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Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month June 2011
Legalizing marijuana won’t kill the drug cartels
Sylvia Longmire in the New York Times. Marijuana makes up 60 percent of the cartels’ profits, that still leaves another 40 percent, which includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin. If marijuana were legalized, the cartels…
Bill Gates says solar and wind is “cute” but no answer
Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem ”¦ because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no…
AARP sells out seniors, favors Social Security changes
Doug Henwood: AARP has essentially become an insurance company. It opposed single-payer because it sells health insurance (though they’ll give you a lot of nonsensical policy justifications for their self-interested stance). I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it’s now…
Obama overruled lawyers on Libya air war
DoJ and Pentagon lawyers opposed the bombing. But Barack “More War All The Time” Obama overuled them. Why? Obama has ignored atrocities commited by the governments of Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain but went barrelling into Libya almost immediately promising it…