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Houston Headlines In Teabagistan

ABOVE: World Net Daily, Townhall, Canada Free Press, and PJ Media. The madness has already spawned a Snopes entry. And of course, Brian Brown never misses an opportunity: Let me express both my gratitude and my admiration for the courageous religious leaders who were not only brave enough to preach hard moral truths in a society that is not welcoming …

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San Francisco Bay Guardian Shuts Down

Slate has the obituary: Another alt-weekly is dead. But this one wasn’t just another alt-weekly. It was the San Francisco Bay Guardian, one of the most venerable, staunchly independent, and defiantly weird of America’s great alternative weekly newspapers. The paper, founded in 1966, is shutting down for “financial reasons,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday. The decision was made …

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PUERTO RICO: Lambda Legal Tells Court To Issue Summary Marriage Judgment

From their brief: As of this filing, thirty states and the District of Columbia recognize the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry. Indeed, a remarkable and nearly unbroken seismic wave of federal court rulings across the country has struck down state statutory and constitutional marriage bans similar to Puerto Rico’s ban. Numerous federal courts have held that laws prohibiting …

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Perkins On North Carolina Magistrates

“Pasquotank County is hard to pronounce — but it’s not nearly as difficult as pronouncing two women ‘wife and wife.’ That’s how North Carolina Magistrate Gary Littleton felt when a same-sex couple asked him to ‘marry’ them at a courthouse this week. Unfortunately for Littleton, his constitutional rights are of no concern to local liberals, who insist that the judge …

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TRAILER: 808

The machine that moved your feet. More than 30 years ago, Afrika Bambaataa’s Arthur Baker-produced “Planet Rock” changed the music industry forever, thanks in part to its use of the revolutionary 808 drum machine. The 808 created a beat no one had ever experienced before, and eventually gave birth to genres such as EDM, synthpop, dubstep, and countless others. Now, …

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WYOMING: Federal Judge To Issue Same-Sex Marriage Ruling By Monday

Via the Casper Star-Tribune: U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl plans to issue an order by Monday in a case that could legalize same-sex marriage in Wyoming. Skavdahl heard arguments from attorneys representing gay marriage advocates and the state during a Thursday morning hearing in Casper. He also listened to testimony from Laramie County Clerk Debra Lathrop, who is one of …

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