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Congress Is About to Block the Feds from Cracking Down on Medical Marijuana
Lawmakers are poised to pass a budget amendment that would block the DEA from cracking down on legal medical marijuana dispensaries and their patients.
FCC Chief Says He Agrees With Obama on Net Neutrality. Critics Are Skeptical
“Wheeler is playing word games,” said Marvin Ammori, a prominent First Amendment lawyer who supports net neutrality. “It doesn’t make sense. There’s a huge difference between Wheeler's rhetoric and his proposal.”
US Congressman Opens Climate Change Denial Conference with Rant Against Water Fluoridation
The elderly crowd at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas loved it, but lobbyists for the oil and gas industry can't be happy with such a goofy display.
We'll Always Have School Shootings Because We Really Really Love Guns
The NRA may be a bloated, possibly corrupt, excessively powerful lobbying force, but it's also the mouthpiece of a fandom more widespread than Bronies, Trekkies, and Furries combined and multiplied by a hundred.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the US Just Moved One Step Closer to Full Oligarchy
Money is speech and if you don't have the former, you don't have the latter.
Chuck Strahl Oversaw Government Spies While Registered as an Enbridge Lobbyist
Like those underemployed twenty-somethings the internet loves to ridicule, former cabinet minister Chuck Strahl has to hustle a few side jobs to get the bills paid. “I’m not independently wealthy,” he told the National Post earlier this month, when...
The First Nation People in Sarnia Are Pushing Back Against Fracking
On December 27th, First Nations protestors in Sarnia, Ontario, took to the streets once again to let Canadians know they don’t want to be the lab rats of the energy industry’s pollution experiments. While members of the Aamjiwnaang...
Big Money's Obama
Once upon a time, Obama was apparently devoted to reining in the influence of money in politics, but after a couple of elections and some time inside the machine, he doesn’t seem to care about it at all. Instead of fighting against casual corruption...
Of Course Obama Appointed a Former Telecom Lobbyist to Run the FCC
What we have to watch out for is whether this new guy sides with the telecom giants or not.
Break In Case Of Censorship: What Are Our Free Speech Fail-safes If SOPA Passes?
As I’m writing this, Congress is getting ready to vote on the single most destructive piece of legislation that the internet has ever faced.