Friday's Daily Brief: Obama: Recreational Pot Users Not A "Top Priority"; Pentagon To Send Missiles, Troops to Turkey

Friday, December 14, 2012 Obama: Pot Users In Washington And Colorado Not A 'Top Priority' POLITICS Obama: Boehner 'Doesn't Want To Look Like He's Giving In To Me' WORLD Panetta Reportedly Signs Order To Send Missiles To Turkey MEDIA Chuck Todd: Susan Rice 'Victim' Of Conservative Media TECHNOLOGY The Folks Making Chips For Samsung Are Getting Cancer DIVORCE What Track Palin Gets To Keep In The Divorce Settlement BLOG POSTS Robert Scheer: The Shameful Exploitation of Bradley Manning What is protected in the First Amendment is not the right of commercial enterprises to exploit the news for profit, but rather of citizens to become informed. That requires the courage of heroic sources, including Bradley Manning. Arianna Huffington: Huffington This Week: A Battered Borough and a Controversial Merger In this week's issue, Saki Knafo and Lila Shapiro put the spotlight on Staten Island, telling the story of how Hurricane Sandy collided with one man's version of the American Dream. And Jason Cherkis and Zach Carter write about a potential shakeup in the music world: a controversial merger that would give Universal Music control of 40 percent of the industry. Ethan Nadelmann: Parsing Obama's Words on Legalizing Marijuana Anytime the president answers a question about marijuana and federal marijuana policy, as he did in a recent interview with ABC's Barbara Walters that airs tonight, it makes sense to parse his words. Marlo Thomas: Holiday Gifts Invented By Women We love a good story about an amazing invention that turns someone's life around and makes them into a millionaire. It's especially fun when the inventor is someone unexpected, like a stay-at-home mom or a grandmother with a dream. Michael Russnow: Scalia's Gay Stance Is Unacceptable: Recusal From Supreme Court Deliberations on DOMA and California Proposition 8 Is Called For This is a Supreme Court justice who, on numerous occasions, has aired his prejudices against the personal choices of human souls in the country he has sworn to protect as a distinguished jurist. How can he uphold his oath to serve when he has a personally vested interest in the case?

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