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Scott Walker’s New Policy May Result In Protesters Being Charged For The Pepper Spray Used Against Them

Sort of sums it ALL up really...

newtgingrich Newt Gingrich 

I am proud to know Herman Cain and consider him a friend and I know he will continue to be a powerful voice for years to come.

Z-40′s challenge to Mexico

A communique from the special forces of Los Zetas
Message to the nation, the government, and all of Mexico and to public opinion: The special forces of Los Zetas challenges the government of Mexico and its federal forces.
Not the Army, not the Marines nor the security and antidrug agencies of the United States government can resist us. Mexico lives and will continue under the regime of Los Zetas. Let it be clear that we are in control here and although the federal government controls other cartels, they cannot take our plazas. You want proof? Look at what happened in Sinaloa and Guadalajara. If we can get all the way into their kitchen we are not going to lose control of our territory.
Sincerely, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales Z-40
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David Hill: $5 Chess Game, Best-of-Three, Zuccotti Park

Does legalizing medical marijuana reduce fatal car accidents?

Lou Reed and Metallica - The View (Directed by Darren Aronofsky)

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"I had never heard anything like it", Aronofsky says in a press release. "I couldn't stop listening to it. Lou's crushing lyrics, and the band's incredible licks. It's so original and that's why I wanted to work on it."
Well Darren - I have NEVER heard anything like it either...

A disabled writer's book unfolds a tap at a time

Writer Peter Winkler works on his computer in his North Hollywood home. Winker, 55, has limited movement because of rheumatoid arthritis and suffers from other ailments. To write his biography of actor Dennis Hopper, he tapped out each letter using a long, red plastic chopstick. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times / November 2, 2011)

Peter Winkler, his body trapped by rheumatoid arthritis, wrote the first biography of Dennis Hopper to come out after the actor's death. Little did his agent know that he had to punch out the manuscript one letter at a time, using a red plastic chopstick...
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Lawmakers propose SOPA alternative: Fight online pirates ‘like WikiLeaks’

Fighting the Unauthorized Trade of Digital Goods While Protecting Internet Security, Commerce and Speech
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Drug study secrecy puts lives at risk

RIAA: Piracy is 'Under Control' But Wait – 'Rampant Theft' Continues

Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

Police Officers Find That Dissent on Drug Laws May Come With a Price

Border Patrol agents pursue smugglers one moment and sit around in boredom the next. It was during one of the lulls that Bryan Gonzalez, a young agent, made some comments to a colleague that cost him his career.
Stationed in Deming, N.M., Mr. Gonzalez was in his green-and-white Border Patrol vehicle just a few feet from the international boundary when he pulled up next to a fellow agent to chat about the frustrations of the job. If marijuana were legalized, Mr. Gonzalez acknowledges saying, the drug-related violence across the border in Mexico would cease. He then brought up an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition that favors ending the war on drugs.
Those remarks, along with others expressing sympathy for illegal immigrants from Mexico, were passed along to the Border Patrol headquarters in Washington. After an investigation, a termination letter arrived that said Mr. Gonzalez held “personal views that were contrary to core characteristics of Border Patrol Agents, which are patriotism, dedication and esprit de corps.”
After his dismissal, Mr. Gonzalez joined a group even more exclusive than the Border Patrol: law enforcement officials who have lost their jobs for questioning the war on drugs and are fighting back in the courts...

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Lizardoid Charles Johnson 
I'll always remember where I was when I first saw Mark Block taking a ragged hit off a cigarette in a Herman Cain political ad. #cainwreck

Cain Will Suspend His Presidential Campaign

Republican candidate Herman Cain said that he was suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to avoid news coverage that is hurtful to his family. Mr. Cain’s announcement came five days after an Atlanta-area woman claimed she and Mr. Cain had an affair for more than a decade, a claim that followed several allegations of sexual harassment against the Georgia businessman. Mr. Cain, whose wife stood behind him on the stage, made the announcement before several hundred supporters gathered at what was to have been the opening of his national campaign headquarters.Mr. Cain had surged in polls until news surfaced in late October that he had been accused of sexual harassment by two women during his time as president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s
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Er - wasn't it his fucking around that actually hurt his family?