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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: We just capped off the busiest month in marriage equality history, but it’s looking like November’s going to be just as busy. Two judges in the Sixth Circuit just ruled against equality, which sets us up for a Supreme Court ruling in the coming months. And no sooner did the Sixth Circuit uphold marriage bans than a judge …

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Salon: Soldiers Are Not Always Heroes

“No American freedom is currently at stake in Afghanistan. It is impossible to imagine an argument to the contrary, just as the war in Iraq was clearly fought for the interests of empire, the profits of defense contractors, and the edification of neoconservative theorists. It had nothing to do with the safety or freedom of the American people. The last …

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KANSAS: Westboro Appeals To The Tenth

Like the wackadoodle Unruhs, Westboro Baptist Church has appealed to the Tenth Circuit Court after being denied permission to intervene in the Kansas marriage equality case. WBC appeals the erroneous conclusion that WBC lacks sufficient interest in these proceedings to intervene, after WBC has faithfully warned for 25 years, using every lawful means of publishing; pleading with the citizens of …

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David Byrne On Barry Manilow’s Latest

“Barry Manilow’s new album My Dream Duets is all duets with dead people. He sings with Marilyn Monroe, John Denver and Mama Cass, among others — a dream come true for him, as the album title makes clear. The listening experience is uncanny — the dead sound remarkably alive. This is not someone interjecting comments over a scratchy LP or …

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Breitbart Headline Of The Day

According to Breitbart, US Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch should face tough questioning before the Senate over her role in the 1992 Whitewater hearings. The prosecutor has a long career built of some high profile cases but there is one case Lynch was involved in that few are talking about. Lynch was a part of Bill Clinton’s Whitewater probe defense …

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