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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Where's the beef? — Joe's reaction to Obama's gay speech is up on the gay blog. — As for my take... Barack Obama just promised us that if he becomes president, he's going to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, the Defense of Marriage Act, and get ENDA passed. It was a bit surreal.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Pledges Again to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Saturday renewed his vow to allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military, but failed to offer a timetable for doing so — an omission likely to inflame critics who say he is not fighting aggressively enough for gay rights.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging The HRC Dinner — 8.56 pm. More campaign boilerplate. This speech could have been made - and was made - a year ago. — 8.53 pm. His major achievement - the one thing he has actually done - is invite gay families to the Easter egg-roll. — 8.51 pm. Again, more of a campaign speech.
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Associated Press:
Obama: I'll let gays serve openly in military — He's been criticized by some advocates for not move faster on their issues — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military, but acknowledged in a speech Saturday to a cheering crowd …
Michael Moore:
Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore — Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. “No, I don't think so,” I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited.
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DISSENTING JUSTICE, Salon, LewRockwell.com Blog, And So it Goes in Shreveport and Left Coast Rebel
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Wall Street Journal:
A Wicked and Ignorant Award — How Barack Obama could help redeem the Norwegian Nobel Committee's grievous mistake. — Printer — Friendly — It is absurd and it is embarrassing. It would even be infuriating if it were not such a declaration of emptiness.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco — THOSE of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Marion Barry, or William Shatner.) The real question is whether everyone deserves a second act.
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Richard N. Haass / Washington Post:
In the Afghan War, Aim for the Middle — Why does Afghanistan matter? — We generally hear four arguments. First, if the Taliban returns to power, Afghanistan will again be a haven for terrorist groups. Second, if the Taliban takes over, Afghanistan will again become a human rights nightmare.
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
In Polanski Case, '70s Culture Collides With Today — LOS ANGELES — At the end of “Manhattan,” the celebrated movie romance from 1979, a teenager played by Mariel Hemingway delivers some good news to the 42-year-old television writer, portrayed by Woody Allen, with whom she has had a long-running sexual affair.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans — CANTON, Ohio — After taking a class that covered global warming last year, Jill Saylor decided to save energy by drying her laundry on a clothesline at her mobile home. — “I figured trailer parks were the one place left where hanging …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Top Judge Calls Calif. Government ‘Dysfunctional’ — LOS ANGELES — In a rare public rebuke of state government and policies delivered by a sitting judge, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court scathingly criticized the state's reliance on the referendum process, arguing that it has …
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Eric Dash / New York Times:
Small Banks Fail at Growing Rate, Straining F.D.I.C. — A year after Washington rescued the banks considered too big to fail, the ones deemed too small to save are approaching a grim milestone: the 100th bank failure of 2009. — In what has become a ritual, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation …
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