Jamie Court discussed The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell on Los Angeles-based Fox 11's "Midday Sunday" television program this past weekend.

This title is hot off the presses and filled with concrete tips and rules of the road that average people can use to force change between elections. Jamie brilliantly advises us on how to focus our anger and frustration over the current state of affairs and truly move the country forward.

Take a look at the first part of the interview below.

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It seems not a day goes by where the staff at NORML doesn’t receive some sort of e-mail or comment arguing that marijuana use is ‘already legal’ in California. Really? Then how do you explain this?

California Marijuana Arrests Remain Near Record Levels in 2009.

via California NORML

According to data from the Bureau of Criminal Statistics, California reported nearly the same number of marijuana arrests in 2009 as in the previous, record year. In 2009, there were 17,008 felony and 61,164 misdemeanor marijuana arrests, for a total of 78,172. In 2008, there were 17,126 felonies and 61,388 misdemeanors, ...

I realized that I have a lot of favorites from the ACS this year so I better start posting them now.

First off, let’s do the non-cheeses. Remember, I’m only going to be posting about dairy products that I haven’t written about before. (You can find previous year’s favorites by following these links: 2009, 2008, and 2007).

Three Happy Cows Organic Acai Blueberry Drinkable Yogurt

I know nothing about this company. Do they only have three cows? That seems unlikely. Are only three of their cows happy? How many total cows do they have? Wouldn’t the percentage ...

Bob Cavnar, author of Disaster on the Horizon: The Deepwater Well Blowout: What Happened and Why, was interviewed by NBC Nightly News regarding BP's Blowout Preventer on Monday, September 6th.

Check out the video below as well as Bob's book, due out in October.

Bill Kauffman spoke about the secessionist movement and his book, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America’s Political Map on WNED radio Buffalo/Toronto yesterday.

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I‘ve recently finished reading Dark Mountain issue 1, the first publication of the global artists’ collective of the same name, of which I am a member.

It’s an astonishing collection (work of 37 different authors) of appreciation and reflection on our civilization’s beginning collapse, and I recommend it without hesitation to anyone who has reached the point of understanding that our unsustainable civilization culture can’t be saved, and is trying to cope with that terrible knowledge. I am working on a submission (a work of fiction, I think) for issue 2.

And if you haven’t yet ...

There was a time when the railroad ran through most towns in America, when a trip to the seashore, mountains, or desert, even the wilderness, began aboard a train. Today trains can still take you to natural places where the wonders ...

Thursday was my busiest day at CheeseCon. I had a book signing (with Tami Parr and Max McCalman) first thing in the morning, then I was going to do a panel discussion twice in the afternoon. Since my free room (in exchange for judging) at the Sheraton was up, I had moved to Capitol Hill the night before. The B&B owner seemed shocked that I was up and out so early. The other cheese guests were still sleeping!

I had an awesome ...