QotD

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This edition of the QotD is brought to you by Armstrong Williams. Do you remember Armstrong Williams? He was just one of the media figures secretly paid by the Bush…

A Casuality of the War on Drugs

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Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). are my new heroes. Kohl and Whitehouse are asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to scale back their enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act as it is "producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication" reports The Washington Post.

President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act Today

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The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed by President Obama in a White House ceremony today. This new law is an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, which will be signed in a separate event to day. This long needed law (and one promised by the Obama campaign):

US Chamber of Horrors

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Delaware Liberal like facts and we like pretty pictures, consequently we love graphs. Daniel Gross at Slate did a fine piece on the failings of the US Chamber of Commerce:…

Stay Classy Governator!

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Yes, this a real letter from the Governor of California to the General Assembly of his state, telling the Assembly that he is vetoing a bill financing the Port of San Francisco. As you can see, it spells out "Fuck You" from the first letters of each sentence on the left margin.