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All the Polls Say Majority of Americans Favor Marijuana Legalization

Gallup, Pew, straw -- whatever poll you take, the result of late is the same: a majority of Americans think marijuana should be legal. Today's offering is from the Pew Research Center, which has been gauging the public's desire on drug policy since the 1960s. And "for the first time in more than fo ... More >>

Congress' New Marijuana Champions Introduce Legalization Bill

Like the changing of the seasons and the movement of the moon and sun, so too is the march of time marked by the annual show of members of Congress introducing marijuana legalization bills.These bills go nowhere -- there's no way to force a bill to be heard by a committee -- but since they were intr ... More >>

John Dennis, Libertarian Republican, Makes Night of The Living Pelosi Film

John Dennis, the Republican vying for Rep. Nancy Pelosi's House seat, grew up in a housing project in Jersey City, New Jersey. The son of a longshoreman and city hall clerk, he remembers those days vividly, remembers how the building deteriorated over the course of his childhood. The broken elevator ... More >>

Stoners For Obama: Conservatives, Marijuana Activists Blast "Harold and Kumar" Video

Be honest: With whom would you rather knock back a cold one or pull a few tubes of your favorite Choom -- Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?Neither, clearly. The portrayal of George W. Bush as an "Alabama Kush"-puffing commander in chief in "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is hands-down the m ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: A Guide to the Republican National Convention

Digg v1: Betaworks Flushes Seven Years of Internet History Down the Toilet

The end of San Francisco-based Digg has been nigh for over two years, ever since founder Kevin Rose helmed a disastrous redesign in August 2010 and many of the site's users fled to Reddit, but the news-sharing behemoth plodded along, not realizing it was supposed to be dead. That is, until yesterday ... More >>

The Internet Red Scare

Congressman Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty organization sounds like it's worried that Commies, or maybe Russian-style state capitalists, are plotting to take over the Internet. In a manifesto issued last week, the group warns that "the road to tyranny is being paved by a collectivist-Industrial com ... More >>

Hemp Farming Still Illegal, Obama Provides Convenient Scapegoat

If and when Tea Party hero Sen. Rand Paul visits San Francisco and goes shopping, he'll find friendly faces in the aisles of Rainbow Grocery more quickly than he will any Safeway (especially the Castro location). In addition to the destruction of all government, the Kentucky Republican has legislate ... More >>

Another Poll Shows Marijuana Legalization Has Overwhelming Support

If only President Barack Obama was marijuana, then he'd win reelection by a landslide.Marijuana legalization enjoys a 20-point advantage in the polls among American adults, according to a recent survey Rasmussen Reports. Fifty-six percent of Americans polled support the notion of marijuana being tax ... More >>

Gary Johnson, Libertarian Candidate, Gives Marijuana Supporters an Alternative to Republicans

Will Ron Paul Supporters Follow?For all the love showered upon him by cannabis and hemp activists, Ron Paul was always going to be a bitter pill for liberals to swallow. On the surface, the straight-talking Texan sounded good for voters weary with mainstream party choices: The long-tenured Congressm ... More >>

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Ron Paul Counts Bay Area Tech Companies Among Top Donors

This week Republican presidential cult favorite Ron Paul will campaign through California, with stops at well-known party school Chico State, as well as UCLA, and Berkeley. While the venues reflect Paul's solid and passionate base among college kids, a closer look at Paul's donor list shows that the ... More >>

Peter Thiel Is Nation's 4th Biggest Super PAC Funder

​The nonprofit investigative-reporting outfit ProPublica has published a handy guide to the country's top 10 super-PAC funders -- individuals with enough dough on hand to bankroll, to the tune of millions, independent political committees supporting presidential candidates. Such unfettered spendin ... More >>

Dave Mustaine Confirms Idiocy Twice in One Week

​As you may have already heard, a couple of days ago, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine told musicradar.com that he was "hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican" (he knows politicians aren't robots right? Surely that should be a "whoever," not a "whatever"?) and gave his own ra ... More >>

Ron Paul Won't Legalize Marijuana -- Because He Can't

​As if the promise to dismantle most of the Washington-based government wasn't enough, Texas Congressman Ron Paul has also made waves in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination with his maverick stance on drug policy.During his 30 years in the House of Representatives, Paul has authored ... More >>

Ron Paul Says He Didn't Create Offensive "China Jon" YouTube Video

GOP presidential hopeful has done some crazy shit in his past, as we've noted here before, but his campaign claims he never released this offensive YouTube video about ex-Utah Gov. Jon Hunstman, showing him dressed as the Communist leader Mao Zedong. Paul's campaign filed a lawsuit in San Francisco ... More >>

What Should Republicans Be Searched for Before Boarding a Plane?

​Recently, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a tea party Republican from Southern California, was arrested at an airport for trying to carry a concealed firearm on a plane. It got us thinking: What else should Republican lawmakers be searched for before they board your airplane? $317 million in funding fo ... More >>

Why You Should Fake It on Facebook

​I went out on a first date with a girl who is also a recently added Facebook friend. During dinner she kept bringing up things I had already read about on FB, but I lied and pretended like I didn't know because that's creepy, right? At what point am I allowed to admit I FB stalk her? A month? Lon ... More >>

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Rupert Murdoch on Twitter: Insipid and Pedestrian

​It's sort of hard to believe after all this time, but I still regularly see people making fun of Twitter as if it's just a bunch of morons saying moron things. Okay, it is mostly that when taken as a whole. But I see very little of that kind of thing because I generally don't follow morons. Twitt ... More >>

Ron Paul Is Crazy. Admit It.

​Congressman Ron Paul grabbed the lion's share of headlines among GOP presidential candidates last week, and not just because he is the latest improbable figure to challenge the inevitable nomination of Mitt Romney.The conservative Weekly Standard ran a rehash by writer James Kirchik of an article ... More >>

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President Obama Fumbles and Punts Medical Marijuana Question on Campaign Trail

He forgot what the question was ​For all his Kennedyesque "uhs" and "ahs," President Barack Obama is nonetheless generally regarded as an accomplished public speaker, able to expound extemporaneously on a plethora of topics. But on the campaign trail in Minnesota on Monday -- during what former Ma ... More >>

Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You

They gonna getcha​President Barack Obama's stance on medical cannabis has been a wee nebulous: as candidate, Obama said the drug war was a failure and that doctors prescribing pot as a treatment was "appropriate"; as president, Obama's Justice Department said chasing after pot growers and users wa ... More >>

New Bill Would Stop Federal Enforcement of Marijuana

Not feeling it​Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) defines the word "maverick." His stance on hemp farming and his position against the Federal Reserve earned the 2012 presidential hopeful the moniker long before the Republican establishment hijacked the label in 2008. The hero of political independent ... More >>

Donald Trump Out: S.F Republicans Say Good Riddance

​Well-heeled celebrity and hair casualty Donald Trump today pulled the plug on his stupefying flirtation with a run for the presidency -- a campaign that, at least for yours truly, evoked the same feelings as watching Woody Allen make out with his twentysomething leading ladies. But at least Woody ... More >>

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The Real Message of Jared Loughner

Jared Loughner​There's been a lot of ink devoted to analyzing Jared Loughner's motivations in the shooting rampage that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) seriously wounded and six others, including a 9-year-old girl, dead. Much of the press attention has focused on the question of whether ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi's Libertarian Opponent, John Dennis, Imagines Privatized Sidewalks

John Galt, er, Dennis, for Congress.​Nancy Pelosi's Republican opponent to represent her San Francisco congressional seat is the subject of a Chronicle profile today claiming he "runs to the left of" the House Speaker.But John Dennis, who says he's raised $2 million to unseat Pelosi, is a "Liberty ... More >>

It's Hemp Week! And San Francisco Says 'Meh.'

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

Against all odds, a radical S.F. Republican takes on Nancy Pelosi

So, How Many SEIU Workers are Facing Layoffs? Depends on Whom You Ask.

'Jetson, depending upon whom you ask and whether or not you factor in several semantic games, you may or may not be fired!' ​The big news of the day in the city -- other than our pending return to a quasi-barter economy; I'll exchange two chickens for a scrape of gold off the City Hall dome I can ... More >>

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The race to replace Bernie Ward on KGO

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Numerologist Skot Jonz Picks the Next President

Presidential Hopefuls Politicize Bay Area Restaurants: Is Nothing Sacred?

Coca-Cola for Culture Jammers

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Ron Paul supporters mistakenly 'hijack' unsanctioned Republican event

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Ron Paul's UFO Sighter Friends

America and Marijuana: “Medicinal” My Ass