FEDS MAY TAX POT

SEATTLE (AP) – An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.

While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The [...]

When people start dissppearing with no judge, no jury, no real charges, no lawyer, no rights, no warrant and so on here are your targets.

All armed patriots will by duty make these senators diissappear and their bodies not to be found. I hope you at the NSA are paying real close attention. You cannot stop us there are too many of us who own guns who will not tolerate it. You cannot protect these traitors 24 hours a day. The ones with nay are the good guys on this subject. I was disturbed by [...]

Dem lawmaker: ‘Nobody I know’ has seen Reid plan

By Alicia M. Cohn

A House Democrat indicated Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) might not have party members’ votes locked down for his deficit proposal.

“I’m not going to commit to something that nobody I know has seen and had a chance to analyze,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said. “I want to see it.”

Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) deficit proposal was met with division within [...]

How the Oil Lobby Greases

The whole article is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0…_n_845720.html

Clout in Washington isn’t about winning legislative battles — it’s about making sure that they never happen at all. The oil and gas industry has that kind of clout.

Despite astronomical profits during what have been lean years for most everyone else, the oil and gas industry continues to benefit from massive, multi-billion dollar taxpayer subsidies. Opinion polling shows the American [...]