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One of the more hopeful things I’ve read on the internet today (esp. considering what happened in Maine last week) comes courtesy of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish. This morning they posted an interesting chart that looked at different age groups and explicit support for gay marriage in different ...

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2 hours ago

sidewalk_flying's Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, the law that mandates the discharge of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) service members, has gained serious traction over the past year, and as we celebrate Veteran’s Day tomorrow, you ...

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3 hours ago by zareenyn

I am a woman. As if you couldn't tell, but I thought I should go ahead and put it out there. I have a 5 year old daughter. I have a mother (yes indeedy). I also have numerous female relatives, friends, and acquaintances. To that end, in the course of living my life, I have come across gross inequiti ...

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3 hours ago by Michael Allen

Currently feted as a hero of 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev’s views on his home-country are unreportable, a leading Russian journalist told a recent Washington meeting. Not due to media censorship, he added, but because his comments on the way recent local elections were conducted was so rife with obscenit ...

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4 hours ago by hrbrief

By Doug Keillor Photo by Compton & Wright The Chinese government has only recently taken steps to address the nation’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. Earlier efforts focused primarily on foreigners, because the government believed that HIV/AIDS only affected homosexuals and that homosexuality was limited in Chi ...

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4 hours ago by jeff

G’day my Kittens. As regular readers of the all mighty and powerful Keep Your Coins, I Want Change blog you will no doubt know that we have been tangling with some fairly heavy subjects lately. Our look at Russian ice skating bears that go on killing sprees and try to eat their captors and slave mas ...

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4 hours ago by Michael Allen

Moscow’s municipal authorities are refusing to renew the leases of two leading Russian human rights and democracy NGOs, a move being interpreted as “official retribution” for their role in recent anti-government protests. The move is a further reflection of the shrinking political space available to ...

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4 hours ago by gina

Just came across this book and I am so very, very excited! Excited enough that I had to share right away. Even though I don’t have as much time for this kind of thing as I would like, I really do enjoy making stuff and typically when I get down to sewing something, it starts out as a purse. It may n ...

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5 hours ago by Kronin

Sen. John McCain Colorado River AZ Side Colorado River CA – AZ Border Dear Senator McCain I have arrived to the Colorado River area circa Blythe CA and Ehrenburg AZ as of the beginning of November 2009. The Colorado River is CHEMICALLY DESPOILED. Interestingly enough President Barack Obama has won a ...

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6 hours ago by peacerunning

By The Nation Published on November 10, 2009 Thailand and Cambodia must resolve their disputes for the sake of regional unity The ongoing Thai-Cambodian quarrel is a good indication that the future of the Asean Community still has a long way to go. Just look at the way Cambodian Prime Minister Hun S ...

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