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    Why Are Gays So Straight When It Comes To Marriage?

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    BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN A gay Republican federal judge of libertarian leanings, Vaughn R. Walker, struck down California’s ban on gay marriage on Wednesday, prompting ecstatic rejoicing among a mostly gay crowd outside the U.S. district courthouse in San Francisco. His ruling was the first in the country to strike down a marriage ban on federal […]

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    Real Democrats

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Are you really a Democrat?” someone wrote to me recently, after I wrote a column criticizing the president’s decision to go on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard while so many people – especially in the tourist-challenged Gulf – are suffering. What kind of Democrat would begrudge the president his choice of a place […]

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    Defending The Mosque

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    BY JOE CONASON No recent controversy has so plainly revealed the hollow values of the American right than the effort to prevent the construction of a community center in Lower Manhattan because it will include a mosque. Arguments in opposition range from a professed concern for the sensitivities of the Sept. 11 victims’ families to […]

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    Ethics Trials May Help, Not Hurt, Democrats

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    BY FROMA HARROP Democrats will “drain the swamp of Washington” if they win control of the House. So promised California Rep. Nancy Pelosi before the 2006 election that led to her becoming speaker of the House. Now that two Democratic reps have been charged with serious ethical lapses, a chorus of Republican operatives is accusing […]

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    Fighting Back Against The Banksters

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Oh, them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investigator of banker pay, that top executives of 17 financial giants shoveled $1.6 billion in excess compensation to themselves in 2008 – at […]

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