It may have had the backing of one of the richest hedge fund magnates, but the California ballot initiative proposing the legalization of marijuana was rejected at the polls on Tuesday. George Soros, a longtime supporter of decriminalizing marijuana for recreational use, donated $1 million to support Proposition 19. That is a little less than [...]
Former Republican Rep. Nathan Deal is hanging on to a lead in Georgia’s gubernatorial race against Democrat Roy Barnes, a former governor, while struggling to deal with questions about his personal finances that have become a campaign issue, according to an InsiderAdvantage/WSB-TV poll conducted Sept. 27. Deal leads Barnes by 45 percent to 37 percent [...]
With less than seven weeks until Election Day, Louisiana’s senatorial race has unfolded in surprisingly tepid fashion. This dearth of drama prevails because the popular Republican incumbent, David Vitter, is expected to handily defeat his Democratic challenger, Congressman Charlie Melancon. (An Aug. 30 Rasmussen poll puts the spread at 54 percent for Vitter to Melancon’s [...]
With less than seven weeks until Election Day, Louisiana’s senatorial race has unfolded in surprisingly tepid fashion. This dearth of drama prevails because the popular Republican incumbent, David Vitter, is expected to handily defeat his Democratic challenger, Congressman Charlie Melancon. (An Aug. 30 Rasmussen poll puts the spread at 54 percent for Vitter to Melancon’s [...]
Green is good, an Arizona judge has ruled. Eleven disputed Green Party candidates can stay on the ballot in Arizona, Superior Court Dean Fink said, even though the rag-tag group was recruited by mischievous Republicans hoping to siphon away liberal votes from Democrats. “The court has no hesitation in finding that each of these candidates [...]
Even though a June raid of Catholic Church offices in Belgium has been ruled illegal, the government says an investigation of a sex abuse scandal involving priests can go forward. At the same time, an independent Belgian commission looking into charges of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it has received testimony from hundreds of [...]
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