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The Hounding Of A Heretic … The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. After an OKCupid decision to boycott Mozilla, the recently appointed Brendan Eich just resigned under pressure:
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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
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Mozilla CEO resigns, opposition to gay marriage drew fire
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The Fascist Thugs Win One: Firefox CEO Steps Down (Update: IRS Role Exposed)

Noonan: A Catastrophe Like No Other — The president tries to put a good face on ObamaCare. — Put aside the numbers for a moment, and the daily argument. — “Seven point one million people have signed up!” — “But six million people lost their coverage and were forced onto the exchanges!
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Networks Snub Obama On Primetime Health Care Address — The White House sought primetime air the day Obamacare hit 7 million signups. — Larry Downing / Reuters — WASHINGTON — White House officials sought valuable primetime air for a rare, impromptu Tuesday night address to tout …


Allen West's new book dotted with familiar, but fake, quotes from great Americans — Former Rep. Allen West outlines his political philosophy, warrior code and experiences as a black conservative in a new book that's peppered with quotations attributed to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other famous figures.
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Justice Breyer turns the First Amendment on its head. — In his plurality opinion in yesterday's free-speech case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Chief Justice John Roberts notes an anomaly in contemporary “liberal” First Amendment jurisprudence: “If the First Amendment protects flag burning …
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Ruling's Breadth Hints That More Campaign Finance Dominoes May Fall
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Alabama House resolution calls for US Constitution same-sex marriage ban, but did anyone read it? — MONTGOMERY, Alabama — One Alabama lawmaker is crying foul after the Alabama House today approved a resolution calling for the United States Congress to convene an Article V constitutional convention to ban same-sex marriage.
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Alabama House approves call to put same-sex marriage ban in U.S. Constitution — The Alabama House of Representatives Wednesday approved a resolution calling for a convention to put a same-sex marriage ban in the U.S. Constitution. — Passage of the resolution infuriated Rep. Patricia Todd …
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Liberaland and Daily Kos


Moran: Members Can't Afford to Live Decently in D.C. (Audio) — Despite what constituents outside of Washington might think, members of Congress are underpaid, a House Legislative Branch appropriator suggested Thursday. — Virginia Democrat James P. Moran said he plans to highlight …

AP PHOTOGRAPHER KILLED, REPORTER WOUNDED — You are here — Home » Afghanistan » AP photographer killed, reporter wounded — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A veteran Associated Press photographer was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday when an Afghan policeman opened fire …
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Democrats squawk as cracks form in immigration coalition — IMMIGRATION GOOGLE FACEBOOK JOHN BOEHNER DICK DURBIN — Immigration reform advocates are fond of citing broad support for their cause. But in fact the coalition behind the Senate Gang of Eight comprehensive reform bill is fragile and loosely cobbled together.
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Russians Bid Farewell to the West (Gazeta, Russia) — “Every Russian regime since 1991 has to a greater or lesser extent recognized the importance of having a strategic orientation focused on the West. ... We are witnessing a rejection of the Western-democratic paradigm set back in the 1990s …
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The Moderate Voice and Outside the Beltway


Boehner says there's ‘no question’ mentally ill shouldn't have guns — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday said there's “no question” that mentally ill people should be prevented from buying guns, a day after a soldier with a history of mental illness killed three people at Fort Hood in Texas.
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Hullabaloo and Politico

Centrist Republicans cool to minimum wage hike compromise — Senate Republican centrists are reacting coolly to Sen. Susan Collins's (R-Maine) effort to reach a compromise on the minimum wage, imperiling progress on President Obama's top economic agenda item.


Senate panel votes to release CIA interrogation report — The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to make public a long-awaited report that concludes that the CIA's use of brutal interrogation measures did not produce valuable intelligence and that the agency repeatedly misled government officials …
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