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Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin hopes for gay marriage win
SAN FRANCISCO – For Ohio senator Rob Portman, knowing that his son was gay helped change Portman's mind. For President Obama, talking with gay White House staffers and learning that his daughters’ friends had same-sex parents proved...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Anderson Cooper, University of California, Los Angeles, Gays and Lesbians, Elections
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Ravens LB Brendon Ayanbadejo appears on 'Face the Nation' on CBS
The Baltimore SunRavens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo appeared on 'Face the Nation' with Bob Schieffer on CBS Sunday morning. Ayanbadejo was part of a panel discussion on same-sex marriage. Read the complete transcript below. Bob Schieffer: Good morning, again, this...Tags: Brendon Ayanbadejo, San Francisco 49ers, Gays and Lesbians, Football, Elections
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'The Accursed' by Joyce Carol Oates: An engrossing throwback
In her long and famously prolific career as a novelist, Joyce Carol Oates has worked in many different modes, from the social realism of her National Book Award-winning "them" (1969) and the neo-Gothic storytelling of "Bellefleur" (1980) to the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Jeffrey Eugenides, Key West, Authors, Grover Cleveland
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Sheldon Adelson, U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, Elections, Dick Armey
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Before we sail into Ponce land, let's salute some milestones of 2012
We're about to plunge into a mega-anniversary year, marking 500 years since Ponce de León named Florida in 1513. But before we leave 2012, let's tip our Flashback bonnet to a couple of milestones noted this year. A century of 'leavening the loaf' Like...
Tags: William Howard Taft, White House, Elections, Feminism, Orlando Health
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Robert Shipley Auerbach, co-founder of Maryland Green Party
Robert Shipley Auerbach, one of the founding members of the Maryland Green Party and the party's three-time nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives, died Dec. 12 from injuries suffered in a hit-and-run accident that evening in Greenbelt. He was 92....
Tags: New York City, Kensington, Jill Stein, Elections, Government
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Column: Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to hear...Tags: Sheldon Adelson, U.S. Senate, Elections, Fiscal Cliff, Heritage Foundation
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Weak tea
Change of SubjectThe Southtown Star reports: Steve Balich said the Will County Tea Party movement he helped organize is disbanding in name, but not spirit, after gains by Democrats in the Nov. 6 election.... Balich, of Homer Glen, blamed the movement’s demise...... -
For once if not for all, election will offer a real choice
Change of SubjectSupporters of the tea party movement and I find ourselves in a rare moment of agreement: This is shaping up as the election we want. By asking wonky, far-right Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to be his running mate, presumptive...... -
Yale Students Push For Divesting in Fossil Fuels
Back in the 1980s, “divestment” was a term for a student-driven campaign to force colleges and universities to end their financial connections to companies doing business with South Africa’s brutal white apartheid regime. Today, the...
Tags: Ecosystems, Yale University, Energy and Resource Industries, Elections, Students
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McManus: The death of the moderate Republican
Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. "We have the second-largest Republican House...
Tags: Endangered Species, Tom McClintock, Elections, Raul Labrador, Fiscal Cliff
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Facebook, politics: Mix with caution
South Bend TribuneEmily Ransom, 29, described political sentiment during the presidential elections of her college days as somewhat hidden — the discourse was there for those who sought it out, yet it wasn’t in your face. But Facebook was just emerging when...Tags: Christianity, Purdue University, Education, Colleges and Universities, Elections
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