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Majority of Americans Say Major Parties Don't Represent Them
The United States is once again in the middle of a major election year and in many elections, people will go the polls with only two options to choose from -- red or blue, Republican or Democrat ...
25 Apr, 2014
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Obamacare or Immigration Reform: What Is The Bigger Issue in 2014?
On FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s website, he recently predicted that the GOP will win the U.S. Senate, and retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Due to President Obama’s lagging popula ...
22 Apr, 2014
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Crime Reduces at Steeper Rate in States Allowing Medical Marijuana, Study Says
Despite police fears that legal marijuana businesses attract crime, including under-the-table drug dealing, weapons violations, and robberies, a new study says the opposite might be the case.Researche ...
28 Mar, 2014
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Colorado Recreational Marijuana Tax Revenue Hits $2M in First Month
This week the Colorado Department of Revenue released tax figures for the state's first month of legal recreational marijuana sales and they are already comparable to tax receipts from alcohol sales, ...
15 Mar, 2014
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Governor Brown's Anti-Pot Remarks Not In Sync With Californians
California may not be ready for recreational marijuana, according to remarks made by Governor Jerry Brown earlier this month.Brown worried that legalizing the drug for recreational use could have "rip ...
13 Mar, 2014
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Yes, Putin Is Like Hitler—but So Was James K. Polk
I broke my own rule this week and compared somebody to Hitler. It was only a little argumentum ad nazium. I suggested that Russian’s recent move to seize the largely Russian-speaking Crimean region of ...
05 Mar, 2014
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Is the Birthright to Freedom Completely Protected in the U.S.?
In an article, titled "Do The American People Have Freedom?," IVN contributor Michael Hoang introduced the notion that freedom is about belonging to a "mother nation" and being harmonious with the oth ...
28 Feb, 2014
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Why Conservative Utopias Don’t Work any Better than Liberal Ones
“We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.”—Mario Vargas Llosa It turns out that Ayn Rand believed in Utopia too—what she described as the “Utopia of Greed.” This was my big ...
19 Feb, 2014
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Do You Know the Difference between Marijuana and Hemp?
Video embedded from BenSwann.comWhen many people hear industrial hemp, the first thing that may come to mind in marijuana. After all, there is a close association between the two, but perhaps not as c ...
18 Feb, 2014
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60% of Americans Say They Don't Understand What Super PACs Are
Campaigns are big business. And, like any business, it requires raw materials in order to produce a finished product. In elections the raw material is money and the finished product is power and influ ...
14 Feb, 2014
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8 min read