STONED DRIVERS TARGETED

Colorado Senate to vote on marijuana DUI bill

Marijuana pot smoker via AFP

The Colorado Senate will vote on legislation that would make it illegal for anyone to operate a motor vehicle with trace amounts of THC — the main psychoactive compound in marijuana — in their blood.

VICTIMHOOD

Maddow explains the conservative media model: ‘Everybody else is out to get you’

Rachel Maddow screenshot

Conservative media outlets encourage their audiences to keep viewing only their content by demonizing other news sources, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

BUDGET WARS

Atlas Society: Ryan budget ‘very much in line’ with Ayn Rand

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Photo: Flickr user Medill DC.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) may be publicly rejecting Ayn Rand’s philosophies, but the folks at The Atlas Society have never been bigger fans of the House Budget Budget Committee chairman and his policies.

MEMBERS STILL FLEEING

Education group abandons ALEC

[Image via Flickr user Soozarty1, Creative Commons licensed]

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council.

'HOUNDED'

Romney’s openly gay spokesman resigns amid criticism

Mitt Romney on the campaign trail. Image via AFP.

Romney’s openly gay spokesman Richard Grenell resigned from his position on Tuesday following an onslaught of criticism over his sexual orientation.

DON'T MESS WITH PPFA

Obama-rebuking judge allows Texas to withhold funds from Planned Parenthood

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) points off into the distance. Photo: Flickr user Robert Scoble, creative commons licensed.

A judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans knocked that ruling down and permitted the state to proceed with banning Planned Parenthood.

Science

Japanese tsunami debris heading to Hawaii

Wreckage from Japan’s tsunami – fishing gear and furniture, footballs and ships – has swept…

Scientists have pinpointed nighttime urination protein in elderly

Scientists have pinpointed a protein that helps explain why the elderly frequently have to get…

SpaceX test fires rocket ahead of ISS cargo launch

China shuts Coke plant after chlorine reports

Tech News

Media watchdog group: Internet freedom threatened by ‘hasty legislation’

Governments across the world – including those in the US and UK – are posing…

Microsoft counts on allies in mistimed tablet market

Microsoft is counting on friends to make it a hit later this year when it crashes…

Media

Jason Segel says Hillary won’t work with him…yet

Actor and filmmaker Jason Segel said that he has tried to get Secretary of State…

Rupert Murdoch ruled ‘unfit’ to run global company

Rupert Murdoch showed “wilful blindness” over phone hacking at his News of the World tabloid and is unfit…

World

Corporate consolidation threatens small British organic beef farms

Carl Gray, who raises beef cattle on around 340 hectares (830 acres) of rolling countryside near Tewkesbury, was surprised to…

New York judge rejects Strauss-Kahn diplomatic immunity claim

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn must face a civil trial over an alleged sex assault in New York, a judge…

Bowing to U.S. pressure, Spain and Malaysia dropped from copyright blacklist

After bowing to pressure from the U.S., Spain and Malaysia have been dropped from a high-profile copyright violations watchlist that…

Bike washed up in Canada maybe from Japan tsunami

A motorcycle that washed ashore on Canada’s west coast may have drifted across the Pacific after being carried out to sea by last…

U.S. News

Obama makes surprise Afghanistan trip

KABUL — US President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan late Tuesday on a surprise visit…

Romney: Obama ‘inappropriate’ to politicize bin Laden kill

NEW YORK — Republican Mitt Romney praised President Barack Obama on Tuesday for taking out…

Team Obama targets Romney’s Swiss bank account in economic reelection strategy

A new ad by Obama for America (embedded below) that targets presumptive Republican presidential candidate…

N.Y. State Assembly passes transgender rights bill

For the fifth time, the New York State Assembly has passed a bill enshrining non-discrimination…

New York ‘Occupy’ stages ‘general strike’ on May Day

Occupy Wall Street protesters took to New York’s streets Tuesday in the highlight of a…