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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children. — UPDATE: Mormon Bush holdover helped write and file anti-gay DOMA brief. — UPDATE: Gay groups rip Obama. — UPDATE: Are gay politicians …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama DOJ lies to Politico in defending hate brief against gays — Ben Smith at Politico just reported the following statement from the Department of Justice over their brief, filed last night, comparing gay marriage to incest: … Yeah, you see, that's an outright lie.
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Dale Carpenter / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Fierce advocacy: Continuity continues. The Obama Justice Department yesterday filed a brief urging a California district court to dismiss a little-known constitutional challenge to DOMA filed in late 2008 by a married gay couple. (No, it's not the Olson/Boies challenge to Prop 8.)
Declan McCullagh / CBS News:
Gay Rights Groups Irate After Obama Administration Lauds Defense Of Marriage Act — As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama claimed “we need to fully repeal the Defense of Marriage Act,” which says states are not required to recognize other states' same-sex marriages. — That was then.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Nation Of Law — Lars Thorwald has a strong post …
A Nation Of Law — Lars Thorwald has a strong post …
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Pam's House Blend
Linda Deutsch / Associated Press:
DOJ moves to dismiss first fed gay marriage case
DOJ moves to dismiss first fed gay marriage case
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Reuters:
Both sides claim victory in Iran election — TEHRAN (Reuters) - State media declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of Iran's election on Friday, but challenger Mirhossein Mousavi alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself. — The head of the state election commission …
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The Huffington Post:
Right-Wing Neocons Rooting For Ahmadinejad Win — American neoconservatives have often used the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to bolster their case for aggressive action against Iran. So the assumption might be that they would be rooting for Iranians to take care of the problem themselves …
BBC:
Ahmadinejad heads for Iran poll win
Ahmadinejad heads for Iran poll win
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Updates on the Presidential Election in Iran
Updates on the Presidential Election in Iran
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BBC:
US ‘kept Guantanamo deal from UK’ — The US made a secret deal with Bermuda - a British overseas territory - to accept the Uighur detainees — A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.
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Fox News:
Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo — The Obama administration is defending its decision to send four of 17 Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Bermuda and deliver the rest to the Pacific islands nation of Palau. — FOXNews.com
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Fox News:
New York Lawmaker Calls on CBS to Fire Letterman for Palin Comments — New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, is calling on the CEO of CBS to fire David Letterman for crude comments he made about Sarah Palin and her daughter. — In the letter to CBS chief Les Moonves …
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Gateway Pundit:
Palin to Lauer: “You're Extremely Naive If You Believe Letterman's Explanation” — Sarah Palin Nails It! — Sarah Palin tells Today host Matt Lauer that he is “extremely naive” if he believed David Letterman's explanation of the joke he made about Palin's daughter:
Jeffrey Goldberg:
What Judith Warner Left Out — Reading Judith Warner's column this morning on the recent upsurge in hate crimes, I was struck by what she left out. Two weeks ago, a Muslim extremist shot two soldiers, killing one, outside a recruiting station in Arkansas.
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Think Progress:
Angered By His Holocaust Museum Shooting Coverage, The Far Right Goes After Shepard Smith — On Wednesday, Fox News' Shepard Smith responded to the tragic shooting at the Holocaust Museum by a white supremacist by saying that it was time to re-think the Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism that conservatives disparaged.
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CNN:
Former President GHW Bush stands up for Sotomayor — (CNN)-Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling CNN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who called President Obama's Supreme Court pick a racist were off-base, and unfair.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Underground Drama — For some reason, the mainstream media don't seem to realize this is even happening: … It goes on to discuss the recalcitrance among anti-war members in the House along with those Democrats who are properly skeptical of the IMF in general and who recognize that these bailouts have become politically toxic.
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
House Health-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion in Tax Increases — Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Insta-Hack Watch — He's up to his partisan shenanigans again. He must know that the huge deficits projected in the future have virtually nothing to do with Obama's proposals on healthcare or energy. They are a function of inherited entitlement spending, the legacy of two open-ended wars …
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Kori Schake / Shadow Government:
Remember Iraq? You will soon enough — Iraq is receding from our national consciousness (Stephen Colbert's efforts to remind us about the war notwithstanding). The combined effects of the success of the surge, President Bush signing a restrictive Status of Forces Agreement …
The Huffington Post:
White House Browbeats Dem Freshmen On War Money: “You'll Never Hear From Us Again” — The White House is playing hardball with Democrats who intend to vote against the supplemental war spending bill, threatening freshmen who oppose it that they won't get help with reelection and will be cut off …
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
We Need a New National Anthem — In the Age of Karaoke, more people (including me) like to join in the singing when they strike up the national anthem at public occasions. No one can stop you, no matter how embarrassed she might be by your obvious lack of talent.
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Carl Mortished / Times of London:
Climate pact in jeopardy as China refuses to cut carbon emissions — China will not make a binding commitment to reduce carbon emissions, putting in jeopardy the prospects for a global pact on climate change. — Officials from Beijing told a UN conference in Bonn yesterday that China …
Margaret Talev / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: GOP risks loss of respect if it goes after Sotomayor — WASHINGTON — Republicans may have a window of opportunity to turn public opinion against President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, but a new poll finds that such a campaign could hurt their party's already weak standing …