Looks like the White House is only big enough for one Lincoln and it ain’t Chafee. The former blacksmith, which I’m happy to announce is NOT a joke, took his campaign out back and shot it Friday—truly the humane thing to do.

Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee and Washington's Christine Gregoire—an Independent and a Democrat, respectively, in charge of medicinal-marijuana states—are now begging the federal government to change its classification of marijuana and admit that pot has medical uses. Good luck!

The gay dominos are falling! The Rhode Island State Senate passed a bill legalizing civil unions on Wednesday, sending the measure to Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who's expected to sign it. Next up: Man-quahog weddings (catered by Del's). [Providence Journal]