obscure terms used by developers – with aerial views.
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In a few weeks, Washington’s second largest city will play host to the National Smart Grid Conference, which organizers bill as “unprecedented” effort to “develop
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Krugman pans the leaked Geithner plan Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman says the plan will create the functional equivalent of Texas S&Ls in the 1980s: financial
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The Real AIG Scandal (The sadly disgraced, but still really smart) Eliot Spitzer at Slate says paying the counterparties (Goldman, et al) in full was
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Progressive talk show host Ed Schultz and MSNBC in discussions for “full time” job From Fargo, North Dakota – to DC and the Center for
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Fox News’ Glenn Beck was born in Mount Vernon, Washington on February 10th, 1964.
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