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Can You Make A Better Vine Of Ted Cruz Whipping His Wrist?

We made these things. They’re great. If you make your own and give it hashtag it #TedCruzWhipsHisWrist, we’ll feature them in a post on IJ Review.

Get out the way… (Please)

Ted whips his wrist

Ted is a wavin’ flag

Ted’s role in Les Miserables…

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There’s Now A Yik-Yak For Capitol Hill

Yep

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Other things being discussed: Skinterns, dating coworkers and weed.

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Preach

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These 6 Americans Defied Every Stereotype We Had About Pot Smokers

DC held the biggest marijuana seed giveaway in history this weekend, and we stopped by to ask participants why they use.

Their answers will destroy stereotypes.

Saskia

Mike & Amy

Richard

3 more stories here.

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Wow: Harry Reid Won’t Run For Re-Election In 2016

News today from the New York Times. 

Video below:

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Well this is gross and sad and it’ll go nowhere.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Just nope. And now there’s a petition circulating to get this guy disbarred.  Story here.

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Join Us In Laughing At The Terrible Brackets These Politicians Made For March Madness

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7 People At The White House Who Just Found Out Ted Cruz Is Running For President

“Somebody announced they were running for President today, do you know who it was?” 

"Not even an idea”

5 more at the jump (plus a squirrel)

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Context on why Nebraska is suing Colorado over pot

From rolled joints to psychedelic glass pipes to edibles, like cannabis-infused gummy bears, chips and cookies, the spoils of a legal weed run in Colorado become contraband in Nebraska.  This is more from the PBS NewsHour report last weekend on the impact of legal Colorado marijuana in Nebraska.   http://on.fb.me/1ztBlDe. For more on this issue, watch “Marijuana Crossroads,” an NET News documentary produced by Bill Kelly.  http://bit.ly/17jXuMG

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Senate Bill 277 does not specifically address the religious exemption. But if passed as now drafted, the bill would end all “personal belief exemptions,” including religious exemptions, said Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat and pediatrician who co-authored the bill with Sen. Ben Allen, D-Redondo Beach.

This is a good look from California lawmakers. Mandating vaccinations for kids going to schools and day cares makes perfect sense to me. There will be plenty of people up in arms over this, but my hope is that elected officials will hear from people who agree with them that things like public health can and do trump an individual’s right to believe whatever nonsense (s)he might want to believe about vaccines or about the sacrosanct nature of our rights:

Keith Howe, 59, a San Jose chiropractor, has long opposed efforts to impose vaccinations requirements. He said when Pan introduced his legislation in 2012, “I sent him a scathing letter saying this is not Communist China and he is not Mao Zedong. He is violating the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.”

This extreme hyperbole needs to be countered by people who recognize that protecting the public health through vaccination isn’t jack-booted tyranny.

It’s true that the law removes personal and religion exemptions — and this is, in no small part, what has anti-vaxxers up in arms. But these exemptions have gone through the roof in California: “From 2000 to 2014, the rate of parents seeking exemptions tripled, from 0.77 percent to 2.5 percent — or one in every 40 kids.” And there’s no reason for us to assume a) that these exemptions are based on anything more than one’s person erroneous and anti-scientific beliefs or b) that there’s anything wrong with eliminating even a religious exemption in the case of vaccination.

In my estimation, even under the strictest interpretation, removing even a religious exemption in this instance is permissible. The law doesn’t target a particular religion and it’s narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest. It’s impermissible for someone to argue that freedom of religion gives them a trump card when it comes to public health. No one has the religious freedom to put someone else’s children at risk of contracting a deadly and entirely preventable illness.

HT: Cary Lovejoy Lawler.

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Go check out the article on Congress clashing with the NFL, the cover on the CIA and the the latest policy coverage.

Read the magazine online here.

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With Cuba power play, Obama puts Republicans on notice

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$1.1 trillion student loan bubble? Not so fast

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As the conflict between Palestine and Israel rages on, the fighting increasingly deadly, the death toll more tragic, certain members of the gilded class have taken it upon themselves to weigh in on the issue.

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[OC] Voting rate in the presidential elections in the United States 1980- 2012 [Time Series] [1064x575] [GIF] - Imgur

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Four reasons soccer reflects conservative values more than baseball or football