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• Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1798

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 431
  This just in from the Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office – a new proposed ballot measure cleared to start gathering petition signatures: CRIMINALIZES FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT LEGISLATIVE ACTS, ELECTIONS, OR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends constitution to hold candidates ...
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• Has America become a ‘business’ that nobody can run?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Businesses that survive and prosper must have competitive business plans, clear-cut priorities, and effective cost controls. Most of America’s competitors have aggregate health care costs that are less than half of ours when benchmarked to relative GDP. If this nation is to regain lost ground in global competition ...
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• Weird World: Swiss Vote to Ban Islamic Minarets

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 444
  According to Voice of America, the Swiss have voted "Yes" - to amend the Constitution in favor of banning minarets, the towers on Islamic mosques. Switzerland is about 6% Muslim. Approximately 57.5% of voters backed the initiative, which was backed...
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• Movement under way in California to ban divorce

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  (Sacramento, Calif.)  Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. The effort is meant ...
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• A Possible Turning Point

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  On one level, the vote to ban minarets in Switzerland is a triviality. The constitutional amendment does not ban mosques, it does not pull down the country’s four existing minarets, nor does touch the practice of Islam in Switzerland or bear on the many issues concerning Swiss Muslims. In all likelihood, the ...
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• Legacy Amendment Survey

  
  The Woo Woo Teacup Journal — Authority: 128
  A forewarning: This promises to be a lengthy post. It’s actually a response to a survey that was posted online, but that seems to have disappeared without warning. The survey was a call for input on the 10- and 25-year goals the arts, history and cultural heritage community should attempt to reach in using funding ...
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• Amendment 28 Proposed by Citizens of America

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 543
  Making the rounds these days is a recommended Constitutional Amendment. While many have reached the point of desiring Congressional Term Limits, the following is an amendment a majority of Americans should be able to quickly promote. Doubt if those rascals in Congress would agree. Thomas Jefferson said, "When the ...
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• No threat to civilian government, democracy : Gilani

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Rawalpindi, Nov.29 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has rejected the notion regarding any threat to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) led government, saying all such assumptions were aimed at demeaning the civilian regime.“When I took oath, there were talks that I will remain PM for three months ...
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• Skelton says constitutional amendment needed to protect the American flag

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  For Americans, the flag is one of the most sacred symbols of our government, representing freedom, democracy, and all of the things that we hold most dear about our country. Over the years, however, various laws designed to protect the U.S. flag have been invalidated by the courts. In a 1989 Supreme Court decision, ...
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• Consitution will be amended to introduce GST

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  The Constitutional amendment will be the basis for the new tax regime and will be followed by adoption of separate state and Central GST laws. The last amendment to the Constitution dealing with a financial matter was in 2000, when the Centre was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Southern California Attorney Submits Ballot Measure to Overhaul States Tax System

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 429
  A Chula Vista attorney has submitted a proposal to the California Attorney Generals office for a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the states tax system via the voter initiative and referendum process. (...)
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• IA: Lawmakers Unlikely to Debate Gay Marriage Ban This Year

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Sen Daryl Beall said he doesnt believe a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage will be debated by the Legislature this year. Such an amendment would have to be approved during two consecutive sessions of the Legislature and then be submitted to the states voters, who would have the ultimate say on ...
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• ‘Million Med March’ Draws Hundreds in St. Louis

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 440
  A crowd of more than 300 gathered at Memorial Plaza outside the St. Louis County (Mo.) Government Building in Clayton Saturday afternoon as part of the Million Med March protest against health care reform measures now under consideration in the nation’s capitol.Medical professionals, many of whom donned white coats, ...
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• The Right Way to Amend the Constitution, part 18

  
  A Good Choice . . . — Authority: 139
  This is part eighteen of an ongoing series of articles containing my proposals for amendments to the Constitution. For someone who claims so fervently to be a “Constitutionalist”, how is it that I can be so eager to change the Constitution? Well, there are several reasons. For one thing, I believe ...
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• TX: AG Candidate Says Gay Marriage Ban Could Eliminate all Marriages in Texas

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state. The amendment, ...
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• Zardari ready to shed grabbed powers, conveys plan to Gilani

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Islamabad, Nov 16 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is committed to shed some constitutional powers well before March 30, the deadline he had set for materialising his plan, well-placed official sources have said.The sources said that the President has finally conveyed his power-shedding plan to Prime ...
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• NH: Anti Gay Forces Now Trying to Overturn Gay Marriage in the Granite State

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  With the defeat of same-sex marriage in Maine, all eyes are now turning toward the Granite State, where lawmakers anticipate a heated battle over the states new gay marriage law in the upcoming legislative session. As the new year rings in Jan. 1, many gay couples in New Hampshire will be heading to the altar on the ...
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• Move afoot to outlaw divorce

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A California man wants divorce outlawed. John Marcotte has filed for a ballot initiative to protect traditional marriage in the state of California as an extension of the work related to Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. In essence, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Republicans Want to Party Like Its 1994

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 421
  Back in Ye Olden Times, when pagers were cooler than iPods and most people used phones that had cords connected to them (I know, right?), the Republican Party came up with a nifty little plan called the "Contract with America."...
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• Term Limits Are A Good Idea

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 148
  I seldom have much good to say about Republicans in Congress. In general, I think they are obstructionist and favor the giant corporations over the rights of individual citizens. But as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day -- and I think some Senate Republicans have found one of those times where ...
  3 weeks ago

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