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Siobhan Reynolds, Activist, Petitions Supreme Court - Sidebar
Last week, I asked a lawyer from a Libertarian group for a copy of a brief it had filed in a First Amendment case. Sounding frustrated and incredulous, he said a Federal appeals Court had sealed the brief and forbidden its distribution. “It’s a profound problem,” said the lawyer, Paul M. Sherman, with the Institute for Justice. “We want to bring attention to important First Amendment issues but cannot share the brief that most forcefully makes those arguments.” Th...

County commissions, school boards, city councils among metro Atlanta races
Despite the big focus on the Governor’s race and several hotly contested congressional races, metro counties also will fill important seats Tuesday. Here’s just a sampling with more at this link: Gwinnett: Voters will fill District 2 and District 4 county commission seats; Lawrenceville will fill 3 City Council seats; and Norcross voters will decide whether to extend the terms of the mayor and Council. Fulton: Two county commission  members, including the chairman, face challenger...

CALIFORNIA GROUND REPORT
I live in a mid-size College City in Northern California.  Our political demographic is divided between the more conservative agricultural and business communities and the liberal College and education communities.  In most cases, locally at least, the conservative side carries more sway.  Unfortunately for us, the larger metropolitan areas of the state usually dictate the overall outcome and we are considered a guaranteed blue state. I have spent the last several days asking peop...

Should City Spend $100K on Lobbying Metro?
Should City Spend $100K on Lobbying Metro? The School Board's request for funds to help fight an MTA route under the High School is excessive. BHUSD Board Member Brian Goldberg. At Tuesday's Board of Education meeting, the panel continued its strong stance of speaking out against a Metropolitan Transportation Authority proposal to tunnel under Beverly Hills High School as part of its Westside Subway Extension. The MTA, which is also considering a city of Beverly Hills-endorsed route westward a...

America's Political Awakening
In the two years since Barack Obama stepped into office the political awakening has kept pace. The popularity of Jesse Ventura's truTV show Conspiracy Theory , and Alex Jones's two documentaries, The Obama Deception , and Fall of The Republic , as well as other revelatory documentaries like Charles Ferguson 's Inside Job , are an indication of the American public's appetite for the truth, however ugly it may be. People inherently know that a country can only be ruined by lies, not governed by ...

Political mailers or little horror movie posters?
Christine O'Donnell: great witch, lousy scholar Saturday, Oct. 23 Longhorn Alumni Band: Still tootin' and twirlin' after all these years Thursday, Oct. 21 Hello? Nebraska? I've got a second to hear you out ... Monday, Oct. 18 Flap over limb at East Austin bar: Is the tree dead, or not? Saturday, Oct. 16 Horns honor Colt's inimitable No. 12 Steelers vs. Saints: last 2 Super Bowl champs collide ...

This makes me happy
It's sort of sad, but I get almost as much pleasure out of a Dallas Cowboy loss as I do a Washington Redskin win. So this thought for the day made me very happy: With the Cowboys showing no signs of pulling their season out of the toilet, the Cowboys are turning into a great fantasy matchup. When the inconsistent Jaguars can waltz in and have QB David Garrard and WR Mike Sims-Walker post career-best numbers -- a week after the Giants dropped 41 points on Dallas -- you can lose any trepid...

Legal Minds Vote For Legalizing Pot
Source: Forbes On Tuesday voters in the Golden State will be able to decide if marijuana will remain an illegal drug by voting for or against Prop. 19 on the California ballot. Prop. 19 has gotten the attention of groups all around the country, and those hoping to "legalize it" don't exactly fit the cliché of dreadlocked, jobless, munchie-craving stoners. Thousands of miles away from California's borders, in one of the squarest, lamest and most uptight cities in the nation (Washington, D.C.), la...

Why public sector union campaigning should trouble us
While we're supposed to get our panties all in a knot over the $30 million or so that Karl Rove's group has spent on the election this year, that number is dwarfed by how much Public Employee Unions are spending on this election. Totaling up the spending from AFSCME, SEIU, and the NEA and they're spending about $172 million to elect politicians who will then turn around and work to give those union members better salaries and benefits. Jeff Jacoby explains why this is such a pernicious trend....

ODonnell 30-minute ad focuses on economy, does not mention Coons
Chris Moody is a political reporter for the Daily Caller from San Diego, California. Before joining the Daily Caller, Moody was the Manager of New Media at a think tank in Washington DC, a freelance writer and a commercial fisherman in Alaska. He is currently a graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University and lives in downtown Washington DC. Mass. man gets 9 years in black church fire Delaware Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell is running a 30-minute political ad this week, a ...

Ciclovia gives nondrivers the right of way
Mile-long stretch of Roland Ave. shut down for annual event Avery Goldstein, 6, of Roland Park, in front, leads a cluster of riders, including Lynn Heller, also of Roland Park, in a pumpkin costume, at right. Cyclists, walkers, joggers, kids on scooters, and pets came out for Roland Park's second Ciclovia event, in which the southbound lane of Roland Avenue was closed between Northern Parkway and Cold Spring Lane from 8a.m. until 1p.m. (Baltimore Sun photo by Amy Davis / October 31, 2010) Joanna...

A Christian conservative plea to Republicans to legalize pot- Yes on Prop 19!
I'll be honest; I've never used Marijuana- or any illegal Drugs for that matter- never felt inclined or interested to do it. But I can in good conscience present an arguement for the legalization of marijuana in California. Who doesn't know someone- friends, famly or acquaintence, who has used marijuana? Why even three of our last esteemed presidents have admittted to using it- although one denied he inhaled. George Bush admitting using pot; so has Barack Obama. Yet how hypocritical is it o...

College Park--The most anti-youth city?
Awhile ago I wrote about how in Prince George’s County I didn’t see the struggle for power so much between black and white any more as it was between the old guard and the Young guns. It seemed as after writing those words things continued to be so much of the same and a vote by the College Park City Council last week provided the proof to that effect. Despite the fact that the cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and even San Francisco, all larger than College Park, allow their...

Church warns on portrayal of poor
The Archbishop of Wales has criticised the way benefit claimants are being portrayed by the UK Government. Dr Barry Morgan said the mark of a civilised society was the way it cared for its worst off members. He said the UK government "talks about benefit frauds, as if the country is full of people who are out to milk the system". A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson said welfare reforms were about trying to fix a broken system. Dr Morgan, speaking at a service to mark the 10...

Merger proponents unable to produce comparison figures to sway views
Financial experts can analyze numbers with comparable cities and show Memphis lagging behind economically. They can show how peer cities are Spending up to half of what the combined Memphis and Shelby County Governments spend in certain categories. They can cite those trends as evidence a change, like consolidation, is important to reverse the area's downward spiral. 2010 Voter Guide Read profiles of each Candidate and get links to our political coverage and other online resources.

Amendment 4: Battle Over 'Democracy'
It’s taken seven years to reach the ballot, but voters on Nov. 2 will finally weigh in on whether they should get a vote on proposals to change the way their communities grow. Amendment 4, the so-called “Hometown Democracy” amendment, would require Local voters to approve changes to their communities’ comprehensive plans to prevent the “development gone wild” atmosphere that became synonymous with Florida in the ’60s and ’70s. Few measures facing v...

A case for voting for the party over the person.
By Michael KinsleyPosted Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006, at 7:08 AM ET In a remarkable editorial on Wednesday, the New York Times endorsed Diane Farrell for Congress from a district in Connecticut. Who is Diane Farrell? I have no idea, and the Times seemed to have not a lot. After eight years as first selectman of Westport, the paper noted somewhat desperately, "she has a better understanding than most legislators of the impact of federal mandates and tax policy on Local Government." By contrast, her opp...

Missouri Ballot Initiatives and Leadership Project
By Reboot Congress Here’s the St. Louis Tea Party’s statement on four Missouri ballot initiatives. NO on Prop B Vote “NO” to defend Missouri against Animal Rights Extremism! A “yes” vote will amend Missouri law to require large-scale dog breeding operations to provide each dog under their care with sufficient food, Clean Water, housing and space; necessary veterinary care; regular exercise and adequate rest between breeding cycles. The Amendment further prohibits any

DAMN LIBERAL!
In 1932 the issue was the restoration of American Democracy; and the American People were in a mood to win. They did win. In 1936 the issue is the preservation of their victory. Again they are in a mood to win. Again they will win. More than four years ago in accepting the Democratic nomination in Chicago, I said: "Give me your help not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own People." The banners of that crusade still fly in the van of a Nation that is on t...

Coming Boomer pension cuts: what impact on economy?
October 12, 2010 — Over the last two decades, Pension cutbacks have left relatively few Private Sector workers with defined benefit Pensions plans. Now, with Health and Pension Funds for state and Local Government employees said to be facing massive funding shortfalls, many are describing the guaranteed Retirement Benefits paid to teachers, Police Officers, street cleaners, and other Public workers as overly expensive and sclerotic. These Pensions, the argument goes, are unrealistic &mdash...;

MPs warned of savage cuts to care
Home care for the elderly and disabled could be withdrawn from hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people as a result of drastic cuts to council Budgets. The Local Government Association has warned MPs in a written submission, seen by the Observer, of a looming crisis in adult Social care, claiming that an increasing number of councils could be forced to restrict Services to those who have "critical" needs. It blames the cuts but also Britain's ageing population. Elderly people with conditions s...

Google sues U.S. over government contract exclusion
San Francisco | Mon Nov 1, 2010 5:28pm EDT San Francisco (Reuters) - Google is suing the U.S. Government for excluding its products from being considered for a five-year contract worth about $59 million to upgrade the Department of the Interior's email system. In a Complaint filed on Friday, Google said the Government abused its discretion and acted in a manner that was "arbitrary and capricious" by only considering sales proposals with email technology based on Microsoft Corp technology. The...

Center Releases Updated Report on Manila Citys Ban on Modern Contraception
11.01.10 - For ten years, a devastating ban on modern contraceptives in Manila City, the Philippines, has denied women their basic right to protect their Health and decide whether and when to have Children. The Center and its partners have resolutely fought this cruel policy. A newly updated edition of the Center’s seminal report on the issue, Imposing Misery, outlines developments in the situation since the report was first released in 2007. In 2000, the mayor of Manila City issued an Execut...

Westcoaster.ca - Independent news source for Canada's west coast. - Premier Gordon Campbell’s ‘Hail Mary’
By Maclean Kay Columnist VICTORIA — In football, a desperate team might attempt a “Hail Mary.” All the receivers run towards the opponent’s end zone, the Quarterback throws the ball as far as possible, in hopes of a miracle touchdown. It’s a low-percentage, desperation tactic – hence the name. Premier Gordon Campbell’s televised address was exactly that. In an undisguised bid to rally both his and his party’s record-low popularity, Campbell used W...

What, if any, environmental regulation is permissible? - Ask the Libertarian
Question:  Libertarians don’t want the government to impose any Regulations regarding Pollution, correct? If no Regulations are in place, however, and companies are allowed to pollute at will, won’t these pollutants eventually end up harming others, therefore warranting Regulation? Aren’t there many places where environmental Regulations are needed to protect people from harm? Answer:  Libertarians hold that the law must require all enterprises to cover their own cost...