Marijuana’s tipping point..................

Sometime in the last few months, the notion of legalizing marijuana crossed an invisible threshold. Long relegated to the margins of political discourse by the conventional wisdom, pot freedom has this year gone mainstream. Public support for legalization is climbing to a majority position, with a just-released Zogby poll finding that 52 percent support the legalization, taxation and regulation of pot. In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to have softened his position on pot by calling for an “open debate” on the subject. Meanwhile, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco introduced Assembly Bill 390, legislation that would tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol...Link

HR 1207 Now Up To 175 co-sponsors......

Title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes....Link

FCC can search homes without a warrant...

Have a Wi-Fi router? If you do — and it uses an unlicensed frequency — you could be subject to a warrantless search of your home. Federal Communications Commission guidelines stipulate that the agency can enter property when it suspects radio frequency energy is being abused. The provision, which was originally intended to aid the monitoring of unlicensed radio and tv stations, now has a broader range of application as more consumers join the wi-fi ranks....Link

Democrats block probe.............

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday easily dodged a Republican push to launch a special investigation into her charges that the CIA misled her on the Bush administration’s torture program. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), failed in the full House by a vote of 252-172, mostly on party lines. Republicans Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina voted with Democrats...Link