Frank Rich's OP ED - "The Bigots' Last Hurrah"

Frank Rich wrote a great OP ED in the NYT on Gay Marriage and the bigots who oppose it. (see full article below). Two of my favorite quotes are: "Yet easy to mock as “Gathering Storm” may be, it nonetheless bookmarks a historic turning point in the demise of America’s anti-gay movement. What gives the ad its symbolic significance is not just that it’s idiotic but that its release was the ...

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The Color of Love

Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28loving-t.html In June 1963, Mildred Loving, the 22-year-old wife of Richard Loving, a bricklayer, sat down with a piece of lined loose-leaf paper and wrote a letter in neat script to the Washington branch of the A.C.L.U. “My husband is White,” she wrote, “I am part negro, & part indian.” Five years earlier, ...

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Headlines: Obama Vets and Fills Cabinet

President Elect Barack Obama The White House Transition Board Daschle to be Obama's HHS Secretary Holder Tagged for Attorney General Bill May Give Up Foreign Income Ten Picks for Obama's Supreme Court War and Peace A War Without End: Savagery in Afghanistan is Centuries Old Economy Debt Man Walking Environment Offshore Drilling in Alaska: ...

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Big Brother Gags the E.P.A....Again.

One sign of insanity is to keep doing the same thing, over and over again, while expecting a different outcome: The White House (euphemism for His Relevancy of The Oval Office) is doing it again, as if we don't know they lied about Iraq, as if we don't know they lied about Valerie Plame, as if we don't know they're in the business of cutting taxes for Big Oil while cutting benefits for Medicare, ...

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Supreme Court Restores Habeus Corpus

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its third consecutive rebuff to the Bush administration’s handling of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay , ruling 5 to 4 that the prisoners there have a constitutional right to go to federal court to challenge their continued detention. The court declared unconstitutional a provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that, at the ...

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Frank Rich's OP ED - "The Bigots' Last Hurrah"

The Color of Love

Headlines: Obama Vets and Fills Cabinet

Big Brother Gags the E.P.A....Again.

Supreme Court Restores Habeus Corpus