Washington state votes to legalize marijuana
Washington voters overwhelmingly approved Initiative 502, a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana. As of 10:00 p.m. PST, the ballot initiative was up 55.45 percent to 44.55 percent. Initiative 502...
View ArticleProp 37 to Label GMO Foods Fails in California
It appears that the big advertising push by big food companies defeated the California's Proposition 37, a ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs). … Read More
View ArticleDEA Responds to Legal Weed in Colorado and Washington
Despite the passage of ballot initiatives in Washington and Colorado legalizing recreational marijuana, “the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enforcement of the … Read More
View ArticleBallot measures: A rundown of results
Voters around the country weighed in Tuesday on a cornucopia of ballot measures, offering a partial insight into the state of opinion around the nation on issues ranging from genetically modified foods...
View ArticleMN Voters See Through ‘Voter Fraud’ Lie, Defeat Polling Place Photo ID Amendment
A little more than four months ago, when The BRAD BLOG first covered the ACLU's legal challenge to the deceptive ballot language that the MN GOP state legislature had used to describe its polling place...
View ArticleMarijuana Initiatives Also Thrive on the Municipal Level
Washington's and Colorado's ballot initiatives are rightfully dominating the drug war news cycle at the moment, but there were some smaller municipal battles, mostly in Michigan, to ease up on...
View ArticleColorado and Washington State legalize recreational marijuana
http://www.youtube.com/v/Nm42YVoOzPM?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata See the original article here: Colorado and Washington State legalize recreational marijuana
View ArticleSex workers decry passage of ‘paternalistic’ Measure B
Los Angeles’ burgeoning adult entertainment industry was reeling on Wednesday after more than one million residents voted Yes on Measure B, which requires porn performers to wear condoms and mandates...
View ArticleMarijuana Legalization Victories Could Be Short-Lived
* Colorado, Washington vote to legalize * Oregon voters reject similar measure * Federal government considers marijuana an illicit drug By Alex Dobuzinskis Nov 7 (Reuters) - Votes making Colorado and...
View ArticleCalifornia Election Winners & Losers: Who Came Out On Top?
This story comes courtesy of California Watch.By Lance WilliamsMultimillionaire activists, big labor unions and major corporations combined to pump more than $363 million into political fights over 11...
View ArticleAssad says only ‘ballot box’ can decide his future
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his future could only be decided through the ballot box, in an interview with Russian television where he warned the country could face a protracted war. Assad...
View ArticleJon Stewart On California’s Prop 30, Prop 34 & Measure B: ‘You’re Turning...
Jon Stewart is verklempt. On Thursday's episode of "The Daily Show," Stewart played the role of proud papa, holding back tears while discussing the passage of California's Prop 30. Approved Tuesday by...
View ArticleWhat’s next for gay marriage: Conservatism
November 7 was a good day to wake up gay. Marriage equality went four for four in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, ending a 31-state losing streak in dramatic fashion. Since then, pundits...
View ArticleRepublicans Spar Over Future Of Party Following Mitt Romney Loss
Republicans sparred on Sunday over the future of the party, discussing what the formula might be to achieve more success at the ballot box in coming years.Read More... More on Republicans … Read More
View ArticleColorado marijuana push used old-fashioned politics to win
While it may be difficult for some to imagine a well-organized push to legalize marijuana, the Colorado movement to convince citizens of the state’s recently-passed ballot measure’s merits was much...
View ArticleFederal Judge Rules Against Last-Minute Ohio Ballot-Counting Change
Federal judge finds an order by the Ohio elections chief about provisional ballots to have violated Ohio law and the U.S. Constitution. Ohio's Jon Husted will appeal, says order could lead to...
View ArticleRon Paul and Barney Frank to Obama: Don’t Crack Down on Legal Pot in Colorado...
Outgoing Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) sent a letter to the White House Wednesday asking President Obama not to crack down on legal marijuana in Colorado and Washington, which...
View ArticleLos Angeles Sales Tax Hike Opposed By All Mayoral Candidates
One day after the City Council tentatively agreed to place a half-cent sales tax hike on the spring ballot, the four leading mayoral candidates criticized the plan Wednesday at a forum in Koreatown. "I...
View ArticleAppeals court finds Michigan affirmative action ban unconstitutional
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals narrowly ruled on Thursday that Michigan’s ban on affirmative action, passed by a ballot initiative in 2006, is unconstitutional. The court ruled 8 to 7 in...
View ArticleMontana activists file marijuana legalization initiative for 2014
Activists in Montana filed a ballot initiative over the weekend that would legalize marijuana in the state if it is approved at the polls in 2014. Ballot Issue #1, as the Secretary of State’s office...
View ArticleOregon passed ballot measure to copy edit state constitution
Constitutional copy-editing (via The Christian Science Monitor) It was no great surprise that Oregon went blue last month. But something else on the ballot got even more votes than Obama-Biden....
View ArticleSupreme Court Weighs Hearing Gay Marriage Cases
WASHINGTON -- The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three states and defeated a ban in a fourth,...
View ArticleMike Riggs on Michigan Municipalities Rejecting Marijuana Decriminalization...
While voters in Colorado, Washington, and Massachusetts celebrate the reform of those states' marijuana laws, residents in two Michigan cities are learning that marijuana ballot initiatives are only...
View ArticleAntonio Villaraigosa On Marijuana Legalization In California: ‘I’m Not There...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff during an in-studio interview Thursday that he does not support the full legalization of marijuana in California. The comments...
View ArticleCalifornians react to Supreme Court decision to rule on Prop 8
Californians are reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to rule on Proposition 8, a ballot measure that banned same-sex marriages after the state granted same-sex couples that right, reported CBS...
View ArticleVid: A Great Year for Pot, Freedom, & Ending the Drug War! Q&A w MPP’s Rob...
Reason TV talks with Rob Kampia, the head of the Marijuana Policy Project, about what happens next after victories for legal pot in Colorado and Washington state. Kampia explains how the ballot...
View ArticleUnions Plan New Offensive After Michigan Right-To-Work Loss
WASHINGTON — Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important states up for re-election in 2014 – part of...
View ArticleColorado county bans commercial marijuana operations
While the state of Colorado recently voted in favor of the ballot initiative Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana, a few counties don’t want the resulting plant growing operations in their...
View Article2012: The year we all got high
If liberalizing marijuana laws becomes the next big social issue, we will have 2012 to thank for it, as this was the year that the issue finally moved from the fringes to the center of American...
View ArticleProgressive victories you may have missed in 2012
This being the season of giving, it's worth looking back at some special gifts from November's election that received little acknowledgement at the time.These victories came in campaigns that had no...
View ArticleBlack conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act
A group of prominent black conservatives is trying to help scrap a key part of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights-era legislation that enshrined the right of black Americans to have equal...
View ArticleNorth Dakota Personhood Measure Passes State Senate
North Dakota has only one abortion clinic and has been rated the worst state in the country for women, but the State Senate passed two bills on Thursday will make it even more difficult for women in...
View ArticleLuis Toro: Who Funded Amendment S, and Why It Still Matters
Once thought of as an uncorruptible populist device to bypass politicians beholden to special interests, ballot initiative elections have become a big-money playground. Merely getting on the ballot is...
View ArticlePennsylvania senator: Weed would be legal if lawmakers had ‘secret ballot’
A marijuana legalization bill being introduced to the Pennsylvania Senate on Monday might have a shot at passage if lawmakers were able to vote via “secret ballot,” Pennsylvania Sen. Daylin Leach (D)...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Raises Fears Over Reach of Occupational Licensing Laws
Medical associations are generally pretty control-freaky, and don't generally earn a reputation for advocating looser rules over anything. But the Massachusetts Medical Society is trying to get with...
View ArticleSmoking Pot and Tying the Knot
No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the two gay marriage cases it will hear this spring, polling data suggest it is only a matter of time before legal recognition of same-sex unions is the...
View ArticleMarco Rubio vs. Jeb Bush
The always crucial Florida Republican primary in the 2016 presidential race is still almost three years away, but the state’s real primary battle may not be decided by voters at the ballot box, but a...
View ArticleCan we forgive Bill Clinton for DOMA?
Bill Clinton’s op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post calling for the Defense of Marriage Act to be overturned is big news, but it’s hardly surprising. The former president, like a number of other leading...
View ArticleThere WAS a recount on the Prop 37 vote, and it was stopped cold
Prop 37, the ballot measure that would have mandated labeling of all GMO food sold in California, went down to defeat last November, under suspicious circumstances. … Read More
View ArticleHow the Supreme Court could avoid ruling on gay marriage
The highly anticipated Supreme Court rulings on Proposition 8 and DOMA could wind up being a big let-down for gay marriage advocates, if the Court decides that it lacks standing to decide whether or...
View ArticleRalph Nader explains how voting for the ‘least worst’ candidate corrupts...
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader on Monday decried the lack of choices at the ballot box and predicted super rich candidates would run in 2016. Speaking on C-SPAN, Nader said the influence of money on the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Appears Unwilling to Legalize Gay Marriage Nationwide
Washington, D.C.—The Supreme Court heard oral argument today on California’s 2008 ballot initiative Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution in order to forbid gay marriage. The upshot...
View ArticleNew Poll Finds Overwhelming Majority of D.C. Residents Supporting Legalizing...
The D.C. area's first medical marijuana dispensaries--including one run by a rabbi--will open any day now, but the headaches don't end there for a Justice Department and a Congress that have...
View ArticleReagan daughter says mom Nancy supports gay marriage
Patti Davis, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan, announced in a radio interview this week that her mother supports marriage equality.This is the second proxy...
View ArticleMonsanto doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating
The biotech industry, led by Monsanto, will soon descend on the state of Washington to try their best to defeat I-522, a citizens’ ballot initiative to require mandatory labeling of foods that contain...
View ArticleAfter running on LGBT marriage bans, Bush now says he’s not ‘weighing in’
Former President George W. Bush on Thursday said that he was not “weighing in” on the current debate over same sex marriage, even though he supported a constitutional ban on marriage equality and may...
View ArticleMississippi considers prosecuting women for stillbirths and miscarriages
Nina Buckhalter was indicted for manslaughter in 2009 after giving birth to a stillborn baby girl named Hayley 31 weeks into her pregnancy.According to a Mother Jones report, those charges were based...
View ArticleTurkey police crush protests in Ankara, Istanbul (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
In Ankara protesters gathered in front of the US Embassy throwing rocks and shooting fireworks at police who were trying to disperse them. Numerous injuries have been reported as riot police used tear...
View ArticleAmerica and the generals in Egypt moved against Morsi to prevent a popular...
What should be emphasized about the Egyptian military is that its leadership is Egypt’s top economic actor, no friend of democracy, and the most reliable partner of the US and Israel inside Egypt....
View ArticleNavalny submits hundreds of complaints against mayor poll, demands halt to...
On Wednesday Navalny and his aides arrived to the Moscow City Court carrying cardboard boxes containing complaints alleging violations in the September 8 election. Navalny told the press near the...
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