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Cory Booker Enters Senate Race

Surprising no one, yesterday Newark Mayor Cory Booker formally entered the special election to replace late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. The 44-year-old Democrat made his candidacy official at a news conference Saturday in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city. He was joined by former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, a former pro basketball player who for 18 years held the seat Booker is …

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At Brooklyn Pride 2013

JMG reader Phillip Davis writes: My first NYC Gay Parade was the 10 year anniversary of Stonewall. Today, for the first time in my 35 years in NY, I went to the Brooklyn Pride Parade. It reminded me of the earlier NYC events, more intimate and local and less commercial. It was very much a community event, but the Brooklyn …

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Watching The Defectives

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the ninth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. This year it appears a week early because of a widely circulated …

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One Million Moms Vs The Fosters

“Dear Joe,  ABC Family Channel has several anti-family programs and has now added to that growing list. ABC Family’s new show The Fosters is about a lesbian couple and their diverse family. While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by …

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FFRF Slams “Lord’s Prayer” Student

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has issued a statement about the South Carolina public high school student who recited the Lord’s Player during his valedictorian address. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is placing the blame for a string of problematic religious violations in Pickens County schools, Pickens S.C., upon its prayerful Board of Education. [snip] “The valedictorian who so insensitively …

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Uncloaking The Downvoters

Disqus just alerted everybody that starting “over the next few days”, you’ll be able to see who upvoted or downvoted your comments.  Sort of how you can see who “liked” your posts on Facebook, but here you’ll also be able to see who thinks you’re full of it. Oh, this should be fun.

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POLL: Parents Chill About Gay Kids

More from Pew’s latest study: In 1985, a Los Angeles Times survey found that 64% of the public said they would be “very upset” if their child told them he or she was gay or lesbian. By 2004, that number had fallen by almost half (33%). Since then, it has declined another 14 points, to 19%. Instead, a majority (55%) …

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Obama: Nobody’s Listening To Your Calls

President Obama today addressed the latest flap: “When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program is about. What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people’s names and they’re not looking at content.  If the intelligence committee actually …

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