Craig Boudreau A Massachusetts ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana has enough signatures to be on the ballot in November, meaning the Bay State could be the next state to legalize pot use. The Massachusetts secretary of state told the initiators of the measure, The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, that it had passed the threshold…
Craig Boudreau California’s Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to know why more of his colleagues don’t support efforts to legalize marijuana. Newsom said that many of his colleagues say the so-called “war on drugs” as a failure, so he wonders openly why they don’t see the benefits of legalizing the drug, The Huffington Post reported Thursday. “What we’re doing to criminalize the…
And How Far Would He Go? By Elias J. Atienza Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) hinted at a 2020 run during his speech at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention. As one of the few libertarian Republicans in elected office, Amash is looking to continue the movement Ron Paul inspired. Amash is one of the few…
Elena Weissmann Wikileaks released nearly 20,000 emails from Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers just days before the convention kicked off. The leaks, dating from January 2015 to May 2016, reveal Democratic staffers colluding with certain media outlets and discussing how to best undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders, among other embarrassing revelations. Despite the magnitude of the hack and its consequences for DNC…
Kathryn Watson Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials spent millions on environmental education grants and training, but ignored decade-old recommendations to measure effectiveness, according to a government watchdog. The EPA Office of Environmental Education (OEE) has awarded more than 3,600 grants worth $50 million total to schools, local governments and nonprofit groups since 1992 to promote environmental…
Robert Donachie Hillary Clinton has taken in roughly seven times the amount of donations from hedge funds than Barack Obama did in ’08. In this election cycle, hedge funds have contributed $122.7 million to Hillary’s campaign. That number is more than twice that of the total contributions hedge funds made in 2012 and it comprises…
by Casey Harper More than a year after the death of Freddie Gray and the ensuing riots, all six charged Baltimore police officers walked free and the attorney who prosecuted them faces a mountain of lawsuits, possible disbarment and calls for her resignation. While the lawsuits face a tough battle and the disbarment is unlikely, Baltimore State’s Attorney…
By Brett Chandrasekhar It’s no secret that Gary Johnson has been doing a poor job reaching out to conservatives. In a recent interview with Dana Loesch, he dropped the ball once again, leaving her with the impression he was as bad as Obama and worse than Trump on gun rights. I’ll post the audio of…
by: Rachel Stoltzfoos NARAL Pro-Choice America gloated over the Democrats’ nomination of Hillary Clinton for president Thursday night, referring to Clinton as the “most unapologetic champion” of abortion ever nominated. “Hillary Clinton made history as the strongest, most unapologetic champion of reproductive rights ever nominated for president of the United States,” the pro-abortion lobby wrote…
By Blake Neff PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Bernie Sanders may have thrown his support behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, but socialist die-hards aren’t ready to give up the ghost. Several people attending a “socialist convergence” in downtown Philadelphia Wednesday night declared Sanders a reviled traitor to the socialist cause, which would…