Republican Presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich doesn’t just want to throw you in jail for smoking pot – he wants to execute you! As Speaker of the House back in 1996 – Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996” – a bill calling for the execution of anyone convicted more than once of carrying two ounces of marijuana across the border.

Defending the bill – Gingrich said, “I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.”

Currently – more than half of all Americans support the legalization of marijuana – yet Gingrich is calling for the execution of those who carry it. How out of touch can you be?

-Thom

(What do you think should happen to anyone with marijuana? Tell us here.)

The Daily Stack

Hour One: Surprise...guess who supports Newt's tax plan?
- Stephen Moore, The Wall Street Journal

Book: "Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status" by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore.

Book: "The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen" by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous.

Article: "Gingrich’s Tax Plan Would Give Millionaires A $600,000 Tax Cut" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Lowe's pulls advertising from TLC's 'All-American Muslim'" by CNN.

Article: "Perry’s New TV Ad Perry Takes On Obama’s ‘War on Religion,’ Gays in Military" by Arlette Saenz.

Article: "Rick Perry wore same jacket in anti-gay ad that Heath Ledger wore in Brokeback Mountain" by Leon Watson.

Instant Karma Alert: "Man prints fake obit of mom to get time off" by AP.

Article: "Rep. Peter King: There are "too many mosques in this country”" by Daniel W. Reilly.

Article: "House, Senate strike deal on defense bill" by Stephen Dinan.

Article: "Gay Veteran Confronts Mitt Romney On Marriage Rights (VIDEO)" by Pema Levy.

Site: "Occupy Grand Junction".

Hour Two: Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’
- Governor Gary Johnson, Former Governor of New Mexico (R)

Article: "Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’" by David Edwards.

Site: "Americans for Fair Taxation".

Event: Thom is on Fox's "Power and Money" 10pm ET tonight.

Article: "Gingrich signs pledge forbidding adultery" by Andrew Jones.

Conservative alert: "Republican politician secretly donated sperm to NINE women in New Zealand (including a lesbian couple) - and hid truth from wife back home in Alabama" by Daily Mail.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "My Mother-in-Law’s One High Day" by Marie Myung-ok Lee.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Report: U.S. Drone Crashes At Seychelles Airport" by TRNS.

Article: "Snowe taking to Senate floor on Balanced Budget Amendment" by Jonathan Riskind.

Article: "Balanced budget amendments to face off in the Senate on Wednesday" by Josiah Ryan.

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Hour Three: "I Am the 1%"
- Wayne Root, Libertarian National Congressional Committee

Book: "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold and Tax Cuts" by Wayne Allyn Root.

Article: "I Am the 1%" by Wayne Root.

Article: "Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’" by David Edwards.

Article: "SOI Tax Stats - Tax Stats at a Glance" by IRA.

Article: "The State of Working America’s Wealth, 2011" by EPI.

The good: "Broward mulls request to ban body scanners at airport" by Brittany Wallman.

The bad: "Romney Admitted Stat About Obama Regulations Was A Lie, Keeps Using It Anyway" by Pat Garofalo.

The very, very ugly: World Net Daily: "Birthers Fly Aerial ‘Where’s The Real Birth Certificate?’ Ad Over NFL Game" by Jillian Rayfield.

Article: "In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level" by Elizabeth Mendes.

Article: "Obama on ‘Trickle Down’ Economics: ‘It Doesn’t Work, It Has Never Worked’" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "Republicans offer payroll tax cut in exchange for pipeline approval" by Bryn Weese.

Article: "Swiss Re : 2011 second most expensive for catastrophe loss" by Barbara Karouski.

Article: "Occupy halts some Western port operations" by AP.

Article: "Police to test laser that 'blinds rioters'" by Matthew Holehouse.

Article: "OECD detects world economy slowing down" by AFP.

Crazy alert: "" by .

Article: "Woman Leaves $13M Fortune to Pet Cat" by Kevin Dolak.

Hour Two: "Inequality in Perspective"...
Thom challenges economist, Dr. Ron Ross

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