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The Stewart-Colbert Saturday Rally: Can Theater of the Acerbic Stop the In(s)anity?
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyAll the Mall's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, except, of course, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, Comedy Central's superstars who will headline their hyped-to-the-heavens "Rally to Restore Sanity/Keep Fear Alive" Saturday circus on the National Mall. There is nothing "merely" about either of these guys or their extravaganza. Three days before the midterm elections -- marked by some seriously nasty political ads and jibes -- and three months after FoxNews conservative talk-meister Glenn Beck drew many thousands to his "Restoring Honor" convergence at the Lincoln Memorial ...
For Pot Smokers, '420 Day' Is High Time to Celebrate
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 20) -- It's the closest thing that marijuana smokers have to an official holiday. Every year on April 20 at precisely 4:20 p.m., thousands of people across the country break the law and get high in public. Today, at gatherings in places like San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and Denver's Civic Center Park, that tradition is set to continue as advocates of marijuana legalization converge and light up. "It's the day when marijuana smokers come out of the closet," Keith Stroup, founder and legal counsel for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, told AOL News. "On ...
President Obama Sparks Reefer Madness: Donations to NORML Spike
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyDuring President Obama's online townhall meeting this week, he fielded a question about legalizing marijuana, and offered a good-natured swipe at the interweb users who voted up the question. He said he didn't think legalization was a good way to stimulate the economy (Doritos shareholders be damned), and that he "wondered about" the WhiteHouse.gov users who made it the #1 question.Now, NORML, a pot advocacy organization, reports that their donations have gone sky-high amid the buzz:Obama's somewhat dismissive reaction to the prospect of legalizing marijuana has caused some Hawaiian-sized ...
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