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Editorial Of The Day

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial board: Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen feels obligated to try to block Friday’s federal court ruling overturning Wisconsin’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages, so he asked two federal courts to stay the decision. Instead, Wisconsin authorities should follow the lead of Pennsylvania, where a Republican governor last month said he would not appeal a similar …

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Cantor To Resign As Majority Leader

The biggest upset of the year just got even more upset-y. Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the House, will step down from his post as majority leader after losing his primary bid Tuesday night, sources tell NBC News. Aides say they expect Cantor to tell his colleagues he will resign from the position at a meeting of House Republicans …

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TweetDeck Has Been Hacked

The journalist’s best friend is has been hacked. A “cross-site scripting” (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered on Twitter’s Tweetdeck client, leaving millions of users open to account hijacking and more. Twitter has shut down Tweetdeck while it fixes the problem, despite earlier promising that it had been fixed. The normal Twitter web interface, and other apps such as Echofon which …

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Anti-Defamation League Denounces FRC’s Tony Perkins For “Boxcars” Comment

The Anti-Defamation League has denounced hate group leader Tony Perkins and demanded an apology for comparing the wedding cake ruling in Colorado to Jews being loaded onto boxcars. ADL director Abraham Foxman has issued a statement: Tony Perkins’ invocation of the Holocaust in his statement referring to a judge’s finding that a baker unlawfully discriminated against gay customers is offensive …

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