Today we had a very successful day pushing back against Facebook’s efforts to shut down the conversation about marijuana legalization that we’ve been trying to open up.  (I recommend Ryan Tate’s take at Gawker if you’re just waking up or something.) And tonight, we get to enjoy a free screening of the documentary High: The [...]

It may look fine from reading balance sheets in a conference room at the Treasury Department, but at the ground level, the awfulness of the HAMP program, and what it’s doing to American conceptions of their government, really hits you.

We’re about to try Russia’s version of Erik Prince for the same kinds of things we know Prince was doing. Meanwhile, Prince is hiding out where Bout once took refuge.

I suggest these twin legal proceedings ought to be viewed in tandem.

Today features primary elections in Alaska, Arizona, Florida and Vermont, along with a primary runoff in Oklahoma. I will be live blogging all of the results except for the very late closing Alaska. You can find a preview of what to watch for tonight here.

Nobody really thought Alan Simpson could top his video appearance with Alex Lawson where he talked about “the lesser people” on Social Security. But once again, President Obama’s hand-picked Co-Chair of the Catfood Commission tasked with “tweaking” Social Security has proven us all wrong.

From the first chapter of Hughes’ autobiography, Ten Minutes from Normal.

Ryan Tate, Gawker: [W]hen it comes to pot leaves, Facebook is about 50 years behind society, judging from its ad restrictions. Which probably has something to do with trying to keep Facebook attractive to big spending, blue chip ad clients who don’t like their campaigns surrounded by seedy looking pro narcotics narcotics ads. It is, of course, Facebook’s right to make that call, and probably a smart thing to do from a business standpoint. But it does put to lie the company’s high-minded excuses about its privacy rollbacks and how they were “not about the money.” (When people say that, it means it’s totally about the money.)

And just for the irony factor: join the Just Say Now Facebook Group.

In May of 2009, Spencer Ackerman pointed out that the Steven Bradbury May 10, 2005 memo allowed reducing prisoners’ daily caloric intake to about half the recommended level for adult men in order to make them “more receptive” to interrogation. Today, there is a tidbit in Carol Rosenberg’s article about Guantanamo that suggests prisoners now are given between two and three times the recommended daily caloric intake. Why can’t Guantanamo count calories?

Despite the President coming out last week and saying that Social Security needs “modest adjustments,” many Democrats still have their heads in the sand about what could be in store for the most successful social program in American history.

Primaries take place today in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, and Vermont along with a primary runoff in Oklahoma. The biggest races of the day are both in Florida — the Democratic primary for Senate and the Republican primary for Governor.