A Stadium For The Price Of A House

Here's a grim indicator for Michigan. The Pontiac Silverdome, which when built was the largest NFL venue in the nation, has sold for 1% of its construction cost.
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New Jersey Paper to Governor-Elect Chris Christie: Hands Off Gay Marriage

The New Jersey Star Ledger, the state's largest newspaper, yesterday published an editorial warning governor-elect Chris Christie not to interfere in the legislature's coming vote on same-sex marriage by attempting to influence the voting.
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Gay Inc.'s 'low hanging fruit' that hasn't been picked

Earlier I had readers ponder whether the DNC boycott had merit or would be effective. Well, one measure to decide whether it's a worthy measure is the progress achieved by our own advocacy organizations' checklist of what was referred to as the "low-hanging fruit" that the Obama administration and/or Congress could achieve in short order, right?

Mike Signorile pulled the cache of a Blade article about a list of issues presented to the Obama admin by National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, and the Human Rights Campaign (which submitted its own 80-page report as well) as reps met with the the incoming admin during those heady days when "change" was in the air just before Barack Obama took office.
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Krugman: Obama faces his own Anzio

Another great read by Paul Krugman. Obama's cautious approach to the economic crisis may lead the way for Democratic losses in 2010.
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Bea Arthur leaves $300K to gay youth

Thank you for CONTINUING to be a friend!"Golden Girls" star Bea Arthur's generosity lives on!

The actress, who died in April, included a $300,000 donation to New York's Ali Forney Center, an organization supporting homeless LGBT youth, in her will, leaving center Executive Director Carl Siciliano overwhelmed by her kindness.
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NC U.S. Senator Richard Burr has got to go - here are 8 reasons why

Surf over to Senate Guru for all eight reasons; I'll just share a few of the most egregious ones. Senator Richard Burr, the wingnut who's up for election here in NC, has surfaced a lot this year after slumbering through the rest of his term.
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LaBarbera Award: Rep. Louie Gohmert

Some have been given the LaBarbera Award for comparing gay relationships child molestation. Others to necrophilia.
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The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 5

“The fundamental truth about health care in every country is that national values, national character, determine how each system works.
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George Bush on Sarah Palin

An oddly lucid analysis from our former president. (As an aside, read this entire article - it's an excerpt from the book I link to below.
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Monday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.As Chris notes, the President is headed to Wall Street today. Lehman Brothers went under a year ago today.
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Full text of the President's address to Congress on health care reform

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September 9, 2009

Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Washington, DC

Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:

When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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The President's speech

Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for DeliveryAddress to a Joint Session of Congress on Health CareWednesday, September 9th, 2009Washington, DC Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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Obama completing new banking rules

Definitely a good idea and worthy of praise. The Obama administration is moving forward with one of its most fundamental financial reforms, a plan to constrain the growth and risk-taking of giant banks and other firms.
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Oh yeah, about that gay rights promise... never mind

I really don't like being right about these things. Joe and I, and everyone else in the Netroots, went all out to elect a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress.
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A Modest Proposal

by Chris Bodenner Dan Fejes applies Cheney's Law to the economic crisis: [W]e are looking at near-double digit unemployment through the end of next year, and the economic picture is generally pretty bad.
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Recovery in China looks rocky

When the economic crisis hit, Beijing moved quickly to respond with a very strong stimulus plan. Replacing the booming export business that was suddenly grinding to a halt was going to be difficult but the stimulus did help shift spending for internal projects.
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Obama should take Plouffe's warning to heart

Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe issued a few warnings today about health care reform. The warnings were ostensibly for the grassroots, but ironically they'd be better heeded by Obama himself.
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Economist suggests "three U" shaped recoveries

It would be fitting that the "W" administration would stick us with a "W" shaped economic crisis, but now there's a risk of adding another "V" to it.
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British economic crisis to be difficult than forecasted, again

Well now. Who would have expected that news? How many more times will we have to see more hype about the recovery only to be updated with a new dose of reality? On the upside, isn't it great that the bankers are doing so well? It's important that they keep on making money for respectable bonuses and avoid any and all responsibility for their global failure.
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Countries not so much in crisis

If Chris weren't in Switzerland, or Italy, or somewhere not-Paris at the moment, I'd like to think that he'd be serving you this article.
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