Neil Katz of CBS News notes that “Facebook’s position on the ads is ironic considering the content found on its site. One group called “Marihuana, Marijuana, Mariguana” has 369,000 active monthly users who post photos of bikini clad bong smokers and giant piles of weed. A popular game on Facebook called “Pot Farm” has 740,000 monthly users who enjoy trying grow their own virtual marijuana fields.”

[More coverage after the jump. You can see the ad Facebook banned, sign the Facebook petition and swap our your Facebook picture for the censored "Just Say Now" image here.]

This is pretty much where the GOP is right now. How much fact-free hate mongering and demagoguery can they fit into a 30-second spot? Let’s count the lies.

Simpson has not only been writing letters to OWL. He earlier penned a note to Dean Baker, economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, apparently unaware that Baker is recognized in his field.

I’m really writing this in the hopes that I’ll get the next letter.

James Conway is the commandant of the Marine Corps. One thing you may skip over in this article, which I want to reinforce, is that he’s leaving at the end of the year. So you can disregard his opinion on the kind of things that will happen after he departs, like President Obama’s July 2011 deadline to begin troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, and especially Conway’s personal homophobic opinion.

Wes Benedict is the Executive Director of the Libertarian National Committee The Libertarian Party (LP) is protesting the decision by Facebook to refuse advertisements that advocate for the legalization of marijuana. The LP had been running a highly successful Facebook ad to express its support of marijuana legalization, but Facebook banned the ad about a [...]

On June 9, Senator Mary Landrieu questioned Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing in which she proclaimed that the Obama administration’s six month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would result in more job losses than the BP oil spill itself. Today’s New York Times brings us the reality behind Landrieu’s hissy fit, and, surprise, surprise, she could not have been more wrong.

On college campuses, credit card companies entice naive undergrads into signing up for super-high-interest-rate credit cards by giving away “perceived high-value items” like t-shirts or coffee mugs. They’re called perceived high value items because they really aren’t worth as much as people assume. Their only purpose is to distract from the terrible terms in the [...]

• Murkowski going down in Alaska?
• McCain beats Teabagger Hayworth, but at what cost?
• Meek wins in FL.
• So does Rick Scott.
• Jon Walker of FDL’s liveblog of primary night.
• Boehner’s plan to save economy: cut taxes, slash spending.
• Stay classy, RNC!

As we’ve previously mentioned in December, January and this month, Yemen is one of the “roughly a dozen countries” besides Iraq and Afghanistan where Obama’s administration is waging war. And as is the norm in these secret, undeclared wars, we are working hand in hand with unsavoury governments whose own agendas of repression are ignored [...]

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