Existing-home sales fell off a cliff in July, hitting a 15-year low as the end of a homebuyer’s tax credit chilled prospective purchasers. Housing stock now has a 12.5 month supply, double the normal number, and with that much housing sitting on the market, prices are sure to fall.

The Libertarian Party contacted us this morning following the launch of our campaign to get Facebook to relent on their decision to ban the Just Say Now logo with a marijuana leaf from advertising.

Libertarian Party spokesman Kyle Hartz said Facebook had also censored their logo, which likewise contained a marijuana leaf.

We’re not trying to sell pot to people. We’re trying to have a political discussion about US drug policy, as is the Libertarian Party. In a 2.0 world of online graphics, banning the use of the subject image is not a mature decision about political discourse. It’s a decision made to appease somebody’s finger wagging grandparents.

We’re asking people to switch out their Facebook avatars with the Just Say Now pot leaf and a “censored by facebook” banner. You can find it here. (Here’s mine, I frankly don’t think I’ve ever looked better.)

Spotted this in the New York Times’ piece about Marco Rubio trying to run a slightly less Teabaggy campaign.

Women are roped into judging each other’s sexual behavior and controlling each other’s lives because we’re led to believe it’s our only realistic source of control.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

John Boehner (R-OH), in what is being billed as a major speech, will call for the firing of Barack Obama’s economic team today, and an end to the Administration’s economic policies. He will not offer up anything yet as an alternative, except the buzzwords of “getting America back to work.” But I must admit that this is a pretty smart move.

Blackwater lied to the government over three hundred times about breaking export control laws, and still managed to sweet talk its way into new contracts.

Facebook is censoring marijuana.

Just last week, the social networking giant abruptly changed its policies and decided to ban images of marijuana leaves from ads, claiming pictures of the plant promote “tobacco products.”

We’re fighting back against Facebook’s censorhip with a massive campaign to call out the social networking site.

Chuck Hagel has become the second prominent independent/Republican to endorse Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak in as many weeks.

Looking forward to Hannity and company denouncing News Corp for funding radical Islam.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell catches the dishonest bait and switch that Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell tried to pawn off on Sunday’s Meet the Press. * On MTP, McConnell repeatedly dodged and weaved to avoid answering a simple question from host David Gregory, which boils down to this: if you Republicans are so hysterical about the [...]