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The “No on 19″ forces are now claiming that the initiative’s legalization of cannabis possession doesn’t much matter, since it has already been decriminalized. That’s not necessarily so.
Archive for October, 2010
October 23rd, 2010
Category: Drug Policy
Prop. 19 is behind in most polls, but in a split sample robo-polling shows more support than live polling. And landline-only polling disproportionately misses the under-30s, where support for cannabis legalization is very high.
October 22nd, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
Citizens Against Government Waste produced a creepily xenophobic bit of agit-prop. Campus Progress promptly responded with a parody. Naturally, the wingnuts, lovers of liberty and small government that they are, used the power of the state – in the form of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – to suppress criticism.
October 22nd, 2010
Category: Law Notes, Watching Conservatives
Wasn’t someone impeached a few years ago for perjury? Is that still an operative principle?
October 22nd, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Chicago’s Bishop Arthur Brazier died today. A true gentleman, he is missed.
October 22nd, 2010
Category: Torture
Was there some event that happened just before 2009 that might explain why we went from “shrugging” at torture to caring about it?
October 22nd, 2010
Dilma Rousseff heads for an easy win.
October 22nd, 2010
Category: Religion and Politics
Republicans rush to defend the right to expend public resources to disparage an entire religious tradition.
October 21st, 2010
Category: Macroeconomic Policy
Cutting public spending in a deep recession is folly.