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Yesterday afternoon President Obama formally nominated Caroline Kennedy to be the US ambassador to Japan. In naming Ms. Kennedy, whose nomination has been rumored for months, Mr. Obama is keeping with a well-established tradition of rewarding important campaign supporters with plum embassies. He recently put forward big-dollar fund-raisers to be envoys in London, Berlin, Copenhagen and Madrid. But Ms. Kennedy’s …

Yesterday the New York City Council voted 47-1 to renew the lease for Madison Square Garden for a mere ten years, rather than an “in perpetuity” lease as the venue had wanted. Ten years should be enough time, officials said, for the Garden to find a new location and for the city to devise plans for an expanded Pennsylvania Station, …

Yesterday New Jersey United For Marriage, a coalition of major local and national LGBT rights groups, held a press conference in Asbury Park to launch the latest bid to overturn Gov. Chris Christie’s veto of same-sex marriage.  From their website: New Jersey United for Marriage is the campaign to secure the freedom to marry for all loving and committed couples …

“Be It Resolved: We the Loudoun County Republican Committee respectfully request the board of Supervisors to reconsider censuring Delgaudio, We respectfully request the board to reconsider removing Delgaudio from all committees, We respectfully request the board to reconsider removing the district staff of Supervisor Delgaudio. Finally, we respectfully request the board to give Delgaudio specific charges and Supervisor Delgaudio and …

“I think he should withdraw, I think he needs serious psychiatric help. He should take care of his own problems and let New York figure its policies and its mayor. I mean, to have done it again after what we went through in the resignation, he has shown himself to be a serial liar. You can’t believe him, and he’s …

Colombia saw its first legal civil union yesterday. Or maybe it was a marriage. Nobody is sure. The newly legalized couple cheered the ceremony as a marriage, although experts cautioned that a high court ruling that deemed the union legal did not make it the equivalent of marriage. “We are civilly married,” Gonzalo Ruiz, 44, told The Associated Press just …

A same-sex marriage bill has failed in the state legislature of South Australia. Labor backbencher Susan Close’s Same Sex Marriage Bill 2013 was defeated on the strength of voices in the Lower House and no division was called. Some MPs were missing from the chamber. However, the issue will remain on Parliament’s agenda as Greens MLC Tammy Franks introduced an …

UPDATE: Jackson is claiming that Fox producers edited her comments to make her look crazy. Seriously.

“Seattle’s bars, gay and straight, must dump Stoli. Seattle’s drinkers, gay and straight, must dump Stoli. Some are arguing—based on Stoli’s outdated Wiki page—that Stoli isn’t a Russian vodka. ‘Presently the internationally distributed version of Stolichnaya is not a Russian vodka but is distilled and bottled in Latvia,’ Stoli’s Wiki page reads. ‘In 2009, William Grant & Sons signed an …