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“So what is the lesson here? Smoke marijuana illegally, and you can become president. Try to provide a safe, consistent product that keeps the trade out of domestic and foreign drug cartels and brings in tax revenue, and face 15 years jail time.” —Novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee, in her L.A. Times opinion piece, Overkill in the war on pot. (via latimes)
SICK BURN
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Video: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator Ron Johnson clash over Benghazi consulate attack (via Talking Points Memo)
This was the most interesting exchange of the morning. Next up: testimony before the House.
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“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ ‘interests’, I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.” —Senator Barry Goldwater
OH YOU LIKE GOLDWATER QUOTES, HERITAGE?
“A lot of so-called conservatives today don’t know what the word means,” he told the Los Angeles Times in a 1994 interview.“They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion.
That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the religious right. It’s not a conservative issue at all.”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater30.htm\
GETTING REAL TIRED OF YOUR SHIT HERITAGE
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A Malian soldier holds papers next to a wall pockmarked with bullet holes after searching through debris at a Malian military camp in Diabaly, Mali on January 21, 2013.
[Credit : Joe Penney/Reuters]
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A Malian soldier holds papers next to a wall pockmarked with bullet holes after searching through debris at a Malian military camp in Diabaly, Mali on January 21, 2013.
[Credit : Joe Penney/Reuters]
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On HuffPost: Mali Islamist Rebels Expelled From Town Of Douentza
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As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected
Programmers and politicians spar over sharing the campaign-winning code with the public
