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The American Independent has previously reported on the growing corporatization of the incipient medical marijuana industry at a time when medical marijuana

Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos slams The Washington Post for its editorial yesterday praising the Senate Judiciary Committee for its highly compromised Patriot

Much was said about walls, borders and welfare during the immigration section of the Republican presidential debate in Ames, Iowa, on Thursday. But the most

United Nations drug policy framework is scheduled to be approved next week, with the United States breaking from much of Europe and Canada.

Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are not allowing school voucher legislation to fall by the wayside, as news outlets are reporting a Senate committee will vote to

In another slap to the government’s attempts to conceal information about the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge ruled today that the Justice

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The long-awaited report on how Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration handled the firing of the state’s public safety commissioner is in the

<p>Is for machines to stop calling me.</p> <p>Our network site in Michigan is getting into the spirit of giving this holiday season by

I missed this, but Politico noted it this morning. Bjorn Lomborg, who caused quite a stir last month when the Guardian reported he had a change of heart on his

There’s no shortage of demagoguery about the Guantanamo Bay detainee cohort, regardless of how many times reason tries to prevail. Among the worst is the

Massey CEO Don Blankenship has defended his company this week in the wake of Monday’s horrific mining explosion, arguing that Massey’s safety precautions are

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is getting heat today for his response to a question about President Obama’s citizenship, delivered to a conspiracy-minded citizen

Here’s what Attorney General Eric Holder said in his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s prospective trial,

When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people he barely

Michael Moynihan points to the cover of Glenn Beck’s upcoming book Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government. Below the

<p>At this point in the 2006 election cycle, Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) was the guy urging all his GOP colleagues to stay in Congress. Back then, Reynolds was

It’s a question that rarely gets asked: from where does the Obama administration locate the legal authority to launch missiles from the CIA’s unmanned drones

North Carolina’s House Transportation Committee Tuesday voted down an amendment offering a counter-balance to a proposal to introduce the anti-abortion rights

Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee attended a ceremony Monday marking the further expansion of Israeli housing in East Jerusalem, using the opportunity to expound on his views regarding what much of the international community considers to be illegal settlements on occupied territories and disregarding the notion that building on lands where Palestinians hope to establish a future state are damaging to the peace process: # “It is inconceivable in many ways that we would have to even argue and debate whether or not Israelis could live in Israel, not just in parts of Israel but anywhere in Israel they wished to live,” Huckabee added. “I cannot imagine as an American being told that I could not live in certain places in America because I was Christian, or because I was white, or because I spoke English.

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), a longtime supporter of immigration reform, could become a leader on

The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil