Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green
For rope, paper, clothing, food, fuel -- hemp has been a critical crop for cash and survival for 6,000 years. Today it contributes billions of dollars to the German, Canadian and Chinese economies.
William Fisher | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Ambitious assertions of presidential power are the logical outcome of a decades-long trend that started with Reagan and culminated under the "unitary executive" doctrine embraced by the George W. Bush administration.
Tom Alderman | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Deciding whether to 'increase the "rainy day" budget stabilization fund' in a state with the seventh largest economy in the world like California, requires a little more, uh, attention.
Keith Thomson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.
AP | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — After eight years in Washington, Lynne Cheney plans to write about a politician she regards as "steady," "reserved" and given to work...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
If we were to, as a society, put country first, who would define what "country" is or what putting it "first" might mean?
Michael Russnow | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Watching the Republican convention tonight, I was struck by a number of things, most notably how the prime-time star speakers whipped up the audience ...
Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
Broken record here. The more I think about it, the more Al Gore seems the only really interesting choice for Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics