Several Washington sources including the usually reliable Roll Call are saying that Sen. Harry Reid may actually propose a Senate cloture vote on the Defense Authorization Bill today. Proposing the cloture vote and making it happen are two different things, of course. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled cloture votes for Wednesday on a host of bills opposed …
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Last night I attended the Village Voice 2010 Web Awards where JMG was awarded Best Political Blog! I was asked not to blog about it until after the event and I don’t even know who my competitors were, but whatevs! The downtown Manhattan awards show was a hipster mosh-pit and didn’t feel very gay at all, but lots of folks …
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Elizabeth Edwards Dies At Age 61
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The Miami Herald reports today that pioneering openly gay talk radio host Neil Rogers, 68, has been moved into hospice care after his doctors decided against heart surgery. Rogers suffered a heart attack and stroke last summer and retired from on-air work to launch a popular internet-based show. Always caustic and controversial, Rogers (who was often characterized as “the gay …
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Mission Incomplete: Pro-DADT Repeal Groups To Rally On Capitol Hill This Friday
A large coalition of pro-DADT repeal groups are joining the “Mission: Incomplete” rally sponsored by SLDN this Friday at noon on Capitol Hill. SLDN’s Aubrey Sarvis, via press release: “We call upon the Senate and the President to remain in session and in Washington until the National Defense Authorization Act is passed – which includes the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask.’ …
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