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Satan Breaks Billboard Record

Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z, is less than a week old and she’s already broken an all-time Billboard record as the youngest credited vocalist to ever be on the charts. Shortly after his infant was born at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital Saturday, Jay-Z, 42, headed into the recording studio to put his emotions into …

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Ahmet Yildiz, The Movie

In July 2008 I wrote about Ahmet Yildiz, the 26 year-old gay Turk who was murdered by his father in what was described at the time as Turkey’s first “gay honor killing.” Ahmet’s life story has now been turned into a movie. Caner Alper, the writer and other co-director of “Zenne,” was also a friend of Yildiz’s. Alper said before …

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Dan Savage On the GOP Field

“America is waking up to the fact that we’re not bogeymen, and we’re not coming to do any harm, and that we’re your daughters and sons and neighbors, sometimes your parents, your co-workers, friends, colleagues. The Republican party, in this desperate [nod] to its dying evangelical base, is just ramping up the homophobia, and they’re doing themselves real long-term damage. …

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Cell Phone Stops Lincoln Center Symphony

New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert brought Mahler’s Ninth to a screeching halt when an audience member allowed his iPhone to continue ringing. The iPhone marimba ring kept going — and going — until concertgoers pointed out the area where the guilty party sat, a witness said. Finally, a man reached into his pocket and turned off the phone. Gilbert …

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FRC: Pray Against Maryland Marriage

The Family Research Council’s prayer of the day: May God stir pastors across the state of Maryland to set aside their regular activities to do their part in this critical fight. May they lead their congregations to do their duty as Christian citizens! May this and related bills be defeated and the momentum toward homosexual marriage be permanently reversed! As …

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