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One month ago, Occupy Wall Street began. FDL’s The Dissenter marks this milestone today with a live broadcast of Occupy Wall Street at 5 pm ET. The Dissenter also continues it’s premier live blog. FDL is one of the few news organizations that can say they had full coverage of Occupy Wall Street from Day [...]

For the first time in decades the Gallup poll of American opinions regarding marijuana legalization finds that more American adults support marijuana legalization than oppose it. According Gallup a record 50 percent of Americans think marijuana should be legalized, while only 46 percent think it should remain illegal.

Russ Feingold, author of the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Relief Act of 2009, has responded to the news that President Obama sent 100 combat-equipped troops to Uganda last week. I said I would follow up on that, so here it is.

It began as a moment with only a few hundred US citizens demonstrating as close as they could get to Wall Street. The NYPD had fortified the financial district with structures transforming the area into a kind of Green Zone so no protesters would be allowed to demonstrate in front of the New York Stock Exchange or any other buildings in the financial district.

This is LGBT History Month. How very appropriate that some folks in California who tried to stop the teaching of gay history failed miserably in their attempt. Don’t let them or anyone talking about children “being indoctrinated to accept a lifestyle” fool you with their phony talking points. The clip below – courtesy of The Legacy Walk – gives a true picture of what children will be learning about contributions of the gay community.

Before he was the GOP’s 2012 frontrunner, Herman Cain wrote a weekly, syndicated opinion column. And he devoted a lot of his columns in 2008 to talking about how awesome the economy was — and basically saying that anyone who said otherwise was just trying to make Republicans look bad. (h/t Mark Benjamin)

Over the weekend, as Occupy Wall Street protests escalated, the video of a woman arrested at a Citibank branch for trying to close her account shot through the blogosphere. It wasn’t even the only example of people being denied the opportunity to close their bank accounts over the weekend. And a similar incident occurred two months ago.

I have become the exemplar of Obama Derangement Syndrome with a Friday post about the White House starting a mini-war in Africa. It was front-paged on Saturday and caused a bit of debate. So let me make some additional remarks.

The California Medical Association, the largest physician group in California, has recently declared it will now be their official policy that marijuana should be legalized, regulated and taxed.