Los Angeles City Hall is thrashing around as the City Council and mayor belatedly try to control a pot-shop explosion they ignited, which has spawned dozens of freewheeling weed emporiums near public schools. The Los Angeles school board’s response? Nada.
The American Medical Association on Tuesday issued a cautious but historically significant call to change America\'s marijuana prohibition laws, urging a \"review\" of the drug\'s status as a Schedule I drug.
Losing a single building is completely understandable, right? But 18,000 buildings? How could any one lose track of 18,000 buildings? Well, the Florida Government has done just that, and has no idea how much it will cost to track down thousands of missing taxpayer-owned buildings.
In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. Then issued a gag order...
On his radio show today Rush Limbaugh blamed the Ft. Hood shooting where 13 soldiers were killed on President Obama. Limbaugh said, \"We could almost say this is Obama\'s fault, because this guy said that he believed Obama was going to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan.\"
Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, is protesting this morning outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama.
Against a backdrop of heightened public concern about government intrusions, six in 10 Americans favor extending the Patriot Act, but majorities oppose expanding it by adding new FBI powers to issue subpoenas and access U.S. mail.
CBS News assembled a Point-Counterpoint debate on marijuana and drug laws between pro-legalization Superior Court Judge James Gray and the Drug Free America Foundation\'s David Evans. Gee, who do you think wins this one?
Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, took issue with the Teabagger movement\'s disgusting comparisons of health care reform to Nazi death camps. The \'Baggers responded with typical class: \"The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Christian country.\" \"This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish.\" Disgusting.
The president, according to one Congressman, told Democrats that a failed health care bill would \"encourage extremists.\" \"“Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?\"
Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan that Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement.
On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) -- attempted to stop the Democratic Women\'s Caucus from making their arguments about how the health bill would benefit women by screaming over them. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) only had time to say \"Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to--,\" before