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Eric Holder Joins Anti-Bullying Campaign

Via press release from the Cartoon Network: Select videos that are uploaded to Stop Bullying Speak Up will become part of new campaign spots to appear on Cartoon Network, its digital platforms and Boomerang throughout October. Participants are also encouraged to share their videos on their own social media platforms using #ISpeakUp to help spread the word. “Bullying and harassment …

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Rasmussen 2014 Gubernatorial Recap

The right-leaning Rasmussen has recapped the 2014 gubernatorial races. According to the linked interactive polling results, nine states remain too close to call with the election less than two months away. Per Rasmussen polling, only one state, Minnesota, is leaning to the Democratic side. Leaning Republican are Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Illinois.

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Hillary Clinton Stumps In Iowa: I’m Back!

CNN reports: Hillary Clinton told reporters Sunday that the purpose of her return to Iowa for the first time in over six years was “to support candidates.” But 2016’s presidential politics were everywhere on a sun-soaked field in Indianola, Iowa. Clinton captured the sentiment best herself with a joke from the stage of the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry: …

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John Oliver On Scotland

Raw Story recaps: “So Scotland and England have been involved in something of a 300-year-old arranged marriage,” he explained, “And look, I will be the first one to acknowledge, England has been a little bit of a dick since the honeymoon. In 1746, we actually banned the kilt, just because we knew they liked it. And then, we chose ‘God …

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FRC’s Star-Spangled Sunday

Yesterday the Family Research Council and a cavalcade of anti-gay crackpots held an event that was pitched as a marking of the 200th anniversary of the national anthem. But, of course, the event was really more of a Christian get-out-the-vote rally laden with ominous claims about the end of religious liberty and the “movement to expel God from the public …

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Uganda Tourism Board: Gays Are Welcome

An unlikely headline via Gay Star News: The Ugandan Tourism Board (UTB) recently met with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) to try to restore the country’s reputation among both gay and straight tourists. John Tanzella, president and CEO of IGLTA, told the SoSoGay website that the board felt Western media had portrayed Uganda in a particularly negative …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: “The number of marriage cases before the Supreme Court keeps climbing, with the Court scheduled to decide which ones to take in just a few weeks. Plus, couples file new briefs in Texas, and appeal last week’s anti-gay ruling from a federal judge in Louisiana.”

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