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The Gay Marriage Race: Which State Will Be Next? :: EDGE Boston

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excerpt from PART ONE OF THIS ANALYSIS PIECE AT EDGE PUBLICATIONS

Whither California, the nation? That's the question LGBT activists and just-plain folks across the country are asking. Will legalizing marriage in the California Republic set off a wave of such actions across the country? Judging from what happened in New York, it may already have. EDGE analyzes the move toward (and away from) gay marriage state by state and handicaps the race to be next in line to the altar.

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Political Cortex: Don't Cry For Me Puerto Rico

Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex

Instead, they dutifully watched as the hip young "it" girls and boys sporting those Pepsi looking Obama pins would anticipate the next Obama rally as if it were a rock concert, where, when they happened, the reporters on TV would convey to viewers that the "energy here is infectious" while the pundits took turns gushing and blushing over this new message of hope, all building momentum among a new cross section of voters, built on a dynamism that might rescue the nation from its long nightmare that had been brought to the citizens courtesy the current White House of horrors.

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The ABC News' Debate's Missed Opportunity for a Real Hit Job

Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex

What many appeared to be most miffed about was the unusual barrage of seemingly un-important salvos leveled by moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at Senator Barack Obama.

The truth is, voters should be upset, because if the moderators were looking to perform some sort of hit job on Senator Obama, they could have at least attempted to aim above the belt and attack issues of substance and relevance.

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Still in Shock and Awe in New York's East Village

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In the five long years since the first bombs landed in Baghdad, this nation has seen countless sacrifices that most of us learn about through photographs and stories and occasional movies. But what most of us see, hear and read only begins to touch the deeper truths, truths that are too painful and awful to communicate by words, images or anything beyond experience itself.

 

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Sweet Emotion: A Tribute To Aerosmith

Posted by robynoratocom

Before I'd experienced my first kiss, I used to lock myself in my room, crank up Aerosmith's "What It Takes" and practice on my hand. Steven Tyler was one of my first crushes, only narrowly beaten by Han Solo. When I heard Aerosmith were going to be double headlining at GM Place last year, I knew I had to snap up the $100-a-piece tickets...

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Sudan Accuses Teacher of Islam Insult

Posted by TheWholeTruth from New York Times

The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad.

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