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Great moments in homina homina homina!
Change of SubjectAttorney Charles J. Cooper offers a lame, confused response in the Supreme Court today to the question of, if procreation is to integral to marriage, why do we let prisoners and the elderly marry? JUSTICE BREYER: What precisely is the...... -
Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts
WASHINGTON -- To see the future of gay marriage, you didn't have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue. You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Israel, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Barack Obama
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Excerpts of Tuesday's gay marriage case at high court
Excerpts from the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, from a transcript released by the Supreme Court: ___ On whether the case should be before them (Chief Justice John Roberts and...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Human Interest, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Sonia Sotomayor
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Prop. 8: Justice Kagan cuts to the injustice of gay marriage ban
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Gotta hand it to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Tuesday morning she interrupted Charles J. Cooper, the attorney representing the anti-gay marriage side in the court’s hearing on California’s Proposition 8. She cut through the legal...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Human Interest, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage
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Rand Paul's filibuster worked
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got a lot of attention Wednesday for mounting an honest-to-God filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan. The nation's political class marveled at his real-life Mr. Smith act, the funny stuff his...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Politics, Ron Paul, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Geriatrics, Politics, Physical Conditions, Government
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Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond
A week before Christmas in 2003, a retired Los Angeles schoolteacher stood before a phalanx of news cameras and 250 reporters in a South Carolina ballroom and declared, "I am Essie Mae Washington-Williams, and at last I am completely free." After more...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, CBS Corp., Los Angeles Times, Government
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Senate approves limits on the filibuster rule to speed debate
WASHINGTON – The Senate approved rules changes Thursday that will limit the use of the filibuster as a weapon in the partisan obstruction that has ground action in the chamber to a near standstill. The deal, between Senate Majority Leader Harry...
Tags: Frank Capra Jr., Politics, Barack Obama, James Stewart, U.S. Senate
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Filibuster agreement expected for vote late Thursday
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders reached a tentative agreement Thursday for rules changes that would limit the use of the filibuster as a weapon in the partisan obstruction that has ground action in the chamber to a near standstill. The deal, between Senate...
Tags: Frank Capra Jr., Politics, Barack Obama, James Stewart, U.S. Senate
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Modest filibuster changes taking shape in Senate
WASHINGTON — Hopes dimmed Thursday for vast rules changes in the Senate to limit the filibuster as a weapon in the partisan obstruction that has ground action in the chamber to a near standstill. Senators, mostly liberal Democrats, had sought to...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, James Stewart, U.S. Senate, Harry Reid
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An end is in sight to the endless stories about endless debates
Change of SubjectDon’t stop me if you’ve heard this before. Because you probably have. There’s a move afoot in the U.S. Senate to reform the filibuster. But this time — No, really, wait! Don’t leave! — this time, it might actually... -
Senate filibuster in need of reform
The principle of the filibuster is a sound one: Any member of the U.S. Senate may speak for any length of time, so a senator who is fiercely determined to oppose a bill may command the podium and stop other business in order to make a point of grave...
Tags: Democratic Party, Politics, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House of Representatives
Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Feb 4, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013
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Nov 20, 2012
| Chicago Tribune
Nov 25, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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