Tag Archives: American history

Obama Thanks Campaign Staff

And gets a little choked while doing so.

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HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“Before I say anything else—before I say what I dragged myself out of bed to say—let me say this: we did this. LGBT people came out, fought back, and changed the world. There’s a fuck of a lot left to do—repealing DOMA, passing ENDA, completing the repeal of DADT (trans people are still barred from serving in the military), fighting …

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Open Thread Thursday

There have been some landmark moments in our movement in just the last few years. The day that DADT was repealed. The day the Hate Crimes Act was approved. The day that Proposition 8 was overturned. But this Tuesday’s overwhelming avalanche of good news for the LGBT community could, arguably, be described as our single greatest day yet. Tell about …

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Tweet Of The Day – Gov. Martin O’Malley

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Quote Of The Day – Chris Kluwe

“I would like to thank every single person that helped defeat the same-sex marriage ban in Minnesota, as well as every person who contributed to passing marriage-equality legislation in Maryland and Maine and (likely) Washington. Together, we made a statement that America is tired of division. America is tired of discrimination, of exclusion, and of unthinking oppression—the belief that people …

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin Gives Victory Speech

(Via Towleroad)

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President Obama’s Victory Speech

It was a fantastic speech.

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Barack Obama REELECTED

All the networks including Fox News have called it. Congratulations to everybody here, this arguably means more to us that to anybody else.

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Timeline: 100 Years Of Voting

(Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

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TRAILER: Lincoln

The full trailer this time.

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TRAILER: Lincoln

In which we see exactly nothing.

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Neil Armstrong Dies At 82

“Every human has a finite number of heartbeats and I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” – Neil Armstrong.

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Ancestry.com Claim: President Obama Has Slave Ancestry On His White Mother’s Side

The Mormon Church-affiliated genealogy site Ancestry.com today made the claim that they have traced President Obama’s ancestry back to the very first documented slave in what would become the United States. That’s fascinating on its face, but the more interesting wrinkle here is that the connection is made through Obama’s white mother. Research derived by Ancestry.com from early Virginia records …

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Evening View – Pilgrim Monument

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NYC Releases Massive Digital Archive

The New York City Department of Records has spent the last four years digitizing hundreds of thousands of images in its photo archive, which stretches back to the 1880s. That project is still underway, but beginning today the archive is open to the public for (mostly) free use. Amazing. The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to over …

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Today In Mildly Interesting Trivia

Although Florida was on the Confederate side during the Civil War, Key West remained a Union outpost and its naval base was highly useful during Lincoln’s blockade of foreign trade with the South. These things I did not know until this trip.

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Delivered: Hugging Towers

Yesterday afternoon I delivered Hugging Towers to the administrators of the World Trade Center Memorial & Museum. (Interestingly, their offices are in the building owned by the company that is allowing the protesters to camp at Zuccotti Park.) Hugging Towers was received with appropriate reverence and after I signed a couple of legal documents surrendering ownership, we had a nice …

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David Barton: Liberals Invented Thomas Jefferson’s Affair With A Slave

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What Have Unions Done For Us?

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Sarah Palin’s Paul Revere

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