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OUR TIME – CNN: N/A is Not OK!

In case you missed it, a CNN commissioned poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, asked 824 “adult” Americans how they felt about legalization of marijuana and gay marriage, but had to claim “N/A” for people under 35. This is unacceptable!

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The Boring Centrist Confessions of a Radical Progressive

Despite being dismissed as an extremist left-winger by even this Democratic administration, there is hardly an important issue I support that doesn’t have fairly strong popular support. The few that do lack majority support, like gay marriage and mar…

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It’s Time to Retire the Red State/Blue State Shorthand

I understand that the red/blue shorthand is convenient for the media, but it’s not helpful, and reduces people to caricatures. For example, I haven’t supported a Democrat for president since George McGovern in 1972—the exuberance of youth; I was …

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Anti-Prop 19 Group Claims Marijuana Leads To Meth, Cocaine

A far-right conservative political group called SaveCalifornia.com is turning its unwholesome attention from anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8, to fighting this year’s pro-marijuana legislation, Prop 19, the legalization measure on November’s Calif…

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Will Marijuana Legalization Voters Help Dems In November?

The notion going round political circles is that California’s Prop 19 (and, to a lesser extent, medical marijuana initiatives in Arizona and South Dakota, and dispensaries for medical marijuana in Oregon) will be for the Democrats what anti-Gay Marriag…

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Anybody else waiting for the old generation to die…?

so that we can legalize filesharing, marijuana, gay marriage, etc. and then get on with our lives?www.philipbrocoum.com

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Chris Dodd (D-CT) to Retire from US Senate

Chris Dodd, the 5-term US Senator from Connecticut is expected to announce his retirement within hours, according to unnamed sources and reported by the Associated Press. Dodd was a strong champion for medical marijuana, affirmative action, reproductive rights, the environment, and more recently gay marriage.

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Why You Can’t Stop Gay Marriage and Marijuana

You can’t stop either of these prohibitions, and Newsweek Magazine says this is a good thing. What’s advancing the decriminalization of marijuana is not just the demand for it as medicine but the number of adults—more than 23 million in the past year—who use it and don’t believe they should face legal jeopardy.

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The Growing Rift Between Libertarians and Republicans

Although a temporary truce between Libertarians and Republicans has been in effect for the Tea Parties, divisions over legalizing marijuana, domestic espionage, abortion, torture, gay marriage, the separation of church/state, immigration, and de-militarization are starting to toll. The schism between Libertarians and Republicans is widening.

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