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Counterpoint: Obama is keeping his promises on gay lesbian issues

by @dmooney9 on June 19, 2009 · 2 comments

in Gay Rights

Many in the LGBT community are impatient that President Obama has not moved faster to fulfill the expectations they had for him as candidate Obama. Apart from African Americans no single group voted more for Obama than gays. This column takes the POSITIVE side in the argument best summed up by David Mixner who said [...]

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Point: Why are gays becoming increasingly disillusioned with the President?

by @martinschecter on June 18, 2009 · 5 comments

in Gay Rights

or – What’s the matter with Obama?
Quite obviously, Republicans have been quite successful over the past eight years turning gay rights issues into a wedge, and encouraging state-wide initiatives banning gay marriage to help drive conservative voters to the polls. Aside from some stalwart holdouts over at the Log Cabin club, few gays and lesbians [...]

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We are losing our two party voice in Washington

by @dmooney9 on May 25, 2009 · 9 comments

in Government Affairs

We have the Democrats and the Republicans but my premise is that to have two parties you need to have strong support for two parties. Otherwise we could say we are a three party system and give the greens or libertarians credibility but their numbers are too insignificant. At the current rate we are heading [...]

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Pelosi and Torture: 2 for the price of 1

by @Karoli on May 15, 2009 · 3 comments

in GOP, Government Affairs, Torture

There is nothing as delicious to the GOP as selling dog dung wrapped in gold-leaf, especially if they can steal the gold-leaf from the Democrats. Politics 101: Make your enemy responsible for your own moral failures. Nowhere is this more evident than the effort to take down Nancy Pelosi while deflecting attention from the fundamental [...]

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Results of Torture: Economic Collapse and Iraq

by @rblinne on April 22, 2009 · 2 comments

in Human Rights, Military, Terrorism

Truth is always stranger than fiction. As we get to know more and more we learn how truly this was a Faustian bargain. We know that we didn’t get hardly any good intel from torture but torture experts tell us that the victim will saying anything and everything to get it to stop. John McCain [...]

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