New Jersey’s Gov. Christie Taken To Hospital; “Grateful For The Quality Of Care”

Routine tests; “World-class doctors”…

America’s 17 “Stoner States”, Where Marijuana Use Is Highest

Submitted by Greenfloyd

10.8% of Americans take an occasional toke, and it’s getting higher

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Are Plastic Testicles Hanging From Your Vehicle Free speech?

Woman gets jury trial for displaying red plastic testicles on her truck…

Rural America Would Be Severely Affected By Post Office Closings

One in ten could close, as agency loses $8 billion a year…

Treasury To Decide What Bills To Pay

If the money isn’t there, who gets left empty-handed?…

Paul LePage Copies Regulation Rollback Ideas From Businesses

by Stuart Shapiro

Several months ago, I expressed outrage when Congressman Darrell Issa asked for businesses to suggest regulations to be eliminated.  Apparently, Maine Governor Paul LePage thought Issa was not only on to something, he didn’t go far enough (h/t Laura Clawson).

Confidential administration dossiers show Governor Paul LePage crafted significant portions of his regulatory reform agenda by literally copying and pasting passages from the memos his staff received from corporate lobbyists and their clients, turning swaths of it into little more than a set of giveaways to favored companies.

Now I like to copy and paste as …

Rep. Jerry Nadler: We Don’t Have A Budget Crisis

Congressman Jerry Nadler of New York says we have an employment crisis, but not a deficit crisis.

“That’s the real crisis – the unemployment, not the deficit. We don’t have a deficit problem right now. In the long term, we have a deficit problem – we’ve got to get it under control but not right now,” said Nadler at the Capitol on Wednesday.

“Right now we’ve got to get unemployment under control. If we got unemployment down to 7 percent, down to 5 percent, which is what it was in 2005, and 2007 rather before the recession hit, if we …

Harry Belafonte: Hollywood “Will Never Yield To The Needs Of People Of Color”

Singer and activist Harry Belafonte says Hollywood will never meet the needs of people of color.

“It seems to me that long ago we could have put together black studios, put together a black distribution center,” Belafonte said. “Maybe we couldn’t reach 100 million, but we could reach 100,000, and have 100,000 exposed to a great truth. I’d rather have that than 100 million exposed to something vacuous and inaccurate.”

Belafonte said that “in pursuit of ego, in pursuit of large, ridiculous sums of money, we have sold our birthright that somehow we are more victim than we are responsible.”…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Republicans Want A Dictatorship

Speaking with Politico, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Republicans want to impose a dictatorship via their debt negotiating tactics.

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Herman Cain Apologizes To Muslim-Americans

Herman Cain spoke at a Northern Virginia mosque and apologized for some of his past statements about Islam.

“While I stand by my opposition to the interference of sharia law into the American legal system, I remain humble and contrite for any statements I have made that might have caused offense to Muslim Americans and their friends,” he said in the statement. “I am truly sorry for any comments that may have betrayed my commitment to the U.S. Constitution and the freedom of religion guaranteed by it.”

…”As I expected, we discovered we have much more in common in our …

Texas Planned Parenthood Clinic Attacked With Molotov Cocktail

Abortion debate prompts violence

Clinic provides women’s health and reproductive services, not abortions

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