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Actively Open-Minded Thinking About Climate Change
It's not really all that open-minded. Science curious people on the other hand ...
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Obama Shortens 102 Sentences, Including 33 Life Terms for Nonviolent Drug Offenses
The president has granted 774 commutations so far, 97 percent of them in the second half of his second term.
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81-Year-Old Woman's Single Marijuana Plant Seized in Raid by National Guard and State Police
Authorities want to play "War on Pot"—with helicopters and militarized raids—while they still can.
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Trump's Infrastructure Nationalism
Yuuge monuments do not make a country great.
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Federal Judge Overturns Ban on Openly Carrying Guns in Public
The ruling also rejects an "assault weapon" ban, caliber restrictions for long guns, a heavy handgun tax, and registration requirements.
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Kennedy Puts Bill Weld Through the Wringer
Fox Business Network host challenges Libertarian veep nominee on his strategy, self-centeredness, and libertarian bonafides
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Bill Weld: Media Is Publishing “Made-up” Stories About Me (UPDATED)
In an interview, the Libertarian vice presidential nominee vehemently denies reports by the Boston Globe and New York magazine that he is giving up, focusing only on Trump, and looking to bolt the L.P.
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We Have a Clown Crime—But It's Not That Kind of Clown Crime
Media hysteria 101
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If N.C. Food Trucks Can Discriminate Against Gays, Then Why Aren’t They?
Daily Show segment doesn’t illustrate a serious problem. It highlights how culture often works issues out on its own.
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In Afghanistan, a 15-Year Failure
Endemic corruption has prevented any sort of victory.
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Gary Johnson's Radical Foreign Policy Moment: Accused of "Moral Equivalence" Over Condemning U.S. Bombing of Civilians
The New York Times may think this will wound Johnson, but a similar moment of "unpopular" truthtelling regarding American foreign policy was the making of Ron Paul in 2007.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Have More in Common Than You Think
Both 2016 presidential hopefuls believe in the primacy of the state over the individual.
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The DEA's Contrived Kratom Crisis
The agency's ban on the pain-relieving leaf shows how arbitrary the government's pharmacological taboos are.
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Nobody Won the VP Debate, Least of All the American Electorate
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Paris Climate Agreement Comes Into Effect
U.S. not on track to meet Obama's promised greenhouse gas cuts
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Tennessee Student Accused of Sexual Harassment Because He Wrote Instructor's Name Wrong
Student had no idea 'Sarah Jackson' was a pornographic model.
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Surveys Show Gary Johnson Appeal Growing Among Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White Millennials
Asked about our biggest problems, the most common answer among young black voters was racism, while Hispanics said immigration, Asians said education, and whites said terrorism/homeland security.
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Hey, Regulators. Hands Off Child Care!
The experts want us to entrust our kids to expensive, micromanaged strangers rather than pay our friends and neighbors to look after them.
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Gary Johnson Tied or Slightly Up in 8 out of 8 Recent National Polls
That September swoon sure didn’t last very long.
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Prosecutor Wants to Charge 14-Year-Old Girl with Sexual Exploitation for Taking PG-13 Pictures of Herself
When her parents found out she had sexted, they were horrified. When they saw the actual pictures, they were confused.
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Donald Trump's Fat-Shaming Fetish
The GOP candidate embraces and exaggerates common prejudices against the overweight.
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Pennsylvania’s New Tax on Vape Shops is Forcing Them Out of Business
Both parties are to blame for a bill that's also making it more expensive for smokers to switch to safer alternatives.
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Janet Napolitano Defends Free Speech on University of California Campus
But UC's president has some blind spots in her pro-free speech stance.
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Pipeline Brings a Property Rights Fight to Virginia
Property owner wants to prevent natural-gas surveyors from coming onto her land.
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Does the Road to the White House Run Through Gary Johnson's New Mexico?
If the former governor wins his home state, he just might block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from victory at the ballot box.
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Supreme Court to Weigh 'Malicious Prosecution' and the 4th Amendment
SCOTUS will hear oral arguments this week in Manuel v. City of Joliet.
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Fall TV Season Gets Time Travel Type Shows Based on Older Shows and Films
There's time traveling in the shows, and the shows are a bit of a time travel too.
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Congressman: DEA May Extend Comment Period on Kratom Ban Amid Public Pressure
After meeting with the DEA administrator, Rep. Mark Pocan says the agency may allow for more public comment on whether to make Kratom a Schedule I drug.
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Movie Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton back in nearly top form.
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Pension Mess Can't Go On; That's No Reason to Ignore It
You can deal with it now or deal with it later, but eventually you will have to deal with it.
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Why Didn't the FBI Give Hillary Clinton Immunity and Spare Us the Drama?
The DOJ seemed to hand immunity out like candy.
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Everyone's Making the Same Joke About Gary Johnson and Libertarians
Something something Aleppo something marijuana something...
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Will Elon Musk Launch for Mars off the Backs of Taxpayers?
Musk is no stranger to cozy relations with federal and state governments.
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Gary Johnson Has an ‘Aleppo Moment’ (His Unfortunate Words) on MSNBC
Asked by Chris Matthews to name a foreign leader he admires, the Libertarian blanks out.
