Ariz. Workers Sue to Keep Benefits

A budget deal that would end domestic-partner benefits is discriminatory, Arizona state employees say.
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Lambda Legal files suit to prevent Ariz. from stripping domestic partner benefits

From Lambda Legal: (Tuscon, Ariz.)  Lambda Legal has filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tucson to block a move to strip domestic partner benefits from gay and lesbian state employees.
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BREAKING: Senate passes Defense Authorization Act with Hate Crimes intact

Holy cow, Blenders, take a look at this:

The Senate on Tuesday approved a $636 billion Pentagon spending bill after defeating repeated efforts by Sen.
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Dear God they're all so f-ing stupid

Again, the Democrats, and their highly-paid "advocacy" groups, are surprised - SURPRISED - that the Republicans are pulling out all stops to take down the health care reform bill.
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Newsness; Sparks Has Family Reception @ UND Saturday

<iJJ> Jordin Sparks: The gig before the gig “The Wiedmanns’ children (including Sparks’ mother, Jodi) were born in Grand Forks while Wiedmann played football for UND, but the couple raised their family in Arizona.
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McCain defends Kyl's comments that stimulus isn't doing anything, then freaks over threat to take Arizona's stimulus money away

But if the stimulus isn't doing anything, and is a big waste of money, then why are McCain and Kyl freaking out over the administration's offer to take its stimulus money back? I'd almost say John McCain was confused, but that's so last year.
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When crumbs suffice

Jonathan Capehart writes in Sunday's Washington Post: "Under normal circumstances, all of this [Obama's mini health care benefits memo he signed last week for the gay partners of federal employees] would have been big news in the push for gay and lesbian civil rights.
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"American Taliban" Lawyer Authors Obama DOMA Defense

In their brief the Obama Administration argued that the courts shouldn't consider Loving v. Virginia, the miscegenation case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to ban interracial marriages, when looking at gay civil rights cases, that the Supreme Court decisions of Roemer and Lawrence shouldn't be interpreted to give us rights in any other area, that DOMA doesn't discriminate against Lesbian and Gay couples because it also discriminates about straight unmarried couples, and invoked incest and people marrying children.
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