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Archive for July 7th, 2004

Libertarian candidate on the war on drugs

July 07th, 2004 | Category: Drugs, Politics

“In the 2000 campaign for president, George W. Bush said that the federal government should not interfere with the medical marijuana policies of the several states. Like so many other promises, he went back on his word and has closed down medical marijuana facilities permitted by state governments. This is an outrage. The federal government has no constitutional authority to interfere with state drug policies.” (07/07/04)

This from Rational Review.

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Blogs On Broadway

July 07th, 2004 | Category: Stuff

Interesting article on blogging in The Economist. As registration’s required, I’ve taken the liberty of reproducing the entire thing here. Hey, it’s what we bloggers do, especially when we don’t have the time to actually write something.

Should old media embrace blogging?

BACK in the mists of early Internet history, online publishing was going to wrest power from the inky fingers of old media groups and put it in the hands of ordinary people. Well, it never happened. Yet just when old media began to feel smug again about its old-fashioned paper-based products, weblogging (known as blogging) happened. The question for the big media world is whether to embrace the phenomenon that, in part, claims to undermine it.

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