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Gay Marriage Approved by N.Y. Senate — ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed, and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.
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Consensus Reached on Religious Exemptions in Gay Marriage Bill — ALBANY — The Cuomo administration and legislative leaders have reached agreement on language to protect religious institutions from obligations to recognize same-sex marriage, two people involved in the negotiations said on Friday afternoon …
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Gay marriage legal in New York State after Senate passes historic bill 33-29 — ALBANY - New York made history last night as the State Senate voted “aye” on gay marriage. — Senators passed the bill 33 to 29 as the normally somnolent chambers erupted in a raucous chant of “USA! USA!”
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New York Times:
N.Y. State Senate to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage — ALBANY — The State Senate will vote on same-sex marriage, the Senate majority leader said Friday afternoon, setting the stage for a final decision on the most closely watched issue facing the Legislature as it wraps up its annual session.
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Gawker, Queerty, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Sky Dancing, The Volokh Conspiracy and Towleroad News #gay
ThinkProgress:
New York Passes Same Sex Marriage Bill: Population Living Under Equality More Than Doubles — Moments ago, in a vote of 33 to 29, the New York Senate passed a marriage equality bill, thereby doubling the number of Americans living in a state where gay and lesbian people can marry.
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The BRAD BLOG and Towleroad News #gay
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
New York Conservative Party Chairman Predicts Passage of Same Sex Marriage Bill — Mike Long, the chairman of the New York Conservative Party and a leading opponent of the bill to institue same sex marriage in New York, tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the bill will likely pass “by the end of the night.”
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Towleroad News #gay, ThinkProgress and Gawker
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New York legislators approve same-sex marriage — Albany, New York (CNN) — New York's Republican-controlled legislature cleared the way Friday to legalize same-sex marriage with a 33-to-29 vote, sending the bill to the governor's desk for his approval. — The vote came after days of delays …
John Burger / The Daily Register:
Archbishop Dolan on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Vote
Archbishop Dolan on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Vote
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ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Gay marriage bill moves to New York senate floor
Gay marriage bill moves to New York senate floor
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LGBTQ Nation, Las Vegas Blog, Salon and Outside the Beltway
Nick Reisman / Capital Tonight:
When Will Same-Sex Marriage Be Voted On?
When Will Same-Sex Marriage Be Voted On?
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The Lonely Conservative, LGBTQ Nation and AMERICAblog Gay
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Top Dems Provide Fresh Detail On High-Income Tax Proposal That Led GOP To Abandon Debt Talks — Two of the top Democrats in Congress are calling out their Republican counterparts for abandoning high-stakes debt talks, and have provided new details about the tax proposals that sent the GOP packing.
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Washington Monthly, The Democratic Daily, Daily Kos, The Mahablog, Eschaton and The Hill
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP Rep. McCarthy to Obama: ‘Get off the golf course’ and ‘get engaged’ — The No. 3 Republican leader in the House took President Obama to task Friday, claiming he should put the golf clubs down and get directly involved in the budget talks with Congress. — “He's got to get off …
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Weasel Zippers, Flap's Blog and HotAirPundit
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sen. Sessions challenges Obama to make debt-ceiling talks public
The Huffington Post:
Obama, Boehner Held Secret Debt Ceiling Meeting At White House
Obama, Boehner Held Secret Debt Ceiling Meeting At White House
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TPMDC, Washington Monthly and New York Times
New York Times:
Their Temper Tantrum
Their Temper Tantrum
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Catherine Dodge / Bloomberg:
House's McCarthy Says Obama Must ‘Show Leadership’ in Deficit Negotiations
House's McCarthy Says Obama Must ‘Show Leadership’ in Deficit Negotiations
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Republicans: Walkout from Biden-led negotiations was long planned
Republicans: Walkout from Biden-led negotiations was long planned
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Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Bombing the Moon — Following up on my GOP mind games post …
Bombing the Moon — Following up on my GOP mind games post …
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Washington Post, TalkLeft, Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, Eschaton and The Hill
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Here's What Happened at That Big Dinner With Obama and the Hedge Funders — Last night Obama headed to the Upper East Side to wine and dine Wall Street. — The DNC fundraiser at tony restaurant Daniel cost attendees $35,800 each, and a source told Ben White at Morning Money that the event netted $2.4 million.
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Ben White / The Politico:
First look: Fear over Greece grows - New this morning: Bernanke numbers drop - Hot this morning: Oil bounces back - Boehner under pressure — MIND MELD: WHY WALL STREET HATES WASHINGTON - Bring up Washington's understanding of financial markets around Wall Street and you get rolled eyes and four-letter words.
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Photo: Stonewall. Right now. 42 years later. — From G-A-Y pal Scott Wooledge: — [@Clarknt67] — Chills. — Another view, courtesy of Mel England: — [@melengland]
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
President ‘becoming an absolute monarch’ on war powers, Dem says — A House Democrat warned Friday that the U.S. president is becoming an “absolute monarch” on matters related to the authority to start a war. — Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Congress must act to limit funding …
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Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi
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The TrogloPundit, The Sundries Shack, Weasel Zippers, Gallup, Top of the Ticket, Outside the Beltway and Taylor Marsh
Jennifer Steinhauer / The Caucus:
House Deals Obama Symbolic Blow With Libya Votes
House Deals Obama Symbolic Blow With Libya Votes
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Scott Walker To Sign Budget Bill At Business Of Convicted Tax Felon — This Sunday, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) will be signing into law his budget bill at an event at a local Wisconsin business. The budget radically reshapes Wisconsin's priorities, slashing investments in Main Street Wisconsin …
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‘Columbo’ star Peter Falk dies at 83 — Veteran actor own five Emmys, four for popular detective role — Peter Falk, the Emmy- and Tony-winning stage, screen and TV actor, best known to world audiences as the always-underestimated police detective in the long-running telepic series …
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Exclusive: Top U.S. admiral admits we are trying to kill Qaddafi — The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Reaping what they've sown — Georgia Republicans recently passed a very harsh anti-immigrant measure into law, successfully driving a lot of undocumented workers out of the state. Republicans who championed the measure said the new law would improve Georgia's economy.
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The Moderate Voice and ThinkProgress
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The Debt Ceiling: Why Obama Should Just Ignore It — With a Republican-controlled House demanding large cuts in present and future spending in exchange for an increase in the debt ceiling, the possibility that the federal government will have trouble financing and issuing new debt is becoming more frighteningly likely each day.
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Firedoglake, Ross Douthat and ThinkProgress
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The Official Google Blog:
An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter — In the coming months, we're going to retire two products that didn't catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models: Google Health (retiring January 1, 2012; data available for download through January 1, 2013) …
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Engadget, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, blogs.wsj.com and Discourse.net, more at Techmeme »
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The Busts Keep Getting Bigger: Why? — Paul Krugman and Robin Wells — Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present — Knopf, 464 pp., $30.00 — Suppose we describe the following situation: major US financial institutions have badly overreached.
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