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Any year now, Democrats may start to ask themselves if it might have been better had John Roberts not changed his mind. If they would be better off with Obamacare out of its and our misery, a bone of contention now safely buried, and not as a bone in their throats. For one thing, they still have the issue upon them -- the historic triumph they don't dare mention but which Republicans happily do. Second, were Obamacare no longer the law, we might be seeing an uptick in hiring right now. Instead, that will be deferred until after November (and...

Noemie Emery’s article, “Democrats inflicting themselves with wedge issues” and Michael Barone’s article, “With absolute power, Team Obama grows stupid” both attempt to diagnosis the problems ailing the Democrat agenda. Emery starts out by illustrating good and great politicians and then contrasts those politicians against the “I’m the Greatest” wannabe, president Barry Hussein Soetoro. And no the irony was not lost on me. Emery doesn’t consider president Soetoro either a good or a great politician. Barone begins by slamming the Soetoro Chicago inner circle. He notes that they were brilliant campaigners but have turned out to be mere amateurs at...

AUGUSTA, Maine --Republican voters chose Tuesday from among three candidates seeking the GOP nomination for governor, while incumbent Democratic Gov. John Baldacci won his party's nod for a second four-year term. The Republican race featuring Peter Mills, Chandler Woodcock and David Emery generated the bulk of interest in the Blaine House contest. Baldacci faced only token competition from Christopher Miller, a computer specialist from Gray. Unopposed in the Green Independent Party's primary was Pat LaMarche, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1998. Republican voters had to choose their candidate from among two state senators -- Mills and Woodcock -- and...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A judge rejected a U.S. request that a Canadian marijuana activist be held without bail on Tuesday in a case that is likely to ignite debate over the countries' diverging drug policies. U.S. officials say Marc Emery illegally sold millions of dollars worth of marijuana seeds, but Emery's supporters say his business activities were well known for years and tolerated by groups that included Canada's federal health ministry. Emery is a founder of the pro-legalization B.C. Marijuana Party and his arrest comes as the Canadian government is pushing a measure to decriminalize possession of small...

Thursday, June 16, 2005 Emery becomes first to challenge Baldacci By MARK PETERS, Portland Press Herald Writer Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. E-mail this story to a friend AUGUSTA — Former U.S. Rep. David Emery announced plans Wednesday to challenge Gov. John Baldacci in 2006, becoming the first Republican candidate to emerge from a crowd of possible contenders. Emery, 56, who represented Maine's 1st Congressional District from 1975 to 1983, told reporters that he will run as a fiscal conservative focused on improving the business climate in Maine. Emery, of St. George, is starting his gubernatorial run more...

THERE THEY GO AGAIN, our friends the Democrats, eager to use the social issues as low roads to power, isolating the right as religious fanatics, outside of the mainstream of American life. "We're going to use Terri Schiavo," vowed Howard Dean at a breakfast in Hollywood, pledging to exploit the right-to-die case in Florida in the 2006 elections, the 2008 elections, and perhaps to the end of the century. And there goes the press again, eager to help them, as so many times in the past. The media analysis of the Schiavo case followed a tried and true pattern: The...

Glossy magazines were guilty pleasures--before they discovered George W. BushON MARCH 6, THE Drudge Report noted the fact that newsstand sales for the magazine Vanity Fair had plummeted by 22.5 percent during the last half of 2004, attributed by the editor to three successive covers that showed pictures of . . . men. What Drudge did not cite is the parallel fact that this slide tracks exactly with the mutation of the magazine from a great escape read of the guilty-pleasure variety, the place to go for fatuous film stars, Princess Diana, and society murders, into a Bush-bashing rag of...

Marc Emery, former London pot activist and bookstore owner, is coming home today to light up at a familiar place -- the steps of the London police station. Emery, now of Vancouver, grabbed headlines in the 1990s with unsuccessful stunts to get arrested for smoking pot and selling books on illegal drugs in front of the police station. Today, the ex-owner of City Lights bookstore plans to smoke up as part of his Summer of Legalization tour, says Cannabis Culture, a magazine he publishes. But with the law on pot possession now hazy, it's likely Emery won't be busted. "Simple...