Sharron Angle: DISCLOSE Act Already Exists (Except It Doesn’t). Nevada Residents: Proud of This Candidate?

Jon Ralston/Las Vegas Sun

It was rejected by the Senate this week. But here’s what Sharron Angle said to conservative talker Heidi Harris today (audio at right):

Harris: Interesting story, or I should say Op-Ed, in the Washington Post this morning, ‘Where does Sharron Angle, what does Sharron Angle believe about campaign finance?’ The . . . → Read More: Sharron Angle: DISCLOSE Act Already Exists (Except It Doesn’t). Nevada Residents: Proud of This Candidate?

California and Marijuana: Everybody Must Get Stoned

A new plan to legalize marijuana in California would create a $1 billion tokin’ tax and thousands of green jobs. Now that’s a stimulus plan!

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Can Californians help dig themselves out of their historic fiscal crisis by getting high? Tom Ammiano thinks so, and he isn’t smoking a thing.

On Feb. 23, the . . . → Read More: California and Marijuana: Everybody Must Get Stoned

Judge Doubts Constitutionality Of A Portion Of Arizona’s Immigration Law

Nicholas Riccardi/Los Angeles Times

A federal judge on Thursday expressed skepticism about the constitutionality of a key part of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, but did not say whether she would prevent the measure from taking effect next week.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton said during a hearing that the provision that makes it a . . . → Read More: Judge Doubts Constitutionality Of A Portion Of Arizona’s Immigration Law

City of Oakland Pushing For Industrial Pot

Alex Altman/Time

Go ahead and have a chuckle that the first city poised to permit industrial marijuana production is in the Bay Area–home to Haight-Ashbury, Berkeley moonbats and bongs aplenty. But Oakland’s unprecedented plan is a creative proposal driven by economic and social need, not reefer-addled pols. It could help close the city’s yawning budget . . . → Read More: City of Oakland Pushing For Industrial Pot

GOP Male Candidate: Vote For Me ‘Because I Do Not Wear High Heels’ (Video)

Aaron Blake/Washington Post

A new video shows Ken Buck, the leading Republican candidate in a Colorado Senate race, repeatedly using the word “bull—-” and saying that voters should choose him over his female primary opponent “because I do not wear high heels.”

Buck, the Weld County district attorney, made the remarks . . . → Read More: GOP Male Candidate: Vote For Me ‘Because I Do Not Wear High Heels’ (Video)

California African-Americans Split Over Marijuana Measure

Jesse McKinley/New York Times

Ron Allen says he knows all too well the ravages of drug addiction.

“I was a pastor on crack cocaine, sir,” said Mr. Allen, who says he has been sober for 11 years and now identifies himself as the bishop of the International Faith Based Coalition here. “Drugs have no . . . → Read More: California African-Americans Split Over Marijuana Measure