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Tea Party Movement Shattering?

The Politico digs up enough stories of internecine fighting amongst the loose bunch of organizations supposedly responsible for, or furthering in specific locations, the Tea Party movement to generate a semi-convincing trend story that argues the ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Politico,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Democratic Party

Ron Paul's Fed Audit Bill Passes House Financial Services Committee

The measure was approved by the House Financial Services Committee as it considered broad bank regulatory reform legislation, and included a package of other measures weakening the Fed's power and capping how much it can lend or guarantee. The ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Government Accountability Office,  Reason Magazine

Go to Every Party, Rob The D.J....

San Francisco police might not be as vengeful toward D.J.'s as Nas, but they still are gleefully using their utterly bullshit power to rob with impunity on them. See this SF Weekly story: San Francisco DJs at underground parties in SOMA are ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nas,  Jennifer Granick

L.A. Medical Pot Scene: Still the "Wild, Wild West" at Least 'Til Next Week

Attended an L.A. City Council meeting today in which it was rumored they would actually vote on a proposed ordinance to finalize a set regulatory structure for a situation that both enemies of medical pot and even many of its friends consider an ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Reason Magazine,  Jacob Sullum

Georgia Cops Nap 16 Bottles of Bubbly, and a City Councilwoman's Scalp

We must have respect for the law. We must! An undercover cop enters a bridal shop run by City Councilwoman Judy Wilkinson in West Point, Georgia, and nabs her in the act of serving gratis mimosas to her customers, in violation of both city and ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  18 Nov 2009

From the L.A. Medical Pot Trenches

Jacob Sullum noted below the possible end game in Los Angeles' long struggle to regulate medical pot to its satisfaction--and its D.A.'s petulant insistance that he doesn't care if the City Council says over the counter sales of medical pot can ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Hit and Run,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jacob Sullum

Material Assault on "Material Support" Law

The Constitution Project today released a study in which "a bipartisan coalition of former government officials, scholars, practitioners, and other experts serving on the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Committee have proposed reforms ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Hit and Run,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  U.S. Congress,  United Nations

The Soviets' Mistakes in Afghanistan (and Ours?)

A few months old in magazine terms, and 21 years old in historical terms, but veritably ripped screaming from today's headlines: I found this today in the June issue of Harper's, and then found it reproduced online via the "Relentless Liberal." ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Take the 10th--Please!

In states around the country, there’s a growing movement to address and resist two of the most abused parts of the Constitution – the Commerce Clause and the 2nd Amendment.  Already being considered in a number of state legislatures, and passed ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Reason,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress

The Ambassador from Indecision

"After years of substantial investments by the American people, governance in Afghanistan must improve in a reasonable period of time." reply to this "After years of substantial investments by the American people, governance in Afghanistan must ...

From BRIAN DOHERTY, Hit and Run,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Steve Smith

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