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Pew finds majority support for pot legalization for the first time.
It’s been ten years since Michael Kelly died as the first reporter to die in Iraq. I remember it vividly because I found out a couple hours before the news was reported and decided not to report it until his family and publication had a chance to do in their own way. His death was a terrible blow to his family and many colleagues who treasured him as a colleague and editor. But there’s simply no denying that, as a writer and columnist, he’d degenerated into something very much like a crank. Hectoring, shallow, nasty and fatuous.
On this I’m just going to turn the mic over to TPM Reader LF …
Stopping short of actually reading the 4th Circuit decision, I have been trying to understand the news that you and others have been reporting on Cucinnelli’s attempt to have the Supreme Court review the VA sodomy law. Obviously, he makes certain claims about what it means, but the question I was left with is why wouldn’t the prosecutors just charge the Defendant for statutory or actual rape.
A new poll shows that a clear majority of Americans believe the federal constitution and not the states should decide who has a right to marry.
2 more members of a white supremacist prison gang sought in assassination of Colorado prison chief.
One resignation and one firing in the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services after staffer questions whether women can really bring their menstrual cycles into combat.
The biggest mystery about the new New York City mayoral election bribery scandal is why the would-be candidate at the center of the scandal, Malcolm Smith, didn’t just buy his way onto the GOP ticket the legal way like Mike Bloomberg did.
Hillary Clinton’s public appearance last night fuled a day of rampant 2016 speculation on cable.