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• The First Amendment of the United States Constitution (an overview)

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 145
  Note: Cross posted from [wp ridezstormz] Silent No More! . Permalink first amendment: an overview The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. See U.S. Const. amend. I . Freedom of expression ...
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• JP: Overhaul the privacy law (Editorial)

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 150
  This editorial appeared in the Japan Times: The intentions behind the Personal Information Protection Law, which went into effect in April 2005, are good, but it has contributed to a tendency for organizations to withhold benign information that has significantly useful social value. Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, state ...
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• Democrats Focus on G.O.P. Senators From Maine

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Anxious about how little maneuvering room the weekend victory on health care provided, Democrats are stepping up overtures to two moderate Republican senators from Maine.
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• Victoria Kennedy calls Reid after the healthcare vote

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 539
  From DK : I’m still amazed that not even one f****g [ed. note - the Republican party does not have any moderates any more. We all know that there arent any liberals. They are all different favors of ultraconservatives.] Republican could find minimum decency to at least vote for health care DEBATE in the US senate. ...
  4 hours ago

• Spencer Bachus, Jon Kyl Issue Letter to Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke

  
  Poker News Daily — Authority: 513
  Recently, two high-powered, longtime opponents of internet gambling issued a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner calling for the compliance date of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ( UIGEA ) regulations (December 1st) to be enforced. The date ...
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• Equality Bill: Opt In vs Opt Out

  
  Thinking Anglicans — Authority: 548
  An announcement from the Cutting Edge Consortium: Cutting Edge Consortium marks its launch by inviting you to continue the debates of the Faith, Homophobia, Transphobia & Human Rights Conferences 2007 & 2009 “EQUALITY BILL: OPT IN vs OPT OUT” An...
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• Scotland expected to ban air rifles

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 571
  By Andrea McCallum A NEW agreement between Westminster and Holyrood could see air rifles being banned from Scotland’s streets. Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy secured the deal, which sees the authority over the weapons being transferred to the Scottish Government. The decision comes four years after Scots tot ...
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• Senate Vote Advances Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

  
  Medicare Update — Authority: 133
  On November 21, 2009, the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 on a cloture motion and to formally consider and debate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R.3590).  All Senate Democrats (including independents) voted for the motion.  The Senate is expected to consider H.R.3590 after the Thanksgiving holiday. ...
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• Senate Sends Health Care Bill to Floor

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 753
  The Senate votes to bring health care bill ( text in an amendment ) to floor, 60-39 . Major concessions extracted by holdout senators . Other analysis here and here . Differences between this and the House bill .
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• Water bond to rain money on local dam

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 149
  From the San Diego Union Tribune:“In closed-door meetings, California lawmakers recently added $1 billion worth of lures to nail down enough votes for a sweeping water-bond measure that supporters contend is essential to the well-being of the economy and environment.Buried deep in that list of inducements is $100 ...
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• Obamacares $300 Million Baby!

  
  Dan Cirucci — Authority: 449
  “I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it,” Landrieu told reporters after her floor speech.
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• Msg from Senator Coburn – Senate regularly passes major legislation without even voting on it.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  got this in an email....representative gooberment my butt....this is just more ammo for the We The People vs. Congress law suit.... The United States Senate regularly passes major legislation without even voting on it. That disturbing fact caught my attention when I first arrived in the Senate, and frankly, it still ...
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• Momentum for DOMA Crashes to a Halt. Will Anyone Get Out And Push?

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 506
  In the immediate wake of the National Equality March, some momentum for equal rights legislation was apparent. But that momentum seems to have come crashing to a halt. Senator Carl Levin had promised in October to hold a hearing on reform to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law, a law that codifies military [...]
  11 hours ago

• Obamacare Is Budget Buster

  
  Dan Cirucci — Authority: 449
  From David Broder at the Washington Post : Its simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a ...
  12 hours ago

• Obamacare Battle Just Beginning

  
  Dan Cirucci — Authority: 449
  From Byron York at the Washington Examiner : The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there is any drama in it at all. Lawmakers are simply voting to begin debate on their version of health care reform. Just begin debate -- not end it, and not ...
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• Senate Democrats Delete Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Hearing

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Back in October, President Barack Obama promised the Human Rights Campaign, “I Will End Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. That’s my commitment to you.” Around the same time, Senator Carl Levin promised that Senate Armed Services Committee would hold a hearing in November on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the policy ...
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• EU objections to UK equality legislation

  
  Thinking Anglicans — Authority: 548
  Jamie Doward reports in today’s Observer: The government is being forced by the European commission to rip up controversial exemptions that allow church bodies to refuse to employ homosexual staff. It has emerged that the commission wrote to the government...
  15 hours ago

• Massive Vancouver debit card fraud reminds consumers to be careful both online and in person

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 130
  So much attention has been paid lately to protecting consumers online that many have begun to complain that we are beginning to stifle e-commerce with regulations . New European e-commerce regulations passed to assist online business on that continent have been criticized for  being counterproductive. Shocking ...
  17 hours ago

• Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 461
  With no margin left, Democrats advanced heathcare reform legislation in the Senate. Read the original:  Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
  17 hours ago

• Senate Votes to Open Debate on Healthcare Legislation

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 520
  For the first time in decades, the United States Senate has voted to open floor debate on comprehensive healthcare insurance reform legislation . All 58 Democratic members of the Senate, plus the two independents that caucus with them, voted to approve debate. 39 of the 40 Republicans voted against opening debate, ...
  17 hours ago

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