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Marijuana is on its way to legalization. Polls indicate a widespread acceptance of medical marijuana and, to a lesser extent, its use for plain old recreation. Politicians and even presidents do ...

November 19, 1863, and the newshounds burdened with receiving those remarks of Abraham Lincoln that would some time thereafter become known as "The Gettysburg Address," had no tape recorders, no ...

All is not right in America. There is a nasty class war going on, one which amounts to a struggle between the status quo and a progressive and sustainable future. And the difference between those ...

"My father said, 'Son, we're lucky in this town, It's a beautiful place to be born. It just wraps its arms around you, Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone You know that flag flying over ...

For geofft. I began as a seedling, high in the Sierras of Nevada. With the nourishment of the clean, fertile soil of the earth, and the nutrition of the clean air and soothing rains, I grew into a ...

The Iowa ...

Do you ever lose interest in the big things? Sometimes weeks go by where big things hold no interest for me. Not just no interest. They hold no meaning. Big things like national news. Like ...

A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat. Wars don'...

[ This is a long diary. It's worth reading, I promise. If you disagree, I'll give you your money back. ] Much of the news these days--the AIG fiasco, Geithner's flawed ...