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Tweet Of The Day – Lizz Winstead

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Biggest Applause Line At CNN’s Teabagger Debate: Let The Uninsured Die!

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Domestic Partners For Fort Lauderdale

Yesterday Fort Lauderdale’s mayor and city commission unanimously authorized domestic partner benefits for LGBT city employees. All city perks currently offered to the legal spouses of city employees will be available.

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Federal Appeals Court: Arizona Can’t Revoke Gay Domestic Partner Benefits

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Arizona may not revoke domestic partner insurance benefits for gay employees of the state. For now, Gov. Jan Brewer can suck it. In a unanimous opinion, the three-judge panel agreed the state is not obligated to provide health insurance for its workers or their families. “But when a state chooses to …

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Nate Silver On Hurricane History

Statistics geek Nate Silver charts the rare history of hurricanes and tropical storms in the northeast. According to Silver, a direct hit from a Category 1 storm could cost New York City as much as $22 billion in economic damages.

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TEXAS: Federal Judge Upholds El Paso’s Ban On Domestic Partner Benefits

In November 2010, El Paso’s Pastor Tom Brown organized a ballot referendum banning the city from offering domestic partners benefits. Only after the measure passed did the city realize that it was so broadly written, it would also ban benefits for retired cops and firefighters. Nevertheless, yesterday a federal judge upheld the ban. The ordinance forcing the city of El …

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OHIO: Insurance Group Offers Reward For Name Of Anti-Gay Horse Killer

Over the weekend, eight horses were burned alive in their rural Ohio barn in an arson attack on a property owned by a gay man. The words “fags are freaks” were found spray-painted on the barn. Today a $5000 reward has been offered for the name of the perpetrator. Brent Whitehouse hopes a reward of up to $5,000 offered by …

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ORLANDO: Bedlam At Town Hall Meeting As GOP Rep Defends Medicare Cuts

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Attack Ads Launch Over GOP/Medicare

Talking Points Memo on the clip below: In a significant escalation of the progressive campaign to make Republicans pay a political price for voting to end Medicare, the progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change will run broadcast TV ads in the districts of Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), and Paul Ryan (R-WI). “What are …

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Democrats Slam GOP On Medicare

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FLORIDA: Orange County Commission Approves Domestic Partners Benefits

Orange County, Florida commissioners have unanimously approved extending benefits to the partners of gay county employees. Via Watermark: In their pre-vote comments, many commissioners took the time to recognize Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, who led the effort in 2008 to extend benefits to same sex domestic partners of city employees, and former Orange County Commissioner Linda Stewart, who crusaded …

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GOP Unveils Budget That Overhauls Medicare & Medicaid, Repeals Obamacare

House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan today unveiled a long-term plan that would dramatically overhaul the way the federal government and states administer Medicare and Medicaid. The GOP plan also, of course, repeals “Obamacare.” Ryan’s budget proposal aims to slash $6 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. It would in part accomplish that by changing Medicaid …

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Arizona Moves To Ban Gay Partner Benefits

Last year Arizona’s legislature voted to stop offering insurance to the gay partners of state employees. Purely to save money, don’t you know. That move was blocked by a judge thanks to a lawsuit from Lambda Legal, but now the state has filed a federal appeal of his ruling. Assistant Attorney General Charles Grube contends U.S. District Judge John Sedwick …

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FLORIDA: Activist Judge Kowtows To GOP Agenda, Strikes Down Health Care Law

The right wing loathes those activist judges who are always imposing their agendas on the American people. Except when those judges are GOP appointees and do their bidding. A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Obama administration’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy health insurance, and questioned the constitutionality of the entire health care law. “I must reluctantly …

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Steve King: If You Don’t Like Your Health Care Options, Move To Another State

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TEXAS: Repeal Of Domestic Partners Law Hurts El Paso’s Straight Retirees

In November, El Paso’s Pastor Tom Brown organized a successful ballot measure repealing the city’s domestic partners benefits ordinance. But due to its murky wording, the new law may also cut insurance for retired cops and firefighters, among other city workers. All because 19 dirty homos were able to insure their partners. The measure was aimed at gay workers and …

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VIRGINIA: Judicial Activist Rules Parts Of Health Care Reform Unconstitutional

A Virginia federal district court judge appointed by Dubya has ruled that parts of President Obama’s health care reform plan are unconstitutional. The lawsuit was brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. In a 42-page opinion issued in Richmond, Va., Judge Hudson wrote that the law’s central requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance exceeds the regulatory authority granted to …

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Facebook To Reimburse Gay Staffers For Partner Benefit Tax Inequities

Facebook is joining the small but growing list of companies who are reimbursing their gay employees for the tax inequities incurred by carrying their partners on their insurance. The new policies follow similar announcements by Barclays, and also this year, Google. A handful of other large organizations, including Cisco, Kimpton Hotels and the Gates Foundation also cover these costs. Under …

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Insurance Industry Insider Apologizes For Plot To Discredit Michael Moore

Watch this.

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TX Gov. Perry: Medicare Is A Ponzi Scheme

Speaking to Fox News Sunday today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Medicare and Social Security “a Ponzi scheme” and unconstitutional. “Do the things you’re supposed to do, like securing our border, like delivering the mail — preferably on time and on Saturdays — before you get involved in things that the Constitution doesn’t say one word about, like health care,” …

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