Former President Jimmy Carter is still supporting an end to penalties for using marijuana – a campaign started more than 30 years ago. CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux sat down with Jimmy Carter in an interview aired in December 2012 to get his thoughts on the decriminalization of marijuana. As president, Jimmy Carter supported marijuana decriminalization in the mid-1970s and […]
Earlier today Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said that undocumented immigrants could get scholarships to the University of California at Berkeley simply by presenting “night vision video” of their illegal border crossing. Yesterday, the University of California at Berkeley announced the creation of a new scholarship, the Dreamers Fund, which will provide $1 million in […]
Republican Sen. Graham is pushing the idea now that it is inappropriate for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on cases regarding marriage equality, specifically same-sex marriages. In an interview conducted by Piers Morgan with Republican Senators Graham, McCain and Independent Lieberman, Morgan asked if America could “really stand for freedom and genuine equality if […]
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced initiatives to protect life in Texasduring a press conference organized by Texas Right to Life at a crisis pregnancy center today, vowing to use every single day Texas legislature meets to fight abortion. Gov. Perry outlined initiatives to strengthen the state’s ban on abortions and strengthen standards of care for […]
The ACLU of Michigan has video posted of protesters at the state capital being pepper sprayed by police. According to The Battle Creek Enquirer, former Rep. Mark Schauer (D) was pepper sprayed as well amid an escalationg protest against the “right to work” bills passed by a lame duck Republican led legislature earlier today. Schauer […]