Entries Tagged as 'politics'

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Overzealous DEA shuts down water purifier manufacturer

In May, his Oklahoma distributor — warned by the DEA — said he could no longer send Wallace iodine. For Wallace to comply, the state Department of Justice fingerprinted the couple and told Wallace he needed to show them such things as a solid security system for his product. Wallace sent a photograph of Buddy [...]

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party

via howconservativesdrovemeaway.blogspot.com

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Jon Stewart Scolds Media For Ignoring Rep. Ron Paul: ‘I Mean, F*ck That Guy, Right?’

via mediaite.com I haven’t followed the Ron Paul campaign much this season. He did a poor job of turning money into votes in the 2008 campaign, so I didn’t see much point in putting much effort into this campaign. However, it’s incredibly annoying to see the media’s dismissal of his campaign, despite some notable successes. [...]

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Feminisnt » Fund America’s first sex workers’ rights billboard!

via feminisnt.com I support this billboard and SWAAY.org.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government

Dame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and three former chief constables in calling for the decriminalisation of the possession of all drugs. The high-profile celebrities together with leading lawyers, academics, artists and politicians have signed an open letter to David Cameron to mark this week’s 40th anniversary of [...]

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Patriot Act powers may lapse at end of week

A combination of the Senate’s arcane rules and Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) insistence on voting on several controversial amendments may cause the Patriot Act to lapse at the end of the week.  The expiration of the law before the passage of an extension would create an upheaval in the law enforcement community which relies on [...]

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Deafening Liberal Silence as the Senate Moves to Extend the Patriot Act

via my.firedoglake.com Under President Bush, liberals would never have been as silent as they are now. There would have been rancorous opposition especially in the blogosphere to extending PATRIOT Act provisions. Liberal talk radio and MSNBC would be talking about the government’s push to maintain extraordinary powers. But, for liberal activists, bloggers, pundits, and politicians, [...]

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Stephen Colbert’s Free Speech Problem

So what is someone who wants to speak during elections to do? If you’re Stephen Colbert, the answer is to instruct high-priced attorneys to plead your case with the FEC: Last Friday, he filed a formal request with the FEC for a “media exemption” that would allow him to publicize his Super PAC on air [...]

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

QT: Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. –Daniele Vare

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. Daniele Vare via overcomingbias.com

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Is Ron Paul More Progressive Than Obama?

Let’s just assume the worst about Paul: that he’s a corporate libertarian in the Reason magazine/Cato Institute mold that would grant Big Business and the financial industry license to do whatever the hell it wants with little in the way of accountability (I call this scenario the “status quo”). Let’s say he dines on Labradoodle [...]