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The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee approved the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act, which would offer the same benefits, including health insurance and pensions, to same-sex partners of federal workers and to opposite-sex spouses. (This news comes via the DC Agenda, the reincarnated Washington Blade.)
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
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Prop 8 defenders still haven't handed over documents even after third order from judge? Oprah show finished in 2011. The abs and poetry of hot NJ Guidos. NJ Democrats search for spine on marriage equality as state senator says economy...
Chaz was on Good Morning America describing his life's progression and how he came to be a public advocate for the LGB and now the T. A few days ago Blend reader Hector sent me a link to this wonderful New York Times article about the pianist Sara Davis Buechner. Both of these stories, not to mention the story of our own barista Autumn, remind me how much is at stake in terms of privacy and profession for people who transition as adults. I thank Chaz, Sara, Autumn and so many Blend readers for allowing me to walk a moment in their shoes.
I don't know whether to fall out laugh or cry at the prospect of another major election cycle with this blowhard on the campaign trail followed by his Teabaggers, Birthers, and Brown MenaceTM-fearing fans. (Reuters):
A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate.
"Right now I feel exhilaration at the wide range of choices before me as to what I do next," Dobbs, whose outspoken views on immigration and other topics often angered liberals, told Reuters in a telephone interview from New York on Thursday.
...A Texas native, Dobbs has drawn fire from Latino leaders and civil rights groups for frequent on-air remarks about U.S. border control and immigration that critics saw as demonizing illegal immigrants.
Current New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand leads in polls against
former governor George Pataki by a small margin, according to a
Rasmussen poll released on Thursday.
Everyone knows that the bloodthirsty blowhard -- whom officials often refer to by his initials, KSM -- is never going to see the light of day. The uproar is really about the word "war." Outrage is being voiced by those who worry that Holder and President Obama are abandoning the Bush-era doctrine of a "war on terrorism" that must at all times be conducted by military means...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road....
NEW YORK (AP) -- An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old inventions and machines is opening in New York City's Times Square....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the world to the PINTA art fair....
As the U.S. Senate weighs a 2,074-page health-care “reform” bill, supporters of a government option for medical coverage consider this the finest federal initiative since the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet today’s headlines show government severely bungling its current health-care duties. Expanding Uncle Sam’s medical portfolio is a prescription for fraud, fiscal incompetence, and rampant mismanagement on the clinical frontlines.
Fraud devours some $60 billion -- or 13.3 percent -- of Medicare’s $452 billion budget. “Rather than stealing $100,000 or $200,000,” federal prosecutor Kirk Ogrosky said on October 25’s 60 Minutes, criminals “can steal $100 million.”
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has been granted a second life -- and KSM, a second act: 9/11, The Director’s Cut, narration by KSM.
Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough-guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. “After eight years of delay,” he intoned, “those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally face justice. It is past time to finally act.” Where to begin? The claim that the Bush administration was somehow dilatory sets a new standard for gall, particularly coming from Eric Holder. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy points out, “The principal reason there were so few military trials is the tireless campaign conducted by leftist lawyers [including Holder] to derail military tribunals by challenging them in the courts.”
I've seen "extreme weather warning" alerts beep-beep-beep across my TV during a show, but someone playing a video game might not. That's why NY state officials are intending to also send those Emergency Management Office issued alerts over gaming networks.
According to officials, the idea is to "reach younger residents who spend more time on the Xbox, PlayStation, or Wii than with television or radio" and it's actually part of a bigger program called Empire 2.0. Other things happening under the Empire 2.0 project include:
Rasmussen Reports hits two of the biggest prizes in Election 2010, and in true Rasmussen fashion, find the Republican candidates doing better than any other pollsters in America.
That, and a few other choice headlines from the world of the campaign trail, grace the Thursday evening edition of the Wrap.
NY-Gov: Rasmussen Claims Giuliani Within 3 of Cuomo
Thursday has been a day of great intrigue in the Empire State as it relates to 2010 electoral politics. First, fairly early in the day, came this bit of breaking news, courtesy of Danny Hakim at the New York Times:
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor of New York next year after months of mulling a candidacy, according to people who have been told of the decision.
His decision is a blow to many Republican leaders, who had viewed Mr. Giuliani as the strongest potential candidate in a year in which voter anger and anti-Albany sentiment appeared to be swelling.
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The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee approved the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act, which would offer the same benefits, including health insurance and pensions, to same-sex partners of federal workers and to opposite-sex spouses. (This news comes via the DC Agenda, the reincarnated Washington Blade.)
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
Prop 8 defenders still haven't handed over documents even after third order from judge? Oprah show finished in 2011. The abs and poetry of hot NJ Guidos. NJ Democrats search for spine on marriage equality as state senator says economy...
A few days ago Blend reader Hector sent me a link to 
I've seen "extreme weather warning" alerts beep-beep-beep across my TV during a show, but someone playing a video game might not. That's why NY state officials are intending to also send those Emergency Management Office issued alerts over 
